How can coaching support career development during times of change?

Change can be stressful and lead to fear or resistance, which are not particularly beneficial when navigating a changing landscape. A coach can help you work through these emotions, identify the cause and help you to develop a plan to move forward while helping you to improve your confidence and define your career vision.

coaching can be a powerful resource for supporting career development during times of change by helping individuals navigate transitions, build resilience, and achieve their goals in a dynamic and evolving environment

Coaching can help you focus on what the next best steps are for YOU when change happens. Working with a coach who is a supportive accountability partner can help you work through feelings of overwhelm and uncertainty often come with unexpected change. Other benefits can include having an outside perspective to work with you on changing your perspective to see change as an opportunity giving you a chance to reassess your goals.

Coaching is helpful during the career transition as it directly involves assistance and strategies for the employees. It defines strength, objectives, and strategies for creating implementation plans. Trainers provide people with comfort, sharing ways on how one can handle stress and remain strong. It frees up the individual from day-to-day pressures and specifics of previous work situations and offers assessment to improve needed competencies for new positions or performance tasks. Because of the frequency of meeting with the experts, they are held responsible and are forced to make consistent improvements. Such specific help enhances confidence and flexibility as people achieve further successful vocational transitions.

The right coaching and support can be hugely beneficial to help you to navigate change and challenges throughout your career. Career coaching can help you to become clear on who you are, who you want to be, where you want to get to and how to get there. You can use coaching to overcome your negative beliefs and mindset obstacles particularly in specific situations. Coaching can also help you to develop a coaching mindset which you are able to then use moving forwards. Take your time to find the right coach. It needs to be someone that you like and trust and can be open and honest with.

In addition to the obvious fit between coach and client, there is one more recognized coaching organization. The CCE credentials BCC's (Board Certified Coach's) and the educational requirements are strict and every coach must have a Bachelor degree and most of the coaches have Masters and PhD's.

You need influences beyond your own thoughts to make decisions considering as many facts as possible. The voice of experience, whether it’s related to experience or steps to consider when making a decision, can make a critical difference to the outcome.

Coaching should be a given for anyone that wants to be successful in their career. Pretty much all top-performing people, whether they are athletes, celebrities, executives, have a coach. And unless you resigned to being a mediocre person, and you should have a coach. If your company doesn’t provide one, perhaps reach out to HR to see if you can get one. Or look for one externally if you have to. As Helen Keller said “alone we do so little. Together, we do so much.” That applies to working with a coach as well.