Career Transitions
Coaching can help individuals rise to the challenge when they’re stretched outside of their comfort zone, or they need to quickly deliver results in a new job or organisation.
The ability to quickly learn from experience, and adapt accordingly, is a fundamental strength in High Potential Employees. Coaching can help people work out how they can use their strengths, and previous experience, to thrive in a new role. I help people learn to:
- rapidly work out ‘how things work around here’
- remain confident and focussed, and carve out their success
- achieve results through others
- succeed in interim roles
People can also benefit from coaching through :
- looking for a job that plays to their strengths and interests
- taking responsibility for managing the performance of other people for the first time
- starting to manage people who were previously colleagues
- developing from having direct control over a team or function, to having influence across an organisation
- moving from single- to multi-site management
- stepping up from manager to director
- being taken over by another organisation
- becoming self-employed
‘Fast-track’ graduates also often benefit from coaching to help them:
- work out their ideal career path
- take responsibility for negotiating placements, and gain maximum benefit and learning from each one
- make the most of mentoring relationships
One piece of feedback sums up a typical benefit of coaching someone through transition. Unprompted, a coachee’s Director wrote to let me know: ‘...how well they did in the meeting yesterday. They spoke with real confidence and authority. Their manager says they’re a new person.’
"Through a recommendation, I approached Amanda about providing some career coaching. As I am just starting out I was anxious about using a coach as I thought that the service might be for more senior types. Amanda was incredibly approachable, and helped me to start thinking around both my current career issues and also more strategically about career planning. Although we only had one session I often refer back to the conversation we had as I found her approach very positive and easy to apply to my day-to-day working life."
HR Assistant, Magic Circle law firm, 2007