Coaching is productive problem-solving and effective path-plotting.
Great careers aren’t dread-proof.
There are all kinds of reasons your current work environment could be leaving you feeling empty. Succeeding in your chosen profession doesn’t make you immune. If you’re feeling uneasy at work, you’re in the good company of many of today’s lawyers, engineers, programmers, leaders and executives.
We all have moments of doubt. We all face hard choices throughout long lives and long careers.
The most unsettling thing about confronting dissatisfaction is fear of the unknown. We know something needs to change, but we can’t know for sure what’s waiting on the other side. Which makes it very hard to initiate change by ourselves.
My new problem solving approach.
I was deep in a decades-long career as an IT specialist, project manager and independent consultant. It’s a terrible feeling when you no longer get a sense of fulfilment out of your chosen profession, something you worked towards and honed as a craft for 25 years. I had this overwhelming urge to bolt, to run away. But I didn’t know what I was running away from. I also didn’t know what to run towards. I just knew I needed to move the fulfilment needle.
Discovering the practice of Co-Active Coaching helped me in two significant ways. I began working with a coach to untangle my doubts, unconscious assumptions, hopes, and expectation. That was a giant step for me. It taught me a new and more attuned way of problem-solving I hadn’t learned through my MBA, PMI Leadership, or Computer Science degree. In fact, my ability to gain clarity, discernment and optimism was suitably impressive that I enrolled in CTI certification. I saw a chance to help more of ‘us’ – the professionals who feel stuck inside ‘promising’ careers.
What’s next?
We don’t need to race towards drastic change. We’ll take the right amount of time to talk, question, examine, consider and wonder. We’ll work through the uncertainty and explore with new optimism.
Explore all the wonders that are out there, open to you.