Maximize Your Leadership Career Growth:

5 Situations Where a Career Coach Can Make a Difference

Actively building your leadership career is not an easy path. Leaders are busy in their work and rarely spend time planning and taking actions that will ease their career growth.

Is this true for you too? If yes, you may benefit from the services of a career coach. Here are five situations where a career coach can help you reach your goals faster:

1. Actively searching for a Job

If you are in the active job search mode, do you get anxious about appearing in interviews?

Do you think you need more preparedness before appearing for an interview with a coveted company?

Could you gain from clarity around what to say and how to say?

If your answer is yes then a career coach can definitely partner with you on this journey. She can help you assess your skills, interests, achievements, experiences and values to identify key aspects to highlight when talking about yourself and your fit with a particular opportunity.

2. Unhappy at the current workplace

The coach helps you discover and articulate what is bothering you. You can explore your options by looking at the situation from all angles in a safe, non-judgemental space.

A coaching conversation will shift you from confusion to clarity and lift the feeling of unease off your shoulders. You will get an idea of what your baby steps need to be.

3. Unclear about your strengths and energizers.

At senior leadership levels, career change has to be aligned with who you are as a person. You have proven yourself enough. You probably want to do work that makes you happy, keeps you engaged, and makes you deliver at your peak potential. How to gauge opportunities this way?

Do you know your areas of strength? Are you aware about your energizers that keep you going even in times of pressure? What make you deliver your best work?

It is important to commit to your success and keep showing up for yourself. Drop by Drop, you will notice how far you have come.

Talking you career coach can help you become aware of your strengths, values & energisers. You will feel valued, supported, and more connected to the work you do.

This will lead you to find opportunities aligned to the person that you are and greatly serve your future career success and happiness.

4. Have to choose between 2 job offers.

They may ask you questions such as:

What are your long-term career goals and how do these two opportunities align with them?

Mohina wanted more stability but she aligned more with flexibility in his job.

How important is work-life balance to you, and which company’s culture seems to support that?

Mohina wanted to spend more time with her family.

Are you seeking a structured and hierarchical organization or a more entrepreneurial and dynamic environment?

Mohina preferred structured but not rigid.

Which opportunity offers the potential for professional growth, learning, and skill development that aligns with your interests?

Mohina had clarity to opt for job option 2 as it aligned with her interests and approach towards job performance.

Through coaching conversations you can identify and prioritize what matters most to you.You can reflect on your past experiences and the environments in which you have thrived. The coach might also help you envision your desired future career trajectory and evaluate how each job offer contributes to that vision.

You will just feel more settled and confident about the choice you finally make, if you have gone through a process such as the one mentioned above.

5. Don’t know where to start

Sometimes leaders stay with the same organization for a long period of time, maybe even more than a decade. Things have gone well and they have grown every few years. Until they hit a plateau and it becomes clear that no further career progress is possible in the current company.

If you have been out of the job market, you may not know where to begin the process of searching for a new job. A career coach can play a valuable role in enabling leaders to build the elements of a strong job search plan.

They can strategically review your resume and your linked in profile as well as help you identify organizations and roles that would align with your long term career vision. They can support you in developing an action plan and hold you accountable by tracking progress.

It is like having a partner who is invested in your success!

Now you understand the ways in which a career coach can support you in growing your leadership career.

If you want to be intentional about your career and don’t want to leave things to chance, then this may be a good time to connect with a career coach.

Also, if you can think of a friend who might benefit from this article, do share it with them.

Joy & Abundance to you.

Yoshita Swarup Sharma:

Founder & CEO – A Brighter Life | ICF Certified Executive and Career Coach | Leadership facilitator | NLP Practitioner| Inner Transformation Specialist

Yoshita Swarup Sharma, CEO & Co-Founder of A Brighter Life, is an internationally certified executive and career coach (PCC). For the last eleven years, she has coached several senior leaders and CXO across the variety of industries and organizations. Recently she was awarded as one of the most influential coaching leaders of India by the World HRD Congress. She’s a leadership facilitator, advanced NLP Practitioner and a specialist on personal transformation. She writes her blog from her own experiences and reflections . She brings with her 23 years of overall work experience and has previously worked as a Marketing professional in corporates like Coca-Cola, Dabur and Ranbaxy She’s also a Kathak student and co-founder of Subah, A Covid Widow support group

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