Transitioning to Your First Career
Maybe you have a solid plan, vision for your future and landed a great job - now what? Or, maybe you’re interacting with peers and managers for the first time and don’t feel quite settled with how these working relationships can thrive. There’s so much transition that happens between the supportive environment of college and your first real-world role, even if you’ve done allll the internships. It can be a time of fresh excitement and anticipation but also overwhelm and second-guessing.
A coaching relationship can help you to identify areas you want to grow in or make progress on, cultivate new awareness for how you can tackle that growth and action steps to move forward in this new ecosystem of the workplace.
COMMON TOPICS FOR COACHEES entering the workforce:
Work-life balance and managing adult life while working 40 hours a week
Setting up your schedule with freedom and flexibility, yet still completing work with excellence
Giving voice to needs in the workplace, especially with peers and managers
Navigating conflict
Leaning into hard feedback
Growth mindset
Cultivating healthy habits to support bringing your best at work
What to expect:
What may feel different is that I’m not here to give advice. I firmly believe that you know your life best. The results of coaching are what you put into it. I provide frameworks and questions that help you step outside of your head and re-evaluate your situation, guiding you on your own self-discovery journey to uncover answers you didn’t realize you had. This method allows you to value what’s already working today, make intentional decisions about changes you might want to make and move forward in confidence. If you’re hoping I’ll direct your life, you’re in the wrong place, sorry!
Coachees usually join up with me for a series of ~10 sessions over 6 months on 2-3 goals. That’s because they may be testing and learning on new mindsets, actions and behaviors that will continue to be re-evaluated, looking at what to start, stop or continue, as time progresses.
The first session typically dives deep into the overarching outcome that the coachee would like to achieve, and the motivations for seeking to make progress on this outcome. Subsequent sessions systematically break down different angles of this outcome, with the goal of bringing new awareness and refreshed action steps.
Ultimately, coaching is for you, so feedback is very helpful along the way - in fact, you opting in to giving me feedback is part of the coaching agreement that I have all coachees sign before we get started.
Next Steps:
Does this sound like something you’d like to explore? I offer a free Q&A, meet and greet session where you can see if it might be a good fit. Just drop me a note on my Contact page and we’ll get something set up.