Career Coaching
Career coaching can help you to determine what direction to take or how to achieve your professional goals. If so, you’re not alone. Many people need help navigating the complexities of their career paths, especially in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing job market.
With the help from a career coach you can gain clarity, confidence, and direction to achieve your career aspirations. At Strategic Goal Management our career coaching service is proven way to enhance your career.
Working with a Career Coach
Career Coach – Michael Vincent
Michael Vincent BA (Hons) CMgr FCMI, MInstLM, MAPM, Tech IOSH
As a successful career coach, I have a strong track record of helping people achieve their career goals. At the time of writing, I have helped over forty people gain new senior leadership and management roles.
The individuals that I have career coached have secured positions in the following organisations:
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- Amazon
- Barclays
- Network Rail
- Stagecoach
- Norse Group
- Allan Webbe
- Norwich FC
- British Army
Tailored Career Coaching
Key to my successful approach to career coaching is providing tailored solutions based on the individual’s unique career goals and personal needs. The career support I provide is extensive and includes the following:
- Setting clear career goals
- Establishing a plan for your dream role
- Leadership and management development
- Interview preparation and techniques
- Continuous Professional Development
- Business Coaching
How I Started as Career Coach
Initially, I provided career coaching for military personnel transitioning to civilian life. I have always offered this service for free (and still do) to support military veterans in a challenging process. Consequently, I have continued to pick up several civilian clients from referrals based on the success rate I have achieved.
I have worked with many clients for years, and they keep coming back to me for advice and guidance on their careers. The part of my job that is one of the most rewarding things is getting the call to tell me you have the job, pay rise or promotion.
Need a Career Coach?
Several signs indicate that you may benefit from hiring a career coach. These include feeling stuck or unfulfilled in your current job, needing direction or clarity in your career goals, struggling to make progress or achieve success, feeling overwhelmed or stressed at work, or experiencing a significant life change that impacts your career. Consider working with a career coach if any of these resonate with you.
What are the Benefits of Career Coaching?
There are numerous benefits to working with a career coach, and Strategic Goal Management has provided ten below:
1. Clarity of Purpose and Direction
A career coach can help you clarify your career goals and create a plan to achieve them. By working with a coach, you can better understand your strengths and weaknesses and identify the areas where you need to focus your efforts. You must know where you want to be able to get there. This is why planning is essential, especially regarding your career. Planning will help ensure that everything goes smoothly in the future. Career coaching helps people like you develop a career growth plan and work towards achieving those goals.
2. Career Advancement Through Overcoming Your Limiting Beliefs
Your career coach can help you overcome limiting beliefs that may hold you back. For example, if you don’t believe you have the skills or experience to achieve your career goals, a coach can help you challenge those beliefs, build confidence, and identify training. Furthermore, your career coach can help you advance by providing strategies to improve your visibility, performance and reputation in your industry or field.
3. Increase Your Confidence
Your career coach can help you build your confidence and self-esteem, essential for success in any career. A coach can help you overcome any doubts or fears and limiting self-beliefs that may be holding you back by providing encouragement and support.
4. Improve Your Performance
A career coach can help you improve your performance and productivity by providing feedback and guidance on enhancing your skills and knowledge.
5. Make you Accountable for your Career
A career coach can help you stay accountable for your goals and commitments. They can provide feedback, guidance, and support to help you stay on course to achieve your objectives.
6. Higher Earnings
A career coach can help you negotiate better salaries and benefits and develop strategies to increase your earning potential. This gambit can be employed with your current employer or to get the maximum possible salary and package in a new role.
7. Learn how to manage your time and tasks.
Time management is a vital skill to develop, but it can be challenging to do independently. With the support of a career coach, you can learn how to manage your time and tasks better. An excellent way to start is by learning how to prioritise tasks. Your coach will teach you how to set goals for yourself and create plans for achieving them–with the ultimate goal being that these plans will help keep you on track with both work-related responsibilities and personal life goals.
8. Better Work-Life Balance
A career coach can help you get a better work-life balance by providing strategies to manage your time effectively and reduce stress. A better work-life balance may mean a change of role is required to facilitate the necessary balance goals of the individual.
9. Enhance Your Self-Awareness
Self-awareness can be learned but is often lacking in people, which can hold them back from growth. It’s important for improving your work and life because it helps you understand your strengths and weaknesses, enabling you to improve in areas you need to know.
Self-awareness also helps with understanding why you are successful or unsuccessful. For example, if someone says they have trouble speaking up in meetings but then goes on to explain why (they feel insecure), this allows the coach to ask questions about possible solutions for their problem so that they may find ways around them (such as by practising speaking up before going into a meeting).
10. Provide Networking Opportunities
A career coach can help you build your professional network and connect with other professionals in your industry. By introducing you to new contacts and resources, a coach can help you expand your opportunities and advance your career.
What to Expect from Working with a Coach
Working with a coach is a highly personalised process. Your coach will work with you to identify your needs and develop a plan to achieve your career aspirations.
Your coach will work with you to assess your current situation, including your interests and career goals. This is a vital part of the process that enables the career coach to help you set your goals and develop an action plan to achieve them, including identifying the steps you need to take and the resources you need to access.
Leadership skill development and training needs analysis can be used to reach the required level for a new role or promotion from your current job. Your career coach can provide training, resources, and guidance to help you develop new skills and enhance your existing ones.
Most importantly, you will provide ongoing support, feedback, and encouragement as you work towards your goals. Furthermore, the coach will ensure you remain accountable for your progression.
How to Choose your Career Coach
Choosing the right coach is an important decision. Below are some of the factors you should consider:
Book a Coaching Consultation
Book a consultation with the coach to understand their coaching style and approach; companies like Strategic Goal Management offer a free consultation. This will help you determine if we are the right fit for you.
The Qualifications of the Coach
Look for a coach with the training and credentials to provide effective coaching. Ideally, they should have experience and recognised certifications.
Specialisation
Consider whether the coach specialises in the area you need help with. For example, if you want to change jobs, you may want to work with a coach with experience.
Reviews and Testimonials of the Coach
Look for Google reviews and testimonials from past clients to get an idea of their experience working with the coach. This can provide valuable insights into the coach’s effectiveness and the results they’ve helped others achieve.
Availability and Accessibility of the Coach
Consider the coach’s availability and accessibility and their communication style. Make sure that their schedule aligns with yours and that you’re comfortable with their preferred methods of communication. Career coaching can be done online via video calls; however, you may wish to meet your coach in person. Find out what potential coaches offer before choosing.
Tips for Making the Most of Your Career Coaching Experience
To get the best from your career coaching experience, coming prepared and open to feedback and suggestions is essential. Before your first session, take some time to reflect on your goals and what you hope to achieve through coaching. Be honest with your coach about your strengths and weaknesses, and be willing to try new approaches and strategies. It’s also important to communicate openly with your coach about any challenges or obstacles you may face so that they can provide tailored support and guidance. Finally, be patient and persistent, career change takes time and effort, but you can achieve your goals with the proper support and mindset.
See The Impact of Career Coaching
Below are a section of case studies for both career coaching and business coaching:
Career Coaching Reviews
Speak with a career coach todayI needed assistance with a Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children job interview to gain better insight to strategic management and coaching regarding leadership and management to increase my knowledge in this area so I could apply that to the job specification.
Michael’s professional advice helped me to be successful in getting the job I have always wanted. This is especially helpful in health care as you do not necessarily go into nursing to be a manager so coaching in this area is essential. I would highly recommend Michael, his calm reassuring manner really helped with my confidence.I met with Michael a few weeks ago for a free Professional Development consultation.His approach to coaching was welcoming, providing me with the advice and guidance I need to achieve my professional goals. As a result from our consultation, I am now on a Pearsons accredited MBA pathway.
I would recommend the Services of Micheal at Strategic Goal Management to all business owners who are looking to elevate their companies profile beyond their current reach.Michael has mentored me through the years, from a junior management position to far more senior positions, he has helped me see the wood from the trees and assisted me in keeping my goals clear and my career strategy at the forefront. I cannot recommend Michael highly enough to anyone wanting to achieve their strategic objectives and needing clear and concise ways of doing so.I was applying for a senior leadership role in the public sector and I needed to brush up on business strategy before interviewing. Michael at Strategic Goal was brilliant and he spent several hours teaching me how best to understand and do strategic planning. Suffice to say I got the role!Michael is a an expert in all things strategy and business he is so positive about his work and he can definitely help businesses and people to develop new skills.
I highly recommend his company, thank you Michael
Micheal has coached and mentored me through my progression from Engineer to Engineering Manager, developing and increasing my management and leadership knowledge, skill, and professional development. Micheal has supported the development of my competence in leading and managing teams and developing strategic plans, techniques and models that have been successful throughout my career. Michael helped me identify my strengths and weaknesses and the link to management best practices and achieving business goals. His support of my vision, coaching and mentoring has contributed to my becoming an Engineering Manager for a National transportation company. Highly recommend Strategic Goal Management Consulting Ltd.
