A career coach can help you gain insights into your behavior and offer opportunities to move forward in your career. Do you also want to climb the career ladder? Do you aspire to a leadership role? Read on and discover what you need to further shape your career.
As a manager, you want to have at least the following qualities:
- Be able to delegate
- Discipline
- Having a vision
- Having a strong mindset
- Being flexible
Only to what extent do you have to have those qualities? It is nice and convenient when there is a balance. In addition, it is helpful if you take other people’s feelings into account, but taking too much into account can sometimes be unhelpful as well[1]. After all, you are also dealing with your own feelings.
Being able to delegate is also kind of an interesting trait, because this requires good communication and trust in other people. Whether you can do this depends on how you trust people in general. Again, that often depends on your beliefs.
Being flexible is about being able to change your behavior when the situation calls for it. After all, behavior is very often the result of thoughts and beliefs you have about how the world works and how you are supposed to function in it.
Your beliefs, your thoughts and your behavior, that’s where a career coach can offer you tremendous help.
Improve beliefs about career
Growing up, you are all given beliefs about work and what you have to do to have a certain career. However, those beliefs need not be true. Coaching — which addresses your thoughts and emotions about work that don’t make sense — can help you get the career you want[2].
You may think that emotions are not that important, but nothing could be further from the truth. After all, how you feel affects your environment and can make opportunities arise or opportunities disappear.
Imagine the following situation: if you talk to someone who is actually not feeling well, how likely are you to give that person a chance?
Emotions and feelings are thus related to your beliefs and thoughts. A career coach can help you with this, you will learn, for example, how to remove blockages that prevent good interaction with colleagues or a team.
This can improve the mood in the workplace to the point where you feel freer to discuss things, and then very wonderful things can happen. This is because your energy, which depends, among other things, on how you feel, affects the quantum field (say, the air around you) and that is what can affect people in your immediate vicinity.
For example, I helped someone who radiated a lot of anxiety during meetings. With the MultiLaws, we then worked on his views of his team and colleagues. After that, on the contrary, effective situations arose and there was more fun at work. Read the entire case study here: https://www.petravandenberg.com/news/hoe-een-directeur-zeer-effectieve-situaties-in-zijn-organisatie-aantrok/
Do you want to work on your career and what is currently holding you back from taking a step forward?
If so, please contact me without obligation.
See you soon.
Petra
[1] http://kaplandevries.com/images/uploads/DetectingExcessToo(KaplanKaiser2003).pdf
[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10942-020-00383-y