Breaking Chains of Traditional Careers: A Path to Genuine Fulfillment

What if you could redefine your career path, not by job titles, but by what truly fuels your passion and desire? As we grapple with this provocative question, we take you on a journey of self-discovery, through a powerful coaching process. We start by emphasizing the importance of genuine self-reflection, revealing what you love, what you dislike, your strengths, and areas you can improve upon. We highlight the significance of honesty in this process and how it shapes the coaching journey, transitioning from your present state to your desired future state.

Our discussion takes a lively turn as we challenge societal norms of envisioning future solely in terms of job types. We draw inspiration from Julie Winkle's enlightening book, "Promotions Are So Yesterday," emphasizing that the desired future isn't always about job promotions but rather the type of work that truly enriches you. This illuminating conversation will prompt you to rethink your career perspective, your future aspirations, and how you assist others in their personal and professional growth. Tune in for an episode packed with invaluable insights that will transform how you perceive your career journey.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:37

One of the fundamental things that we have to do when we coach is very, very simple, and I think sometimes, as coaches, we present, company included can make things more complicated than what they really are. So when you think about coaching, what you're really doing whether it's something that's constructive or you're leveraging the strength to go to the next level I always think about it from point A to point C, and point B is the action you need to take. Basically, it's a gap analysis. I always go back to coaching, to your present, and I think one of the healthiest things that we can do is to ask people, as you sit here today what do you love, what do you like, what do you dislike, what do you think your strengths are, what do you feel like you have opportunities to grow. That's your present state, very similar to the whiteboard coaching. And then when you go and you ask about the future and say you know where do you want to end up and I just asked somebody this question at one of our clients site he goes well, it's really a, you know, evolving thing and he went into this esoteric description of not knowing. I said what do you want to do? And he couldn't answer me and I said okay, as you sit here today, be honest with me. Do you love, do you like or do you dislike your job? Be honest, I won't repeat it to anybody. He said I like it. He said I do not dislike it. There are things I do dislike. I don't know if there's many things that I love.

Speaker 1: 2:06

I said great, forget about jobs. If you could do something tomorrow, what would you love to be doing? He said something with computers. I said what does it look like? He said I have no idea and he's someone who's out in the field working with people. I said well, how often do you get on the computer and you use technology? He said rarely. I said does it make you edgy? How does that make you feel? And he said edgy, I just I hate it. I love technology. I said it's funny.

Speaker 1: 2:36

When I first asked you, you didn't know. And he said well, I thought you were asking about a job. See, what we have to do is be very careful. When we talk about our present and then we talk about where does somebody want to go, what do they want, to end up, they will immediately gravitate, because we've conditioned this as companies and as leaders, to that destination being the job type and again I go back to Julie Winkle's book Promotions Are so Yesterday. It's not always a job type, it's the type of work that they'd like to be doing. So think about present, future. How do we get there?