Work you love

How does it work?

Once we’re all signed up and ready to go, I’ll invite you to complete a DISC personality assessment (a bit like Myers Briggs, only better) and fill in my ‘Where am I now?’ self-assessment form. These two together give me a good idea of where you’re at and give you space to think about the journey we’re embarking on together.

I know what you’re thinking- “I’ve done these to death!”. But if it was more than a few years ago, the chances are that we need to do them again, to dig into what’s true for you right now.

Then we’ll get going on the seven steps in my Work You Love pathway.

You’ll come up with a fabulous vision for your future and get to know yourself like you’ve never done before

We’ll take a deep dive into the totally unique person that you are, so we can identify exactly the right work for you based on your skills, passions, preferred ways of working etc. Work you will love and in which you will absolutely thrive

We’ll expose the pesky gremlins which I guarantee will sabotage your efforts without careful attention (some of these fear-based creatures have very, very loud voices) and we’ll put into play powerful strategies to move them right along.

Only then will we explore possible avenues where your unique offer matches exactly what’s needed in the world (I know how important it is is for you to use your skills and experience for good)

And finally, we’ll set you a fabulous goal and get you going on fulfilling your vision. By the end of the programme, you might even have begun that impactful new job; set up your new consultancy; found yourself absolutely loving your current work, started your new training, or whatever it is that’s next for you.

Six months can feel like a long time. Sometimes, I have to tell my clients quite firmly to hold their nerve. “But what am I actually going to do?,” they share as the weeks go by and they’re still not clear on their next step. I really get it.

As I said, the gremlins can get you to, big time. But my answer is to trust, and trust some more, Both in yourself and me, and in the process – because it all works, beautifully. A client recently told me, as her exploratory work finally came together that I’d been right after all. That Work You Love really is “magic”.

Warning!!

For the first few step on the Pathway, we’re focusing entirely on YOU, so I advise clients not to apply for roles or distract themselves by scanning job ads (unless there’s a truly fabulous reason in which case we’ll talk about it together.) Yep, really! The thing is, they’re working with me for a reason – to create space to find exactly what’s right for their next career step. We don’t want to sabotage that by jumping at the first thing that comes along. Job scouring takes up a lot of time and emotional energy, too, which is better spent on our transformational work.

Over a year the programme includes:

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I saw talented leaders not making progress in their careers because they simply didn’t know what to do next or they lacked the confidence to make a bold move or to get started on a long-held dream because they didn’t know how.

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And more recently, there’s been another motivation. I’ve seen a lot of quitting. It’s tough in our sector right now. Talented leaders are getting burned out from the pressures and they’re heading out, never to return. I really want to do something to address that.