Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
The programme has been carefully tailored using research into best practice in career evaluation and transition, backed up my own experience as a life and career coach. The programme has been designed in three phases, the name of each has been inspired by the above quotation from Mark Twain:
- Phase 1: EXPLORE
- Phase 2: DREAM
- Phase 3: DISCOVER
The programme aims to help you take a journey from uncertainty about your present career and not knowing what your next step might be, through to having a clear vision of a career that is absolutely right for you, and a plan for how to create it.
What is unique about this programme is that it draws on your own innate resourcefulness to help you identify an exciting and viable new career direction. The programme provides a framework for the coaching in the form of interesting and engaging exercises and profound guided meditations which will bring out that creativity and resourcefulness in you and direct it toward discovering the right next step for your working life.
Career Programme Overview
Research shows that those who are most satisfied and motivated by their work are in careers which reflect who they really are; careers which reflect their true nature and their real passions; careers which draw on their innate strengths and employ their favourite skills; careers which allow them to honour their deeply-held values.
Phase 1: EXPLORE
The foundation of this programme entails a long, hard look at who you are. During this phase, you'll get a clear idea of:
- your values
- your life purpose
- your most powerful self
- your personal strengths
- your interests and passions
- your personal achievements
- everything you need in your life to be happy and fulfilled
This knowledge is about you as a person, your life as a whole. The next layer on the foundation stone in the EXPLORE phase is about your work preferences. We'll work to identify:
- your favourite job skills
- your key work motivators
- your professional strengths
- your greatest work achievements
- your preferred working organisation and environment
- your ideal working day
- everything you need in your working life to be motivated and satisfied
Phase 2: DREAM
This is a very creative part of the programme when together we generate a number of possible new career choices. We call it DREAM because the idea here is to be expansive, to think outside the box, not to be constrained at this stage by traditional notions of what's possible. In truth, almost anything is possible if it's right for you. We will explore the most attractive ideas thoroughly and then finally narrow these down to between one and three strong possibilities.
Phase 3: DISCOVER
This is the phase in which we investigate the top possibility using a creative and empowering process which lets you turn your vision for an exciting career that's right for you into a soundly based action plan to make it happen.
Tips and Tools
To begin now to explore your career goals you might like to try some of the exercises on our Career Tips and Tools page.
To Contact Us
To register for this programme or to find out more about it contact us at: info@cobbalexander.com or on 01580 240 091