Career / Professional Effectiveness
how can I rapidly improve my career prospects and professional effectiveness?
Times are tough! Corporations and the private sector have been greatly affected by the global melt-down in the financial markets and the resulting credit crunch, coupled with the loss of UK productivity (that fell off a cliff in 2009), and the loss of markets. Closures, mergers and acquisitions are commonplace, and senior managers need to employ the tactics of the successful in order to secure their careers and the possibilities for future advancement.
Life’s no sweeter in the public sector. For the foreseeable future UK public expenditure will significantly contract with the resulting pressures on staffing levels. First will be admin and back office staff, then middle and senior management posts will go as decision-makers struggle to retain priority front line services. This is turn will affect the private sector with an almost certain contraction in consumer spending.
If all this sounds all too familiar, and you’re thinking of boosting your management skills and talents, or enhancing your executive and non-exec chances, or wanting to improve your strategic and operational effectiveness, or even your personal and professional influence, and / or your career progression and relationship management then… support is at hand.
Ask yourself, honestly… “What am I doing to secure my career prospects in this time of change and potential turmoil?”
An essential ingredient of success is learning to access both your Left and Right Brain thinking. All too often management and business school training is devoted to Left brain thinking, and yet Right brain thinking is the essential component of effective self-management, increasing your acuity, influence and impact, and in managing your own destiny.
All of this is combined with a client’s particular context (their issues and challenges), and their will and determination to take on board new revelations and learning.
SUCCESS-4-ME Career / Professional Effectiveness coach-mentoring supports you in your career and professional effectiveness by not only providing you with a ‘safe, confidential space’ in order to explore your immediate challenges and longer-term aspirations, but also helps support the balance of your learning and development:
Managing your own successful career as a change agent and leader, whether in senior, executive or non-executive positions will depend on the acquisition of what for you may be challenging ways of thinking and working.
It’s maybe useful to consider the Tactics of the Successful: Stephen R Covey in his book ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ talks about “Self-Mastery” as the key to effective leadership and success.
SUCCESS HABIT 1: Be Proactive (realise that you can create your own destiny, take charge now!)
SUCCESS HABIT 2: Begin with the End in Mind (mentally rehearse your own success)
SUCCESS HABIT 3: Put First things First (develop effective self-management, become ‘efficient with things and effective with people’)
SUCCESS HABIT 4: Think Win-Win (develop the right frame of mind and improve relationships and improve team work)
SUCCESS HABIT 5: Seek first to Understand, then to be Understood (seek to understand the principles of co-operation and empathetic communication)
SUCCESS HABIT 6: Seek Synergy (bringing it all together and applying the principles of creative cooperation)
SUCCESS HABIT 7: Action Regular Renewal by ‘Sharpening the Saw’ (your learning should never stop... utilise your physical, spiritual, mental and social / emotional well-being)
As my client, I will take you through a professional, challenging yet supportive process:
- establish our relationship to build trust and rapport
- share with you my professional ethics and coach-mentoring values
- enter into a coaching contract that explains our ground rules; opportunities for structured reflection; and a review of our coaching relationship
- help you to identify your agenda and goals, and to set out an action plan if appropriate
- offer up opportunities for your self-reflection and self-analysis through a variety of tools, inventories and learning conversations
- help you identify and better utilise your intellectual, emotional, and spiritual domains
- support you in finding your inner wisdom and learning from those ‘light-bulb moments’.
- help you to utilise the resources you require, both ‘internally’ and externally to support positive change
- gently challenge your assumptions and encourage new perceptions, behaviours and positive habits
- offer you the opportunity to be ‘observed’ in your place of work in real time, should you so wish
- encourage you in regular and structured reflection on thoughts and actions experienced in between sessions
- ensure you develop an ongoing strategy for when the relationship ends
NEED A SHOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION? If this sounds just up your street and you’re ready to make the changes you need in order to be more successful in your career, business, and in life generally then call me now on 07760 270 392, or to email me . There’s never been a better time to invest in yourself and your future!
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