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May 19, 2021

The main reason for hiring a career coach

Nobody needs a coach, but anyone can use one. People often find it difficult to ask for help. But sometimes a sparring partner is very valuable to gain insight: about yourself, but also about your situation, career and future. A coach can help you with this by holding up a mirror to you, with a fresh and independent view. Moreover, it is always useful: either you get confirmation that you are in the right place - and why that is - or you know what else can be done.

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Seven dimensions

Actually, coaching always revolves around three questions: where are you now, where do you want to go and how are you going to get there? During this search we consider several elements, or as we call them: dimensions. Think of social, mental and financial. There are seven dimensions in total and they must be in balance. If not, you quickly get the feeling that something is not right, is unpleasant or needs to be changed. Together with your coach you will find out exactly where the imbalance is caused, and what is needed for balance.

Always valuable

Ultimately, our goal is always to help you make a choice that you're comfortable with. Which one that is depends entirely on you and your situation. Looking for another job? If that's what you want, we'll help you with that. But our work is also valuable if you don't change anything. As long as you are at peace with that. Is that not possible? Then we hope that we can find out what your current obstacle is and why. That knowledge alone makes it easier to change things - now or in the future.

We are awareness-makers ...

We always say: we are not coaches, but awareness-raising. We hold up a mirror to you by confronting positively. By listening carefully to what you say, but not too well. It sounds crazy, but what you say to yourself is by no means always true. For example, you may have had in mind for a long time that you cannot work anywhere else because your current employment conditions are so good. We then question that idea. Because are you sure about that? Have you ever done any serious research on that? 

… And tour guides

Do we have a good idea of ​​who you are and why you do what you do? Or maybe why you don't do what you actually want? Then we look to the future. Your future. How does your work change, what happens to your role and how do you want to move with it? Together we map out your professional journey, with your renewed self-knowledge as a compass. In that respect we are also a kind of tour guides. And as befits good tour guides: we travel the route together with you.

Fully customized

Every route is different. Sometimes one hour of conversation is enough for someone, sometimes several sessions are needed. We work with tests and homework assignments. We have an intake interview at the start of a process. To get to know you, but also so that you get to know the coach. It is a very personal process, so there has to be a click. Isn't there? Then we will see if another coach might be a better fit for you.

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