CAREER COACHING

In today’s workforce, many of us can expect to change roles as many as ten times over our career. Whether you are already planning your next move, or just want to keep yourself up to date with what employers want, AtWork can help.

Engaged at work?

Recent research has revealed what many of us already suspected: four out of five workers are not "engaged" in their work or their workplace. That’s sad for the individual – as we spend roughly a third of our lives at work – and it is obviously not optimal for employers either.

How would you place yourself or your staff on the scale of engagement?

1. Fully engaged - experiencing high levels of passion and commitment for work and the workplace
2. Disengaged – those who "quit and stay" – you do the job but have no real commitment
3. Actively disengaged – those who feel negative towards their employer, and often engage in toxic behaviours that spill over to other staff

One way AtWork can help your staff become more engaged at work, and experience a more satisfying career, is through career alignment based around assessment, job redesign and coaching.

The Career Review & Planning Process

AtWork can help support you to take the next step in your career. Our career planning typically consists of three phases:

1. To move forward, a look back can be helpful. We first take a retrospective look at your career background and review past choices and moves - because early career choices are often made as a result of a range of pressures, not always from your own specific desires (parental and school choices often come into play).
   
   
2. We facilitate a career audit, which is a personal assessment, based on discussion and reliable psychometric assessments. We will identify your key strengths and development needs based on experience, skills, knowledge, competencies, and personal traits. We will scope your work values and drivers, to gain insight beyond what you "can do" into what you "will do". This is also the time for scoping opportunities and challenges in the environment, and recognising any internal or external barriers that need to be dealt with in order to move effectively in the desired direction.
   
   
3. We link strategies to the your work values and drivers as well as to your skills, qualifications, and a realistic assessment of the genuine options. We start developing a unique value proposition for you – as an element of personal branding. This leads to action planning and a clear implementation strategy. We work with each individual to create specific plans to design and build their future.

Career self-management and its value today

Are you a career "self-manager"? If you are...

• You are always in career management mode - regularly planning and acting to manage future job transitions
• You regularly build and maintain networks and relationships and continually strive to add value to the people in these networks
• You maintain resources through online information sources and other sources to keep pace with career options including maintaining an awareness of movements in the employment market, career development strategies and personal branding
• Career self-managers know that every new work role they experience, while requiring their full commitment at the time, is also another stepping-stone towards their ultimate career goals
• Your career is planned – but with appropriate flexibility. You realise you won’t have control over every aspect, but know your career is your own responsibility (not that of your employer). You keep a regular focus on maintaining goals and moving towards them

Are you ready to manage your career? Contact us