Do you feel like you’re performing a role you’ve outgrown?
There’s a significant difference between resigning yourself to a career on auto-pilot and living out YOUR ideal career and life.
Your ideal career:
- Aligns with who you are now
- Taps into your strengths, interests and passions
- Makes you feel alive again
- And: Is sustainable, in all dimensions of the word
The difference is in your sense of ease and flow – even joy! – rather than having life’s energy sucked out of you.
How can you make sure you are changing into YOUR ideal career?
You allow yourself to make space to reconnect with yourself – and to think things through properly.
Give yourself permission to go on a journey to EXPLORE, DREAM, and DISCOVER: where you have come from, who you are now, and how you want to contribute in future.
That’s what I help public sector leaders do in my Find Your Career Space programme.
It brings you a deep sense of feeling grounded in your identity, values and direction.
Are You In Your Ideal Career?
Have you ever asked yourself …
- How did I end up in my current role?
- What specifically attracted me to my work when I first started out?
When I ask myself those questions, I feel that I’m doing work that lights me up and fits the current stage of my life. The freedom, creativity and impact I have now are working for me!
But it wasn’t always like this. Early in my career, moving countries and jobs, I didn’t have much of a compass or direction – or at least not consciously.
I wasn’t being intentional. I wasn’t thinking strategically. I worked hard to get into good roles, to gain experience, take up professional development opportunities, manage larger teams and budgets, get promoted. Until it was time to move and do it all over again.
And that’s where I was developmentally in my career. I’ve learned a lot since then!
Now, each year I carefully consider what is right for me at this stage in my life – and what is right for my ideal clients.
Who do I most want to work with?
What is the scope of work I want to do?
What do I not want to do anymore?
What’s the best schedule for me?
I adjust my business and my working patterns to reflect those answers.
The Key Mindset Shift for Public Sector Leaders
Could I have operated like that earlier? Maybe not. But I think you can.
You know more than I when I started out. And, a career change coach like me helps you create the career change journey that’s right FOR YOU.
There is a key mindset shift needed, which I can help you learn: to value your time and energy.
And there’s a shift in approach: to put intention and strategy behind every action you take that fits your ideal working day and how you want to lead your career and life.
I want you to have an energising, sustainable and enjoyable career. One that’s meaningful TO YOU. I know you can do it!
And that’s where developing your career change journey comes in.
Before I explain the components of a meaningful career change journey, a quick announcement:
In my private 5 month Find Your Career Space programme, you and I create this whole journey for your ideal career together. We tackle one step at a time.
You never have to stress when you work with me because I explain everything clearly and help you work through each step. I’m your sounding board and accountability partner to make sure it all works together.
My 5-month Programme is perfect for you IF:
- You’re a public sector leader craving a career that’s more aligned with who you are now
- OR, you’re a public sector leader who’s followed the traditional career path but are left feeling empty, and now wonder what’s next for you
- You would love to have personalised support to design a career change journey that’s right for you
- You want more confidence stepping into the unknown, and enjoy learning and developing yourself
- You want structure, accountability and practical guidance as well as emotional support for those steps.
I’m enrolling now for ONE opening. Just fill out the application and tell me a bit about you at the Work With Yvonne page on my website SpaceToShiftYourCareer.com.
Then I’ll be in touch with more details about the programme and give you access to my calendar. We’ll have a free Discovery Call to make sure we’re a good fit.
Now, let me walk you through the…
4 Phases Of Your Career Change Journey
It is a strategically thought-out system and clear pathway designed for finding your ideal career space. The four phases are:
- Count the Cost of the Status Quo
- Move from Paralysed to Energised
- Envision Possible Futures & Get Active
- Design Your Next Career Move
Each step prepares you for the next, which helps you to get more clarity about your ideal career.
It’s a fun and exciting journey of exploration and discovery!
Create an Inspiring, Sustainable and Enjoyable Career Now
When you begin your career shift with an open mind to explore and discover, you’ll gain more clarity and certainty about where you want to go next. Because you understand what lights you up, what you need to thrive, and where you want to go.
Your career change journey has these key pieces:
- Honest look at the status quo, the toll it’s taking to remain and what’s keeping from taking a smart leap
- Deep understanding of who you are now and what you want and need for a more satisfying work experience
- Clarity about your transferable strengths, skills, talents and experiences to help you rewrite your story, reclaim your voice and reimagine your livelihood and purpose
- Develop trust in yourself and the process, guided by a smart strategy and transition steps
When you decide where you want to go next, you step right up! And, it’s such a relief when you realise you don’t have to settle for the status quo.
When you show up with honesty, curiosity and integrity in how you want to lead your career and life, you build self-confidence in your ability to transition into a career paths that’s right for you.
Until next time: make space, rediscover YOU, and then take action.