Is career connection a top-of-mind priority for you?
For many midlife adults, a professional pathway is a big piece of the whole “pie of life.” Career connection can correlate to definitions of self-worth and value as well as to financial livelihood and well-being. These areas are pivotal to flourishing in work (and life).
According to Gallup, the career dimension of well-being carries a smidge more weight compared with other areas. Part of this is it can be highly connected to a person’s sense of purpose.
Also, as many of us have been talking about… the coming year is expected to be a bit of a mix-up sort of year. If a recent global pandemic wasn’t enough for people to re-examine their balance of commitments, 2025 may be a catalyst year to really think through a few things.
Growth-focused, whole-person coaching can help address the intricate and entwined dimensions of a person’s life.
It turns out that growth-focused coaching is a great tool & resource to use while facing a shift in your career. Whether you are changing your focus or organization OR are working to make shifts within your specific focus areas & organization, the premise of Crafting Your Career can be highly relevant.
In the past few years, coaches have seen an influx of career shifters. Whether someone was laid off and forced into re-examining one’s self from a career perspective OR made voluntary changes, re-envisioning oneself from the lens (or dimension) of career focus has been a bit of an “it topic” in coaching relationships. Also, this emphasis on values & connection within one’s career can apply whether you are staying put in a workplace or making a change.
Career (or Job) Crafting is a concept enhanced by positive psychology-based coaching methodologies. Positive psychology is a robust, integrated framework applied in certain psychology practices and off-shoot disciplines, such as whole-person coaching. This style of coaching emphasizes the applications of one’s strengths, integrations of values & sense of purpose, and enhancing people’s sense of well-being.
Are you looking to garner more focus & alignment with your career?
If you aim to up-level your career path, you may have landed in the right place.
Soon… we will add dedicated pathways to our coaching offerings. These are not brand new programs, but ones that build upon our existing coaching options. Dedicated pathways will curate an outcomes-driven coaching experience tailored to specific high-level goals, such as crafting your career!
To get started, we will offer 6-dedicated coaching sessions via a small beta group cohort.
Those of you who are bold & courageous enough to go first with this new offering will benefit from “friendly” pricing in exchange for providing user feedback. Ultimately, you will glean from science-based tools & pathways AND help shape the future of this program as we offer it.
In response to some of those most popular coaching topics, the first pathway will focus on Career Crafting, a curated option to:
- Create a personalized career-crafting action plan
- Tackle obstacles you face in your career
- Garner focus & alignment between your values & professional priorities
- Up-level your distinctive character & strengths in the most relevant ways for your career/professional goals
- Foster meaningful relationships & connections in professional environments
Better yet, this small, dedicated coaching group will help you harness the power of coaching AND benefit from social support, learning, & accountability. You can learn more about group coaching programs from one of our recent blog posts on small group coaching.
The methodologies incorporated in the crafting career pathway are also great for building your leadership repertoire. (BONUS PERK!)
First step??? Submit this interest form so that we have you on the follow-up list: https://forms.gle/Ph8D3UikD4HDtfaG8
More juicy details on the Crafting Career Dedicated Pathway:
Dedicated pathways will provide 6-focused coaching sessions leveraging core science-based frameworks from positive psychology-based coaching. People will get lots of tools & self-development exercises to help them align the best version of themselves with their high-level specific goals.
Positive psychology-based applications can be great for supporting you in putting your best foot forward by emphasizing growth focus and building upon your unique character, strengths, values, and vision. In studies on coaching, growth-focused applications have demonstrated boosts in confidence, resilience, communication style, & ability to relate well with others.
Dedicated pathways provide a distinct platform to focus on specific high-level goals, such as advancing your career.
The Crafting Career dedicated pathway will incorporate benchmark tools + personalization to support people to cultivate work engagement and satisfaction.
The processes behind positive psychology-based job crafting help people build resources around demands, commitments, tasks, challenges, and coping mechanisms. The premise of job and career crafting weaves in responsibilities & skills, relationships, and mental processes. It can also support boosting one’s autonomy and authority in career paths.
Ultimately, career crafting approaches allow someone to curate their unique strengths, values, and interests within their jobs and career paths. Doing so can help incorporate a person’s a sense of purpose and meaning into the professional dimensions of their life. These factors improve sense of alignment and motivation, which can help people clear the clutter (so to speak) around taking relevant steps in their career path.
Some primary benefits of career crafting:
- Greater sense of joy in professional roles & paths
- More alignment within career progression
- Boosts to work engagement & satisfaction
- Increased autonomy, authority, & mastery in career-related outcomes
- Improved performance habits, resourcefulness, & decision-making
- Contributions to positive employability
- Strengthened resilience & well-being
Career crafting may also help reduce absenteeism or attrition for organizations AND could combat burnout.
So, are you ready to craft your unique, distinctive career path?
Career connection and growth involves commitment, dedication, and openness. You don’t have to go at it alone! Navigating one’s career path is one of the most popular topics in professional coaching. It’s a great area to leverage applied positive psychology and growth-focused tools & resources that help you incorporate your unique vision, strengths, skills, character, and values.
Dedicated pathways will focus on a highly-specific goal area, such as crafting your career. We are thrilled to kick these off as an extension of our signature coaching programs & pathways.
We will get this compelling option started with small, dedicated groups to help you harness the power of coaching AND benefit from social support, learning, & accountability. Over 6-small group coaching sessions, we will weave curated content centered on crafting your unique brilliance in a specific area. The first offering will be focused on crafting your career.
The Crafting Career Dedicated Pathway is ideal for people considering a growth-focused shift in their career path, whether it be a shift within a current trajectory or organization or exploring something new & different with another role or organization.
First step??? Submit this interest form so that we have you on the follow-up list: https://forms.gle/Ph8D3UikD4HDtfaG8
Established groups and organizations are welcome to reach out about dedicated coaching pathway programs. Micro-sized Businesses & Entrepreneurs (including Start-ups), Community & Small Business Development Programs, and Personal-Professional Development-focused Organizations & Programs can be a great fit!
Ashley’s coaching services are great for:
- Growth-focused adults navigating midlife stages
- Emerging leaders with impact- & purpose-driven priorities in mind
- Driven, working adults looking to up-level & optimize processes, growth trajectories, & performance habits
As well as…
- Small & micro-sized companies interested in the performance, development, & well-being of their staff
- Leadership development structures interested in coaching as a complementary offering
- Purpose-driven groups or organizations
Learn more about personal and other small-group coaching options on the Work With Me page. We also provide Interactive Personal-Professional Development Workshops upon request & based on strategic partnerships.