What is the future of work?
It is the future of digital transformation, technology, interdisciplinary innovation, artificial intelligence, creativity, and workplace expectations.
The world is evolving. And career coaching, as one of the most effective transformative tools, helps individuals in different roles to adapt, develop, and grow.
The old educational paradigm does not work anymore.
It is not enough to train new skills and to expand knowledge.
It is critically important to understand personal strengths, enhance self-awareness and emotional intelligence, take responsibility: accept the consequences for your own choices.
It is all about:
– how people communicate and connect with others
– how people create value and solutions
– how people cultivate a growth mindset
– how people drive business-focused environment
– how people deal with challenging changes and uncertainty
Lifelong learning, upskilling, reskilling, and personal development are becoming increasingly crucial for individuals to thrive, especially in the future.
Why Career Coaching?
Qualified coaches help individuals to maximize their potential, overcoming both internal and external interferences.
The coaching approach, as a communication method, is focused on person’s mindset, behaviour, and feelings.
It is not direct advice. It is not theory to practice. It is a way of helping people to boost their confidence and performance on individual level: cognitive thinking, behavioural level, and emotional level.
Career coaches are professionals whose focus is to assist individuals in navigating their career path at different stages of their careers.
Career coaches are equipped with special techniques to help people:
– to set their short-term and long-term professional goals
– to understand what professional skills to obtain / develop
– to match their experience / qualifications to a career or career shifting
– to identify and increase their level of confidence
– to identify and develop their strengths and areas of improvements
The value of career coaching sessions is that a coach guides a coachees’ progress assisting in their goal identification, planning, acting, evaluation, self-reflection.
In addition to tangible results, like finding a good job or getting promoted, coachees also get invisible results such as a clear vision, deep understanding of the individual power, and ability to be flexible in different circumstances.
A true power of a thought-provoking conversation is timeless.
Specially for mature individuals: AI cannot replicate the interaction with a real career qualified coach in order to work efficiently through the whole cycle of transformation.
For sure, measuring the return on investment in career coaching, estimating both qualitative and quantitative outcomes in terms of short-term and long-term perspectives, is a complex task demanding a profound professional approach in each and every case.
Meanwhile, a number of case studies prove that career coaching really works.
A case study in evaluating impact conducted by The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) (2021-2024) states,
“Significant improvements were recorded in career thinking immediately after coaching, with improvements still observed three to six months later. Short-term improvements were particularly marked around career planning and career self-management skills. In the longitudinal survey sample, after a longer time, coachees recorded feeling clearer about the work activities they found interesting and enjoyable, felt better at articulating their skills and strengths, were more likely to know how to access support from others and had improved their sense of career direction.
As an example of presenting a short-term effect, see Figure 2 below:
Figure 2: Average agreement with Cognitive Career Planning statements”.
MINDS Coaching and Consulting, based in Kyiv, Ukraine, and well-positioned for global collaboration, has successful experience at working with the C-suite, diplomats and civil servants, NGOs and corporate professionals all over the world.
They are inter-cultural.
In addition to career coaching services, they also specialize in relocation coaching, well-being coaching, leadership coaching, building high-performance organizational culture, and world-class education.