Career Coaching in Bristol
Are you in a Career Transition, or do you need one?
How can Career Coaching help me?
Let's take a moment to find out where you are…
Are you feeling stuck or deflated with work?
Or, you’re just not inspired anymore by your work and are itching to find what it is that will keep you engaged.
Maybe you don't just want a ‘job’ and instead want something with meaning, with purpose. Something that connects to your passions and lights you up and puts a smile on your face.
Do you feel that something needs to change?
Then Career Coaching could help you.
Career Coaching offers support and helps you discover what drives you, what energises you and ultimately what helps to give you a career (not a job!) that delivers more happiness in your life (because let’s face it, we all want more happiness and satisfaction, don’t we?).
By understanding who you are and by tapping into your undiscovered intuition, you will reach your highest potential.
Areas where Career Coaching can support you:
Career-change
If you are overworked or burnt out or feeling deflated
Reduce stress and anxiety
If you are not sure what you are doing in your work life and need some clarity
Help you to regain your confidence
Create an authentic vision for your career or for your retirement
Key Areas we cover in your Career Coaching journey…
There’s a balance to be struck between structure and working with where you are at in this moment in your life.
Below are some of the tools that are used in my Career Coaching programmes. I coach and support the whole person and work with what you bring. We will co-create the space to ensure you are receiving as much value as possible from every minute of every session.
This is your time! Your time to understand yourself; to evolve and to unlock your future.
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01: Why are you here?
First, we take time to understand where you’re at.
Some people come to coaching because they are completely lost or stuck.
Others know where they want to go but need help navigating to their dream destination.
Together we explore what success will look like for you and where you want to be.
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02: Strengths & Weaknesses
It’s impossible to optimise your career unless you know your strengths.
Most people take their strengths for granted, they overlook what they are innately good at and focus on what it is they are not good at, what a waste. Whilst we will explore your weaknesses and look to understand them, we will primarily work towards harnessing your strengths into success and turn them into your superpower and USP.
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03: Values
Your values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live and work.
They determine your priorities and, deep down, they are probably the measures you use to tell if your life is turning out the way you want it to.
When the things that you do and the way you behave match your values, life is in flow and aligned, creating peace of mind and happiness. Values should be at the core of every action.
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04: Stress Drivers
As we know, the way we were brought up has a big bearing on how we lead our lives today.
Awareness of your Stress Drivers helps you take actions to negate them and therefore reduce stress. Ultimately we’ll help you turn them into effective motivation drivers.
This session will help you see why you clash with other people and their working style. And help you figure out what type of people you need to work along side.
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05: Vision
This is where we start to bring it all together.
What good is knowing your Strengths, Values, Drivers if you aren’t capitalising on them? Together, we’ll design a path that puts your new self-knowledge at the centre of everything you do.
In this session we’ll dream, and we’ll dream big!
But, we’ll also use your past to help us model your future.
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06: Barriers
What’s going to get in your way?
Unfortunately, life isn’t always smooth sailing. It would be remiss of us not to look at the potential obstacles and devise tactics to mitigate them.
Obstacles might include lack of money for training or low self esteem or minimal free time or a strong inner critic.
Creativity can be key, as are the many tools I have to support this work.
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07: Habits / Design Your Week
Too often, we convince ourselves that massive success requires massive action.
Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results.
We will start to understand how you can live your best life, by dissolving negative habits that don’t serve you, and create new habits that will lead you to success!
This is about being holistic, creating work-life balance and designing the week you want to repeat.
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08: Next Steps
There will be actions emerging from every session.
By this point, you will know who you are, what you’re great at, who you want to work alongside and what problem you want to (help) solve.
You will know where you’re heading and how to manage the inevitable obstacles that will threaten to block your path.
You will be feeling more confident, more in balance and have greater peace of mind.
“I had a series of coaching sessions with James at a time when I was feeling very stuck in my career and was unsure how to move forwards. His expertise doesn't come cheap which did give me pause at first but I'm glad I looked past that as I found our sessions invaluable. He helped me understand my strengths, gain clarity about what exactly I wanted from my career and move forward with confidence. Highly recommended.”
Martin Rolph, Product Management
Career Coaching - and the career you want…
Investing in ourselves can be tricky. Sometimes we think we don’t have the funds or the time. Sometimes we think we ‘know it all’ and don’t need the help or support. But in reality, most of us are in our own heads. And when we are in our own heads, we attach to our ‘thoughts’, making them ‘problems’, resulting in stress or anxiety. Learning to take action from a conscious place is far more powerful than acting from the subconscious.
When we truly start to invest in ourselves and in our evolution, then it has a ripple effect on other key areas in your life – have you ever noticed that?
Career Coaching builds confidence.
Career Coaching helps you grow and develop.
Career Coaching delivers peace of mind.
Career Coaching helps you wake up to your life.
When we unpack where you are at and dive into where and why you are stuck, we will find flow and give balance back to your life. Understanding and celebrating who you are is key to your success!
“From my first session, James helped me find the space to think clearly. By signposting me to some great tools, he helped me identify my transferrable skills and talents and how best to put them to use. During our sessions James reflected back to me so I could get clarity on my thought processes, both positive and negative, and really understand myself as well as how I come across to others. This was extremely enlightening.
James flexible approach ensured that I got what I needed from each session including providing excellent summaries of our conversations afterwards so I could follow up consistently. Over the course of our coaching James helped me regain my confidence and figure out how to move forward. I highly recommend James’ coaching for people who want help identifying their talents and to regain their sense of direction and find the confidence to move forward.”
Nicola (Huntley) Ainger, Senior Project Manager
Career Coaching - and what to expect…
During your Career Coaching with me, we will deep dive into your desired career and work-life balance.
Sessions are either online or in person (in Bristol, UK).
Each session is 1 hour. We will build you a road map for your (work) life.
Investment: £1,400 for 8 sessions.
Payment plans available – please contact for more info – let’s have a chat.
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle”
—Steve Jobs