Coaching: What does your ideal career role look like?

I met with my coach a little over a week ago for my Intake Session. As I mentioned in my previous post on the subject, we discussed what I hoped to get out of the coaching relationship in key areas. The main item of interest for me is career. If you’re a personal friend, you know how much I sometimes struggle with all the options I have. 

 

Preparation for this session included several exercises which greatly helped me to scope out parameters to help me evaluate options more objectively. One of the exercises included some thinking around defining my ideal career role. I’m a big fan of mind mapping and created one to explore this task.

 

The key areas I examined in my ideal career role can help anyone clarify what makes them happy on the job.

• Projects - What kind of projects do you want to work on? Do you like to work independently or as part o a team? Do you like a firm project end better than ongoing endeavors? There’s a lot to think about on this one.
• People - This is easy. What kind of people do you want to work with?
• Environment - Think about the physical space you work in. Also, what about looking at the geographic area you may want to live in for that work. 
• Schedule - What does your ideal schedule look like?

 

The map below shows what I defined for my situation. What does yours look like?

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