PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COACHING

We offer tailored 1-2-1 coaching programs to help you better understand your professional path, your goals, your ambitions and how to get there. 

Examples include:

• career transition options

• career development and advancement

• professional development skills (e.g. presentations skills)

• management or supervisory skills

• return-to-work coaching

• identifying and overcoming limiting beliefs and negative emotions

• identifying quantifiable goals and actionable steps

• interview coaching and communication skills

• CV writing and how to be noticed

• positioning yourself for future opportunities

• building confidence

• understanding your values and what motivates you

• time management and keeping well

If you are feeling 'stuck' and need some guidance in the form of a 'professional shove', we can help you.

You will be supported by our coaches throughout to work towards an agreed, actionable plan and to ignite your motivation to help make the relevant changes.

We take an holistic view of your current situation and your desired outcome, including your work-life balance, your values, your strengths, yor areas for development, your personal needs, and your personality to ensure that these are aligned.

Why would I need Professional Development Coaching? 

To find direction, understand and maximise your style and personal brand, accelerate your career path, maximise your potential, gain support through change, strategically explore your options, develop confidence and develop effective communication skills -  amongst many other things which we work on together.

What is the duration of a coaching session?

Coaching sessions usually last for 90-120 minutes (the time flies by!) They are expertly led and structured to help you to reach clarity within a step-by-step process. These can be tailored to your specific needs with the objectives being agreed. All programs and courses are accompanied by a handbook and relevant resources to support on-going and sustainable growth and success.

What can I expect from a coaching session with an Athena Coach?

Our sessions follow our Core Values in identifying your goal(s) and work towards empowering you with a lasting change. We will encourage and help you to recognise your inner strengths, talents and abilities for you to build on. We will support, inspire and help build strong self-confidence whilst continually motivating and promoting your sense of purpose.

We aim to make the sessions challenging but also enjoyable, infused with enthusiasm, confidence and commitment.

How is the coaching carried out? 

We aim to be flexible around your needs and availability. Coaching programs are usually most efficiently delivered, to work around your work/life commitments, via an online approach. We offer the option for a mix of face-to-face and online coaching, dependent on location and time available. 

Ask yourself these questions: 

• Are you juggling an enormous number of tasks and responsibilities and are finding it hard to manage
• Are you on the brink of burnout and think that working harder, faster or smarter is the solution?
• Do you know where to start? 
• Do you think that you know the solutions to make changes but you’re struggling to get the ‘wheel turning’? 
• Are you stuck in a rut in your personal and/or professional development and want to explore your values, strengths and the options further? 
• Have you taken time out from work and are looking to return but feel overwhelmed and/or underconfident? 
• Do you know where your learning and development gaps are and would like a more 1-2-1 approach to develop these? 
• Do you want to challenge your thought processes, your ideals and the options open to you?
• Are negative thoughts and emotions making it feel like groundhog day? 

If any of these questions resonate with you then coaching can help give you a clear and definitive picture.

Coaching is aimed at helping you to understand what you want and the skills and development required. An Athena Coach will support you in making these initial steps, setting you on your way to a more personally fulfilling life.

Being happy in our professional lives is a crucial part of our life. It forms a fundamental part of our fulfilment as well as linking to our intrinsic values, many of which we are not aware of.

Being unhappy in your professional life can have a negative impact on other aspects of your life, including your mental & physical health, relationships and your social life.

Coaching isn't therapy, it's product development, and you are the product!