Career Change, Career Development, Career Management
(5 minute read + a downloadable checklist) I’d originally anticipated lockdown to be a slower pace, a reconnection with what matters and a welcome realignment of my values. Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but the…
Tags: Anxiety, Creative thinking, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Marginal gains, Resources, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, The Career Psychologist
Career Change, Getting Unstuck coaching
Although minds are not terribly good at career decision making, and actually really quite good at keeping us stuck inside our heads, good career decisions are a lot easier when we: Know how good decisions…
Tags: career change, Decision making, Headstuck, Step 1: Understanding stuckness, Step 2: Identifying decision criteria, Step 3: Generating options, Step 4: Evaluating options and choosing a direction, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, The Career Psychologist
Career Change, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Getting Unstuck coaching
By Dr Rob Handelman, Psy.D. “Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.” Joseph Campbell If this quote rings at all true, and if…
Tags: ACT in coaching, Career paralysis, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Experiential avoidance, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change, Guest post, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, Values
Career Change, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Executive Coaching, Getting Unstuck coaching
by Rob Archer Right from the start, the ACT model made sense to me. It made so many things clearer in my head. Apart from the bit about values…
Tags: career change, Compassion and careers, Headstuck, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, Values
Career Change, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Getting Unstuck coaching
by Rachel Collis Ryan, many of the people we work with at The Career Psychologist are in exactly the situation you describe. They feel stuck in a job they hate. They have also often made…
Tags: Career paralysis, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, Values
Career Change, Developing Coaches - ACT Training, Getting Unstuck coaching
Dear Ryan, my heart ached for you when I read your email, and your question about competing values struck a chord for me personally. Like all good questions, they provoke something in others, and I…
Tags: ACT in coaching, Career paralysis, Dealing with difficult thoughts and emotions, Experiential avoidance, Flexible thinking: using ACT in career change, Job crafting, Step 1: Understanding stuckness, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, Values
Career Change, Getting Unstuck coaching
Took my little daughter to the athletics, and we watched the mighty Usain Bolt in the 4 x 100m heats (though my daughter was far more interested in Hero the Hedgehog). We then cheered the…
Tags: Behaviour analysis in coaching, Marginal gains, Step 1: Understanding stuckness, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action
Career Change, Developing Coaches - ACT Training
by Ross McIntosh Rob’s post about the importance of energy management in career transition resonated with me because since I started my career change process over four years ago I’ve come to recognise the importance…
Tags: Energy management, Marginal gains, Step 1: Understanding stuckness, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action
by Rachel Collis Sarah was unhappy in her current job. She didn’t seem to achieve anything meaningful through her work. She often felt frustrated and dissatisfied. She didn’t quite know what she wanted to do…
Tags: Behaviour change, meaning in work, Mindfulness, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action, Values
Career Change, Career Development, Executive Coaching
Everyone working at The Career Psychologist has a portfolio career, where we split our time between two or more positions. We love the variety and creativity that comes from combining our different interests whilst making…
Tags: Creative thinking, Job crafting, Resources, Step 3: Generating options, Step 5: Making a plan and getting into action
Due to changes at work, I was looking at what I actually wanted to do and the types of organisations I wanted to work for. I completed a NEO-PI-R personality questionnaire to assist me. To be honest, I was slightly apprehensive but I have to say that the results were really interesting. I would recommend it to anyone wanting more direction in their professional life.
