Maria, PhD and 10 years of experience in academia and industry
Describe your biggest, coolest result from the coaching program.
I articulated my long-term career goal, through understanding how I want to feel in 10 years and what foundation to have in order to enjoy the next 10-15 years of my career.
What difficulty did you come to coaching with?
I came to Wife with two requests:
To formulate a long-term career goal and, based on it, to define the criteria for the next career step;
benefit and satisfaction from my current job, even though I don't see myself there long-term.
How did the work go?
We worked for 6 sessions on understanding our values, fears, including the perception of age and its impact on career. We explored the topic of procrastination, its origins and looked for workable ways to combat it. We also formulated a long-term career goal and criteria for finding a new job. We also touched on self-esteem and sense of expertise.
What did you leave coaching with?
I started looking for the experience I lacked to feel like an expert at work.
I changed my approach to some tasks at work - it's better to do it faster and ok than to do it for a long time but perfectly.
I became better at keeping focus on work and freeing up time for other goals.
As a result of these changes:
Wrote 2 articles that I had been putting off for months.
Gave a presentation to clients, an experience she had avoided before.
Reduced the number of jobs she responds to by understanding what meets her goals and what doesn't.
What has moved you the most toward results?
The sessions with Zhenya helped me a lot to get through another step of uncertainty in career development, which I have every few years ("I want to move somewhere, but I don't quite understand where"). And also managed to work on fears and attitudes that somewhere in the subconscious spoil the quality of life on a daily basis. I liked the "homework" between sessions in the form of small steps aimed at small changes right now. Took this practice with me because self-reflection and understanding of the problem is a more understandable step for me, but implementing it in my life right now was what I was missing.
The openness, lack of even a hint of judgment, and Jenin's background, which is somewhat similar to mine, helped make the sessions as comfortable and effective for me as possible.
