Career Change & Career Planning

Are you at a career crossroads?

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The overriding purpose of an individual is to fulfill their true potential!

How can you arrive at your destination if you don’t know how to get there’, as the old saying goes! It is hard to achieve anything worthwhile in life without first planning.

For many people this is the most difficult aspect of any career transition, especially a complete career change and often the missing link and the reason why you may never get out of the starting block. It is all too easy to stay in your comfort zone and not have to worry about what job or career to change to, how to go about it, who can help you and whether it will work out for you!

What should you do to start your career change process?

You must firstly understand your current situation and be sure in your own mind that you want to change, need to change and why
Understanding why you need to change is key as this will become your emotional driver and 'call to action'
Download our free SMP Guide to Career Transition for some great tips on how to determine what is wrong and some clues as to why!
Contact us for a free initial career assessment to discuss your current situation and to plan the way forward
Be realistic in your timescale to change - Rome was not built in a day!
Understand that to successfully change career involves a journey taking you on a 'voyage of self discovery'
Consider starting your journey with DISC Personality Profiling to help uncover things that you may have never realised about yourself!

How can SMP help you achieve a successful career change?

SMP are experts in career change and all of our career coaches and consultants have made successful career transitions themselves, so can empathise and support you from practical experience.

We have an enviable record of success in helping people, of all ages and career levels, change into new employed careers, move into self employment and also build interesting and fulfilling portfolio careers.

Changing career involves you being disciplined and finding focus. Most of us aren’t that great when it comes to focussed planning and seeing things through to conclusion, even though we often start with the best of intentions. Procrastination can take over and ruin your life!

A key part of our role is to help you achieve focus and develop an appropriate plan that will set you on track and stay on track to realise your career goals

We will coach you to explore and identify WHAT (is important to you) WHERE (your interests and potential fields of activity could be applied) HOW (to initiate your planning and implementation), WHO (are the people who can unlock your future), WHEN (setting realistic timescales to achieve your goal) and most importantly WHY (confirming your reasons, values, motivators and purpose) to help move you forward.

We will also help establish any key learning gaps that you will need to plug to achieve your career goals.

When should you start your career change?

Once you have confirmed that you definitely want to change and know why

What is the best programme to help you successfully change career?

This really depends on how well you understand your current situation and how clear you are on what you want to achieve and how much time, effort and money (see Career Development price list) you are prepared to invest.

The points below will help you or see our FAQ pages for more detailed answers on what might be best for you. Better still, give us a call or drop us an email to discuss.

If you really are at the start point and 'dipping a toe in the water' then call us for a free career assessment
If you are already commited to getting our professional help to change career the either our 'Breakthrough Career Development Programme' 1:1 personalised coaching, our Full Day Move Your Career One Step Beyond' Career Transition Workshop or our innovative online e-course version would be the best approach
The combination of workshop or e-course and 1:1 coaching support will undoubtedly be the most powerful way to accelerate your career change!
If you are a high flying executive or looking to get on the first rung of the executive ladder, then our Executive Development Programme is the best way forward for you

Contact us now for an initial free career assessment, also download our free SMP Guide to Career Transition, as your start point. We look forward to helping you successfully change career!