Career transition coaching, business productivity, innovation consulting, experiential learning consulting

 

What if…

…you were beginning to feel that you were unemployable? Perhaps you were laid off from your job over 6 months ago and even though you had 20 interviews or more, you never made it to the follow-up interview. You might be depressed about that, except for the fact that there wasn’t one company that seemed to match what you were looking for. But then again, you felt the pressure of time running out! If the truth be known, you really don’t have any idea what you want to do. And you beat yourself up for that because you should know that, shouldn’t you? Doesn’t everybody? Or is it all an illusion?

You begin to recognize that you are sabotaging all your possibilities because of your own mindset. But what can you do?

How do you re-invent yourself-and get in the driver’s seat of your own life?

It’s possible! We at LTP see that as one door closes, another opens. And all you may need to do is shift your sight from "getting another job" to understanding what would truly be a good reason to get up in the morning, and finding a way to use that insight to create income. Can you really have your money come from something you really want to do, rather than something you feel you have to do? Yes!

The situation

Jason was a great programmer and had been in the technology growth spurt throughout the 90s in Silicon Valley. The profession suited him well. He could be part of a team, but worked on his own for the most part, and he was great at writing code. He was an introvert—someone who communicated enough to get by, but felt shy and awkward in groups. He was single and his greatest companion was his golden retriever, Sam. All that suited him fine, until he was moved into management. It was an exciting project, but now he needed to work "with" and " through" other people to get work done. Jason learned that he was not a very good communicator, and was inconsistent between what he said and what he did. It wasn’t too long before he was downsized out of the corporation. Rather than look for another job, Jason would rather be in his own business, but wondered how he could pull it off without solid "people skills."

Solution emerges

We helped Jason craft mission statement that allowed him to have a real purpose for his life. We helped him see that finding his life’s work was different than looking for a job—it meant truly "seeing" himself, and giving himself permission to have more out of life than his previous self-definition would allow.

Our coaching for Jason included:

Self Design
Values Clarification
Emotional Intelligence
Authentic Communication
Authorship
Right Livelihood.

Through our 12-week program, Jason discovered his true passion. He gave himself permission to use his computer programming skill to start his own business, and we facilitated his concept development and planning. One of his biggest hurdles was shyness, so we helped him identify non-threatening ways of meeting and getting close to the people who would be his clients. This led him to a new passion: dancing. He found it was a great way to meet people and to invite them into relationship, even if it was only for the short time they shared on the dance floor. It was a structured activity that gave him a step-by-step metaphor on how to get outside of himself and participate with others. We worked with him as he used his dancing to venture further into conversations and get feedback that helped his confidence grow, both in social relationships and in attracting clients to his business.

What we discovered in our work with Jason was a process shift. He began to see himself from the inside out, rather than the outside in. We facilitated this new awareness by helping him develop awareness of the systems he needed to align within himself:

Spirit
Body
Mind
Heart

Finding his balance and path allowed Jason to become an authority on himself, and the author of his own life. It also gave him a path for aligning himself with the way he wanted to be with the people in his life. It gave him the ability to choose the groups he would be a part of, and find ways to give back significantly to the organizations he was connected to via his work, church, social groups, and community activities. His gifts came back to him in the form of clients and projects.