8 week Transformation Coaching Program
You’re stuck and you want to get direction in your life.
This program takes you through a structured process from assessing what your deepest core values are to…. lining up all the opportunities you could take… to taking the first steps of change in the real world.
Overview:
Here’s an overview of the process that gets you started and it covers the areas outlined below. We will then go through the modules including activities that will help build your compass to set you on the direction to your career moves.
Grounding: What’s the problem? What are your values? What do you care about? What are your real natural strengths? What are your habits? What’s your character like?
Compass and vision: Where are you heading? Are you happy with the direction? How does this fit with your overall lifestyle goals? Does your character fit with this new direction.
Strategy: We will design an effective strategy that aligns everything that matters to you into one focal point.
Identity: Who you are, your inner critic and their doubts. Who do you want to become? What would this person do? What habits does this future self have?
Systems: How are your daily routines supporting your direction and best work? What habits does your future self have? What obstacles are in the way?
Action Plan: What should you do first? How will you prioritise tasks? What do you need to do, what can you cut out? We’ll outline a step by step process while I’ll support you and hold you accountable to the plan.
The Survival Kit: Tools to help build the systems you need. (worksheets and guides) Methods to systematically build your confidence, mitigate fear and anxiety while allowing you to grow. Strategies to create the desired habits, build environments that create spare energy and free up your time to make you as effective as possible.
Modules:
Below is the material we will cover throughout the program. They are generally in order but we will be revisiting some elements when necessary. Multiple modules are covered in single sessions.
Module 1 Your journey - Starting with the problem
Why you’re stuck and drifting
Doubt, fear and anxiety. Why risk is paralysing you and dealing with your inner critic.
Process mindset, dealing with overwhelm and the two types of fear.
Understanding the problem, working the problem in a way that works for you.
Opportunity cost of inaction. Probabilities of life decisions. Uncertainty.
Intentional design methodology, why it’s the most effective way for the risk averse and the most sustainable strategy for progress without feeling overwhelmed and afraid.
Think like a designer build like an engineer - A process - problem - what you have - ideas - narrow - test - refine.
Principles - be curious - try - run mini-experiments/build prototypes - observe - real world feedback - evaluate.
Five stages for life - Grounding - The design - become - prepare - prototype
Putting it all together - now have a strong motivation but you’ll need help.
Survival kit - Preparation for the journey. First aid for the mind, habits - time - focus, pre-built tools.
Module 2 Grounding - Discover your values and natural strengthsSystematic value building. It’s a step-by-step approach that will leave you feeling energised and excited about the potential of your life it will pick out values and strengths you don’t realise you have. It is also the secret to rapidly accelerating your change by building a foundation you can lean on.
Your values and what you care about - search filter for your life, rules of thumb for what makes you fulfilled.The importance of your deep values and why you must be thorough. Leaning on them when you make big decisions.
How to prioritise - Be fast and effective
Happiness - Pleasure and purpose
The process - how you feel now, the past, patterns, very near future
Life review - boundaries between life categories - Health, work, play, love Work/lifeview - what is work? Why do it? What makes it worthwhile? Is it aligned?
Module 3 Engagement and energy
Process to discover when you are truly engaged and what energises you, this process helps build then leads you to where you need to focus your efforts and the direction you will take.
Engagement - When you get into flow - Free focus - producing your best work.
Energy - some things energise you, makes you feel alive, some things drain you
Joy - What brings you joy, and how can we build it into your opportunities.
Work is fun when you are leaning into your strengths and deeply engaged and energized by what you're doing.
Purpose - blending the pot together - work/life view+engagement+energy = purpose
Forget passion - Ground up approach
Module 4 values and your past
Mining for gold - memories are stuck with you for a good reason - Insight extraction
Prospective bosses look for marketable skills - Tune yourself
Experience - key activities - marketable skills - talent/strength - reputation
Childhood interests natural tendencies 4 zones of competence What am I REALLY good at, when “in the zone”?
Module 5 Flow journal
Activity journal log - engaged and energised. Your moments.
Zooming in - AEIOU activity - environment - interactions - objects - users.
Extract insights from tangible observations, prevents errors in decision making.
Module 6 Mindmap - get out of your creative rut
Mindmap effectively - levels of information.
Mindmap 1-4 - engagement, energy, values, flow.
Fire your mind up, no solutions, the explorer monkey.
Mission statement.
Module 7 Mindset, character and personality
Knowledge that you have a natural tendency of type of work. That companies and businesses need certain types. Career fit and how to find the right ones.
What you’re afraid of and how to work with your inner critic and their questions.
How to really build confidence that won’t leave you.
How to deal with the doubt and imposter syndrome you encounter.
Current job role where does it fit.
Your natural tendencies where your skillset can thrive.
Companies need ALL types of people.
Team dimension profiles - creators - advancers - refiners - executors - flexors
MBTI assessment, Big 5 - Ocean process.
The environment your personality needs.
Your personal risk tolerance.
Bad habits, system 1 and 2 thinking. Subconscious thinking.
Module 8 Preparation - Creating time, energy and money
Energy assessment, what currently takes most of your energy
168 hour week, understand where time goes
PROCRASTINATION - Why and how to beat it.
Getting yourself motivated to do the work and change.
Prioritise actions and lean up life to free up space for new project.
Financial streamline.
Habit hacks and habit stacks
Module 9 Design - Be curious and discover
We know where you are, It’s design time. We will start designing and engineering your path.
The importance of generating options for better solutions
Why we should never follow our first idea
We can live multiple lives, authentic, interesting and productive. Embrace personas -Your three real lives
Visual timelines, title, questions, dashboard.
Find out the tactics to find out the most relevant information about sectors
Module 10 Future self - Identity
Understanding that you need to become a new person to achieve your dream. Your current persona does not deserve it (sorry if that hits hard)
Be yourself? Who am I?
The person who deserves the life you want.
The hero you will aspire to.Accountability - taking control.
Actions are like casting votes.
The 1% improvement. - Optimising yourself using your personality strengths
The wave effect - Unstoppable motion leading to inevitable change.
Module 11 Career paths and opportunities
Finding careers that match your values and strengths
Understand exactly what you need in order to thrive in your work.
How to quickly and efficiently go deep within a target sector to know whether it’s something you really want to pursue
Personality type gives you information about the type of work that you are built to do.
Why do you feel like another career is out there for you that you don’t even know exists?
Don’t want to make a career change until you know you’ve explored all your options.
Building your value proposition - Systematically transform your gifts and passions into marketable and valuable skills that employers are looking for.
Profitable niches - in demand areas, match with values.
How to contact people without going the USUAL route of applications.
Module 12 Try stuff - Prototyping
Prototyping is a way of trying things to get real world feedback without taking big risks. Like taking test drives for your life. Gaining experiences without quitting your job.
What is prototyping? Making changes without taking leaps of faith that can be terrifying and paralysing.
Removing the scope for sloppy progress disguised as too many options.
The importance of systematic and strategic thinking from first principles.
What is good prototyping? Prototype conversations, How to make first contact with a new sector.
How to maximise chances of engagement with contacts. Framing questions.
Prototype experiences.
Module 13 Mental preparation
Building confidence in your actions and overcoming worry, fear, and doubt.
How to manage the two types of fear.
How to build resilience.
Instilling the growth mindset and re-framing your mind.
Understanding your instincts and how to use them with your new insights
Module 14 Launch and your immediate action plan
Where we are, and the continued process - riding the wave and pure focus.
Exploit your current position - How to quickly extract future value from current job role
Create immediate opportunities within current role that you will use directly for your new roles.
The hidden job market - Why 80% of jobs are not even advertised and how to get in.
The transition - The key to keeping risk and anxiety low while maximising your opportunity.
Becoming fearless when approaching new opportunities
The golden contact and How to strategically position yourself
Enhance your CV and marketing yourself
Linkedin Profile.
The modern cover letter.
How to quickly build networks in your area of interest.How to convert at interview stage.
Module 15 Survival kit - (This will be introduced through the modules)
The first aid kit you’ll take with you for your journey. You’ll need this throughout and especially during the times of doubt, fear and anxiety. The tools will help keep you on track and stop the fear of failure, feeling overwhelmed and doubt from stopping you. These will help you keep the momentum up until you can’t be stopped.
What is your mental first aid and when to use it.
How to make habits robust and the importance of the role of rituals.
Stress and anxiety mitigation
Bonus - Additional tools to help take action, email/message scripts,templates, checklists, timelines, schedules, action plan maps.
Module 16 Funding your runway
Dealing with the anxiety of managing your funds and planning forward. Look at the practicalities, logistics and preparation for action. How anxiety and fear can be mitigated by a process.
Building a solid financial foundation, clarify your financial reserves gives more options
Monthly requirements.Financial runway
Crunch your numbers - cash- assets - burn rate
Bridge income, cashflow - Adding value
Remember - what you need to live, your desired runway income sources, emergency plan