What do we mean by career planning?
Career planning means actively shaping a professional path in a way that allows strengths and values to be fully expressed through work. So that work fits life again – not the other way around.
Career coaching helps to recognise:
- what someone is genuinely good at
- what is truly wanted
- how both can be used to find meaningful work.
Career Coaching at SEQUOYA
We support you through all kinds of professional transitions, for example:
- You feel unhappy in your current job and don’t know what to do instead.
- You doubt yourself and your abilities.
- You feel anxious about job interviews.
In career coaching, we work together to find out what you need for a fulfilling professional life. With this clarity, it becomes easier to make confident decisions about your future.
Coaching sessions can take place in person or online via video call.
The sequoia as a symbol of our work
Sequoia trees are remarkable survivors and withstand even the toughest challenges – earthquakes, storms, lightning strikes… If they are damaged, these deeply rooted giants of the forest activate their self-healing abilities.
This is what we want for you as well.
In career coaching, we support you in discovering your own strength and recognising where you can put down roots. And when life brings a storm, you will know which inner source of strength can carry you through.
Special Topics in Career Coaching
Coaching for Returning to Work After Parental Leave
Having children turns parents’ lives upside down – including their professional lives, for both mothers and fathers. However, mothers are more likely to take longer parental leave and, in many cases, are the ones who no longer return to full-time paid work. This not only has financial implications but can also affect self-esteem. Especially as mothers – and particularly those working part-time – are often perceived as less capable than before having children, which is entirely unfounded.
Coaching can help make the return to work after parental leave more manageable, support dealing with personal uncertainties, and create a healthy balance between work and family life.
Resilience Coaching and Burnout Prevention
Resilience is a person’s ability to bounce back time and again and return to a healthy state even after periods of stress or crises. This ability is essential for maintaining long-term health in a work environment that is becoming increasingly fast-paced and complex.
In our resilience coaching, you will systematically develop your own resilience, thereby effectively protecting yourself from potential burnout. You will identify your personal stressors and develop solutions to reduce them. You will discover which strategies help you stay more relaxed in everyday life and emerge from crises stronger than before.
Coaching for People with ADHD
People with ADHD often face specific challenges in their professional lives. Another missed deadline, another important document misplaced – yet at the same time, seven new and genuinely great ideas for the project. Unfortunately, that was not the task at hand. Social interactions at work can also be challenging for people with ADHD.
Within the SEQUOYA team, several coaches have extensive experience with ADHD and its impact on professional life. Many people with ADHD tend to remain below their potential, as conventional office environments are often not well suited to neurodivergent individuals. Together, we explore what you need to work effectively and how to better navigate challenging situations in your professional life.
Coaching to Provide Support During Crises
Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Quite the opposite, in fact. And sometimes it’s not just a few obstacles in your way—it’s a whole avalanche coming down on you, leaving you with no idea where to even begin cleaning up, partly out of fear that even more will come tumbling down.
Such crises, whether professional or personal, naturally also affect your work. When you’ve reached your breaking point, you can’t just carry on as usual.
Our coaching supports you in sorting through the crisis and, step by step, returning to a life and a work routine where greater ease is once again possible.
Get a head start on your career coaching
Personal development is a key factor today in achieving both professional and personal success. That is why it is an integral part of all our coaching programmes.
To help you get to the core of your untapped potential even faster in career coaching, we offer an additional option: the Kickstart Coaching with the LINC Personality Profiler.
Read more about our Kickstart Coaching.
Possible Goals in Career Coaching
Professional Development
- Reflect on your current professional situation and personal values
- Develop clarity on what drives satisfaction at work, define career goals, and plan next steps
- Align your goals with your personal strengths
- Match your aspirations and competencies with the realities of the job market
- Gain guidance on further training to achieve your professional goals
Personal Development
- Personal reflection: what should stay, what should change?
- Overcome fears that block professional and personal development
- Develop awareness of personal strengths and competencies, and recognise the power of your own life story
- Strengthen skills in self-leadership and time management
- Enhance presence, confidence, and authenticity
- Improve social and communication skills
Greater satisfaction and personal well-being
- Develop greater calm and improve the way you handle stressful situations
- Learn a more compassionate approach towards yourself
- Overcome fears
- Work through past wounds, feelings of guilt, or shame
- Handle conflicts more effectively, both professionally and personally
- Bring your professional life into balance with other areas of life
- Develop supportive structures for everyday (family) life
