{"id":395,"date":"2025-02-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kafkaonline.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2025-03-12T13:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:42:23","slug":"5-hard-lessons-ive-learned-as-a-career-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kafkaonline.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/5-hard-lessons-ive-learned-as-a-career-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Hard Lessons I've Learned As A Career Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been a professional career coach since 2002. Over the last 20-plus years, I have learned a lot about the industry and what it takes to be an effective career coach.<\/p>\n

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Back when I first became a career coach, the concept wasn’t as widely accepted as it is today. In fact, my clients were afraid to admit they were working with a career coach because they felt like it indicated there was something wrong with them.<\/p>\n

Today, we now understand career coaching isn’t a sign of weakness, but a path to greatness.<\/strong> It’s why all the top pro athletes and business executives use them.<\/p>\n

If you want to optimize your performance and achieve new levels of success and satisfaction in your career, it’s more than likely you’ll work with a coach at some point.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

If you could do it on your own, you would have by now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>Having worked with literally thousands of people on their careers, I have learned some valuable professional lessons.<\/p>\n

In the beginning of my coaching career, I thought I could help everyone. I was wrong. You can only help people who are ready to be helped. I wasted hundreds of hours on people who just weren’t ready to succeed. I’m not making that mistake again.<\/p>\n

These are the five lessons I learned the hard way as a career coach.<\/p>\n

1. People Only Turn To Career Coaching When They Are In Pain.<\/h3>\n


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