Elena and another speaker discuss what blocks career success: burnout, uncertainty, and the failure to pause and reflect. They explore how coaching helps people move through career transitions and regain efficiency when stress takes over.
Hi Elena. I'm so happy to see you. It's so awesome to take a pause and enjoy some tea with you this afternoon.
Well girl, it's really nice to see you and it's funny you mentioned the pause because this is our subject of discussion today. Thank you so much for arranging for this casual discussion about extremely important topic for everyone.
Thank you so much for joining me. And I've been seeing a lot of uncertainty from my clients for months. But for the last couple of weeks it's really been very frustrating for them because they are lost and they really don't know how to approach their career, their transition, getting a first job out of college and it's causing my clients a lot of stress.
What do you see? What people, are they motivated? Are they not motivated? What are the signs that you see in your clients? Why do you think they are lost?
People just can't get out of the mindset of performance. It's like submit your resume to 100 more jobs online, network, network, network. And they really keep going like a hamster in a wheel doing the wrong thing over and over and over again. And that's creating a lot of stress. They're really blinded by their over performance.
Yes, I see slightly different. Maybe I see them on the other end of the spectrum when they running like a hamster on the wheel and finally they exhaust it and they find that they're not efficient anymore, inefficient in their effort. It takes longer time for them to complete the same tasks. They have to spend more time doing the job that used to take an hour. And they also, I think that also progresses into certain emotional and mental health symptoms like disattachment, anger, mood swings, irritability, inability to maintain intimacy, communication and most importantly, cynic. Believe it or not, a lot of people become much more cynic. And this is also the robot like behavior, right? We're like plugged in, into doing something day in and day out. And all of those things are actually a signs of burnout. So what do you recommend to them?
Well, all of those things that you're seeing are getting in the way of my college grad clients in finding their first job. It's getting in the way of my professional clients who want to get promoted or get a better job. Most of all people who want to retire early. This is getting in their way as well. And several of my clients have confided in me that they're starting to have health issues because of this performance based meaningless activities that really do not give them the results. My suggestion has been to them to really embrace the uncertainty. Accept it. We are in very unusual time in history but at the same time use the power of the pause. I've been advising my clients to really pause, embrace the uncertainty, reflect, walk away from what they're doing and then come back later after planning, after working with me, a certified career coach. Come back and really have defined action steps and really get where you want to go. The most logical step is also to schedule a discovery call with me and we identify a goal with the client. We figure out where do they want to go, how much time do they want to dedicate to that and then magic happens. Coaching is transformation.
It's such a timely service and to offer. And kudis to you girl.
Thank you. Well, cheers. Let's make a toast. Power of the paws.
