Charlotte Kemp argues that philosophy belongs in career coaching. She walks through six questions to evaluate your work: financial gain, impact, direction, enjoyment, lifestyle fit, and legacy. Clarity on what matters to you makes you more valuable to the people you serve.
I don't think we value philosophy enough. For the kind of people who are in this audience, philosophy should be kind of built into the work that we do. We should really consider this as part of the value that we're bringing to people. When we sit down and have this conversation, when you work with a coach who's helping to guide you in your career, you're doing philosophy and you're starting to think about the things that are important to you so that you can become more relevant and bring more value. The philosophy that you do in your field means that you bring more value to somebody who's an expert in their field. They might be really philosophical or expert or have a lot of experience in their space that they could teach you, but in this case, because you've thought about something, that is the value that you bring to them. Sorry, this loop is making us a little crazy here. So here's a couple of things you can consider. What career, or how could your career make you more money? If that is one of your values? How could it give you the biggest impact, uh, or do you need to change direction or change clients so that you have a bigger impact? What is most fun or what fits most with your lifestyle so that you can actually have the career you want? How can what you do leave a legacy after you've gone, or how can you have such an impact that it has an impact in other people's lives and creates a legacy there, even if you don't always know what that is? How are you passing on that value?
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