Athrú Consultancy
has a demonstrable record in working with individuals
to help them identify future the direction of their
career. We use a rigorous planning Framework that
firstly allows people challenge assumptions that
may be hindering them achieve their utmost and
secondly which provides insight and develops actions
that will deliver on their goals.
A great many individuals embark
on their working lives with well founded, thought
through goals and objectives and have a well developed
sense of what they want to have achieved over a period
of years. Similarly a significant number of others
can have less well defined goals and can end up "drifting"
either from job to job or even within a career where
it is easier to remain with the status quo than to
take proactive and in many cases
daunting steps to change their circumstances.
Both these states can be thought
of a being at either end of a "Life Planning" continuum
and in reality very few individuals remain at either
end throughout their lives but instead find themselves
at different points along the continuum at different
times.
Athru Consultancy believe that
it is misleading to argue that anyone is in the "wrong
place" at
any one time as a multiple set of events and influences
can bring about the circumstances in which people find
themselves.
We do however hold the firm
view that it is "wrong" to
arrive at a point in life solely by accident and that
if people take the time to ask some very simple "honest
questions" and develop their own answers that
they will have a very powerful tool at their disposal.
The need to ask these questions and to develop the
answers is becoming increasing important when viewed
against sound-bites such as:
- "The end of the
job-for life"
- "People will need
to work until they are 70"
- "The need for
Life / Work balance"
- "Impact of the
globalised economy"
- "The cost childcare"
- "Increasing impact
of aging dependents"
When viewed against such significant issues it is
not surprising that many people feel that all their
energies are taken up simply with reacting to the pressures
that such matters bring.
Athru Consultancy has demonstrated through working
with a wide range of individual clients that they can
arrive at a point where they have clarity around where
they want their career to take them.
We do this by
- applying a Career Planning Framework
that asks some simple but very focussed questions
that require really well thought through and clear
answers. In asking such questions we seek to have
each person challenge some of the assumptions that
they are making about all aspects of their lives
and to prove to themselves that they are valid and
deserve to be acted on or if they are invalid to
recognise that they might in reality be significant
blocks to their future success.
Questions such as
- Where do you see yourself today
- What do you want your life to look like in 1
and 5 years in the future
- What does age 60 or 70 look like for you
- What is realistic, What
is “stretching” and "What
is only a dream"
- Helping each individual
gain valuable insight into themselves though the
use of appropriate Psychometric instruments that
are administered by our trained personnel who are
certified by the British Psychological Society.
The administration and output of these instruments
are controlled within very strict confidentiality
standards and are undertaken on a purely "one-on-one"
basis.
Using the output from these two elements of the framework
we then work with the individual to
- Develop future career goals
- Identify what will help and what will hinder the
attainment of these goals
- Develop and agree enabling actions and strategies
