Career Coach - Career Coaching - Sharon Teitelbaum, Massachusetts

Experienced career and success coach Sharon Teitelbaum helps clients create professional and personal success in the Boston MA area and worldwide.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

Helen Keller

The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it’s a different kind of life."

Buckminster Fuller

High Performing Executive Hopes There's a Better Way

Rich hired me as a career coach because he was increasingly unhappy in his job and was thinking about a career change. An executive at a high-powered organization, he managed his frequent "crunch times" by working evenings and weekends. He was burdened by the many complex problems that people in his office brought him to solve, when it seemed they should be solving them on their own. He was so busy putting out fires that his own job was suffering – and so was he. I helped him make significant changes.

He began by empowering people in his office to become problem-solvers, thus relinquishing his old role as the "go-to" person. I had him off-load a segment of unappealing work that had, itself, grown into a full-time job: he created a new staff position and hired someone to fill it. He developed better time-management and efficiency skills, and he dealt with his oppressive backlog of housekeeping tasks. As he cleared time to focus on his substantive work, I helped him regularly get "altitude" from his day-to-day focus and think strategically and proactively about where he wanted to take this job, and what other kind of work he might want to do. Once he consistently had time to think about another job, he bumped into an unexpected result: he was enjoying his current job more.

What's Really the Issue?

It’s sometimes unclear, at the outset, whether it really IS time for you to look for another job, or whether you need to upgrade the way you’re doing the current one.

• Are you a professional who feels plateaued in your career?
• Do you find yourself increasingly dissatisfied with your work, job, or field?
• Are you spinning your wheels and wondering what’s called for: A complete career change? The skills to produce better results? Changes in the WAY you work that would make it more enjoyable?
• Are you a past high achiever who isn’t performing up to par?
• Are you frustrated in your current work situation, from issues relating to co-workers, management, and inefficient work habits or communication issues?
• Do you envy others' career advancement and wonder, "Why not me?"
• Does the term "work/life balance" sound about as credible as "happily ever after"?

So many factors impact a person’s work experience, it may be hard to know all of what’s going on until you really take an in-depth, higher level look at the whole picture with objectivity. Only then can you be effective in making the right changes.

How I Can Help

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As your career coach, I become your unequivocal ally and creative partner in discovering what is "up" for you, both circumstantially, in your current job, and from a whole-life and whole-career perspective. If there are immediate challenges in your work, we can address those directly. I have a track record for helping people get un-stuck, by asking powerful questions and offering re-frames of what’s going on, what your part in it is, what you might do, how you might say what needs to be said.

You may have only a marginal, general understanding of your skills, strengths, and gifts, and this may be limiting you. I can get you out of your persistent focus on your limitations, and help you more fully own and operate your strengths. Your critical issue may pertain to what is meaningful for you; you may need to change your work so it lines up with your values. I will listen for the ways you are held back by limiting beliefs and old paradigms, and I will call you on them and offer alternatives. I can teach you to look at yourself and your work from a higher altitude, so that you can have more of a life-path perspective on where you are and where you need to go. I bring the perspective of a life coach to our career work.

Whether you need a full-blown career or job change, new ways of doing your work, improved work-life balance, renegotiated relationships at work or with work, or any number of other large and small course corrections, together we can create a game plan of action that takes you where you want to go, and you can get going on it. Our process continues as you start moving – I will help you implement the game plan, process your results, and refine your sense of what’s next. This emphasis on practical, immediate, next actions are a hallmark of my personal coaching style.

Client Quotes

Listen to what my clients say. Here is a sample:

All these events that unfolded in the past 6 months, including getting a new job, still seem like a dream to me. I never thought I could move on this fast and my life could take such a dramatic positive turn. It was even more unthinkable that it was a total stranger, i.e. you, who walked me through this most difficult part of my life so far. No words can express my gratitude for your patience and efforts and the enormous mental support which you provided. I stumbled upon the world of coaching over the radio while on my way home on one of those miserable days and it changed my life. I am glad that I made that first move of contacting you and I am glad that it was you who I contacted."

TT
senior industrial scientist

She ‘gets it’ really quickly. I didn’t have to explain my life to her."

Ellen K
pediatrician

Her results-oriented approach helped me to carry through on things. She asked the right set of questions."

Jill R
Financial Services VP