Even as a career coach, I know career isn’t absolutely everything. To some (many), it is a defining trait of their personality. But by nature of existence, you cannot be exclusively about your career as you continue to breathe, eat, and sleep. However, you can still take advantage of your day-to-day life to support your goals and optimize your professional life.  Establishing Success To be successful in your career, you have to have the structure, organization, habits, and lifestyle in place to be really effective in your role. A career coach ensures you are marketable and can obtain your dream role. They also help with other coaching branches ensure you can follow through.  By maximizing your everyday life, you have more energy to contribute to your professional life. One of the best things about Ama La Vida is the collaboration of our coaching community. Unlike coaches who operate independently, ALV coaches work in tandem and support clients as an agency versus an individual. Coaches on their own can still move you forward. However, together, career collaboration can move mountains. With ALV, not only do we have career coaches, but we also have life, wellness, leadership, and health coaches. By working collaboratively, our branches provide the most holistic experience to a client. When crossing these multiple branches of coaching, individuals become their best personal and professional selves. Ultimately, by layering these 5 coaching areas you’ll have a: So, let’s talk about how these coaching branches can collaborate to optimize your professional life. Optimize Your Professional Life Career & Life Coaching Together, career and life coaches help you optimize your professional life by ensuring your personal one compliments and facilitates your professional goals.  When a client works with both a career and a life coach, they are able to engage in a process that I call career charting. Career planning is different from career charting as it is singularly focused on your professional avenue and goals. As a career coach, we help you develop that career plan. Together, we explore your professional goals, identify occupations, create your marketing materials, and develop the career ladder. This is what will ultimately take you from now to your final professional goal. Career Charting So in conjunction with that, life coaches help create your career chart. Career charting helps you develop your best professional self. This will help optimize your current and long-term career, and will provide satisfaction in your working and non-working worlds. Life coaching compliments career coaching by helping clients develop the tools to address situations that may deviate someone from their professional ladder. By helping clients work through their thoughts and feelings strategically, life coaches help ensure clients are prepared to make professional moves. Be it moves, new or ending relationships, shifts in financial situations, or more, a life coach can help you develop strategies to conquer these situations in ways that negate the impact or even compliment your career plan. Moving to a new city may mean a host of new opportunities and connections to make. Changes in relationships leave opportunity for great growth and personal reflection, which can inform job searches and occupational choices.  By working with both career and life coaches, you will have the best opportunities and information to develop a meaningful career. One that is supported by well-executed and strategic decisions made in your personal life. When looking to make a big career transition, consider consulting a life coach to help you through the personal circumstances that may have inspired that change. Exploration related to big life changes may be able to tell you more about your overall desire for career exploration. In summary, career and life coaches collaborate to optimize your personal and professional life. And they do this by combining career planning and life coaching to create a career chart that will help you navigate your current and future career goals. Life coaching & career coaching in tandem provide: Career & Leadership For many, leadership is the goal at the end of their professional journey, or at the very least a stop. Be that a manager, team lead, mentor, or another role that involves you working with and developing others, having strong leadership and communication skills is key. A career coach will always ensure you are seeking and landing the perfect leadership role for you. Our role is to make sure you’re an exceptional and obvious choice for that targeted leadership role of your dreams. Leadership coaches will make sure you showcase your skills and achievements in a way that exemplifies your leadership abilities. Leadership coaches help you develop others in an engaging, effective manner. As a career coach, we will help you find and obtain those leadership opportunities. Be it the next promotion or building a long-term path to that VP role, you should be constantly reflecting and building your portfolio of achievements and create a “brag book”. If you’re an external applicant, we will coach you on making and finding those top-notch materials and presenting your best professional self. For internal candidates, we will talk about showcasing your general and company-specific achievements and demonstrating your value add in your current role. We will create 30/60/90 day plans for your first days at your new job. We do this to ensure you prioritize skills and responsibilities that propel your career growth and make the most out of your next role. Professional Development On the other hand, leadership coaching ensures you perform your best at your new role. Leadership coaches support career coaching clients who have landed that dream leadership position. They ensure that you have the ability to self-guide and can lead with authentic, genuine, and compassionate authority in your work. So career coaches set up clients to find a role successfully and leadership coaches will help clients be the most effective leaders. They do this by teaching you how to articulate your value add as an individual and a leader. Leadership coaching helps you chart new territory when it comes to having effective 1:1s, engaging