Changing professional direction: three questions before you decide
Selling your business, changing roles, slowing down. A career transition is easier to decide once you have answered three simple questions.
A buyout offer arrives. A role opens up elsewhere. Or simply, the wish to work differently settles in, without knowing yet what to do with it.
Career transitions are special because they touch work, finances, family and identity all at once. It is easy to decide too fast, or never to decide.
Three questions help see more clearly.
What exactly do you want to leave? Not the role or the company in general, but what weighs on you today: a workload, a pace, a relationship, a feeling of repetition. What weighs on you can sometimes change without leaving everything.
What are you looking for? Put it in concrete terms: a way of working, a level of responsibility, a life balance, a sense of purpose. A successful transition moves towards something; it does not only run away.
What are you ready to commit? Time, a temporary drop in income, a training period, a difficult conversation with a partner or with your family. The price of the transition is part of the decision.
These questions are not settled in one evening. They are worth writing down, discussing with the people involved, and revisiting a few weeks later.
The legal, tax and financial aspects of a transition, such as selling a business, are a matter for licensed professionals. Coaching helps on another level: clarifying what you want, and deciding with awareness.
Executive Clarity, the one-to-one coaching of CONTRESENS, supports executives and entrepreneurs in these moments: a decision to make, a transition to go through. The first meeting, free and with no commitment, lets you check that the timing is right.