For individuals

Crossroads

For those who want to see the road before leaving the job.

Crossroads — Defne Aksoy Coaching
Sessions
8 sessions
Length
4 months
Session length
60 min
Format
Online or in person
Fee
24.000 TRYTotal; 2 instalments

A four-month programme for people considering a career change who do not yet know what to go after. We put the options on the table and test each with small, reversible experiments.

A career change often looks like one big decision: stay or go. In sessions we see it rarely is. The real question is usually "what do I want to change?", and the answer is sometimes a new job, sometimes a new role in the same job, sometimes the place work has in your life.

In Crossroads we go into the field before the resignation letter. For each option we design small two-week experiments: coffee with someone in that sector, a weekend project, the first class of a course. The decision is made with what those experiments teach us.

How does it unfold?

  1. Map

    First session, 90 minutes: values, money, time, relationships.

  2. Options

    We name two or three paths and write the first step of each.

  3. Experiments

    Conversations, short projects, volunteering: each option is tested in the field.

  4. Decision

    We choose with what the experiments taught us and plan the first three months.

  5. Closing

    We write down what changed; the file stays with you.

A story from this programme

Then

"I have been at the same bank for nine years. Every morning I sit in the car park for five minutes."

Now

Within two years she turned the woodworking she started at weekends into a part-time job and moved to a four-day week at the bank.

“I thought I would resign. I didn't; but I no longer sit in the car park.”
S., 34Product manager at a bank Crossroads · 8 sessions

Then

"Is forty-five too late to start something new?"

Now

After two trial projects he moved into vocational training; he now teaches workshop classes at a vocational high school.

“It wasn't too late. But I could not have known without trying.”
B., 45Engineer, 20 years in manufacturing Crossroads · 8 sessions

Questions about this programme

Do I need to quit my job before the programme ends?

No. In Crossroads the aim is to test things in the field first. Most clients keep their job throughout; some end up moving to a different role in the same company.

Let's meet first.

The first call is 30 minutes and free. You decide about the programme afterwards.

Request an intro call