Answered the way they would be answered in the first conversation. Plainly, and with the uncomfortable parts left in.
No, and the question usually means something else: whether a coach can add anything to twenty-five years of judgment. The answer is that the method does not add judgment. It applies yours to your own situation, which is the one place most senior people never point it. The evidence test in week one is something you have run on other people's claims for years. Running it on your own record, with someone across the table who will not let a claim through, is different work.
Neither. The work produces decisions and documents, not affirmations. Every week ends in a piece of work you keep. If what you need is support for how you feel about the change, that is real and it is a different profession, and the first conversation will say so.
It is the normal starting point. Most people at a turning point know what they want to leave and cannot yet say what they want to go toward. The first two weeks are about what you actually bring and what has actually driven your choices. Naming the direction comes in weeks three and four, and it rests on that.
The CV and the network are the last two weeks. The first four are the work you cannot do alone: seeing the assets you have stopped seeing, reading your own pattern, generating directions you have not let yourself consider, and testing whether the one you want is one someone will hire you for. A CV written before that work is a CV for the last direction.
Then you will be told, in week four, with the evidence, and you will have saved six months. Encouragement is cheap. The point of the worth-it filter is to establish feasibility before you spend a season pursuing something the market will not buy. Some people leave week four with a different direction than they came in with. Nobody leaves with a comfortable one that will not work.
Because one session cannot test anything. The method is three questions in order, and each depends on the answer to the one before. What do you bring? Where is it going? How do you get there? Compressing that produces a nice conversation and no result. Six weeks, one deliverable a week, is the shortest version that holds.
Yes. One session a week of about seventy-five minutes, on video, in any timezone, and two to three hours of your own work in between. Most clients are in a role while they do it.
The six weeks are a fixed fee, quoted before you commit, not an hourly rate. The first conversation costs nothing, and it is where the fee is stated.
Yes. Nothing about you or your engagement is used publicly without your written permission, and the first request for that permission comes after the engagement, never during it. There are no client stories on this site yet, because there are no clients yet, and the site says so instead of inventing them.
No. The coaching is fully online, in English, in any timezone. Where the materials kit meets a local convention, a CV format for instance, the work follows the convention where you are searching.
You leave with six pieces of work and a ninety-day plan with check-in dates on it, which the coach keeps. There is no second package waiting behind the first. If a later conversation would help, you ask for one and we agree what it is for.
A first conversation of about forty minutes, on video, before any money changes hands. It is a diagnosis, not a pitch, and one of its three honest outcomes is that this is not what you need. Write to pete@nextchapter.careers.
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