The last few weeks have been full of my favourite things - people and their career timelines.
I love collaborating with someone to look back and learn from their journey so far - to make sense of it and use the insights to shape the path ahead.
It’s a complete gift to be a part of the process. To see and hear someone’s story. To find the themes, the patterns, the ups and the downs. To spot the threads and create a compass to navigate forward with.
But what strikes me more and more is just how much there is to learn before we even start exploring the detail.
The shape of it, the big picture and the way it’s been created is as uniquely theirs - and as important - as the content.
I’ve seen timelines shaped like an arrow, a leaf, and a musical composition. One like a mosaic, another a game of two distinct halves with clear forks in the road. There are direct paths and squiggly lines, rollercoasters and steady ships.
I’ve seen timelines handwritten over multiple pages, and summarised on a single PowerPoint chart. In excel, on Miro board, in Canva. In a word document table, on a scrap of paper.
Sometimes there’s nothing to see until someone shares it out loud in the moment. They don’t want to map it beforehand but let it emerge.
All welcome, all beautiful, each unique.
If you were to map your career timeline, how would you approach it?
And what could you learn from the shape of your story?
Wishing you all a week of appreciating your journey,
