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TAF / 01 — A PLACE TO PUT THE WORK QUESTION

Take the
other chair.

Professional questions do not always need another answer immediately. Sometimes they need a careful place to be held, named and turned into a next step that belongs to the person living with it.

Begin with the question
CAREER COACHINGMENTORINGORIENTATION
A calm work table and empty chair
THE SECOND CHAIR IS FOR THE PART OF THE WORK QUESTION THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN SAID.
Notebook and seat marker02 / SEAT MARKER

A SMALL WAY TO ARRIVE

What brought
you to this
chair?

Choose a marker. It does not diagnose a career or prescribe a decision. It simply gives a first conversation a more precise place to begin.

THE MARKER SAYS

The next step feels visible, but not yet believable

A role, offer, change or ambition may be present without feeling like a decision you can yet inhabit. The useful work can be to understand what would make the step more grounded, not to force certainty.

03 / LISTENING TABLE

Make room for
the story and
the evidence.

A professional story carries facts, feelings, duties, hopes and other people’s language. Good coaching does not choose one of these and discard the rest. It helps a person see which parts are asking to be considered now.

Two professionals in a focused conversation
LISTENING IS NOT A PAUSE BEFORE ACTION. IT IS PART OF RESPONSIBLE ACTION.

WHAT IS TRUEWhat can be described without forcing a conclusion?

WHAT IS HEAVYWhich responsibility, relationship or expectation has gained weight?

WHAT IS WANTEDWhat kind of work, contribution or rhythm is beginning to matter?

WHAT IS POSSIBLEWhat small experiment would create more honest information?

04 / TURNING CARDS

Let a turning
point keep its
edges.

Open one card at a time. The cards are conversation prompts, not a model of the person or a guarantee of an employment outcome.

Turning point cards and warm light

05 / QUESTION LANTERN

Light the part
that needs a
closer look.

1 / Name2 / Boundary3 / Experiment
BOUNDARY / WHAT WOULD MAKE THE CURRENT WORK MORE LIVABLE?

Focus on a concrete place where responsibility, time, visibility, recognition or expectation has become hard to hold. A better boundary may be negotiated, tested or simply named before it becomes a final decision.

Hand placing a question card
Career coaching work archive
KEEP THE MATERIALS THAT MAKE A PROFESSIONAL LIFE LEGIBLE.

06 / WORK ARCHIVE

Read the
working life
in pieces.

An archive is not a résumé rewrite. It is a way to notice the work that has mattered: conditions that help, work that drains, relationships that teach, skills that travel and contributions that deserve a clearer name.

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07 / COMPANION NOTES

Carry a small
note into the
week.

Choose a note to change the prompt. These notes can help prepare for a conversation or reflect after one; they do not replace legal, financial, medical, mental-health or specialist employment advice.

Attention note / What professional moment deserves ten undistracted minutes this week—not to solve it, but to notice what it asks of you?Professional practice materials

08 / PRACTICE ROOM

Make the next
conversation
workable.

Select a room to see what a practical conversation might protect. The rooms overlap; a person may move between them as a question gains shape.

Role room / Clarify what the current role actually asks, what is held well and what needs a new agreement or acknowledgement.
Companion notes around a quiet chair

09 / CONVERSATION FAQ

Keep these
questions close
to the chair.

Career coaching or orientation can provide a structured place to explore work questions, professional direction, role changes, confidence, contribution, boundaries and practical next steps. The useful scope follows the person’s situation. Tafomeri does not guarantee a job offer, promotion, income change, employer decision or particular career outcome.

No. Tafomeri’s public materials and potential coaching conversations are not psychotherapy, medical care, recruitment, legal advice, financial advice, tax advice, union representation or specialist employment advice. Where a question needs those forms of support, it is important to seek an appropriately qualified professional or service.

Bring only a broad description of the work question, the conditions that make it feel urgent and what would make a conversation useful. A complete story, employer documents, employment records, identity information and private correspondence are not needed for a first public enquiry and should not be sent through the site form.

Coaching usually gives more attention to the person’s own question, observation and experiment. Mentoring may also offer perspective informed by another professional path. A useful relationship is explicit about which mode is being used, what its boundaries are and when another kind of expertise or support is more appropriate.
Quiet mentoring conversation

10 / QUIET NOTE

Set the work
question beside
the chair.

Describe the professional question you want to understand. This is an enquiry only; it does not reserve a session, process payment or create a coaching agreement.

Mentoring conversation
BRING THE QUESTION IN ITS FIRST HONEST FORM.
Evening open window by a work table

TAF / SECOND CHAIR

Leave with a
question that
can move.

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