The Next Move Map | Langley Coaching

What are we solving today

Before anything else. One session cannot fix a career. It can move one thing.

What would you like to focus on today? How will we know this hour worked? What would be different by the end? Why does this matter to you right now?

The true cost of staying

Rate where you actually are this month. Not where you were at your worst, and not where you hope to be. 1 is fine. 5 is this is taking something from me.

What has this job cost you that you have not said out loud yet? If nothing changes at all, can you stay in this exact place three months from now? Six? What are you telling yourself about why staying is fine?

Leave now, or leave later

Two real options, held side by side. One rule: later only counts if it has a date and a trigger. Later without a date is not a plan, it is the fog again.

Leave now

Resign, or start an active search this month.

What I gain What I give up What I am actually afraid of What would have to be true for this to be right

Leave later

Stay, on purpose, for a defined stretch.

What I gain What I give up What I am actually afraid of What would have to be true for this to be right

The later contract

If later is the answer, fill this in. If you cannot fill it in, later is not really the answer.

The date I leave by, no matter what

The trigger that makes me go sooner

What I will use this stretch for, specifically

When you were at your best

Three times in your career when the work fit. Not the biggest wins, the ones where you did not have to drag yourself through it. Your criteria come out of these, so keep them concrete.

Moment one

What was happening

What you were doing, and what you were not doing

What was true about the environment that made it possible

Moment two

What was happening

What you were doing, and what you were not doing

What was true about the environment that made it possible

Moment three

What was happening

What you were doing, and what you were not doing

What was true about the environment that made it possible

Read those three back. What is the same in all of them? Now the reverse. What was present every time the work drained you?

Your conditions

Turn that pattern into a list you can hold a real job description against. Write your own. The prompts below are there to react to, not a menu to pick from. Weight each one: a dealbreaker counts triple, a nice-to-have counts once.

Tap a prompt to add it, then rewrite it in your own words. A condition you did not phrase yourself will not survive a good offer.

The options scan

List the moves genuinely on the table, including the ones you keep dismissing. Score each against your own conditions. 0 is not there at all, 3 is fully there. The number is not a verdict, it is a conversation starter. Watch for where the score disagrees with your gut.

Shapes people forget to write down: the same title at a healthier company, a step sideways into an adjacent function, a smaller company with a bigger remit, a bigger company with a narrower one, fractional or advisory work, one deliberate gap, or this job renegotiated into a different shape. Add the ones that are real for you. Skip the rest.

Which option surprised you, high or low? What does your gut say, before you look at the numbers again?

What is in the way

You have said you have not looked much because the job takes everything. That is worth taking seriously rather than pushing past.

What do you need to get out of your way in order to look? How much time per week is realistic for this? Not ideal. Realistic. Where does that time come from? Something has to move. Who already knows enough about you to open a door, that you have not asked?

The flip

You have spent this hour on what is true now. This part is what you want instead. Answer in the present tense, as if you were already there.

What would you want to think about your work? What would you want to feel on a Sunday night? What would you want the result to be, twelve months out?

The gauge

Not a score. A reading you can take again in a month and compare.

What is the one next step, small enough that you will actually do it this week? What is the best way for you to hold yourself to it? What did you get out of today?

Your page

Everything above, on one page. Copy it, print it, or send it over.

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One scope note, said plainly: this is career and leadership work, not clinical care. If your symptoms are getting worse, that belongs with the clinician who knows your history. What we do here is look at the conditions the work puts you in, and what a better-fitting environment would actually need to look like.