Coaches advise looking inward to find what makes you happy.
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Dusseldorf Andreas Steffen’s clients include bankers, founders and managers. They are successful, often high earners – and mostly unhappy. “90 percent of my coaching sessions are one-on-ones with people who say: ‘I’m not happy with my situation,'” says the founder of the Berlin consultancy 5Step.
The dissatisfied are in the majority in Germany. This shows a survey of the career platform Stepstone among 6200 employees in Germany, Great Britain and the USA, which is available to the Handelsblatt. The result: not even a third of Germans enjoy their job. In Great Britain the satisfaction rate is 35 percent, in the USA even 45.7 percent.
But how can dissatisfaction be combated? This is what the Japanese teachings of ikigai are all about. Many coaches work with her – including Andreas Steffen and Hamburg coach Joachim Wolbersen.
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