How Can Career Counselling and Coaching Help?
Career counselling and coaching are processes that help you to:
- Make effective career decisions
- Chart your next step in your work
- Set goals and then reach those goals
- Make the best use of your resources
- Develop a learning or educational plan
- Develop mastery in your work
- Achieve balance in your work and life
As a career counsellor and coach I work with you on a one-to-one basis. I primarily work face-to-face,however,career counselling and coaching can also be successfully accomplished through telephone and e-mail contact. I have found that it is ideal if I can meet you face-to-face for our first meeting,and then conduct the process by phone and e-mail. Successful career changes typically happen over a three or four month time period. It can be short-term,where I help you to create a vision,achieve a specific goal,or complete a particular project;or it can be long-term,where you receive coaching for a number of projects and goals.
To help you attain the results you want in life I use a variety of tools. I teach,explore alternatives,inspire,act as a sounding board,build confidence and capability,facilitate learning,ask questions,listen with compassion,develop skills,create ownership,provide a challenge,act as a model,and explore potential. I act as a partner,providing you with tools,support,and structure to achieve more than you might be able to do by yourself.
As a part of the career change process,I do not,however,explore past negative issues. While such “issues”may emerge in a coaching session,I am more typically concerned with helping you to achieve results in the present and the future. I may,however,help you to identify or articulate blocks or obstacles to gaining the desired results. This may be one way of acknowledging current realities. At the same time I typically assist individuals to discover their inner resources and other alternatives,which can reduce or eliminate such barriers.
Virtually anyone can benefit from career coaching. To determine whether I might be of value to you,consider any of the following questions:
- Are you getting the most out of your life?
- Are you able to have the life you want?
- Are you doing what you want to be doing?
- Are you going to be financially independent within the next 15 years?
- Are you developing yourself professionally in your work?
- Are you doing what you value most in life?
- Do you have the meaning in life that you seek?
If you answered “no” to any of these questions,it does not mean there is anything wrong with you,or that you have a “problem”. What is does mean is that you want to gain results;you want to accomplish more in life;and you most likely want to build on your own strengths and resources to get where you want to go. I can help you gain the results you want in the way you want.
Experience:
- Guided over 3,500 individuals in areas of career development,transition,goal setting,decision-making,creating work-personal balance and effective work search.
- Effected 10% increase in career satisfaction for 900 members of Information Technology workforce measured across an 18-month program delivery.
- Facilitated individuals’self-assessment in areas such as vocational temperaments,values,interests,learning styles,skills,abilities and information acquisition.
- Developed rapport with individuals of all ages from a wide range of ethno-cultural backgrounds.
