Career Coaching & Mentoring

“Working with you, enabling you to examine your own strengths and focus on the skills you possess, enjoy and want to develop further”

Coaching is solution focussed, non-directive, non-judgemental and impartial. It is an excellent tool to help you reappraise your personal values, beliefs and goals providing you with fresh opportunities leading to a greater sense of personal satisfaction in your working life.

Coaching tends to focus on 3 key areas:

• What do you want to achieve? - Your goals, values, beliefs and vision for the future
• What is preventing you from doing this? - Lack of time? Clarity? Limiting beliefs?
• What can you do to change this? - Create new options, move forward and maintain a clear focus

Career Coaching can enable you to:

• Achieve career advancement & peak performance at work
• Develop successful & fulfilling professional relationships
• Change your career and achieve fulfilment with your work
• Design your own personal development plan
• Ensure that you enjoy a healthy work/life balance
• Raise your financial goals
• Create a business development plan that works for you
• Boost your confidence & self esteem
• Enhance your decision making skills
• Clarify your personal values, goals & beliefs

Your Individually Tailored Career Coaching & Transition Programme

“Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future”
John F Kennedy

Today we live in a world where our work no longer has to be a means to an end, neither is a job for life. It is not uncommon for many of us to spend years training in one particular area of industry and then realise that we are not fulfilling our own personal needs and objectives for the lifestyle we desire. We may feel trapped and wonder what other options there are open to us that would enable us to transfer some of the skills we enjoy, let go of those that no longer fulfil us and at the same time embrace and learn new skills that will assist us in moving forwards with a view to achieving our own personal career objectives.

The Career Coaching & Transition Programme ™ is a process that will enable you to recognise and utilise your resources and assist you in making career related decisions enabling you to address and manage any career related issues. Whilst the focus will be on the work-related part of your life, we also take into account the interdependence of both career and non-career considerations in order that you can achieve a fulfilling work-life balance.

Much of the focus with Career Coaching is centred on identifying a career change strategy by working with you to examine and identify your key strengths, skills and abilities, and at the same time, explore your likes and dislikes from the past in order that you can move forward in your professional life and develop further. It may be that you recently applied for a new role and choose to work on enhancing your interviewing skills or perhaps you are considering a complete career change and need to clarify which options might be open to you; these could include self-employment, portfolio working or new business opportunities. By employing a non-directive approach, each of these options can be explored fully, which will equip you with the right tools for a successful journey towards greater career fulfilment.

Designed with you in mind

A typical Career Coaching Programme consists of an initial complimentary consultation where you can explore and clarify your current position; specify your objectives together with the time scale in which you would like to achieve them. Coaching sessions take place either face to face or via the telephone and are designed to fit in with your time schedule. Sessions are charged on an hourly or monthly basis. Throughout the duration of your coaching programme e-mail and additional telephone support is provided for you at no charge. Each programme is individually tailored to address your specific needs in order to ensure both continuity and focus throughout and can include some or all of the following component parts.

• Skills Analysis & Key Abilities - Clarification of your skills & strengths
• Likes and dislikes from the past - What you enjoy and what no longer serves you well
• Career Change Strategy - How, where and when you want to move forward
• Career Planning - Formulating your own personal career transition plan
• Personal Development - Identifying a personal development plan
• The CV - Creating the content, format and style
• Research - Ensuring you have all the information required before embarking on your search
• Time Management - Understanding and creating a balance between work and leisure time
• Recruitment Consultancies - How to get the best from them and have them work for you
• Networking - Approaching & reaching the "hidden" job market
• Letters of Application - Creating a style and format that works
• Interviewing - Role-plays highlighting the dos and dont's
• The Job Offer - Effective negotiation