Coaching A Winning Career

Bill@CoachTrainingAlliance.com (CTA Admin) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:48:22 -0700

by Deborah Brown-Volkman

Do you have clients struggling with their careers?

There are times in all of our careers when we are at a crossroads. Some of us actively seek our next step, while others wait for the next step to come to them. If you believe you can have a career that brings you excitement and fulfillment, then you will have that.

Coach Your Clients to a Career They Love
Walk your clients through these five simple steps:

1. Describe What You Want
You cannot get what you want until you can describe what it is. What do you see yourself doing if there were no perceived obstacles in your way? Give yourself the freedom to brainstorm and the answers you are seeking will come.

2. Explore Your Options
What did you learn from Step 1? Take your realizations and turn them into real career choices. Begin researching and using contacts you know today, or people you haven't met yet, to help you.

3. Create Your Game Plan
Take what you gathered from the exploratory process and put these steps into your calendar.

a) What I want.
b) When I will get what I want.
c) The actions I will take to get there.

4. Implement Your Plan
Keep the momentum going. Set daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
Persistence and forward movement is what will help you reach your goal.

5. Reach Your Goal
You made it! Applaud yourself for your hard work and effort. Congratulations on discovering you can handle anything that comes your way.

Deborah Brown-Volkman is is the creator of the Career Escape Program™ and author of The Sage and Scholar's Guide to Coaching Career Transitions.

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The Art & Science of Guiding Your Clients to
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What is Career Coaching?

Bill@CoachTrainingAlliance.com (CTA Admin) — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 18:02:49 -0700

A career coach can help their clients find what they may have lost in their work, or help them find the courage to move into a new career. The whole process from seeking out new possibilities, discovering unexplored venues, right through actualization of a goal is incredibly rewarding for both the client AND the coach.

And for the coach the pay can be very lucrative!

As with other forms of coaching, it is indeed best to help the client discover for themselves what they already know, but may be afraid to confront.

Confronting this fear and uncertainty is something that proves difficult for most people. A good career coach will help them overcome these fears and see the true potential within themselves.

Career coaching is effective because it provides the insight, support, and direction necessary for these answers to come to life.

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Coaching A Winning Career

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