My Approach to Coaching
Career coaching supports individuals at all stages of their career in achieving results that are important to their personal success and the long-term success of their organization.
You Are the Expert on Your Own Career
I assume that my client is the expert on his or her own career. My role as a Coach is to draw out the client's expertise through inquiry, curiosity, and gentle challenges. I help the client stretch into his or her best self.
To do that, I introduce self-observation exercises and behavioral practices. I will seek to be attentive to my client's physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual state. I will strive to help the client focus on his or her presence and behaviors.
My role as a Coach is distinct from consulting, advising, therapy, or counseling. However, coaching does address personal issues or life conditions that impact a client's professional effectiveness and chosen development.
Anticipated Outcomes
The anticipated outcomes of career coaching include:
Identification of a career strategy, including short-term career search goals and a long-term career development plan.
Identification of the key behaviors to continue, do more, do less, start and stop doing to increase career effectiveness — including job search strategies or business plan development, as requested.
With mutual and effective commitment to the process, improvement will be noticeable and measurable on specific career behaviors.
Long-term effectiveness for the client, based on increased capacity to achieve results through building and maintaining healthy relationships.
Coaching Method
My approach to career coaching includes the following:
- Determine a client's commitment to the coaching process: to solicit feedback, assess feedback, work to develop more effective behaviors, involve stakeholders to support desired changes, and measure the results of the behavior change effort.
- Identify with the client the high-leverage behaviors to focus on that will provide the most strategic benefit.
- Partner with the client in understanding and responding to feedback.
- Support the client in engaging more productively in career activities.
- Conduct regularly scheduled coaching sessions via Zoom or by phone, on average once a week.
- Follow-up assessments to measure the client's improvement.
A successful coaching relationship is a two-way commitment.
Responsibilities
A successful coaching relationship is a two-way commitment. Here is what each of us brings to the process.
Client
- Attend coaching sessions as agreed
- Select topics for discussion
- Set and pursue meaningful goals
Coach (Me)
- Manage the coaching process, including timekeeping
- Undertake regular professional coaching supervision
- Maintain confidentiality (subject to certain exemptions)
Ready to Get Started?
If my approach resonates with you, I'd love to connect. Book a free discovery call and let's explore what's possible.