Coaching Services Overview

Accelerated Services & Resumes | What is Coaching Anyway

Coaching Options

Sessions by Email, Phone or in Person

Your Options For Individual Coaching
Most people lead very stressful and busy lives these days. It is often difficult to find the time to schedule appointments for coaching sessions. We have created different options for you to choose from. These options can be applied to either career coaching or executive and management coaching sessions.

Option 1
Meeting in person

We are available to meet with you for single appointments if you would like consultation regarding a specific job search or career management issue, including the creation of a dynamic resume, preparation for an important interview or negotiating an offer.

Sometimes people meet with us to plan out their approach for an important meeting with their boss. Many clients decide to take a more strategic view of their career and create an overall plan in order to make well thought-out choices. An initial assessment meeting will help us put a customized plan together to meet your needs. Initial assessment meetings are usually 1-1/2 hours. You have a choice about the length of subsequent coaching sessions. We offer 1 hour sessions or 1-1/2 hour sessions, based upon your preferences. The average number of face-to-face one-hour sessions to reach your goals ranges from 4 - 12. We would create and implement your plan together based on your objectives, your motivation level, how clear you are in your direction and how much preparation work you have already done.

Option 2
Phone sessions

Long distance clients, or clients with extremely pressured schedules, often choose to work with one of our consultants over the phone. Typically, phone sessions last 1/2 hour. We accomplish a great deal in 1/2 hour - the sessions are very focused and extremely efficient. We have a great deal of experience with facilitating these types of phone meetings. Our recommendation is to meet in person for the initial session (if you live locally), since this process takes more time. If this is not possible, we will make other arrangements for the initial assessment session(s). Phone sessions are scheduled by appointment, and payment would need to be made through the mail prior to the
session(s). Most long distance clients choose to schedule in batches of 3 - 8 appointments and make one payment up front to simplify the process.

Option 3
Combination phone/email sessions

More and more clients are choosing to go through the coaching process utilizing a combination of phone and email sessions. Along with scheduled phone meetings, you also have access to email correspondence during the month of your appointment(s). Payments work the same way as for phone sessions

Accelerated Services & Resumes

Half-day accelerated sessions are available to mid-career changers who want to launch into a search quickly without attending several coaching appointments. Our half-day sessions (9:00am - 12:00 noon) offer immediate results and very personalized attention.

There are two services available in this format - individual assessment and resume "re-write" sessions.

1. Accelerated Assessment Sessions

Q: What is it?
A: One private and consolidated meeting of approximately 3 to 3-1/2 hours where an experienced consultant works with you to identify and formulate an overall career profile and action plan. The profile will give you a rich source of immediate information and clarify the factors that will help you make results-oriented career decisions. Taking the career chaos in your mind and breaking it into manageable pieces that will help you get unstuck is what clients tend to value the most from these accelerated sessions. We will identify some of your key obstacles to moving forward, talk about overcoming them, and agree upon concrete steps that you need to take to make progress.

Q: What will I walk away from this session with?
A: You will leave with a set of tools to get a jump-start on your search, including concrete feedback, recommendations and an action plan for next steps.

Q: Who should use this service?
A: We recommend that mid-career professionals are best suited for this accelerated process. Of course, it is a possible option for anyone who wants to take quick action - call us to find out if it will be effective in your personal situation.

Q: What does an accelerated program cost?
A: $500.00

2. Accelerated Resume "Re-write" Sessions

Q: What is it?
A: One private and consolidated meeting of approximately 3 to 3-1/2 hours where an experienced consultant works with you to re-engineer your resume. Writing an effective and polished resume can be time consuming and cumbersome - we transform the process into a consolidated working session that gives immediate results.*
Q: What will I walk away from this session with?
A: You will leave with a completed draft of a dynamic resume that you can begin to use immediately. **
Q: Who should use this service?
A: Anyone who is about to embark on a career change or job search and wants to take action now. Professionals who don't have the time or the patience to work on their resume for several weeks will find this service to be very effective.

There is pre-work that you will need to complete prior to the session for it to be successful.

The service does not include word processing or printing.

What is Coaching Anyway?

Coaching is a working relationship where the coach uses specific techniques to guide the client in making career and life choices that are meaningful and purposeful. Coaching is goal and action-oriented. Its focus is on the present and the future - not the past. Coaching can help a person alter the way they view the world and themselves. Ultimately this impacts how the client makes decisions. It's about choice and change.

It's Your Choice

Would you like to gain more control over some aspect of your life or work? Have you wanted to achieve certain goals, but seem to be stuck in a rut? Are you asking yourself "is this all there is?" Are you integrating work into your life in a way that suits your values? Do you simply want more time for yourself and/or your family but can't seem to find it?
Whether you are a corporate manager working 70 hours a week and getting little personal satisfaction from your work, someone who is ready for a change but doesn't know where to start, or someone who is just tired of feeling burnt out, you have some very important choices to make.
You can be the master of your fate, and make conscious decisions about the life you want to create. You have the power to change your life. It's never too late. On the other hand, you can also choose to be a victim, a puppet or a procrastinator forever. It's your choice.
If you want to make conscious decisions, a coach can help you design a new way of working and living. A coach gives you objective and honest feedback that others may not have the courage to give you, and coaches can help you anticipate obstacles and overcome them. Coaches provide tools for change and encouragement to take positive action to build the life and work you want.

The Coach's Role

The role of coach is multi-dimensional. It is our job to listen very carefully, hearing underneath the symptoms, and to help you identify core issues and build a plan based upon the context of your unique life, personality, values and talents. We ask a lot of questions; sometimes tough questions. We might question your assumptions and push back sometimes. We will make agreements about specific actions that you will make to begin the process of change. We believe in balancing the pursuit of dreams with practical choices to achieve your own definition of success. We encourage you to hold yourself accountable.

The Client's Role

Your role is to be open to feedback, fully participate in the entire process, and be accountable for the agreements you make. Ultimately it isn't the coach who makes the process successful - it is fundamentally the responsibility of the client to implement the action plan and move forward in his or her own life. We give the client tools, input, suggestions and advice. The client makes change happen.

Areas of Focus

These are just some of the areas your coach may work with you on:

Clarifying Priorities & Values
The Ambiguity of Change
Self Reflection and Assessment
What's Holding You Back
Putting a Stake in the Ground
Understanding Your Relationship With Time
Saying No & Saying Yes
Redirecting Your Career
Courage, Fear & Resilience
Expectations of Self and Others
Language and Communications
Presence & Personal Power
Letting Go & Making it Happen

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