Career coaching

"64% (around two thirds) of all workers believe that they are in the wrong jobs."
Daily Mail (UK) 31 October 2000

Do you want to make a career change?  Maybe you're in a job you don't like (or hate!), but you don't know what to do instead? Or maybe you've tried a variety of jobs but nothing quite seems to fit? Or perhaps you have come to a new stage in your life such as graduating; becoming a parent; facing redundancy or retiring and don't know what to do next...

As a licensed Firework Career Coach, I can help you find out what that next step is, through a structured 12 session process:

• Assess your current career situation and what needs to change
• Identify your values, your purpose and what motivates you
• Identify your skills, knowledge and innate abilities
• Assess your work experience and identify your job/career goals
• Match your purpose, skills, experience and career goals to the business reality
• Design a plan for achieving your career goals
• Provide support for implementation of your career plan

If you have any questions or aren't sure how career coaching could help you, please contact me. I offer a free trial session so you can see how it works.

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Maternity Coaching

Becoming a mother is generally one of the biggest transitions in a woman's life and, like most times of change, sometimes its not always easy.

Both pre- and post-baby coaching will help you organising your thoughts, sort your priorities and hold you to task to makes the changes and achievements you want.

If you have any questions or aren't sure how maternity coaching could help you, please contact me. I offer a free trial session so you can see how it works.

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Coaching for Change

People come to coaching for all sorts of different reasons, but generally they want to either achieve something or to change something. Most people's goals are either performance goals (such earning more money; de-cluttering); learning goals (such as improving public speaking; increasing confidence) or fulfilment goals (such having a better work / life balance; improving relationships). Often these overlap, and a good coach will work across all three.

Coaching for Change comes in blocks of 12 sessions - starting with establishing exactly what it you want to change or achieve, and drawing up a plan of how to get you there, how to get you motivated and stay motivated.

If you have any questions or aren't sure how coaching could help you with the specific changes and achievements you want to make, please contact me. I offer a free trial session so you can see how it works.

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Free trial session

If you are interested in being coached, why not try a 20 minute trial session - its free and its a great opportunity to try out coaching without any obligation to take it further.

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Maternity Coaching for Companies

"...Recognize the huge costs to businesses of losing highly educated women when they start their families."
Executive Women and the Myth of Having it All by S A Hewlett, Harvard Business Review, April 2002

"80% of women return to work within 17 months of childbirth but only 47% return to the same job with the same employer."
EOC's interim report into part-time and flexible working: Feb 2005

Losing talented members of staff has been calculated at costing approximately three and five times of salary, so all other considerations aside, it makes financial sense to support through female members of staff through their pregnancy and during their first few months back at work.

Returning to work after a baby can be a difficult transition for women and maternity coaching helps women build their own strategy to manage this. It offers them support and helps them to be more focused, more confident and better performers at home and at work.

Please contact me if you would like to arrange a meeting to discuss maternity coaching for you or your staff.

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Coaching for Performance for Companies

All sorts of things can hold people back from giving their best performance at work - time management, lack of confidence, poor communication, lack of organisation, personal issues. Coaching can be an effective way to enable employees develop themselves by understanding and leveraging their existing skills and talents and developing new skills and habits. Coaching for Performance is flexible and can be tailored to individual needs.

Please contact me if you would like to arrange a meeting to discuss performance coaching for you or your staff.

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