Full Description
The Career Coaching Toolkit is a practical guide to 34 effective and relevant career coaching techniques to help practitioners encourage, stretch and clarify their clients' thinking. Structured around ten of the most common career dilemmas clients bring to their coaches, this book provides clear advice to coaches about when to apply the right technique to address all of these problems.
With a dual focus on theory and practice, each chapter explores the links between the coaching technique and the scientific research on which it is based. The book explains how and why the technique works, giving the reader a real appreciation of the underlying mechanisms that make these techniques effective. Written specifically for career coaching, this deepened understanding will enhance confidence when working with clients.
A practical toolkit for practitioners and students alike, The Career Coaching Toolkit will add depth to the practice of anyone working with clients facing a career crossroads, or conducting research into occupational identities and career decision making.
Contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Where Do Clients Get Stuck?
Chapter 3 How Can I Make Sense of My Career So Far?
Chapter 4 What Do I Want from a Job?
Chapter 5 What Jobs Would Suit Me?
Chapter 6 What Job Do I Want to Do?
Chapter 7 I Want to Go For it, But I am Just Not Sure I am Good Enough
Chapter 8 Part of Me Wants It, But Part of Me Wants Something Else
Chapter 9 It is what I want, but my family aren't so sure
Chapter 10 What's the point in trying? I am never going to make anything of myself.
Chapter 11 I just can't decide between these options
Chapter 12 I am not feeling very motivated
Chapter 13 Multi-purpose tools
Chapter 14 Conclusion
