What is Group Coaching? | By Guest Author Jennifer Britton

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Group Coaching continues to increase in popularity for coaches and clients alike. Grounded in our core coaching competencies, group coaching brings the coaching conversation into a small group context. It is an intimate conversation space, focused on goal setting, deepening awareness around key issues, taking action, and accountability. For a group to be considered group coaching the ICF has set the upper threshold group size at 15. Most groups are much smaller, particularly those in the virtual environment.

Over the past few years, coaches have continued to expand the boundaries of group coaching. Whether you are a coach designing your Read More…

7 More Career Coaching Tools and Ideas for Clients Who Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want!

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This article follows on from 7 Career Coaching Tools and Ideas For Clients Who Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want!

So, here are 7 MORE Career Coaching Tools and Ideas for the client who wants a new career – but has absolutely no idea where to start! ‘Future’ Self Exercises and Inquiries Part 3. (Parts 1 and 2 can be found here) A final idea is to ask them to write out what a day in their ideal work day would look like. The more detail they go into the better – you can ask them to use their Read More…

Career Coaching Tools: When Clients Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want!

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Have a client who wants a new career but has absolutely no idea where to start? Well, that’s where Career Coaching Tools and Exercises come in really handy to get them started on their inner journeys. Because when a client truly has no idea – looking within is the only place to start.

Firstly, if you think you’re going to have more clients like this, I highly recommend getting yourself the latest edition of, “What Color is Your Parachute” by Richard Bolles – if only so you can recommend it to your clients! It has some great career coaching tools, Read More…

Career Coaching: 9 Key Things I Tell Clients Looking for a New Career!

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I am often asked how to coach people to find a new career. New career coaching is tough as there are rarely quick fixes and easy answers. But if we can manage the expectations of our clients, we usually get there in the end. Patience and dedication on behalf of both the coach and client is needed, and often a little client re-education too…

Career coaching to help someone find a new vocation can feel daunting, especially in these times of “Live your Passion!” when people’s expectations are so high.

There are two Big Issues I Commonly See with Clients Read More…

Coaching Tools 101: 3 New Ways to Use the Wheel of Life in Career, Executive or Business Coaching!

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The Wheel of Life can be customised to an individual client’s situation in a surprising number of ways. In this article we look at using the Wheel in Career, Executive or Business coaching (although other niches will also find these tips helpful).

Variation 1) Making a decision (choosing between a number of options or a “Yes” or “No” decision).

Examples of when to use: Client is looking at a number of new career options, client is considering whether to accept a promotion or move jobs, client needs to make a business decision.

Write out each option on a piece of Read More…