Career Coach

What is a Career Coach?
How Can Coaching Help You?

by Lynn Berger

Career Coach is specifically written for parents who work and sometimes wonder:

How much time should I be devoting to my career and my family?

Is my child and/or children receiving enough of my attention?

Why do I feel guilty when I am at work?

Who can I turn to to find the proper balance between my family and career needs?

These and many more issues are explored monthly. Coaching can help you to find answers to many of these questions. Since I have been submitting broadcasts for a few months now, many of you have asked how coaching might be more helpful to you. As a result, this month's column will focus on what coaching is, how it works and the benefits of working with a coach.

What is coaching?

Since a coach has a unique vantage point of being objective while being aligned with your goals and commitments a coach sees and hears things that you do not which ultimately can make a profound difference in your choices, behavior, performance and life overall. Its very effective to have a partner who understands the issues you confront everyday. Most Importantly, I will work with you to get what you want in a better, faster and easier way.

How does it work?

In an initial session we will identify your goals, commitments and barriers to achieving them. We will then develop a plan that immediately puts you into action. Through weekly coaching sessions via telephone I will keep you on track by consistently assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the results- You may also call me between sessions for spot coaching if you need instant advice, have a problem or want to share a success with me.

What are its benefits?

A survey done the first quarter of 1998 polled 210 coaching clients. The highlights of the survey included most clients turn to their coach for help with time management as well as career and business advice. To a lesser, but significant, extent they seek coaching on relationships, family, wellness and spirituality issues. The outcomes that most clients often attribute to their coaching are a higher level of self-awareness and self-confidence, a more balanced life and smarter goal setting and lower stress levels. 98.5% of coaching clients said their investment in a coach was well worth the money.

If you would benefit from someone helping you to balance work more effectively with your other roles and responsibilities so that you can become more fulfilled, feel free to contact Lynn for a free half hour session. Lynn Berger (212) 289 5197, LBCoach@prodigy.net and/or visit her website. Lynn is a Career & Personal Coach, a wife and a parent of a five year old. She specializes in helping people, during transitional points in their lives, to resolve their career and personal concerns and feel good about the choices they make.

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