Coaching Services
What is Coaching?
"A series of interactions between coach and client that includes questioning, observation, feedback, and other techniques. Through it the coach helps the client explore the issues the client wishes to resolve, clarify, or understand, and together they develop actionable outcomes for the client to implement or work on between sessions. (Bench, M., 2003. Career Coaching: An Insider’s Guide. Davis-Black Publishing: Palo Alto: CA., p. 8, emphasis added)."
Coaching Models
In our coaching service CKA follows the models espoused by the Career Coach Institute. They are:
 The Authentic Vocation Model
The Quantum Shift! Coaching Method
The Authentic Vocation Model
What is meant by Authentic (Bench, 2003, p.31)
 True
Genuine
One’s essential self
What is the meaning of Vocation (Bench, 2003, p.31)
A calling
One’s life’s work
Eight factors of the Authentic Vocation Model (Bench, 2003, p.31)
- Life purpose: What defines you at your core?
- Values: What matters to you?
- Motivators & Interests: What gets you out of bed in the morning?
- Knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA): What has your life’s experience and education prepared you to do best, and most naturally?
- Work & other: what are your experiences including avocations, and volunteering?
- Job/career targets: What’s the next step in your career?
- Work environment: What is the environment within which you are most comfortable?
- Business reality: Are your goals doable, financially, and practically?
Three Principles that form the Authentic Vocation Foundation
- “A central life purpose that …generates optimum work fulfillment” (Bench, 2003, p. 32)
- Finding one’s life purpose that utilizes one’s skills is possible (p. 32)
- To achieve this ideal one’s values, motivators, interests, and KSA must be financially and practically realistic (p. 32)
The QuantumShift! Coaching (QSC) Method
Common mistakes made by corporations that hire, or rely on their own internal coaches
- They rely too heavily on training. While the training may be very good, most companies do not have the resources to follow-up on what was learned by the student
- There is a failure to “assess the strengths or natural abilities of their employees and match them to the best job…” (Bench, 2003, p. 107). Unfortunately, the focus is usually on the employee’s “weakness and (energy is focused) on (efforts)…to improve them” (p. 107)
- Acquiescence to “surface-level performance coaching” (p. 107). While the coaching seems to resolve the immediate problem, it doesn’t get to the deeper issues that may be the root cause of the employees’ problems. QSC does!!! A QS coach’s job is to obsolete him or herself by getting to the underlying issues. Once those issues are resolved, the employees’ growth can be dramatic
Desired Outcomes of the QSC Method
- Helping the client come to a better understanding of who he or she is. Assessment tools are often used to help in this process
- Clarification of one’s life purpose & goals. Clarifying one’s life purpose can lead the way to “finding fulfillment in one’s work” (Bench, 2003, p. 110)
- Management of one’s career. In today’s business environment it is increasingly important for employees to take charge of their career, and to provide their employer with a spirit of entrepreneurship
- Improved quality of life. As one finds fulfillment in their career, the effects on the rest of their life can only be positive
Beginning the Coaching Process
If you are interested in engaging a coach for yourself, or for one of your employees, please fill out the form below. We will contact you as soon as we receive the completed form.
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