CAREER COACHING

Types of coaching

Coaching is a solution-oriented approach, where a coach works with a client to explore what concrete steps can be taken to help the client achieve a particular set of goals or objectives. The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”.

 Although there are many different types of coaches—leadership, executive, life, wellness, and career—all coaches engage with their clients in thought-provoking, creative processes in order to unlock their clients’ potential and impact the outlook each client has on a specific aspect of their work or personal life.

Career coach

 Career coaching differs from leadership, executive, life, and wellness coaching in several respects. The objective of Career coaching is to support clients in making informed decisions about their career development and trajectory, including assisting with a transition to an encore career. Through career coaching, Prystins Insights Coaching can offer various tools and strategies for leaders to use in meeting their goals. These would include the development of resumes, cover letters, and curriculum vitae, interview preparation, employment contract and severance agreement negotiations, using social media, networking, career mapping, and polishing your leadership brand. The career coaching agenda typically is a combination of both professional and life components, with success measured by the extent to which Prystins is able to help sort out issues related to the client’s professional future. A successful career coaching engagement also results in the client gaining career confidence, understanding insights gained from assessments such as Edgar Schein’s Career Anchors, along with receiving encouragement and inspiration from our coaches.

Who needs a career coach?

 Career coaching can be helpful at every point of a professional path. Working with a good career coach in the early years of one’s career can put individuals on more solid footing—not just with a well-crafted resume and strategies to broaden one’s network, but also with the addition of an actionable leadership-career management plan. Consulting with us can even be extremely valuable when trying to determine the best type of graduate degree program to complete in order to help further one’s career goals. It can be confusing and daunting for professionals to decipher and understand the myriad of features, benefits, and options available in graduate school. Professionals to be often express frustration with how little formal guidance they ever received on this important (and costly) investment in their career. Often the first step includes a self-assessment of the leadership competencies required in a new role or setting. Having a clearer understanding of how your current competencies can be transferred to a different setting is important information to emphasize, for example in an interview.

 Awareness of one’s own competencies through self- assessment , can provide the coach and client with a new job search strategy framework that can be used to evaluate potential positions, and to develop cover letters, objective statements, and targeted resumes.

Who benefits the most from career coaching?

 The candidate who will derive the greater benefit from our coaching is someone who is open to new ideas, is willing to step out of his or her comfort zone, is motivated to embark on the challenge of thinking differently about job search and career change process, and is willing to take risks will derive the greatest benefit. How far out on the fringes one can go partly depends on how much risk one is willing or able to take.

 Professionals should reach out to their career coach for as much guidance as possible, as well as for help from anyone within their personal or professional networks, in order to succeed.

 If you would like to explore how professional career coaching/counseling can benefit you, we invite you to read further to learn more about our career services and our complimentary career services consultation.

What are our Career coaching tools?

 Prystins Insights uses career coaching tools it has developed as well those that are familiar to the professionals out here. Some of these tools include,
. Wheel of Life . The Perfect Day . Reflection JOURNAL .Big Rocks . Spheres of Influence . The Personal ‘SWOT’ Coaching Tool . Live Your Calling Career Program . Professional Career Testing tools for adults . Professional Career Testing for High School/College Students . Job Search Mastery tools . Monthly career coaching. . The 3 C’s Method . Communication Tools .Competency and values inventories, leadership and personality assessments .Behavioral tools such as DISC

 Prystins’ career coaching can support a professional to be empowered by the expertise, knowledge, and wisdom they bring to the table, and can build one’s confidence, as well as provide tools, resources, and techniques that can help convey an accurate description of why you will be a “good fit” when transitioning from a traditional role to a new role. Traditional leadership roles are being redefined, new opportunities are emerging, and new possibilities are being created.

  Repurposing and repackaging competencies and skills in new ways when preparing to take a career risk provides a confidence boost in demonstrating that one has something special to offer and can bring that missing piece to one’s professional life.

Find the Work You Were Designed to Do

  At Prystins insights we offer affordable one-on-one career counseling/coaching services that can help you discover and obtain meaningful, fulfilling work that fits your God-given design. Professional career services can help you to:

• Clarify your God-given design through professional career testing;
• Identify the work you were designed to do;
• Develop short- and long-term career goals for living your calling;
• Discern God's will for your career;
• Land a new or better job;
• Negotiate a salary that represents the true value you bring to a job;
• Gain the competitive edge with a high impact resume and other marketing materials and strategies;
• Prove that you are the person to hire by utilizing the best job search strategies for today's job market.

  What's the purpose of the career services consultation? The consultation is for individuals who think they could benefit from professional career coaching/counseling, and who are ready to invest financially in professional career services. The purpose of the consultation is to provide you with a professional career analysis and determine which career program or service will best meet your specific needs and goals. (If we do not feel that we can meet your needs and goals, we will let you know. We meet one-on-one with prospective clients to make sure that there is a good fit between the client's needs and what can be accomplished through our services.)

  What happens during the career services consultation? You will have a one-on-one sessions During your session, you will have the opportunity to discuss your career situation with the career coach, clarify your goals for career coaching, learn more about the career programs or services of Prystins Insights that would best meet your specific needs, and determine which career program or service will fit you best.

 Experience has shown us that there is no more effective way for you to determine if career coaching/counseling services will benefit you than with a complimentary career consultation session. Please provide us with the following information so that we can assist you more effectively during your career services consultation.

 

* Name:
* Mailing address:
* City:
* State:
* Zip:
* Time Zone:
* E-mail address:
* Age:
* Employment:

What is your current or most recent job title?
Dates of employment in this position?
How did you get involved in this occupation?
* Education: What is the highest educational level completed? (If you have college degree(s), list each with its emphasis-)
* What career issues are you currently experiencing?
My work is not a good fit for who I am
My work is not satisfying or meaningful
My work environment affects me negatively
My boss and/or co-workers affect me negatively
I want to do something different with my career, but don’t know what that would be
I feel like God is calling me to do something else, but I don’t know what it is
I know what I want to do but don’t know how to make it happen. (Students)
I need to choose a college major/degree program/career direction
I need to find a career in which I can earn more money
I want to improve my job search tools (resume, LinkedIn, etc.) and strategies (finding jobs, interviewing, etc.)
Other (Please explain below.)
Please explain your most significant career issues:
Have you ever worked with a professional career coach/counselor before? If yes, who? What did you do with that person? What were the results?
Why are you seeking professional career coaching/counseling at this time? What are you looking for from a career coach/counselor?
If you were in the ideal career/job, what would that do for you?
What do you think could be slowing you down, standing in the way, or stopping you from finding work that is a good fit for your God-given design?
Low Self-Confidence
Lack of Clarity in Values
Lack of Time (i.e., Inability to Prioritize)
Fear of Change
Fear of Failure
Lack of Motivation
Other People
Depression
Fear of Others' Disapproval
Other (please describe below)
* Please explain the most significant issues you experience:
* If you could turn all these challenges around and find work that you were designed to do what would that do for you?

Career Services:

 Which of these services do you think could meet your needs?

 Services and packages range from Kshs1,000.00 to Kshs20,000.00. We also offer monthly payment plans for programs which can be as low as Kshs________________________ per month.

Finances:

Which best describes your situation?

  Comments about your financial situation:

 Scheduling Your Session: Please provide several dates and blocks of time (Monday through Friday from 2pm to 6pm) during which you would be available for us to call you for your complimentary consultation session. Also, please note which phone number to use for each time listed.

 5^th May 2021