Affordable coaching, anytime access!

I thought the pace might slow down after the Fourth of July. No. I have been speaking to services clubs, adding coaching clients, developing new materials to share and even more exciting, building a membership site for easy, economical access to career coaching. If you are even thinking about thinking about changing careers or jobs within your current employment, this is definitely the way to go. Think you can't afford coaching? Think again. Think you can't squeeze coaching into your schedule? Think again.

For the price of a grande, non-fat, mochaccino per week you can experience all the value of coaching, minus the one-on-one. You get all the articles, all the audio and video files, all the guest experts. And you get it 24/7 when you want it. Download MP3's and listen on your iPod! Plus you can email questions to our expert panel and join us for forum discussions.

Do I sound excited? Yes. Why? Because I want everyone to have the opportunity to make confident career choices through coaching. Everyone deserves to have someone in their corner.

Stay tuned for the launch date. I'm confident you'll wonder how you got along without it.

Oh, and if you are in the market for a new kitten, I have six little bundles of joy who will be ready to change your world in about 8 weeks.

Coach

Working to live, not living to work.

Well, it has been a whirlwind of activity the past three weeks. The end of June I went to a career coaching "bootcamp" in Portland, OR. The theme was moving into "Coaching 2.0" the next generation of coaching. Marcia Bench, founder of Career Coach Institute, offered several options for delivering coaching that will give many more people the opportunity to experience the power of coaching in their career decisions.

This week it was the National Career Development Association National Convention in Seattle. Career professionals from across the country and Canada attended to share tips and techniques, learn about new best practices and technology. Two of the best workshops were focused on coaching models - Marcia Bench's "laser coaching" and Gail Michalski's "Solution Focused Career Transition" model for career counselors. Both workshops focused on clients driving the process, active listening, empowerment and keying on strengths, rather than weaknesses.

What a concept! The client actually knows more about their situation than anyone and if they are going to be successful the focus needs to be on what's working, not what isn't working. (Hmmm... reminiscent of the Law of Attraction - whatever you focus in you get more of.)

More on these events in days to come.