Essential Career Transition Coaching Skills

Career moves (even positive ones) can be disruptive for the individual, and the psychological impact of changing roles or careers is often underestimated. Career transition coaching is a relatively new field, but one that is highly relevant in the modern world. In Essential Career Transition Coaching Skills, Caroline Talbott explores the most effective career transition coaching techniques and explains the psychology behind them. Looking at both self-motivated and enforced career changes, the book pays particular attention to the psychological processes experienced by the client, so that the coach can understand and anticipate their reactions and help them make the most successful career moves. It covers general skills, tools and techniques that can be applied to any career transition as well as more specific examples such as moving from management into leadership, aspiring business owners and career changers. Case studies illustrating the methods of experienced coaches and step-by-step guides to coaching techniques are also included. Ideal for those already experienced in general coaching and looking to specialise, as well as anyone whose job requires coaching skills, such as managers and HR professionals, this timely book provides a comprehensive guide to the whole transition cycle – from choosing a career direction or change, to making a move and adapting successfully.

Drawing from over 30 years of coaching and training experience, Coach Risto combines academic research with real-world practices to provide a comprehensive roadmap for navigating career transitions. Whether you're seeking to enhance your coaching skills, attract more clients, or deepen your impact, this book equips you with the tools and strategies to thrive in guiding professionals.Explore practical techniques and insightful strategies tailored to enrich your coaching practice. Hands-on tools and transformative exercises help you guide your clients through career transitions with finesse. Whether you're an experienced coach seeking to expand your toolkit or an aspiring coach focusing on career transitions, this book provides invaluable insights and actionable steps to enhance your practice. Career Transition Coaching is essential for coaches committed to empowering individuals through meaningful transformations.

Drawing from over 30 years of coaching and training experience, Coach Risto combines academic research with real-world practices to provide a comprehensive roadmap for navigating career transitions. Whether you're seeking to enhance your coaching skills, attract more clients, or deepen your impact, this book equips you with the tools and strategies to thrive in guiding professionals.Explore practical techniques and insightful strategies tailored to enrich your coaching practice. Hands-on tools and transformative exercises help you guide your clients through career transitions with finesse. Whether you're an experienced coach seeking to expand your toolkit or an aspiring coach focusing on career transitions, this book provides invaluable insights and actionable steps to enhance your practice. Career Transition Coaching is essential for coaches committed to empowering individuals through meaningful transformations.

Developmental Coaching explores many of the common transition points we experience throughout life, including teenage transitions, becoming a parent, mid-life and retirement. The book sets these transitions in their social context and reviews them in the light of generational factors. The book is introduced with key psychological concepts from areas such as lifespan development and positive psychology, in addition to insights from other disciplines, including management theory and sociology. The main topics of discussion are: coaching tools and techniques broader societal and generational trends how coaching can help individuals to realise positive growth. With case studies throughout, Developmental Coaching offers an essential resource for practising coaches, coaching psychologists, counsellors and other professionals who wish to further their knowledge of the developmental aspects of coaching and dealing with life transitions.

Psychology for Coaches offers its readers a chance to ground their interpersonal skills in sound psychological theory and research. It provides a solid synthesis of current concepts and research results, translating them into hands-on recommendations and examples of tools. The book was written in response to questions asked by trainee coaches eager to make sure they are doing their best to provide a safe, professional, and valuable service. It offers clear, practical examples on how to apply presented concepts into coaching practice. It challenges popular strategies that may have unwanted side effects and offers to replace them with specific ideas on how to use coaching conversations to: support goal setting and consistent motivation encourage autonomy and responsibility assist self-reflection and manage learning increase awareness of emotions and manage them better identify and change beliefs and schemas build a healthier perception of oneself Psychology for Coaches will be essential reading for coaches in all areas, including those in training, who want an accessible, fast introduction to the most relevant areas of psychology and an overview that will guide their further learning. It will also be an inspirational guide for people aiming to use coaching skills in other professional roles.

Most coaches today see their role as mainly non-directive, helping to uncover their coachee’s own wisdom. However, coaches may unwittingly and unconsciously constrain what their coachees talk and think about, getting in the way of unique, self-generated solutions. Clean Coaching provides a different, simple yet highly effective approach to one-to-one facilitation. It is a style, strategy and set of techniques that help coachees gain insight and make changes through discovering more about their own ‘insider’ perspective: of themselves and the world around them. Through the use of specifically-phrased, structured coaching questions, the coach’s own biased perspectives are stripped from their language, ensuring the coachee’s unique personal experience is honoured. In Clean Coaching, Angela Dunbar explains how this approach works in practical terms, with descriptions of how to structure a Clean Coaching session and the steps to take within such a session. The book gives detailed descriptions of the kinds of questions to ask and provides a wealth of analogues, examples and case studies to bring the descriptions alive, offering a clear blueprint for action. In addition, the book explains where Clean Coaching has come from, describing the development of Clean Language and other "Clean" approaches by the psychologist and psychotherapist David Grove. It also tracks how "Clean" approaches have been adopted and adapted by other practitioners. Dunbar draws on current research in the fields of developmental, neurological, cognitive and social psychology to demonstrate why Clean Coaching works so successfully. Exploring Clean Coaching in detail, and informed by both research and practice, this book will be a valuable resource for coaches at all levels, including executive coaches and those in training, as well as managers and executives acting in a coaching capacity.

Provides coaches with a basic understanding of different systems theories. Highlights the key differences between the three categories of system theory and provides a context against which to evaluate different ‘systemic’ theories. Enables coaches to come up with their own personal practice model.