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Black & White vs. Critical Thinking

2023/05/08

A Coaching Power Tool By Anita Szabo
Career Coach, HUNGARY

One of the most common issues I see with coaching clients is Black & White vs. Critical Thinking. The problem with Black-and-White thinking is that it reduces a vast ocean of possibilities, options, and ideas to only two options. However, this idea is severely limiting. Clients may believe they must make either/or decisions; however, they can explore the infinite possibilities that exist in the middle. Amongst many examples, I experienced black-and-white thinking when we moved to a new country, quit a well-paying and well-respected job after a decade, and transitioned into coaching. Despite how much I hoped for a career break and to use my free time to engage in energizing learning.

The DARE Coaching Model

2023/04/28

A Coaching Model By Anita Szabo
Career Coach, HUNGARY

I developed the DARE model as a leadership coach specifically for leaders, regardless of their level of seniority, who want to improve and develop their leadership skills. Most often, a 12-session leadership coaching program with pre-established goals is sponsored by the employee’s employer. By combining the VIA structure with character strengths, this model seeks to maximize empowerment by assisting clients in achieving their objectives. I developed the DARE model as a leadership coach specifically for leaders, regardless of their level of seniority, who want to improve and develop their leadership skills. Most often, a 12-session leadership coaching program with pre-established goals is sponsored by the employee’s employer. By combining the VIA structure with character strengths, this model seeks to maximize empowerment by assisting clients in achieving their objectives.

Character Strength-Based Leadership Coaching

2023/04/20

A Research Paper By Anita Szabo
Leadership & Career Coach, HUNGARY

A character strength-based leadership coaching approach is empowering, energizing, and connecting in that coaches embody and exhibit their own character strengths as they tell clients about strengths and support clients in developing their own character strengths for enhancing well-being and dealing with adversity in their own distinctively personal way and with their orientation/approach to helping. In fact, not all good leaders, let alone all leaders, consider leadership to be a core competency. Leadership is a trait that is shared by people of all ages and backgrounds. Someone who lists leadership as one of their top talents, like everyone else, does not automatically become an effective leader.

Coaching Midlife Professionals to Find Fulfillment in Their Life

2023/04/12

A Coaching Case Study By Irvan Saputra Masyulhak
Career Coach, NETHERLANDS

Midlife professionals are coached to redefine their life’s purpose. When I first started my coaching business, I was exposed to a certain type of client. These people have successful corporate careers and are high achievers. The people are in their late 30s to late 40s. They frequently discuss how they feel insufficient, lonely, numb, or unhappy with their job during coaching sessions. Many of them attended the coaching sessions in an effort to identify the source of their sense of emptiness and to develop more vibrant, peaceful, and present feelings while still progressing and growing. In the big picture, they are reconsidering the significance of what they are doing right now and redefining their life’s purpose.

The UNIFY Coaching Model

2023/01/20

A Coaching Model By Dominique Hawkins
Career Coach, UNITED STATES

The UNIFY model was developed to help individuals realize a more complete self throughout their professional lives by utilizing holistic exploration. Knowing one’s purpose and finding meaning and fulfillment in one’s work is one aspect of career and personal well-being. Many people are concerned with determining what type of work is most meaningful to them and how to determine their purpose. Finding a support structure to investigate what is needed to help someone move toward their goals for greater well-being can be challenging. “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life,” we’ve all heard.

Fear or Anxiety vs. Courage

2023/01/16

A Coaching Power Tool By Angela Stockinger
Career Coach, SPAIN

What is the opposite of Fear or Anxiety vs. Courage? What will happen to clients who claim they need a plan or more clarity? What exactly are they seeking? When you use these types of questions to test a client, they frequently respond that they will feel better about themselves, have more peace of mind, and feel better about themselves as a result. To me, courage is what it takes to get there. The courage to delve deeper, the courage to reflect on what is under your control while facing hard truths, the courage to name unpleasant emotions, the courage to – at times – accept that you are not ready to move on and view this as a lesson. Courage will enable one to deviate from the norm and take decisions, but getting there may take some time.

A Coaching Model: Confidence, Growth, and Innovation

2023/01/11

A Coaching Model By Angela Stockinger
Career Coach, SPAIN

Confidence, growth, and innovation are the three pillars on which my coaching model is built, and I view them as being interconnected. To me, self-assurance is a skill that can be developed through practice, growth is a mindset that can be attained, and innovation is an output that is either novel or distinctive and valuable in the market, and it is made possible by the two concepts mentioned before. The coaching process as a whole, my coaching style, and the tools I’m thinking about using will all be framed by these three pillars. As a career coach, my goal is to support people who are willing to reflect on their current level of job satisfaction, identify their core values and comprehend why these values are significant for their career, as well as explore their options, visualize, and create their own path.

Organizational Well-Being Programs and The Importance of Work-Life Integration

2023/01/06

A Research Paper By Dominique Hawkins
Career Coach, UNITED STATES

As people continue to pursue happiness in their personal and professional lives, now is the time for businesses to focus on fostering a culture of holistic well-being, Organizational Well-Being Programs by helping employees integrate work and life. Research has shown that ignoring employee well-being has both quantitative and qualitative costs to both employees and organizations. Neglecting your well-being can have consequences, including decreased productivity, stress, or burnout. Few employers have a program or strategy in place to assist employees in integrating their work and personal lives in a holistic and healthy way, even though many are aware of the threat of burnout and low levels of well-being on employees. Coaching can be a great way to support people in their efforts toward a more complete self.

Evaluating Career Match Qualities Through Coaching

2023/01/03

A Research Paper By Angela Stockinger
Career Coach, SPAIN

We now have a different perspective on our professional lives as a result of all these changing circumstances, and in this regard, two concepts, in particular, stand out to me: belonging and growth. In responses to employee surveys, both have been mentioned more frequently, with words like “development,” “growth,” “promotion,” “training,” “inclusivity,” “teamwork,” and “team fit” showing up more frequently. I want to explore coaching concepts like self-awareness, healthy explanatory styles, and the growth mindset in greater detail in this research paper on evaluating career match qualities through coaching, all in the context of the ongoing assessment of our compatibility.

Moving From Obligation vs. Freedom

2022/12/29

A Coaching Power Tool By Dominique Hawkins
Career Coach, UNITED STATES

Clients can identify the default obligations that make them feel chained and unfree by using the Obligation vs. Freedom power tool. Many employees remain committed to their jobs or feel trapped in a career that no longer serves them. Believe it or not, we all have the capacity to transition from obligation to freedom, regardless of the job, role, or career we currently hold. Clients are able to develop their awareness of, and let go of, external expectations and conditioning that keep them acting out of duty by exploring their core values and deeply held beliefs. Obligations can be found in a variety of interpersonal relationships (family, friends, and coworkers), in our careers, and in places of employment, and they can have an impact on society and culture.

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