Transitions Coaching to One of a Kind Coaching work in the following areas:

Career Transition
* Dealing with layoffs or terminations including outplacement services.
* Preparing the tools for job-hunting including resume preparation.
* Creating strategies to most effectively market your skills.
* Networking your way to the right position.
* Presenting yourself successfully in an interview.
* Negotiating the right deal.

Life Transition
* Finding your life’s passion.
* Identifying the right path or career alternatives.
* Changing careers.
* Developing your own business.
* Dealing with life changes.

Cultural Transition
* Working with the employee and their family due to transfer.
* Preparing for an overseas assignment.
* Overcoming culture shock.
* Transitioning effectively to the new culture.
* Returning to the home culture.

Coaching Process

Every coaching relationship is different because everyone’s challenges are unique but there is a standard process:

Analysis Phase

Through a mix of personality assessments, discussion, and focused goal-setting clients determine their needs and what they are looking for in the coaching relationship. The coach outlines what they can do and what the coach can/cannot do including:

- Outline main issues to work on.
- Determine the goals.
- Decide the length and frequency of the coaching.
- Establish coaching contract.
- Share coaching guidelines.

Coaching Sessions

Each session will include:

• Check-in. Discussion of successes and challenges.
• Content-input. New information on relevant topic to enable the client
  to think differently or expand their knowledge about his/her core issues.
• Wrap-up. Summary of findings from the coaching session.
• Action output. Steps for the client to take to accomplish their tools.

The client is responsible for bringing their issues to the session.
The coach is responsible for supporting the client, illuminating the issues and offering alternative ways of dealing with them.

Wrap-Up Phase

In the final discussion the coach and client establish the following:

• Summary of coaching journey – challenges, successes.
• Assessment of current client status and future needs.
• Establishment of follow up and maintenance program.

Coaching Foundations

A coach:
* Enthusiastically supports the client
* Listens first before acting
* Summarizes and reflects back
* Makes suggestions and gives advice
* Gives another viewpoint on an issue
* Partners with the client on goals to work on
* Respects the client
* Keeps all conversation confidential

A coach does not:
* Make unfounded assumptions
* Talk more than the client
* Tells the client what to do
* Sets goals without client input
* Make the client wrong
* Act as a therapist

Key Themes of the Coaching Relationship:

Trust – Empathy – Validation – Perspective – Support

Guidelines for the Coaching Contract:
* Be authentic
* Be open to possibilities
* Be candid about what is working and what is not working
* Be respectful of appointments