Individual Coaching
Individual Coaching
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What is Individual Coaching?
What is Individual Coaching?
Coaching is a thinking process to create new insight and awareness in partnership with your coach. It is most helpful in situations that may have different "right" answers depending on what's important to you.
And it isn’t just for job searches — coaching can support leadership growth, career pivots, work-life balance, and more. To help you reflect on your goals and decide if now is the right time for coaching, we’ve created a self-assessment worksheet. Download it to clarify your current priorities, explore ways coaching could serve you, and consider how to shape a customized journey with your coach.
📥 Download the Alumni Coaching Self-Assessment Worksheet
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Kelley Alumni Network to verify your alumni status,
then it will take you to the Alumni Career Resources folder
where the link to schedule a session is posted.
Common Coaching Topics
Common Coaching Topics
Clarity
Clarity
A coach can be an impartial sounding board to help you gain clarity on decisions, priorities, values, and direction.
Interpersonal
Interpersonal
A coach can help you navigate relationships and build boundaries, influence, empathy, communication and conflict management skills.
Growth
Growth
Working with a coach can accelerate your growth and learning to support your career planning, skills development, and goals attainment.
Obstacles
Obstacles
A coach can help you tap into your innate wisdom and confidence to address self-limiting beliefs, circumstances and challenges.
Prepare to Be Coached
Prepare to Be Coached
To make the most of your time with a coach, it helps to come prepared to think. Following are some ways to make the most of your coaching session.
Begin with the end in mind.
Begin with the end in mind.
What do you want to accomplish in a 30-minute conversation?
For example, if your ultimate goal is to get a job offer from one of your dream employers, where are you stuck in the process? A coach can help you think through obstacles and focus on the next action you can take to move forward.
Think about your motivators.
Think about your motivators.
For example, if you are reluctant to network, the coach may invite you to explore what is causing that reluctance and perhaps help you reframe your approach using your strengths and values.
Come with an open mind.
Come with an open mind.
The coach will listen to what you are saying and not saying, and may invite you to look a little closer at assumptions or beliefs that are shaping your choices.
For example, if you are limited by binary or absolute thinking, the coach may help you explore ideas to experiment with different approaches or consider other possibilities.
Commit to take action.
Commit to take action.
For example, if you came into the session because you wanted some new ways to communicate more effectively, the coach will help you walk away with some self-generated ideas that feel aligned with your personality and goals - plus, an accountability structure to support you.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) sets the standards for the coaching profession.
Follow this link to explore coaching concepts, data, stories, and more.
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