International Coaching News (iCN) online magazine is excited to announce the release of our 25th edition, with the themed Career Coaching, inspired by coaches to guide coachees to maximise your personal and professional potential. This edition is rich in content on a variety of related topics such as achieving
Career coaching is a great way to get personal help with establishing your professional goals, making career decisions, creating and executing plans, and overcoming obstacles that may come in your way. Career Coaches work with people to help them assess their talents and make critical decisions about career choice
By Terry Hill (UK) Matt, the new telesales guy had a great talent for putting himself down. "I'm just useless at this!" he would wail when things were not going his way or when assigned a challenging goal. His manager was the nurturing kind, responding with encouragement, compliments and
By Robin Hills (UK) Does the Curriculum Vitae (CV) or resume of the person that you are coaching contain rather general statements such as “good communication skills” or “ability to work independently and as part of a team”? If so, they are not alone. Most CVs will contain similar
By Steve Preston (UK) Why is it that some people seem to make a seamless transition, whether progressing their careers to the next level, changing careers, transitioning following redundancy or setting up a new business? Maybe you may know people like this, but they are in the minority. Most
By Emma Ford (UK) There is little recent data about career management conversations in the workplace: Kelly Global Workforce Index – August 2014 (230,000 people across 31 countries participated) 57% people agree that career development discussions are beneficial in terms of the opportunity to acquire new skills Only 38%
By Deepak Sawhney (India) My friends & ex colleagues from corporate world very often talk to me, candidly, their wish to get out of a 10-5 routine and do what their heart desires. Having observed me for few years operating independently in the domain of executive & business coaching,
By Steve Jones (UK) I have been using Motivational Maps ever since their inception over 10 years ago. They pretty much under-pin everything that I do in my coaching business and I have had the pleasure in accrediting numerous coaches in their use in business and coaching. Although I
By Kavitha Chahel (UK) Toxic work environments are a major cause of staff turnover, and research by the CIPD found that only 7% of organisations actually calculate the cost of staff turn over to their business. It is no secret that an engaged workforce leads to an increase in
By Robert Holmes (Australia) Figure 1 Career coaching is one of the most rewarding and challenging tasks a coach can participate in. It is different from executive, life or high performance coaching because of the involvement of other stakeholders like supervisors or HR. Apart from handling multiple
