Manifesto for a Career Coach

A career coach should...

✪ Focus on the career journey 'You' want to make

✪ Enable & encourage long-term self-leadership

✪ Provide effective support to thought & deed [theory & practice]

✪ Support career decision-making with confidence & conviction

✪ Know the difference between a job and a vocation

✪ Protect & safeguard the career interests of all their clients

✪ Make a lasting contribution that goes beyond immediate career issues

What would you want from a career coach? What would you like to see added to the list?

[Going Up or Down? - see more at Saundra's Flickr Photostream here]

Our list won't be anywhere near complete without your opinion!

All the best for now,

Paul

If you fell down today...

Our careers sometimes turn us into novices again.

The above is true regardless of who we are, how old or how experienced.

No one person has seen or done it all.

The lessons do lessen in number for most of us as our careers continue, as we learn from our own experiences and from the experience of others. It is worth remembering, even if the occasions are rare, that sometimes we have more in common with the individual on their first day of work than we like to think.

[Captured by the Louvre - see more at Saundra's Flickr Photostream here]

The more aware we are of our attitude towards learners, the easier it is for us to embrace learning ourselves. The better our attitude towards learners, the greater our potential to learn with others and learn for ourselves.

H.G. Wells said, "If you fall down today, stand up tomorrow." He might also have agreed that standing up after a fall is easier when you are looking up at someone holding out their hand.