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What Is Coaching?

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The coaching process addresses specific personal conditions and transitions in the client’s personal life, relationships or profession by examining what is going on right now, discovering what your obstacles or challenges might be, developing supports, and choosing a course of action to make your life be what you want it to be. Career Coaching is profoundly different from consulting, mentoring, advice therapy, or counseling.

Why Use a Career Coach?

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  • Expertise. The trained Career Coach (LPCC) knows how to set goals for individuals seeking to secure employment, develop independent living skills, connect socially and develop structure to their lives to help achieve greater productivity and balance in their lives. The Career Coach (LPCC) understands how to enrich others regardless of any disabilities they may have. Coaches also understand that people grow into the conversations they have around them.

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  • Accountability. Three individual meetings each month via phone call, face-to-face, e-mail or Skype with clients is the minimum needed to have a meaningful relationship with a coach. Usually, regular calls take place between meeting times. This regular schedule of interaction prompts individuals to get more done than they would if left to their own devices. Individuals take bigger actions, set bigger goals and think bigger when they work with a professional coach.

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  • Delivery. A well-trained and experienced coach knows how to use the right words and tools, to motivate the individual. Coaches that have experience with people with disabilities know how to empower them by 1) setting clear expectations 2) establishing a high degree of confidence in the individual supporting the idea that beliefs can become contagious and 3) following up weekly with clients to ensure they integrate new ways of thinking and take action toward their goals.

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  • Speed. Most people find their lives move in a positive direction that things start to happen very quickly after hiring a Career Coach (LPCC). You’ll achieve more in less time with the input of an accredited Career Coach on your side.

Certifications & Qualifications

  • Certified Employment Support Professional (CESP) by the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) APSE is the only national organization with an exclusive focus on integrated employment and career advancement opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

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  • Career Coach (LPCC) by Life Purpose Institute. Accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) – Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP).

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  • Certified national certificate of achievement in employment services joint effort by Griffin/Hammis and Association of Community Rehabilitation Educators (ACRE) areas of focus included: Customized Employment Personnel: Discovering personal genius, customized jobs, self-employment, Social Security benefits, and work incentives, PASS PLAN Coordinator.

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  • College Coach for Asperger and high functioning autism, certified from Linda Geller Ph.D. Asperger center.

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  • Life/Transition/Integration Specialist Board certified coach (BCC) from the center for credentialing & education, Inc. The National Board for Certified Counselors is a well-established organization that has been in operation for over 100 years. The B.C.C. credential is well received and nationally recognized in the coaching industry.

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