Coaching For Individuals


Do you want to:

  • Search for a new job... or career?
  • Find your direction?
  • Manage upward in your organization?
  • Improve your effectiveness?
  • Succeed in a difficult work environment?
  • Start a new business or take on a new role?

    Coaching can help!

    What is Coaching?
    "Coaching is an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives."
    - International Coaching Federation


    A coach is trained to listen, to observe, to add perspective, to raise questions, and to suggest new ideas or new ways of thinking about an issue. The coach customizes his or her approach to each client's individual needs - in order to elicit solutions and strategies from the client. Because the coach knows how to recognize the client's innate creativity and latent energy.

    The coach's job is to provide the tools that will activate the resources, enhance the skills, and release the energy the client already has. A good coach will help you discover how to improve your performance and enhance the quality of your life.

    Interested? To find out more, click any of these links:

  • Career Coaching
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Coaching for Small Business Owners


    Career Coaching

    Do you want to ensure success in your current job?
    Or create a completely new career for yourself?

    Either one is possible. And probable - with effective coaching

    We will help you

  • Clarify your values
  • Identify what is most important to you
  • Discover your transferable skills, strengths, and passions
  • Develop a vision for where you want to go
  • Create a plan to help you get there
  • Hold yourself accountable to the plan

    With coaching you can
  • Create an individual development plan
  • Strengthen your leadership skills
  • Learn to influence others
  • Find out how to manage upward, within your current organization
  • Deal with a difficult work situation
  • Discover a new career
  • Start a new business

    You will discover
  • There's more than just one "best" choice
  • There are options that utilize your strengths,elicit your passions, align with your purpose
  • You don't need to have an encyclopedia of careers in your head!

    We will provide guidance as you
  • Create a resume and an "elevator pitch" that focus on skills you want to emphasize
  • Develop strategic research
  • Implement a networking plan
  • Conduct a comprehensive career search
  • Prepare for interviews
  • Negotiate with potential employers
  • Make the decision that's right for you

    An ongoing relationship
    For the first several months, we may meet weekly or bi-weekly. Once you achieve the goals we've identified together, we follow up to offer whatever ongoing support you feel you need. We are here to act as your partner throughout your career.

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  • Leadership Coaching

    What kind of leader do you want to be?
    What does leadership mean to you?
    What competencies make an effective leader?


    The answers to these questions will vary for each person who answers them.
    We tailor our leadership coaching to your vision of the kind of leader you want to be.

    We will help you

  • Assess your current leadership assets, and liabilities
  • Understand the organizational culture in which you must function as a leader
  • Explore your leadership goals and expectations

    We'll work with you to
  • Identify strategies to increase your leadership effectiveness
  • Create a plan for enhancing specific competencies
  • Coach you through the implementation process

    We'll help you strengthen specific skills, such as
  • Energize and inspire staff
  • Manage cross-functional relationships
  • Think strategically
  • Focus on the most important things
  • Guide a group in setting and achieving goals
  • Improve a group's performance
  • Transition to a new leadership role
      Whatever your leadership goals are, we'll help you get there.
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  • Coaching for Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs


    What business challenges do you face?
    Our relationships with small business clients are based on a holistic model. We recognize that all the elements of an enterprise are interdependent, and weaknesses or strengths in one area, affects all the others.

    As a small business owner, a large part of your identity is connected to the business you are building. Not surprisingly, the challenges you encounter in business often have parallels with the challenges you encounter in other aspects of your life. Understanding the underlying issues and addressing them enables you to meet those challenges. The result? Not just a more successful business, but a more successful life!

    We can help you solve a variety of challenges, including but not limited to those listed below:

  • Starting your business from the ground up
  • Managing operations
  • Staffing-recruitment and retention
  • Teaching specific job-related skills
  • Building leadership skills (yours or your employees')
  • Managing crises
  • Prioritizing tasks and managing time
  • Planning strategically
  • Establishing life/work balance

    Customized solutions
    In conjunction with Small Business Coaching,
    you may want to consider our services for organizations.
    Any of these can be adapted to meet the needs of your business as it evolves and grows.



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  • Compass Development Group is a joint venture of Compass Development Group, LLC
    and Gillis Consulting, LLC


     

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