1. Coaching Approaches Julia Yates University of East London j.c.yates@uel.ac.uk

2. Today we will cover... Overlaps and similarities between coaching and guidance Solution-focused coaching CBT Positive Psychology Motivational Interviewing Some useful coaching tools

3. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Career Guidance Careers Advice Career Consultancy Career Coaching Career Counselling Where do they work? Who are the clients? What’s different about their practice?

4. Enabling a person to move toward desired career goals in a fulfilling manner

5. Helping people to make career decisions and transitions

6. Choosing work, moving up in a profession, moving out by choice, finding work after job loss and planning for the end of paid work.

7. Enabling self-reliance in the individual

8. Guidance and Coaching Overlaps Focus and intent Structure Skills Differences Regulation and training Theoretical underpinning Tools

9. Perceptions Goals What we actually do Branding: – Successful / vulnerable – Mid career change / initial choice – Male / females – On-going / one-off

10. Solution Focused Coaching / Behaviourism GROW Goals Realities Opportunities Way forward Ali-Graham Contract Exploration Evaluation Action Planning

11. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy “Nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so”

12. Cognitive Behavioural Coaching Thoughts Feelings Behaviour

13. CBT Example Activating EventDidn’t get a job I went for Feelings Rejection / hurt / embarrassment Thoughts I’m a failure/ I’m inadequate/ No one would want to employ me/ I’m not good enough for jobs at this level. Behaviour Stop applying for other jobs / find a million reasons to reject each possible job / find lots of far more important things to do with my time

14. What can you do about this? Socratic questioning Mental imagery Performance Inhibiting Thoughts (PETS) “It’s going to go badly” and Performance Enhancing Thoughts (PITS) “It’s going to go well”

15. Positive Psychology www.authentichappiness.com Values In Action – Inventory of Strengths

16. Motivational Interviewing Origins in health Timing of career change is not always in our control Clients convince themselves

17. Mind maps

18. Trajectory of success

19. Giving advice to yourself What advice would you give yourself? Swapping seats with the coach Who do you admire and what would they do? Who do you admire and what advice would they give?

20. DentistChildcare worker Pilot Work life balance 681 Job Satisfaction395 Salary836 Prospects844 Total252416

21. Fairy Godmother

22. What else...what else...what else...

23. Heart, head, guts

24. Seasons of Change The Seasons Coaching Model (Pearson 2011) Autumn: Self-awareness Winter: Change and Transition Spring: Opportunity awareness Summer: Decisions

25. Further reading The Complete Handbook of Coaching : Cox, Bachkirova and Clutterbuck, (SAGE, 2010) Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide, by Jonathan Passmore (Kogan Page 2010) Handbook of Coaching Psychology by Palmer and Whybrow (Routledge 2007)

26. New PG Certificate and Diploma in Career Coaching launches this September. Now enrolling for Sept 2012 Contact Julia Yates (j.c.yates@uel.ac.uk) for detailsj.c.yates@uel.ac.uk