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What is a Career Coach? & How Can They Help?

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by Lynn Berger

Welcome to Parenthood and Careers - a monthly column that will help you to balance your work, home, family and any other personal concerns and Interests you may encounter and feel good about yourself at the same time.

Parenthood often makes us question our lives, Parenthood and Careers is a specifically written for parents who work and sometimes wonder:

How much time should I be devoting to my career and my family?

Is my child and/or children receiving enough of my attention?

Why do I feel guilty when I am at work?

Who can I turn to to find the proper balance between my family and career needs?

These and many more issues will be explored monthly. I can help you to find answers to many of these questions. Since I have been submitting broadcasts for a few months now, many of you have asked how I might be more helpful to them. As a result, this month's column will focus on what coaching is, how it works and the benefits of working with a coach.

What is coaching?

Since a coach has a unique vantage point of being objective while being aligned with your goals and commitments a coach sees and hears things that you do not which ultimately can make a profound difference in your choices, behavior, performance and life overall. Its very effective to have a partner who understands the issues you confront everyday. Most Importantly, I will work with you to get what you want in a better, faster and easier way.

How it works:

In an initial session we will identify your goals, commitments and barriers to achieving them. We will then develop a plan that immediately puts you into action. Through weekly coaching sessions via telephone I will keep you on track by consistently assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the results- You may also call me between sessions for spot coaching if you need instant advice, have a problem or want to share a success with me.

Benefits:

For your information, a survey done the first quarter of 1998 polled 210 coaching clients. The highlights of the survey included most clients turn to their coach for help with time management as well as career and business advice. To a lesser, but significant, extent they seek coaching on relationships, family, wellness and spirituality issues. The outcomes that most clients often attribute to their coaching are a higher level of self-awareness and self-confidence, a more balanced life and smarter goal setting and lower stress levels. 98.5% of coaching clients said their investment in a coach was well worth the money.

I would like to assist you to balance your various roles and responsibilities, manage your time better, feel more fulfilled and understand more fully the choices you make. To introduce professional coaching I offer a free half-hour of coaching. If you have a potential goal, vision or desire you would like to discuss, call me and we can begin to work together. I can be contacted at 212-289-5917, LBCoach@prodigy.net and/or Visit my web site at www.lynnberger.com, I would love to hear from YOU-

Lynn Berger is a Career & Personal coach who counsels people throughout North America. She specializes in helping individuals during transitional points to make the most of their lives and to feel fulfilled. She is the mother of a five year old son.

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