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Why Would I need A Career Coach?

No matter what your career situation, just about everyone could use a professional coach or counselor in handling life and career issues from time to time.

Lilly works with people who choose to live a creative, vital and fulfilling life, and don't want to waste a minute of it.

If you are like many people today, you're working at a job that you really don't enjoy, and find yourself wishing there was a way to really "make a difference" in people's lives and get paid for it.

Addressing the ever-changing corporate climate, increasing layoffs and self employment, and pervasive job dissatisfaction present in today's workplace, Lilly presents simple yet multidimensional career coaching methods that provide not just solutions, but awareness of a life purpose that can help you overcome any career obstacle. Lilly has helped thousands of professionals, college students, teens, and experienced job-seekers identify obstacles, develop action plans, and achieve success. She can help you too!

The Truth About Career Coaching

Business Owners - Providing Direction For Your Business To Thrive!

Is your business successful? Are you being responsible for learning your business and open to the changes necessary for it to grow and thrive? Are you training your employees on how to be better "entrepreneurs"? Are you hiring the right people to join your team?

If your company is like many right now, you’re struggling to respond to the changing economy. Whether or not you are considering downsizing, you certainly want to fully leverage your current resources to meet your customers’ needs – including your technology, fixed resources, and human capital.

As business owners, we have our dreams and have been thinking about them and living them for a long while. We then hire people that are needed to support our vision and forget they don't have the same dreams. They have their own dreams. It doesn't mean that can't support our company's vision and mission, it simply means they are not on the same page as us or even in the same paragraph. It's simply a lack of communication and focus on the training and development necessary to grow.

The result? Your business is not operating at full potential. Employees leave the company and "bad mouth" it to 250 of their closest friends and family. Quotes are under priced and products given away unnecessarily. Goals, are not achieved, if ever established. Mistakes are not being resolved to the satisfaction of your customers. You're working too many hours and have an unrealistic expectation that others should as well. Operational changes are based on a "new flavor of the month" concept.

1) When hiring employees, take the time and care to hire people the way you would purchase equipment. Do you know most employees are hired within 4.3 minutes of meeting them? We normally take much longer to purchase a copier or computer even longer to purchase a truck. Yet, we don't take the same care in hiring the driver of that truck. A quick rule of thumb is to take the person's annual salary and multiply it by 25 percent. That's how much money you'll lose every time you hire a person that quits or is fired. It doesn't include the people that have quit and are still on your payroll!

2) You've made a profit today, but what about tomorrow? Take time to "get real" about your money. Then train your employees to better understand a financial statement. In fact, 99 percent of employees are not well trained in reading the numbers and making appropriate business decisions. They simply look at the numbers as do many business owners and base their decisions upon how they're "feeling." Have a CPA or consultant help you learn to use the numbers to make a difference in managing your company.

3) Achieving results is not an event it's a process. Set goals for your business and yourself, and have your employees set goals that support these. Also, have your employees set personal goals that can make a difference in their professional development as well as personal life. Then work those goals. Be focused. Support each other when these goals are not being met. Too often we give up too soon. Or we'll hit a hurdle and rationalize why it won't work. Learn to "not give up" and you'll achieve your goals. Your company will flourish and you'll have happier and more productive employees.

4) Obstacles are simply opportunities for a business to shine and grow or the opportunity to lose a customer. Train your employees and yourself to really look at your business from the eyes of your customers. What works? What doesn't work? Does your office need to be refurbished? Do your sales people need better training to work with different types of customers? Do products need to be displayed differently? Are your phone skills updated? When you have upset customers are they handled appropriately and responsibly? Are your computers and software up-to-date, along with the appropriate training on how to use them? Are your envelopes, letterhead, business cards, web site, and other business communication tools all consistent? Many years ago a successful general manager of a company told me how to get a quick fix regarding whether a company is well run or not. Since then, when I visit a company, I look at the bathrooms. Are they clean? Corners dirty? Paper in receptacles? Soap readily available? It's very surprising the correlation between the quality of the incidental, small things in a business and how well the business is run.

5) Every successful business owner has made mistakes. Hit hurdles. How do you effectively clean them up and learn from them? If you're placing blame, you need to remember for every finger that's pointing outward, you have three fingers pointing back at yourself. See the issue from the point of the customer. Then, instead of assuming you know how to fix it, ask the customer what it would take. Then negotiate for success. Now take that training and use it with your employees.

6) Are you living your life in a balanced manner? Are your employees spending time with their families? Are you? My clients that are work-alcoholics can't come in before 7 a.m. and must leave by 7 p.m. When I mean leave, I mean leave work at work. It is surprising that even the families with good relationships got better. Interestingly enough, even more was accomplished during the day. And, they had more fun coming into work.

In particular, focus on your newer employees, those still trying to make their mark and developing their professional acumen. When at work, have them focused on work. Limit their number of hours. Young people without a life outside of their job literally will look at their job as 24/7. Encourage them to have a life outside of the job. Have them get involved in community projects, trade associations, chambers, or get their MBA. It not only develops their leadership capabilities, it makes them happier and healthier employees.

7) We all have paradigms of what "success should look like." This can get in our way of being effective. It can come from reading a book or comparing ourselves to the industry average. We love to compare our business with others, and then make assessments as to whether we're doing as well as we should. We will either find ourselves on the "short end" or we've inflated what is working. Neither is providing clarity in supporting "direction" for our business.

Questions you should ask yourself and have your employees answer include: Are you profitable? Do you have low turnover? Are you able to spend time with your family? Do you enjoy what you're doing? Do you have a high percentage of customers that provide repeat business? Are you continually developing new customers? Are you able to develop new products, services and processes effectively? Are you providing on-going development opportunities for your employees? Do you yourself? Are you able to work together harmoniously even when you don't agree? If you've answered yes, why are you comparing? If no, get a coach, who can be a resource, to resolve the issues based upon what your company needs not the latest fad.

Success is what you make of it. Living your professional AND personal life fully is what life is all about. But, only:

• IF you're doing what you need to do, when you need to do it.
• IF you're learning from your mistakes and taking full responsibility.
• IF you're able to read and learn from your financial numbers.
• IF you're confident in your own success without comparing it to others.
• IF you're continually developing yourself and your employees.

IF you're doing all of these, then you're providing the "direction" necessary for your business to thrive. And, it will!

Career coaching, job-search strategies, and help in easing career transitions.

Are you a Team player?

Team Players Qualities You will focus on:


Ability to organize time well. People must learn to balance a full-time family life, commitment to career, sometimes -travel, and other community activities. Appreciate the time management skills you have developed.


Ability to work well with others. Through formal training, most business people become very familiar with the experience of working toward group goals. Career Coaching teaches that it is sometimes necessary to submerge one's ego and personal goals into the goals of the organization and that leadership is the ability to get people to work as a team.


Goal Directedness. Develop the ability to concentrate your energies and attention over an extended period of time to block out distractions while you proceed toward their goals.


Competitiveness. Competitive spirit is the lifeblood of the business world. Successful business people gain experience in the rigors of success and loss and they look forward to the opportunity to fight more battles, test their abilities, and risk their self-esteem against tough opposition. This is a strong asset in most jobs.


Confidence. People are continually in situations where they must 'pump up' and believe in their own power to produce effectively under pressure. The ability to approach tough performance situations with the belief that you'll do well is crucial. Practice in maintaining self-confidence, especially under tense circumstances, can carry over to on-the-job challenges.


Persistence and endurance. Corporate Success is often characterized by long and hard work toward distant rewards and the ability to wring a maximum effort from yourself whenever necessary. This may include working while unwell, or in general, performing under adverse circumstances. Career Coaching teaches intensity of effort and the belief that sufficient preparation and determination will eventually pay off.


Loyalty. Loyalty emerges from the bond that a worker builds with his or her company and co-workers, and is expressed in the willingness to support company efforts under any circumstances. Loyalty contributes to the morale of a company or work group, because it enables each team member to trust that others will work toward the same ends.


Discipline. Organizing one's time, adhering to guidelines, giving maximum effort on a regular basis, concentrating one's energies and screening out competing priorities are all necessary in the business world. The systematic application of one's energies toward a desired goal is highly valued in any work setting.


Ability to take criticism. Because our performance in the office is watched closely, people are accustomed to taking criticism. Career Coaching recommends changes and develops workers to cope with the feeling that they could have done better. People typically develop into good listeners when constructive criticism is offered because they recognize its value in helping them advance toward overall goals.


Resilience. A Great Career offers continued opportunities to test yourself, succeed or fail, and then come back for more. No one can avoid the experience of failure. Learn to face failure and learn to eliminate negative feelings because tomorrow demands your full attention! Among the most valuable lessons in any field are how to win, how to lose and how to rebound from both.
 

What does Lilly offer me?

Lilly specializes in mid-career redirection.


She offers time management and career solutions based on your personality type. Lilly helps people who are overwhelmed by the clutter in their lives increase productivity and reduce stress.

Lilly offers assistance in areas such as changing jobs, changing careers, improving job-interviewing skills, learning how to network, refining work/life balance, developing a personal organization system, and reducing lifestyle factors that hinder work performance.

Do you use defeating self-talk or decrease your effectiveness due to difficulties coming across to business or personal people effectively? Let's work on empowering you for success and moving you forward towards your hopes and visions via telephone sessions."

Bottom Line

Lilly offers support to individuals who want to love what they do for a living

Lilly's collection of highly personalized tools and resources is the result of more than 25 years of experience. She offers telephone counseling to callers facing employment-related problems, as well as private online chats and email consultations.

She has assisted more than 100,000 clients, from administrative assistants to managers professions including: secretaries, economists, writers, information technology professionals, musicians, lawyers and CEO's. In addition, she has delivered numerous workshops on varied career development topics, including job burnout, stress management, resumes, interviewing, and self-marketing.

Choosing A Career Coach?

The career-coaching industry has been growing steadily for years now and attracting people with a wide range of backgrounds. By some estimates, there are more than 15,000 coaches in the U.S. Extensive training has become more widespread, but some in the industry complain that some certifications are easy to get and difficult for clients to evaluate.

Some people have also charged that many coaches have entered the lucrative field primarily for financial gain, rather than out of a passion for helping others work through issues and develop their careers. Some coaches can be charismatic at first blush but not be very good at helping you find solutions and motivating you.

Choosing the wrong coach is a loss of money or time, but more than that it's discouraging.

So how do you pick the right career coach to help you with your career?

Shop wisely as you would for any other service or product you are considering purchasing. As with any other industry, there are Career Coaches that are well-qualified and provide a consistently superior service; there are others that have simply jumped on the bandwagon to make a buck. Be a smart consumer and a successful job seeker.

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