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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
The truth is you are not battling your
circumstances; you are battling your
excuses, beliefs, and your reasons why you
cannot have what you really want in your
career. You have done such a great job
convincing yourself that your career wishes
will not be granted, or the next level
cannot be obtained, that this has become
your reality.
If you could reshape your thinking, and your
perspective, your career options would be
unlimited. But you cannot do this alone. No
one can. So why do you believe you are
different from the rest of the world?
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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!
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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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