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NEXT CORE SKILLS TRAINING COURSE IS NOW FULL UP. Places remaining for course on 18-20 April and 10-11 May, 2012
NEXT ONE DAY TRAINING COURSE IN CAREER COACHING for trained coaches: 19th March 2012(London)
A practical tools day for trained coaches who are being asked to deal with career issues, and want to have some successful ways of responding to coachees
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BREAKING THROUGH THE BLOCKS: NEXT CCS MASTERCLASS for trained Career Coaches and Coaches: please email us
Those of us in the business of helping others achieve their potential are aware of the difficulties people often face in making the changes in their behaviour or lives that are necessary to more forward in a positive way.
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ALL CCS MASTERCLASSES ARE NOW OPEN TO NON CCS ALUMNI WHO ARE TRAINED AND PRACTISING COACHES OR CAREER COACHES
CCS MASTERCLASS: Narrative Approaches to Career Coaching
This Masterclass will equip you to help your clients create compelling stories about themselves to make sense of the threads running through their career to date, and to help them with ways forward
Introduction to Career Management Consultancy
Consult CCS expertise to set up and quality control in-house career development and talent management programmes.
Assignments undertaken for major public and private organisations in the UK and abroad
In recent years, many organisations have realised the benefits of developing an in-house career coaching capability. These include:
- large financial savings
- real development opportunities for staff
- raising the importance of individuals managing their own careers
- improved ratings in annual Staff Survey
- increased retention of valued staff
- improvement of staff morale during times of uncertainty
During an economic downturn, people need to keep developing, via training, projects, secondments, shadowing and finding out more about the internal and wider job markets; there is a general need to be active in networking, developing your professional profile, and to keep abreast of new developments. Career coaching can help people achieve these aims.
It is also a way of demonstrating to employees that the organisation is concerned for them and their development, and wants to encourage them to manage in the best possible way during this downturn. Such coaching can motivate staff to take charge of their own career and personal development – and to motivate themselves.
It is expensive to lose people and to hire people. It is also expensive to use external consultants for career counselling and coaching. By creating a professionally trained in-house pool of career coaches, the organisation is putting out a strong message to staff that it is concerned to support their career development. It is also providing a significant development opportunity for the selected staff who, through their training, will role model the skills the organisation wishes to promote. By selecting coaches via open competition, it will also be demonstrated that skills traditionally considered to belong more to specialists and Human Resources staff, are in fact available in everyone. This is important in encouraging thinking about transferable skills.
In the past ten years, Career Counselling Services (CCS) has trained in-house Career Coaches in the UK and abroad. Organisations include:
- Audit Commission
- Bank of England
- BBC
- Boots the Chemist
- BT
- Cranfield Business School
- Eastern Leadership Centre (ELC)
- Ernst and Young
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Home Office
- Housing Corporation
- IESE Business School, Barcelona
- Metropolitan Police
- Ministry of Defence
- OECD (Paris)
- Oxfordshire County Council
- Pfizer Ireland (Cork)
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- RSPB
- Shell International (The Hague)
- UNHCR (Geneva)