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NEW CPD COURSE FOR COACHES: Break through the Blocks
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. If you want to take your coaching and counselling skills to another level, and learn how to facilitate those “breakthrough” moments then this workshop is for you
New one day Training Course in Career Coaching for trained coaches
A practical tools day for in-house 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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Developing Career Resilience
A new workshop for organisations to help staff stay resilient in turbulent times
Career Coaching Programme Discounts
We are offering a special career coaching programme for appointments made in July and August - three meetings of 1.5 hours for just £500. Call the CCS office for further details.
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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)