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2010 TRAINING COURSES FULL UP: we hope to release more places
If you are considering applying for the CCS Core Skills Training in 2010, we are now full, but hope to release some more places soon. Please watch this space.....
NEW ONE DAY TRAINING COURSE IN CAREER COACHING for trained generic 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
BREAKING THROUGH THE BLOCKS: a one day CPD event for trained Career Coaches and Coaches
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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What Does the Programme Cover?
- What is career counselling?
- The CCS Five Stage Model of Career Counselling
- The relationship between career and personal counselling
- Theories of career development and choice
- Essential skills of career counselling
- Screening and contracting: managing client expectations
- Active listening
- Summarising
- Giving feedback
- Visioning: generating new ideas
- Blocks and Bridges to action
- Information about jobs: where it is and how to find it
- Setting objectives
- Action Planning
- Outcomes
- Managing endings
- Issues in career coaching and counselling Eg:
- Life stages
- Worklife balance
- Decision making
- Dealing with organisational change
- Redundancy
- Performance related issues
- Life stages
- The CCS Self Assessment Manual
- Getting the most out of the Self Assessment exercises
- The purposes and benefits of homework assignments
- Completion of exercises from sections of the manual
- Using questionnaires in career counselling
- Advantages and disadvantages of using questionnaires in career coaching and counselling
- Training in two questionnaires
- Identifying passions and what really motivates
- Addressing career drivers, values and needs
- Identifying passions and what really motivates
- Transitions
- Emotional responses to change and the implications for career coaching and counselling
- Two models enabling more effective change management
- Emotional responses to change and the implications for career coaching and counselling
- Standards and Ethics
- The BACP Code & an ethical approach to career counselling
- Case management discussion and supervision
- Confidentiality
- Evaluation
- Self management
- Designing your own ethical career counselling service
- Referral
- The BACP Code & an ethical approach to career counselling