{"id":3729,"date":"2010-06-21T03:25:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T03:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2016-08-11T03:23:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:23:42","slug":"what-a-career-coach-does-part-3discussing-career-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/what-a-career-coach-does-part-3discussing-career-options\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Career Coach Does: Part III \u2013 Discussing Career Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What a Career Coach Does: The Steps So Far<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In the last two days, you have read about <strong><a title=\"what a career coach does\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/career-coaching-101-career-coaching-tools-to-promote-effective-communication\/1834\/\" target=\"_self\">what a Career Coach does<\/a><\/strong> in the first two steps to a satisfied coaching client in the career coaching process.\u00a0 First, take a detailed career history.\u00a0 Second, collect other information in a variety of ways to round out the picture of what your client envisions as her perfect career, what you intuit about her, her style, and her underlying needs and wishes, objective information about her behavioral comfort and discomfort zones, and the values that underlie her decisions and action choices.\u00a0 Those two steps give you the information you need to diagnose the pain the \u201cca-rear\u201d that brought your client to you in the first place.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s time to go back to your client and discuss what you have found out so far.<\/p>\n<h3>What a Career Coach Does: Step Three \u2013 Discuss Options<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>What a Career Coach does<\/strong> at this point is to put all the information you have together and have a discussion about it all with your client.\u00a0 By now, you now have a lot of historical information directly from your client.\u00a0 You have your client\u2019s vision of an ideal career and you have your intuitive sense about your client and his needs and wishes regarding his career.\u00a0 Plus you may have the objective assessment results to help you clarify and identify discrepancies between what your client thinks she wants and the realities of her experiences so far.\u00a0 This is the time for you to discuss with your client any inconsistencies in things she has said.\u00a0 Maybe something worked really well in one career setting but didn\u2019t work in another.\u00a0 You want to explore that and find out what the difference was between the two settings.\u00a0 Maybe something turned up on the assessments that seems contradictory to some information that your client gave you about herself.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 What\u2019s really going on?\u00a0 This is your time to make sure that you and your client are on the same wavelength about what works, what she wants, where she would like to be a year, five years, ten years down the road.<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019ve looked at all the confusing or conflicting information and resolved it to your and your client\u2019s satisfaction, you are ready to do the final step in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what a Career Coach does<\/span>\u2013Step four\u2013make recommendations.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find out more about that tomorrow.\u00a0 Be sure to check tomorrow\u2019s blog post!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIAL BONUS<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0<em>If you would like step-by-step blueprints for generating a massive income from high paying coaching clients, I invite you to claim your <\/em><strong><em>FREE ACCESS<\/em><\/strong><em> to the \u201c<\/em><a title=\"Life Coach Salary Secrets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coachestrainingblog.com\/sp.php?adsource=blogtext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong><em>Life Coach Salary Secrets<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>\u201d video toolkit. \u00a0Go <\/em><strong><a title=\"Become a Life Coach\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coachestrainingblog.com\/sp.php?adsource=blogtext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em> to get it <\/em><strong><em>FREE<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dorine Kramer,<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Strategy, Accountability, &amp; 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