Career Coach Masterclasses
2 stand-alone one day workshops as featured in the Sunday Times (February 2010)
John Lees together with JLA’s Managing Consultant Gill Best, is offering two one-day career coach training programmes based on the highly acclaimed publication How to Get a Job You’ll Love.   The Masterclasses are aimed at existing coaches, career counsellors and HR professionals who would like to add the John Lees method of career coaching to their existing portfolio. Although there are connections between the programmes, each day programme is separate. You can take one day only and you can take the days in any order.

Day 1, Tools and techniques from How to Get a Job You’ll Love, outlines the approaches and strategies used to guide client towards fields of work which they will find energising and fulfilling. This exciting one day workshop gives you the opportunity to experience a range of tools and exercises and shows how to use them to great effect with career clients. The Masterclass is open to a limited number of participants and gives you a ‘behind the scenes’ look at the following tools and exercises (some of which are not published elsewhere): Career Hot Buttons. Motivation Checklist, The JLA Skills Cards , Virtual Job , The Holland Code structured conversation

At the end of the course participants will gain:

• An insight into the limitations of traditional career change and job search advice
• An introduction to a range of new tools and exercises
• Techniques to help those who find are under-motivated
• Ways to help clients who have no idea what career they want
• Permission to use a range of JLA specific tools and exercises
• The opportunity to join the JLA network, linking careers professionals together

Masterclass Day 2 Working with typical client problems gives you the opportunity to learn strategies to help with typical problem areas that you will encounter as a more experienced career coach. This Day 2 Masterclass is open to a limited number of participants and gives you a ‘behind the scenes’ look at the following tools and exercises not used on Day 1:   Time Balance , Values Indicator, Paths Not Taken, and also includes the following sessions: conflicting goals and unsteady outcomes, counselling vs guidance, roles and expectations, Managed Discovery – The art of informational interviews in the UK, and tried and tested ways of dealing with typical client problems

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