Career Counseling

As the father of a 4 year old daughter, college counselor and an educator, it is wonderful and beautiful to see children excited about learning and discovering new things. Simultaneously, it is saddening and disappointing to see high-school students become weary, restless and disengaged in the learning process as they age and mature. The question we must ask ourselves is WHY and WHAT caused these bright young minds to become disillusioned with the joy of learning and discovery? Knowing how the flawed educational system works, schools are run, and teachers approach instruction when ...

There's a big difference between continuously encouraging employees to do their jobs well (coaching), attempting to fix poor performance (counselling), and helping top performers excel (mentoring). Unfortunately, most managers don't truly understand how and when to do each. The updated and revised edition of Coaching, Counselling & Mentoring gives managers specific, practical techniques for using all three to improve the performance of all their people.

Feeling a bit lost while hunting for the perfect career? Overwhelmed by the sheer number of job options available? Or perhaps you're thinking about a career change, but don't know where to start? Don't stress – this all-in-one guide is here to steer you in the right direction! Dive into this comprehensive career guide and discover: • A Peek at 200 Unique Careers: Venture into a wide range of career paths, from classic professions like medicine and law to cutting-edge industries such as renewable energy and artificial intelligence. • Detailed Descriptions: Get a vivid image of each ...

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation - especially difficult ones - leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

Moving seamlessly from coaching fundamentals to more advanced ideas such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, align values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity, this new edition is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes listeners step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and techniques for being a successful life coach.

With the latest stories from D'Alessandro's never-ending collection of corporate derring-do and new insight on the global battlefield, the nationally best-selling Career Warfare is more essential than ever when navigating your way to success.

What makes someone charismatic? Why do some captivate a room, while others have trouble managing a small meeting? What makes some ideas spread, while other good ones fall by the wayside? If you have ever been interrupted in meetings, overlooked for career opportunities or had your ideas ignored, your cues may be the problem - and the solution.

“This is one of the best self-help books I have read." That’s the opinion of legendary and best-selling business author Ken Blanchard about Make Your Career Go BOOM! Not Bust: Practical tips to succeed in an ever-changing world. “It contains such down-to-earth career advice that I'm giving it to my four grandchildren in their 20s. The book has not only great career advice but, to me, wonderful advice for being a caring and loving human being. Don't miss it!” Award-winning journalist and business executive Michael Ryan gives it to you straight. There's no sugar-coating here. Just ...

Careers are not linear, predictable ladders any longer; they are fluid trajectories. No matter our age, life stage, bank account balance, or seniority, we are all being asked to navigate career changes much more frequently than in years past. The average employee tenure in America is just four to five years, and even those roles change dramatically within that time. Our economy now demands that we create businesses and careers based on creativity, growth, and impact. In this dynamic world of work, the only move that matters is your next one.

Introducing Career Coach GPT - the world's first AI-powered career guru. Combining the expertise of LinkedIn insider Jeremy Schifeling (a former kindergarten teacher who landed jobs at Apple + Google) with the revolutionary power of ChatGPT, get ready to find your perfect career path - even if you don't have experience or a clear passion.

Most people are fearful of change because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson uses a simple story to show that when it comes to living in a changing world, what matters most is your attitude. Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

Today’s college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They’re performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they’re “supposed” to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion carries over right into first jobs. What have traditionally been considered the best years of life have become the beaten-down years of life.

Your career has good "bones", but it's looking a little rough around the edges. It's time to take stock and renovate your life by making strategic professional changes that help you achieve not only the job - but also the life - you want. In Career Rehab, professional career and life coach Kanika Tolver helps listeners strip away what's holding them back to create the career of their dreams.

Like the best advice from a therapist, career counselor, and savvy best friend, this practical resource details dozens of concrete ways to improve work life in any kind of job or entrepreneurial setting. As Minda Zetlin shows, basic self-care principles are the key, and they apply in both tranquil and turbulent times. Her prescriptions are action-ready and available to all.

If you're in a job interview, how should you think about the mindset of the interviewer? If you've just been promoted, how do you handle the tensions of managing former peers? And what are the telltale mental signs that it's time to start planning your next career move? Professor, author, and popular radio host Art Markman focuses on three essential elements of a successful career - getting a job, excelling at work, and finding your next position - and expertly illustrates how cognitive science, especially psychology, sheds fascinating and useful light on each of these elements.

Jung's typology is a useful tool for self-examination and interpersonal orientation, which can be used to help individuals understand themselves, grow in self-awareness, navigate interpersonal challenges with others, heal inner and ancestral wounds, and reconcile relationships between people. Although Jung's personality types can be seen possibly as an oversimplification and categorization labeling people based on how they function (and see themselves at a given point in time when taking a test such as Meyers Briggs); there undoubtedly are insights to be learned and merit in Jung's approach...

YOUR KEYS TO HAPPINESS How do successful school counselors and educators achieve their goals with an unbothered attitude? After the last two years of dealing with the fallout from the COVID Pandemic, which affected everything in education and school counseling, More counselors are miserable at work. But you don’t have to be. Do you find yourself struggling to keep your emotions in check? Do you feel yourself crumbling under the weight of your “responsibilities” as a counselor or educator? If one or all of these questions are issues you can relate to, you are experiencing classic ...

Amy Van Court wrote Escaping Career Prison after years of helping women free themselves from unfulfilling work and land in livelihoods that allow them to achieve career success on their terms. The author’s straightforward, no-nonsense approach is balanced with compassion and understanding to help readers discover and utilize their unique gifts, passions and talents. With this book as your guide, you will discover and explore the Three Keys to Career Freedom: deep self-knowledge and self-acceptance, managing the inner critic that keeps you stuck, and connecting with the wisdom that will ...

This course is ideal for those that are either complete beginners to the field of counseling and are considering making a career change to become a counselor, with the aim of getting an insight and understanding of counseling, or existing counselors, teachers, coaches, or parents looking to reinforce their knowledge or to pick up some new skills. This course is also ideal if you are interested in a career in counseling, though are unsure if you want to commit yourself financially and time wise to a full counseling qualification.

Step into the fascinating world of genetic counseling with "Illuminating Paths"! This comprehensive eBook is your ultimate guide to nature's complex yet captivating code of life – GENES. Dive deep into the fundamental aspects of Genetic Counseling, from its historical evolution to the role primitive human genetics play in shaping this intriguing field. Discover the marvelous architecture of scientific foundations that uphold the entire domain of genetic counseling. This book provides an in-depth analysis of genomic research and its profound influence, along with essential knowledge ...