HR practitioners, line managers, consultants, coaches and counsellors who are, or wish to be, involved in career development at an individual or organisational level, will find this a useful and positive addition to their skills repertoire.

This practical course defines the career coaching process and reviews how a coach can play a valuable role in helping with important life and career issues. It offers a simple model which, combined with a range of tools will give a practitioner instantly useful skills for any context where he or she is helping an internal or external client with career-related decisions.

The course will define what career coaching can be offered and how it can assist with the development of an HR strategy that is consistent, collaborative, proactive and very marketable.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• define a career-coaching process
• apply the career-coaching model in a series of staged interventions
• receive individual feedback and tuition within real-life practice sessions
• discuss key techniques for dealing with a range of client concerns
• use your knowledge as a basis for organisational career development strategies