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Career Coaching

Are you unemployed? Underemployed? Undervalued? Do you like to fulfil your career potential?

Are you dissatisfied with your current situation? Would you like to get your career in the right track?

Are your growth and advancement underdeveloped? Do you know what you want to do and how to get there?

Shifts in your job situation and the market place create new challenges. Yet, it also opens up opportunities to embrace change and be proactive rather than passively accepting it. If you are considering developing, changing careers or you want to move ahead in your existing field or start a new career, spiral2grow of New York City offers a wide range of coaching tools and programs to help you move from where you are to where you want to be.

Career coaching is designed to work with action-oriented individuals who are interested in improving their career skills and strategies that suit their interests and talents so that they can gain greater resourcefulness. spiral2grow highly skilled coaches, that are lead by Moshe Ratson, can help you explore and define (re-define) your professional goals, develop and take action steps to get there, and make practical changes to lead you to a greater career success and satisfaction.

Moshe Ratson (MS MFT, MBA, LMFT) is committed to helping both individuals and organizations clarify and communicate their most powerful vision and message, refine it and monetize it in leveraged programs through multiple media to reach the optimal career and position.

spiral2grow clients end up in long term satisfying positions that are a reflection of their underlying desire, goals and values; whether they came to get clarity about a career change, to grow within their current industry, or simply to find a new position.

More about Career Coaching

Career Coaching Overview

Career coaching is an interactive process of exploring work-related issues – leading to effective action – in which the coach acts as both a catalyst and facilitator of individual and, in turn, organizational development and transformation. Career coaches connect people with their passion, purpose, values and other critical aspects of their ideal work. They build capability in their clients, thereby increasing the client’s awareness, purpose, competence and well-being regarding their desired work. They also facilitate the client’s process of developing and implementing a job search or business start-up plan to activate the client’s Authentic Vocation.
In today's economy, it is increasingly rare for a person to stay in the same career for the entirety of his or her working life. Making a career change, whether consciously chosen or by being downsized or laid off, is inherently stressful and challenging. Old ways of thinking must be reconstructed into a new idea of oneself- one that is adaptive, creative and more congruent with needs experience, ability, and desires.

Benefits of Career Coaching

Career coaching has many benefits and provides practical tools that will enable you to:
Work on personal/work challenges
Capture and capitalize on opportunities
Market and better position yourself
Explore career options
Establish effective networking
Build Interviewing skills
Negotiate job offers
Gain life-work balance satisfaction
Determine new career path
Improve performance
Define align your skills to your career aspirations
Crystallize the value you bring to the marketplace
Transition effectively in to new position/promotion
Develop better relationships with co-workers
Develop entrepreneurial business skills
In addition to the above, the coach helps the coachee:
Get your career in the right track
Implement career action plan
Work through the inevitable challenges of career path
Maintain a healthy balance between personal and professional life
See emerging opportunities and capitalize on them
Recognize and exhibit strengths and talents
Keep focused on personal needs, values, and visions

The Coaching Relationship

In the coaching relationship, the coaches’’ intention is to work alongside of you, holding your vision of your self and your life, to accomplish your greatest dreams and realize your deepest desires. The coach will serve many roles for you including sounding board, motivator, facilitator, guide, mirror, intuitive, and confidant. The coaching relationship is a sacred space that serves as an incubator for the changes you wish to see in your life.
Through the coaching relationship and process, Clients learn how to:
Identify and articulate obstacles to success
Move from breakdown to breakthrough
Enhance self-awareness, accountability and perseverance
Set goals and achieve results

Why Hiring a Career Coach?

You hire a career coach because you want to improve the quality of your career by directing or redirecting your focus and energy. You want more awareness, ease and clarity for yourself, career and your relations. You want to grow through support, personal insight and understanding. You want to live your career and life intentionally.
Your career coach will assist you to:
Discover who you are and what really motivates you!
Set and achieve proactive, powerful goals rather than just reacting to life!
Create the life and career you want to follow your passions, priorities, and talents!
Gain a professional guide that would support you and facilitate your process toward goal achievement.
UNLEASH THE POWERS WITHIN YOU, to accomplish more than you ever thought possible!

Issues that Career Coaching Can Help

Career coaching provides practical tools to enhance your career. The following are only a few examples of the subject matter coaching can help:
Re-enter work force
Change profession
Develop work skills
Become more resourceful
Enhance performance
Discover your vocational passion
Advance within your profession
Manage a difficult co-worker or boss
Capitalize on job opportunities
Career enhancement

Career Evaluation: Questions for Reflection

Do you understand your role in the organization?
Does supervision acknowledge your contributions?
Do you expect greatness from yourself and others? Are you an integral part of an outstanding work group?
Are your assignments challenging and exposing you to a variety of experiences that develop you personally and professionally?
Are you contributing to continuous improvement, team building, conflict management and the professional development of others?
Are your growth and advancement underdeveloped?
Are you feeling that you are not fitting in your current workplace and may need to move within your organization or move to another organization?
If you are self-employed, is it time to seek employment? If employed, is it time to look at entrepreneurial opportunities?
Do you feel like an innocent victim of rampant change in your organization and world?
Has politics or the need for expediency affected your decisions?
Do you feel that it is difficult to do what is right?
Are your efforts and accomplishments worth what you are being compensated?
Where does your work fit in comparison to other life priorities? Is your work affecting your health or relationships negatively?