Choose the Service to Fit Your Needs

The six choices below can be individualized to suit your goals, work style and needs. I will guide you carefully throughout. Face-to-face meetings are optimal. I also work by telephone and e-mail.

Make the most of your career and life: a holistic approach

These three steps usually take six to twelve meetings.

Learn how to create your own career and life management profile to specify your strengths, professional interests and how you want to live in your own words. This inside-out approach brings together choices of values, skills, passions and interests from your answers in exercises and our conversations. You will know how to update the profile to continue your progress in the future.

Use the information in your profile to describe concretely the work you want now and for the foreseeable future.

Act to meet your priorities and goals by:

• finding work that inspires you and provides the resources you want
• creating the personal life you wish
• expanding professional contacts and abilities
• writing effective résumés and cover letters
• improving interviewing and other self-presentation abilities
• and using other customized methods

Take charge of your second half of life

These four steps usually take five to eight meetings.

Integrate your values, skills and interests as a foundation for design and decision making.

Describe the balance and content of learning, work, play and volunteer activities.

Contribute to the quality of life you want by learning how to:

• promote self-sufficiency and relationships that flourish
• enhance your capacity for courage
• describe your living legacy

Create your action plan and begin manageable steps toward your goals.

Make your career successful and fulfilling

These two steps usually take four to six meetings.

Integrate information about preferred subjects and issues, skills, people and work situations to describe specifically what you want to do now and for the foreseeable future.

Act to meet your goals by:

• finding work that inspires you and provides the resources you want
• expanding professional contacts and abilities
• writing effective résumés and cover letters
• improving interviewing and other self-presentation abilities
• and using other customized methods

Find the work you've chosen

These two steps usually take two to four meetings.

Confirm how good the match is between your goal for work and true self.

Act to meet your goal by:

• learning how to find employment or another earning situation you want
• expanding professional contacts and abilities
• writing effective résumés, cover letters and other ways to represent yourself
• improving interviewing and other self-presentation abilities
• and using other customized methods

Strengthen your leadership and management skills

These two steps usually take three to five meetings.

Use a holistic self-assessment to identify your strengths and areas for improvement.

Learn how to design and implement your plan for progress by:

• choosing desired outcomes
• identifying development needs and benchmarks
• creating opportunities for practice and feedback
• specifying ways to troubleshoot and continue growth independently

Work through Specific Problems Related to Career Progress

One to three meetings, depending on situation.

Define problem and goal.

Decide on strategy and specific steps to address situation.

Test and fine-tune approach through action.