Main description:

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to creatively progress their coaching practice. Without losing sight of fundamental coaching values and practices, it encourages career development professionals to adapt their practice by harnessing imagination, intuition and critical reflection to engage clients.

Hambly and Bomford consider the usefulness of creativity alongside traditional coaching models to reach "harder to help" groups. They consider a whole-brain approach to creativity, emphasising the need for coaches to adapt their client-facing skills for individual cases. They work through how clients make career decisions, how to use labour market information to motivate clients, how to frame a creative coaching session using techniques such as metaphor, visualisation and role play, how to use practical tools and techniques to resolve a client's individual needs, and how to deliver on digital platforms. Combining the latest neuroscientific research with activities, summaries and case studies, this book provides a practical, skills-based approach to coaching.

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is the first book to summarise the Creative Career Coaching Model. It will be an indispensable resource for students of career development, career coaching, coaching psychology and advice and guidance courses. It will also be of interest to career coaches in practice seeking to enhance their skills.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Setting the scene

1 The bigger picture: Global trends

2 A brief history of career development theory

3 The brilliant brain: Insights from neuropsychology

Part II: Managing interactions

4 Microskills: The building blocks

5 Process models

6 Laying the foundations

7 Frameworks for exploring the client's story

8 Goals and actions

9 Digital coaching

Part III: Designing your session to meet client needs

10 Motivation and readiness

11 Decision-making

12 Self-awareness

13 Opportunity awareness

14 Transition

15 Resilience

Part IV: Practitioner issues

16 The resilience of the coach

Index