The Coaching Academy Blog

Genevieve Knight qualified through The Coaching Academy programme and has enthusiastically agreed to share her coaching experience, so we have put her in the Coaching Hot Seat.

Lara Williams qualified through The Coaching Academy and has enthusiastically agreed to share her coaching experience, so we have put her in the Coaching Hot Seat. Here is Lara’s story:-

In September 2009 I left my very successful 15 year corporate career as I was not feeling fulfilled. I asked myself – what makes my heart sing? What do I really enjoy doing? After thinking about these questions I got an understanding – helping people. I remembered the time when I was coached in my role as a Sales Director and I realised that the impact it made on me was big. Almost – turning around my behaviours and beliefs. So I started to search the internet about coaching.

Career counselling may involve specialist services, which use psychometric tests. By giving the client a series of tests measuring aptitudes, occupational interests and aspects of personality, the results may be interpreted by a consultant psychologist and a report with recommendations written. Other career counsellors may make no use of tests but use their skills to [...]

I just wanted to share some recent career success with you which I hope will be of inspiration to other trainee/ new coaches. As you may know, for the last four years I have been running my own coaching practice (www.careercoachuk.com), coaching professionals such as bankers, managers, doctors and lawyers