Why Coaching?
As organizations and labor markets become global, individuals must become responsible for their own professional development. It was[management thinker, Peter Drucker, who wrote in an 1999 Harvard Business Review article:
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: if you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren’t managing their employees’ careers; knowledge workers must, effectively, be their own chief executive officers. It’s up to you to carve out your place, to know when to change course, and to keep yourself engaged and productive during a work life that may span some 50 years.
Leslie Juvin coaches entry level professionals to mid-level managers on all areas of career development – job search, interview preparation, team integration, leadership, management, and career transition – with a personal development approach.
Where are you in your career?
Leslie’s clients come to her because they’re exhausted by living and working in their current situation and they’re ready for something different.
- Are you ready to evolve your career and what the definition of work means to you?
- Do you want to create more harmony between your professional and personal life?
- Do you want to have more: money, recognition, satisfying relationships, and pride in your performance?
- Do you want to have less: stress, worry, insecurity, and fear?
- Do you want to move forward in your career or change your path completely?
- Are you just tired of the way things are and you don’t know how to make it better?
Why personal development?
Personal development is the basis of coaching. Through understanding ourselves, our motivations, and values we can then begin to shape our ideas and turn them into a reality.
- Accessing self knowledge and personal and/or organizational values
- Fulfilling aspirations or meeting organizational objectives
- Improving verbal and non-verbal communication
- Setting personal and professional boundaries
- Building or renewing identity
- Reinventing lifestyle or working habits
- Identifying, developing, and applying competencies
