As Margaret Young quoted, "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must FIRST be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

"Successful managers search for work that is important to them. When they find it, they pursue it with a passion," says Charles Garfield, head of Performance Services, Inc., in Berkeley, California.

"80% of success comes from being clear about who you are, what you believe in, and what you want. No one attracts success more than someone who is doing what he or she loves to do." — Brian Tracy

COACHING ROI

What Happens When An Executive Works with a Professional Coach?

According to Right Management Consultants, the worldwide leader in Career Transition and Organizational Consulting, documented in their newly republished study, "ROI for Executive Coaching", that the ROI for leadership coaching was calculated at 5.7 times the original investment.

Leaders who worked with an experienced coach for between 6 and 12 months reported tangible business impacts stemming from their coaching process. These tangible business impacts included increases in productivity, quality, organizational strength, and customer service.

Fully 77% of the participants surveyed said that they were enjoying intangible benefits, such as improved relationships with the people who report to them. Other important intangible benefits included improved teamwork and job satisfaction, and reduced conflict.

Professional Turn-Around Program

7 Steps to Activate Your Passion... Leverage Your Strengths

  • Discover your distinctive career brand
  • Differentiate yourself in the business world
  • Experience more meaningful work

 

 

Are you conflicted about which to pursue first — money or your true passion and interest?

A 25-year study of 1500 business school graduates, conducted by Srully D. Blotnick, author of Ambitious Men: Their Drives, Dreams and Delusions, 1987 concluded:

"the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so because they were engaged in work they found profoundly absorbing. Their 'luck' arose from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed".

After 20 years, there were 101 millionaires in the group. One came from the "money first" category; 100 came "passion and interest first" category.

  • Which category would you choose?

Are you positioned for success in the information age?

The industrial and service age ended — the information age is here!

  • What does this mean to YOU?

    1. Increased healthy longevity of our nation
    2. Dramatic change in our world of work... continuous corporate downsizing, extensive growth of small businesses, and introduction of a career after "retirement" — third-age career.
    3. Business professionals opt to work with a professional career coach. Why? To become more adaptable to change, embrace the intra-preneurial role, and launch their own entrepreneurial ventures.
    4. Baby-boomers raised our awareness that work needs to be redefined to include meaning, fulfillment, values, and passion.
    5. This has also introduced the ever-increasing focus on life balance and getting back to the basics of community and family.

Career management is a critical factor in your professional growth and extraordinary success that leverages your unique "genius".

Today's fast paced, dynamic business environment requires leaders at all levels to make tough decisions, to stay focused and adaptable at the same time.

Teaming up with a top notch Professional Coach helps executives and mid-level managers boost performance and attain business objectives.

"A Coach May Be The Guardian Angel You Need To Rev Up Your Career."
— MONEY MAGAZINE
What is YOUR key focus?
  • Master skills to leverage your success?
  • Define your life purpose? Here's what many are saying... "Life is too short; I want to make the best contribution at what I do BEST every day."
  • Expand and increase your streams of income, in addition to your primary financial package?
  • Prepare for the next promotional opportunity?
  • Create a new, innovative project?
  • Define the legacy that you want to leave to next generation?

Embrace your "professional turn-around"!

Join the success community who have transformed their personal and professional lives ...who do what they LOVE TO DO and DO BEST... EVERY DAY!

New Career Direction:

  • Secretary turned Horticulture Therapist.
  • Computer science expert redirected career to occupational therapist — recharged her energy and brought more meaning and the passionate spark back into her life.
  • Lawyer added "real estate entrepreneur" to his portfolio, created vision of his dream, and found first property within 2 weeks

Enhanced Career Management:

  • Corporate Sales Professional landed new job, increased income by 25% and decreased work hours from 70 to 50/week.
  • Management Consultant increased earnings by 30% and relocated to perfect residence.
  • Business leader opted out of an early retirement package because of his reclaimed professional passion!

The 7-step program, "Professional Turn-Around — Activate Your Passion & Leverage Your Strengths", will help you to...

  • Rediscover your passion.
  • Identify your unique "brand".
  • Differentiate yourself in the business world.
  • Leverage your potential.
  • Maximize your efforts.
  • Consistently excel at near-perfect peak performance.

The Professional Turn-Around Model integrates your Core Energy (Turn-Around Program), Life Purpose, and Business Goals, and is structured from 3 focal points:

  • VISION: Tell your story.
  • CONNECTION: Love what you do.
  • ACTION: Work joyfully with focus and vitality.

Engage in a Career that you pursue with a passion that transforms your life on ALL levels-physical, mental, emotional, financial, and spiritual.

"A vision without a task is a dream. A task without a dream is drudgery, but a vision with a task can transform the world." — Unknown Author

Clients ask their Professional Strategy Coach

Which scenerio has a familiar ring to you?

  • I feel uncertain about whether to venture into an independent consulting business, build a source of residual income, or develop new ventures with my current employer. What should I be evaluating?

  • What steps can I take NOW to make a smooth transition and feel confident in the new venture that I am launching in my third-age career... post-retirement in 2 years?

  • I question the status quo and need to check my life compass. Am I going in the right direction?

    "I feel great about my career success, and I want to check my compass to make sure that I am going in the right direction during my next career cycle. I just completed a stressful personal transition, and feel excited about the opportunity to re-energize my professional life."

  • What are the BEST short-term and long-range career strategies for me?

    "I feel great about my current position, but I know that our business world is a talent-based economy. If I am not — RIGHT NOW — using my talents to add value to some person, project, or company, I am in danger of becoming economically extinct."

  • Is this what I REALLY want to be doing for the next 10 years?"

    "I used to really enjoy my job and career growth. However, I feel disconnected from my job, experience low energy, and find it hard to keep up with the job demands. The thought of changing jobs and companies is overwhelming, but I know that something needs to change."

  • What are some of the difficult questions that I need to navigate during this turning point in my life?

    "What can I do to change perspectives and take a short- and long-term view of my career strategy over the next 10-15 years?"

  • I fear losing my job with the continuous down-sizings at my company and the industry. What's a realistic Plan B?

    "Should I jump ship now? Wait until the news drops? Begin to develop a side venture? Beef up my skills, and go for a promotion or lateral move to reduce risk of downsizing?"

  • Am I doing the right things to leverage my talents for my next career move?

    "I am confused about what my next step is. I feel like I need to continually progress, and need an objective ear to sort out the many options:

    • Is it time for a change of company or is it something else?
    • Can I revamp my current job to align with my strengths and re-energize my enthusiasm?
    • What strategies would act as a catalyst for me to reconnect with my passion and act on it?"
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Or are you a skeptic? Do you find yourself saying, "Following my passion is not for me — it's only for the 'other guy'? After all, I have bills to pay, obligations to meet...

The Professional Turn-Around Program is designed for you identify your SKILLS, ABILITIES, DRIVERS, NATURAL MOTIVATORS, and INNATE STRENGTHS.

The 7 steps in the professional turn-around process will help you to...

  • Test out new ideas and strategies.
  • Gain clarity about which direction to pursue.
  • Allow for change and validate what you REALLY want.
  • Eliminate distractions that keep you off track.
  • Reclaim your passion and honor your dreams.
  • Own your uniqueness, what makes you special.
  • Focus on your highest priority goals — the ones that you're really passionate about.
  • Take action on something that you NEVER would have attempted on your own.

Miss having a safe space to explore your DREAMS?

  • Lack of clarity about how to decide a future career direction?
  • Miss having an objective, accepting, safe person to process your thoughts and ideas without fear of criticism or being discounted?
  • Desire a safe space to test out new ideas and dreams?

Hire a Champion for Your Dreams — Your Professional Strategy Coach... who cares deeply about your success as YOU define it.

  • Feel heard and understood.
  • Always focus on YOUR agenda and keep it at the forefront.
  • Define success on your own terms.
  • Set goals that are meaningful to you and align with your inner passion.
  • GET that you REALLY CAN realize your dreams!

 

STEP #1: Enjoyable Accomplishments Analysis — What do you WANT to offer, ENJOY doing, and DO WELL?

What Are Your Keys to Success? Find those things you are good at, enjoy doing, and feel a sense of accomplishment from doing!

What Successful People Do: Successful people identify those things they enjoy doing and do well, then establish their goals.

  • John Sculley fired Steven Jobs, founder of Apple Computers, who he hired to run the company.
  • Jobs created a list of all the things that mattered most to him during his ten years at Apple. Jobs' Next Success: formation of his next great drive, the formation of NeXT computers.

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STEP #2: Identify your cluster of TECHNICAL SKILLS, NATURAL ABILITIES, and INDUSTRY EXPERTISE — What is your Portfolio of Professional Strengths?

  • What are the chances of having a job created to suit you?
  • If you don't know what would suit you, chances are slim to none.

Which would be more satisfying?

  • An opportunity in which you have to mold yourself to fit a rigid job description?
  • An opportunity created with YOU in mind?

Opportunities come along all the time — You won't recognize them unless — you guessed it!... you KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!

  • Energize your life and increase your fulfillment — integrate your professional portfolio with your "brand" of professional success!
  • Experience more challenge
  • Feel a greater sense of accomplishment
  • Perform more effectively
  • Do what you WANT to contribute!
  • Embrace your uniqueness — what sets you apart from others!

Client Success:

"I have a clearer sense of the type of work that I like to do and where my strengths/skills lie. My resume is stronger and projects the image of a capable professional whereas, before, it was merely a chronological listing of positions held."

Kathy T., Business Process Analyst

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STEP #3: Get Clear on Your NATURAL MOTIVATORS, DRIVERS, and INNATE STRENGTHS — Increase Your Fulfillment and Reach Your Optimal Potential

  • Move from "Driven by Need" to "Inspired by Values"!
  • Leverage your innate strengths to operate at "near perfect performance", continually!

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STEP #4: Create a Strategic, Practical Success VISION— What is YOUR Ideal Professional Lifestyle?

What are the secrets to creating your vision? Highly successful business professionals (just like You!) ask themselves...

  • What is the secret passion in my life, something that is almost too exciting to actually do or do more of?
  • What holds my interest even if I'm distracted or fatigued?
  • What am I REALLY great at — not just things that I do well, but things that REALLY energize me?
  • How can I do MORE of them?
  • What can I do to leverage this passion for economic and financial return?
  • What do I perceive is stopping me from doing it — what's in my way?
  • What stands in the way of achieving professional success AND having an extraordinary life?
  • What do I REALLY want to do about it?
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STEP #5: Translate Your VISION into Strategic ACTION — What inspired action steps will propel you forward with energy, confidence and joyfor break-through results?

  • Know where you are going.
  • Focus on how you can serve, provide great value, or give something away.
  • Creatively leverage your efforts for increased clarity, personal and professional effectiveness.

Client Success:

"Coaching has helped me to define a clearer vision of my goals and map out a more direct path to achieve them. I learned concepts that were catalysts in reaching my goals, and became more aware of strengths that I naturally possess."

Mike Battle, Stores Manager, Municipal Utility

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STEP 6: Embrace Heart-Centered Marketing — What do you MOST enjoy doing and are GREAT at?

Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and by doing them with EXCELLENCE and PASSION.

  • Share your message with the world.
  • Partner with people and organizations who share your vision.
  • Become known to people and organizations as an expert.
  • Understands your market's specific needs and unique challenges — people and organizations will seek you out!
  • Add more value to the clients you already have or products/services that you already offer.
  • Network: call, write or meet with people to find out what they're up to and what the cutting edge trends are in your business.

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." — George Washington Carver

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STEP 7: Land the Career Of Your Dreams!

This is when it ALL comes together...

  • Are you changing careers, companies, or industries?
  • Are you positioning for a promotion or new positions within your organization...

Interview • Follow-up • Negotiate • Celebrate Your Success!

Then... continue to manage your career — be ready for OUTSTANDING SUCCESS!

Client Success:

"Within 1 year of my first coaching session, I have acquired two income properties with both realizing a profit this month, successfully completed a ski instructor exam, received recognition as 2003 Volunteer of the Year by YMCA, and landed a new job that is a great match for my interests and skill set. Thanks for your help in keeping my focus and better understanding of long-term goals."

B.L, Staffing Manager for Fortune 100 Corporation

TAKE ACTION TODAY: CONTACT GERRIE to enroll in the Professional Turn-Around Program — 7 Steps to Activate Your Passion and Leverage Your Strengths!

What are some outcomes that you can expect?
  • Discover your inner passion — Align with your purpose and strengths.
  • Get clear about who you are, what you believe in, and what you want.
  • Identify what you truly WANT to offer to the world.
  • Move through challenges, doubts, fears, and limiting beliefs that hold you back.
  • Structure your time to plan a professional transition strategy.
  • Set deadlines for accomplishing goals or tasks.
  • Learn how to be more effective in your work relationships (bosses, peers, subordinates, clients).
  • Develop your career as the economy changes.
  • Lay the groundwork for the next career move or lifestyle transition, such as retirement.
  • Learn how to balance your life more effectively.
  • Build extra reserves in your life to bring your dreams to reality.
  • Eliminate your biggest challenges.
  • Free yourself from habitual patterns that have kept you stuck for years.
  • Experience the freedom from self-limiting beliefs that are obstacles to your success.

READ ABOUT OTHER CLIENT SUCCESSES...

PROFESSIONAL TURN-AROUND PROGRAM for HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

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