The Academies for Coaching, Inc.

Coaching job seekers / career changers? It’s a time when career clients can perceive threats to identity and ego. This makes it tricky to take risks, which can bring a sense of uneasiness, worry, or anxiousness. For example, clients undergoing career change may think: 🔹 What if I don’t get it exactly right? 🔹 What are the stakes if I don’t get the results I need? 🔹 What if I look awkward in front of networking contacts? 🔹 What if my peers / family aren’t impressed with me? 🔹 How long will this take? 🔬Active Experimentation🔬 There are plenty of “what if’s” and Red Zone threats 🔴 associated with change. To counter this very human reaction, invite clients into active experimentation to try on new behaviors. Consider some of these coaching questions: 🔹 How would you experiment with this new approach? 🔹 How long do you need to stay with this approach to get some solid data? 🔹 What kind of learning curve will you look for as you try out this new approach? 🔹 What will you remind yourself of when people you care about do not agree with you? The frame of “experimenting” helps keep the brain in the Blue Zone! 🔵 What what you add? How do you support #career and #jobsearch clients when trying out new/uncomfortable behaviors? ====== The Academies offers a Certified Career Management Coach program, part of its Level 1 and Level 2 ICF pathways. This program is perfect for coaches pursuing/renewing an ICF credential, as well as anyone who wants to support people in navigating challenging career change. https://hubs.ly/Q02HKY-_0 #brainfriendlycoaching #careercoach #jobsearchcoaching #change

Leaders influence engagement, for better or worse. This influence starts at a biological level. 🛠️ The Academies’ Red Zone | Blue Zone framework adds context to this biological influence. 🧠 The brain is the key organ that interprets whether people or situations feel threatening or safe. This has serious implications for our ability to think and relate: 🚨 Red Zone: When we feel threatened, our body’s biochemistry causes the smartest part of the brain to go offline... > strategic thinking is short-circuited and > trust is easily broken when we operate in the Red Zone. 🦋 Blue Zone: Conversely, when we feel safe, the body’s biochemistry supports whole-brain thinking and whole-hearted relating: 🔵 compassion, collaboration, creativity, adaptability, calculated risk-taking, strategic action, and resilience are behavioral markers of the Blue Zone. What helps shift YOUR BRAIN-BODY BIOLOGY from 🔴 to 🔵? #LeadershipCoachTraining #LeadershipCoaching #BrainFriendlyCoaching #NeuroNugget #Coaching #ICFtraining #RedZoneBlueZone #BlueZoneBiology #ChangingMindsForGood

Leadership is a tall task. Leaders must balance organizational priorities with the changing needs of the people who attend to those priorities. All is accomplished through… …people. When leaders create cultures where people have predominantly positive experiences, engagement grows, and with it, > creativity, > collaboration, and > achievement. But when people have predominantly negative experiences in the workplace, engagement wanes. And lack of engagement is costly. Gallup estimates that low engagement costs the global economy US $8.8 trillion. 💡Coaching Curiosities: When coaching leaders who struggle with engagement, consider listening for, asking questions about, or making observations related to these ideas… > What behaviors do you look for to know when people are engaged? > What tells you they’re dis-engaged? > What’s your ‘why’ for having an engaged team? > What gets in the way of your ability to create engagement? #LeadershipCoachTraining #LeadershipCoaching #BrainFriendlyCoaching #NeuroNugget #Coaching #ICFtraining #RedZoneBlueZone #BlueZoneBiology #ChangingMindsForGood

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💡 Boost leadership and business impact with Coaching! The average ROI of coaching is 5-7x the initial investment, and high-level leader retention increases by 32%. With only 21% of employees engaged at work, leaders using coaching techniques can raise engagement to 68%. Highly engaged workplaces see 41% less absenteeism and 31-51% less turnover. Use a Coach-Approach to... 🧠 Make your team's brains happier 🗣️ Increase engagement 🪄 Transform your team and see the impact 🔗 Discover More https://hubs.li/Q02Cns-k0 #CoachingROI #EmployeeEngagement #InternalCoaching #ProfessionalDevelopment #BrainFriendly #ICF

We may be a bit biased here, since Matthew Gardner is now a full-time team member at The Academies. After he went through coach training with us, a year or so later, the stars aligned so that we were also able to have him join the team in his Coach Success Manager role. So grateful to be a part of his world!

We had fun putting together our “photo booth” to win “Most Creative Display” at #CSEAGlobal! Thanks to all the career services professionals who stopped by to take a picture with us!

Supporting international students has been a big theme at the #cseaglobal conference. Shout out to one of our #certifiedcareercoach Zhiling Xu from Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School for her deep care and commitment to serving this population through a coach approach.

Grateful for partnerships like Georgetown University McDonough School of Business! Loved being in conversation with you, Maureen Cleary Carpenter! Thanks for your ongoing contribution to the career services space. #CSEAGlobal Leigh Gauthier, PCC #careercoaching #careercoachtraining #icf #careerservices #mba

One of our favorite things is meeting our participants and coaches in person! We're so happy to be celebrating 10 years at #CSEAGlobal! Leigh Gauthier, PCC, Sriram Atchutuni, Manuj Mittal, University of Rochester - Simon Business School