One to one coaching for individuals deciding what comes next, whether that is a promotion, a change of direction, or a return after time away. Delivered by an HR professional who has spent twenty five years on the other side of the hiring and promotion table.
A great deal of career advice is generic, because most of the people giving it have never sat on a selection panel, run a promotion round, or written the criteria a candidate is judged against. Coaching grounded in that experience differs in one specific respect. It deals with how decisions about you are actually made, rather than how they are described in the job advert.
A short conversation to establish what the decision actually is. The stated question and the real one sometimes differ, and finding that out early changes what the coaching needs to do.
Establish where you stand in plain terms: what you are good at, what the evidence supports, and what a realistic next step looks like. Ambition without evidence tends to stall at interview.
Structured one to one sessions working through the live decision, with preparation and practice on the parts that carry the most weight, whether that is an application, a conversation with a manager, or a change of direction.
Work between sessions applied to the real situation rather than a hypothetical one, so progress continues once the sessions end.
Career coaching is the one service at Chrysalis Talent Development bought by individuals rather than organisations. Sessions are shaped around whatever decision is live, and the areas below are the ones that come up most often. None of it is a fixed syllabus, and an engagement is built around the person rather than a programme.
What you offer, in language that holds up under questioning rather than reading as a list of adjectives.
Worked examples from your own career, structured so they answer competency and behavioural questions without the rehearsal showing.
Direct feedback on how a written application reads to the person screening it, which is rarely how it reads to the person who wrote it.
The agreed steps, sequenced and dated, so the work continues after the final session.
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Structured one to one support for someone making a decision about their working life, whether that is seeking promotion, changing direction, returning after a break, or deciding whether to stay where they are. It is practical rather than therapeutic, and it works on a specific decision rather than on general self development.
Individuals. Career coaching is the only service here bought by the person receiving it rather than by an employer. Organisational work, including talent management, leadership development and HR consultancy, is arranged separately and with different people.
Verity is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD with more than twenty five years in HR, across Tesco, Nissan, TUI, Camelot, BRE, Lundbeck and the IET.
[TO CONFIRM WITH VERITY: any coaching accreditation, such as ICF or EMCC, belongs here. FCIPD establishes HR authority but says nothing about coaching practice, and individuals paying for themselves compare coaches on exactly this.]
[TO CONFIRM WITH VERITY: price, session length and typical number of sessions, or whether coaching is sold as a package. Individual buyers will not enquire without an indication of cost, and this is the most common reason a coaching page fails to convert.]
[TO CONFIRM WITH VERITY: delivery format, and any geographic limit on in person sessions.]
Yes. Sessions are confidential and entirely separate from your employer. Career coaching is arranged directly with you, so nothing discussed is reported back into an organisation.
[TO CONFIRM WITH VERITY: whether any assessment tools form part of career coaching, and under what accreditation. Needs to align with whatever is decided for the Psychometrics and 360 Feedback pages.]
A short conversation, with no obligation, to work out whether coaching is the right thing for the decision in front of you.
