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COACHING FOR PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL SUCCESS

What Is Coaching?
Coaching helps you get from where you are to where you want to be. It is a proactive, results-driven activity that helps you reach your professional and personal goals. Coaching requires your focus, effort and energy. Your coach becomes your success partner in identifying and clarifying your strengths and leveraging them to craft and achieve your future.
Coaching takes place over the phone or face-to-face, one-on-one or in teams. The Coaching Conversations© workshop is also available to larger groups.
Find out if coaching is right for you by setting up a no-charge, no-obligation, 15-minute phone call. You and Dori will assess the appropriateness of coaching for your specific situation and discuss the options. You will be provided with pricing information before making a commitment. Generally, payments are made at the beginning of each month.
Who Benefits From Coaching?
Coaching is for people who want to move beyond what they already think and know (enhance awareness and growth), people who want to take focused approach to achieving results (clarity and action), and people who feel stuck or who may need extra support or accountability to turn intentions into results.
Anyone interested in actively participating in his or her own professional and personal development can benefit from having a coach. At Turning Points, this includes:
  • Leaders and managers
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Business people facing work-life balance challenges
  • Up-and-coming executives
  • Students making college and career choices
  • Anyone seeking a growth opportunity on or off the job
How It Works – Individuals
Individual coaching contracts are established up front based on coaching goals. Sessions are often conducted over the telephone. Each session is 50 minutes at mutually agreed upon, regularly scheduled times. Sessions can be extended and return clients are welcome for “check ins”!
In addition to general individual coaching, Turning Points offers these special packages to individuals: Contact us for more information.
    Young Adult Package

    Who: High school juniors and seniors, college students, recent graduates, early
    career seekers
    What: 30-minute pre-session interview, assessments, customized summary, individual 2.5 hour debrief, and two 30-minute follow-up coaching sessions*
    Assessments: The Highlands Ability Battery and Strong Vocational Interest Inventory
    Purpose: Awareness of talents, clarifying experiences to date, career exploration,
    college considerations, learning styles and study habits, exploration of
    career goals, identifying next steps, accountability for progress toward next
    steps
    Cost: $650
    Transition Package
    Who: Adults re-entering the workforce, those considering a career change, those
    considering new applications for work experience and/or taking career to
    next level, work-life balance, pre-retirement considerations
    What: 30-minute pre-session interview, assessments, customized summary,
    individual 2.5-3 hour debrief and two 30-minute follow-up coaching
    sessions*
    Assessments: The Highlands Ability Battery and Strong Vocation Interest Inventory
    or MBTI or CPI
    Purpose: Awareness of talents, clarifying experiences to date, career exploration, re-
    balancing work-life priorities, values alignment, job/career rejuvenation,
    retirement transition opportunities, accountability for next steps
    Cost: $650+ (depending on assessments)
    Managerial Package
    Who: Aspiring, new and re-aligned managers
    What: 30-minute pre-session interview, assessments, customized summary, 2.5-
    hour individual debrief, and two 30-minute follow-up coaching sessions*
    Assessments: The Highlands Ability Battery, MBTI or CPI, LPI 360 optional
    Purpose: Awareness of talents, clarifying experiences to date, preparation for and
    identification of skill development for managerial job or new management
    roles (new department, additional responsibilities, new team), identifying
    shifts in responsibilities, realistic goal-setting and accountability for progress
    toward goals
    Cost: $750+ (depending on assessments)
    Leadership Package
    Who: Aspiring, new, “stuck” (position feels stale), struggling and re-aligned
    leaders (first time on a board of directors, leading group/department/
    function/organization in which you have little technical expertise)
    What: 30-minute pre-session interview, assessments, customized summary, 2.5-3
    hour individual debrief, four 30-minute follow-up coaching sessions*
    Assessment: The Highlands Ability Battery, MBTI or CPI, LPI 360 optional
    Purpose: Awareness of talents, clarifying experiences to date, preparation for and
    identification of leadership skills for success, strategies and goals for
    complementing your talents, identifying shifts in responsibilities, use of an
    experienced external sounding board, help with maintaining work-life
    balance, solidifying vision, realistic goal-setting and accountability for
    progress toward goals
    Cost: $900+ (depending on assessments)
    Education Leadership Package
    Who: Current and aspiring education administrators
    What: 30-minute pre-session interview, assessments, customized summary, 2.5-
    hour individual debrief, two 30-minute follow-up coaching sessions*
    Assessments: The Highlands Ability Battery, MBTI or CPI, LPI 360 optional
    Purpose: Awareness of talents, clarifying experiences to date, preparation for and
    identification of shifts in responsibilities, clarification of career goals, use of
    an experienced external sounding board, accountability for progress
    toward goals.
    Cost: $650+ (depending on assessments)
    * Additional coaching sessions quoted on an individual basis. Monthly coaching packages available.All assessments are handled electronically. All debriefs and coaching sessions can be conducted via telephone, face-to-face or a combination.
How It Works – Groups
Group coaching is typically customized based on group size and composition. It is the perfect follow up to group assessments and workshops. Turning Points offers these special packages to groups:
    The Coaching Conversations Workshop

    Who: Department heads, principals, managers, team leaders, executives
    What: A 1.5-day workshop focusing on incorporating a coach-approach to working
    with and leading others. This is not training to become a coach.
    Purpose: To learn a 5-step process and 4 specific skills shift worker behavior from
    waiting to be told to asking for what’s next.
    Cost: Quoted based on number of participants and length of workshop.
    Coaching By The Day – Mini-sessions For Large Groups
    Who: Participants in Turning Points assessment and workshops
    What: A series of short, individual coaching sessions conducted on-site. One full
    day can accommodate up to thirteen 30-minute or nine 45-minute sessions.
    Client organization provides a private room and sets up the schedule.
    Coaching goals are discussed in advance.
    Purpose: A cost-effective follow-up to assessments and workshops to reinforce
    learning and provide personal accountability.
    Cost: Daily rate quoted in advance.
Sample Client Goals And Results Achieved
Job Redesign For Greater Satisfaction
An executive who worked at a large healthcare organization for 10+ years had become dissatisfied with his job responsibilities. He felt a great deal of loyalty to the organization, enjoyed the people he worked with and felt generally comfortable with his pay, benefits and commute. Still, the job had evolved into work he no longer enjoyed — so much so that he was contemplating a job change. Through coaching, he was able to pinpoint specific changes he desired in his job responsibilities, negotiate those changes, and implement them over an agreed upon period of time.
Attorney’s Work-Life Balance
A corporate lawyer practicing with a large firm for 9 years struggled with work-life balance issues. Work was depleting, leaving him little time or emotional energy for himself, his wife or his young children. He didn’t want to become like some of his acquaintances that had put worrying about work-life balance on the back burner in hopes of regaining it later. Through coaching, this lawyer realized he was being depleted by a job he wasn’t enjoying. He went to another firm, zeroed in on a specific type of law to practice, and now enjoys what he does so much it actually gives him extra energy to spend on himself and family.
“Right Mix” For Small Business Owner
A small business owner wanted to maintain her flourishing fitness business but felt that something was “missing” in her professional life. She wanted to explore additional services to offer clients. Through coaching, she realized she wanted to do something to exercise her mind as well as her body. She restructured her work to incorporate an additional activity for herself — part-time accounting job.
Transition Into “Retirement”
A school superintendent was contemplating her retirement and knew she wasn’t finished “working”. After 30+ years in education it was difficult to think about anything else. Through coaching, she created a personal vision incorporating her natural abilities, skills, personal style, interests, values, family and goals. She successfully applied that vision to identifying her next job and incorporating the pursuit of her neglected interests and leisure activities.