Executive & Career Coaching
PSEC’s standard one-on-one coaching engagement is 10 sessions. The first two sessions focus on clarifying clients' goals and challenges, assessing what is holding them back, and developing a change & goal attainment plan. The remaining 8 sessions are dedicated to the change and goal attainment work. Below is a description of PSEC's consulting process.
Clarifying Goals and Challenges, Assessing What is Holding Clients Back, and Developing a Change & Goal Attainment Plan
(2 Sessions)
The objective of PSEC’s assessment stage is to work collaboratively with clients to:
PSEC meets with clients for two assessment sessions, which serve as the foundation for the change and goal attainment work that follows. PSEC asks challenging questions and obtains professional and personal history to identify and understand clients' goals and what is holding them back from overcoming their career and professional challenges. PSEC then works with clients in the two assessment sessions to develop a plan that will help them change their patterns, overcome their challenges, and move forward in achieving their goals.
Change and Goal Attainment Sessions
(8 sessions)
After the two assessment sessions, PSEC meets with clients for 8 change and goal attainment sessions, which are divided into the following parts:
Labeling and Stopping What is Holding Clients Back
Labeling - In these early stages of the change and goal attainment work, PSEC delves into specific situations, conversations, interactions and thought processes to label the important and often subtle ways clients hold themselves back from overcoming their challenges and attaining their goals on a day-to-day basis. We force clients to look at the specifics of how they think and act in the context of their challenges and help them see how their approaches often prevent them from successfully moving forward in the way they want.
Stopping - The next important step in the change and goal attainment work is helping clients develop the ability to put a stop in real time to the counterproductive thinking and behavior that is holding them back from overcoming their challenges and achieving their goals. A great deal of thought and action occur automatically and it is a significant skill to recognize, label and stop in real time what has previously been automatic. Honing this ability to stop old, counterproductive patterns is a key step in the ability to overcome career and professional challenges and move forward on achieving goals.
Developing New Approaches
In the middle stages of the change and goal attainment sessions, PSEC works with clients to develop new approaches in how they can think and act in their efforts to overcome their challenges and achieve their goals. We listen to what clients have done in the past and help them come up with new approaches that can genuinely work for them.
Implementing New Approaches
Once PSEC has worked with clients to develop the new ways they can think and act to overcome their challenges and move forward in achieving their goals, we then help clients implement these new approaches. PSEC helps clients execute their new approaches and overcome the obstacles that arise as they take on these new ways of thinking and acting. As the change process proceeds, we review what is working and what is not, helping clients determine what they can further tweak in their new patterns of thought and action.
Integrating New Approaches
As clients implement new approaches in working to overcome their challenges, PSEC also helps them integrate these new approaches with pre-existing approaches that have already been effective. We help clients find ways to combine the old and new in a manner that is genuine, authentic, and coherent. We help clients work through the uncertainty and discomfort that comes with doing things in new ways and letting go of doing things in old ways.
Maintaining New Approaches
While it would be easier if people fully changed after one time of thinking and acting in a new way, the reality is it takes practice and repetition to change old patterns and consistently implement new ones. PSEC works with clients to maintain the changes they are achieving. We review what is working for clients and how they can maintain their new patterns in the context of new challenges that come up for them as they continue to pursue their goals. PSEC also helps clients see the subtle ways in which they back slide into old approaches of navigating their challenges and helps them recalibrate when they do.
Additional maintenance sessions can be added onto the end of the standard 10-session coaching engagement.
Clarifying Goals and Challenges, Assessing What is Holding Clients Back, and Developing a Change & Goal Attainment Plan
(2 Sessions)
The objective of PSEC’s assessment stage is to work collaboratively with clients to:
- identify the challenges they want to address and the goals they want to attain
- identify what in their patterns is holding them back from overcoming their challenges and attaining their goals
- develop a plan to work through what is holding them back and move forward in achieving their goals
PSEC meets with clients for two assessment sessions, which serve as the foundation for the change and goal attainment work that follows. PSEC asks challenging questions and obtains professional and personal history to identify and understand clients' goals and what is holding them back from overcoming their career and professional challenges. PSEC then works with clients in the two assessment sessions to develop a plan that will help them change their patterns, overcome their challenges, and move forward in achieving their goals.
Change and Goal Attainment Sessions
(8 sessions)
After the two assessment sessions, PSEC meets with clients for 8 change and goal attainment sessions, which are divided into the following parts:
Labeling and Stopping What is Holding Clients Back
Labeling - In these early stages of the change and goal attainment work, PSEC delves into specific situations, conversations, interactions and thought processes to label the important and often subtle ways clients hold themselves back from overcoming their challenges and attaining their goals on a day-to-day basis. We force clients to look at the specifics of how they think and act in the context of their challenges and help them see how their approaches often prevent them from successfully moving forward in the way they want.
Stopping - The next important step in the change and goal attainment work is helping clients develop the ability to put a stop in real time to the counterproductive thinking and behavior that is holding them back from overcoming their challenges and achieving their goals. A great deal of thought and action occur automatically and it is a significant skill to recognize, label and stop in real time what has previously been automatic. Honing this ability to stop old, counterproductive patterns is a key step in the ability to overcome career and professional challenges and move forward on achieving goals.
Developing New Approaches
In the middle stages of the change and goal attainment sessions, PSEC works with clients to develop new approaches in how they can think and act in their efforts to overcome their challenges and achieve their goals. We listen to what clients have done in the past and help them come up with new approaches that can genuinely work for them.
Implementing New Approaches
Once PSEC has worked with clients to develop the new ways they can think and act to overcome their challenges and move forward in achieving their goals, we then help clients implement these new approaches. PSEC helps clients execute their new approaches and overcome the obstacles that arise as they take on these new ways of thinking and acting. As the change process proceeds, we review what is working and what is not, helping clients determine what they can further tweak in their new patterns of thought and action.
Integrating New Approaches
As clients implement new approaches in working to overcome their challenges, PSEC also helps them integrate these new approaches with pre-existing approaches that have already been effective. We help clients find ways to combine the old and new in a manner that is genuine, authentic, and coherent. We help clients work through the uncertainty and discomfort that comes with doing things in new ways and letting go of doing things in old ways.
Maintaining New Approaches
While it would be easier if people fully changed after one time of thinking and acting in a new way, the reality is it takes practice and repetition to change old patterns and consistently implement new ones. PSEC works with clients to maintain the changes they are achieving. We review what is working for clients and how they can maintain their new patterns in the context of new challenges that come up for them as they continue to pursue their goals. PSEC also helps clients see the subtle ways in which they back slide into old approaches of navigating their challenges and helps them recalibrate when they do.
Additional maintenance sessions can be added onto the end of the standard 10-session coaching engagement.
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Park Street Executive Consulting LLC
973-446-5570
103 Park Street, Suite 2A
Montclair, NJ 07042
Park Street Executive Consulting LLC
973-446-5570
103 Park Street, Suite 2A
Montclair, NJ 07042