Grace offers "Career Coaching" in the following areas:
When can you expect to see results upon being coached?
1. Career Advancement
Do you feel being held back from advancement in your work? Have you been waiting and hoping on that promotion that is yet to happen? Do you feel restricted by your existing skills and knowledge? Or are you falling short of performance appraisals targets? Are you aiming for a bigger and better future in your career? AmazingGrace Coach has just the experience and insights to help you achieve success in all of these areas!
Having spent 6 solid years in training and performance management, Grace has accumulated knowledge and field experience in advising people who are looking for career advancement. She identifies with you the factors that are holding you back from advancement or promotion, and really get into the details of your work as a whole. She listens to your problems and issues while training you on essential communication and interpersonal skills at work. She evaluates with you the barriers and blockages that might exist within you and encourage you with objectivity and facilitation to change. Grace excels in fostering teamwork and harmony in a work environment and so she will assist you in developing these qualities. While pushing you to higher levels, Grace's coaching will help you understand your strengths and weaknesses, and as a result improve your overall performances. These will include your management, organization, and professional relationship areas. Grace is also diligent in prompting you to set and meet targets, making sure that you are supported in all aspects. Give her a call today and see immediate differences to your career!
2. Career Transitions
Are you looking for a career change? Have you taken a career break to explore new grounds? Or have you been at your current job for years and lost interest and momentum? Do you feel you could be better used in a different profession but you lack the courage and confidence to venture out? Perhaps you have just moved to a new place and you are not familiar with the local job market. Whatever career challenges you are faced with, AmazingGrace Coach has been there and she understands. Talk to her for some practical and concrete suggestions, together with insightful analysis and plenty of encouragement.
From music to mechanical engineering to hi-tech, from a teacher to a training officer to an analyst, Grace has treaded across three continents over the last 20 years, going from strengths to strengths in her career. Now she is ready to share her experience with you so you can move from surviving to thriving.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), the famous American author and philosopher, said, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Grace has always upheld the belief that if there is a will, there is a way. This was what gave her the courage and stamina to venture on to new grounds and made breakthroughs throughout her career path. She will show you that all it takes to mark that prominent change in your career is to take a deep breath.
Grace is acute in making career assessments and job analysis. She has been advising in career matters for the last 10 years. Apart from her own exciting encounters, Grace has come across hundreds of quotable examples to reassure you that a career path does not have to be a dead-end if you take positive and constructive steps towards a new direction. She will review with you the existing skills and assets that you possess, and find with you the shortest and most efficient path to achieving the greatest results in a career change. She will also coach you on making wise decisions and considerations for you and your family during this transition period. While building up confidence for the big move, Grace will also coach you on all the competence of hunting down that important stepping stone for your new profession.
One thing is for sure, you will never be short of motivation, encouragement and reassurance from AmazingGrace Coach. Give her a call today!
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Job Hunting Skills
Are you searching for a new job? And need help with writing and reviewing a winning resume or cover letter? Do you lack interview skills and experience? Do you know your job market well? Or maybe you are not yielding results from your current network. Perhaps you have a few offers at hand and you would like someone to help you make the right choice; or perhaps you have received the offer of your dream job, but you hope to negotiate for better terms of employment. AmazingGrace Coach will assist you with all of your job hunting requirements and train you on the essential skills.
A career mentor who had job hunted from scratch at each of her career transitions, Grace knows what it takes to capture and land on the ideal job in order to move forward. At the moment of contact, Grace will immediately get to work with you, identifying those jobs on the market that would suit you, and how your marketable skills may seamlessly fit into those job requirements and specifications. If you already have a resume and cover letter, she will review with you how to refine on it so as to improve on the chances of getting an interview. More importantly, she will coach you on telephone screenings and follow-up skills, and all of the necessary preparation working up to the job interview. She excels in working with the recruiters and headhunters, and she will devise with you a step-by-step plan easy to follow. Whether it be interview rehearsals, brushing up on your communication skills or networking skills, or even negotiation skills for your ideal salary or condition, Grace is here to serve and assist, support and motivate you until you find that job you have hoped for. Make today THE day you get results, give her a call!
4. Academic Guidance
Are you a student struggling with writing your essays or dissertations? Do you have a long recommended reading list and you don't know how to start? Do you always find it difficult to put your thoughts into words on to the paper? Or maybe you are finding it difficult to understand and meet your teachers' or professors' requirements; or always running out of time to complete your written assignments. Perhaps you have decided on a research topic and you are looking for guidance, someone to bounce off your thoughts and ideas with. AmazingGrace has a sound academic background to act as your coach and mentor.
Academics often find themselves totally alone and isolated when it comes to proposing and completing written assignments; for each piece of work is as unique as each one of us is! Our writing styles reflect who we are and what we contain in terms of substances. The reading and research leading up to writing is also colossal and tedious. It requires an immense amount of organizational skills and time management in order for the work to be delivered on time. Don't worry - help is at hand! Give Grace a call today and discuss with her your writing challenges and let her coach you on your next upcoming assignment. If you are short of ideas, she will send you on a mission to search for materials that are relevant and of interest to the subject, and coach you on critical thinking and analysis as you have gathered your resources. Plowing through literature reviews can be tiresome and uninspiring, but Grace knows just the ways to spark off your inquisitiveness and questioning. Grace is an expert in the selection of contents, sorting and structuring for your article or thesis. If you have publishing needs of academic papers and tenure proposals, whether it be practically or emotionally, she will be very happy to assist and support you in the process of nailing down the grant that is much sought after. Improved study skills, increased ability to analyze and organize, enhanced self esteem, better use of your time. Grace guarantees you with these valuable results. Don't delay, give her a call today!
What do the sessions typically offer?
What results can you expect?
When can you expect to see results upon being coached?
The time frame for results and success varies from person to person, and also depends on the career issues and challenges that the client is faced with. The benefits of coaching can be detected almost immediately after the first session, and continuous desirable effects can be expected to surface within 3-4 sessions of coaching.
Services include telephone, email and online consultations.
Telephone consultations can be conducted in English, Pu Tong Hua, or Cantonese.
Email and online consultations are conducted in English only.