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LIFE & CAREER PLANNING SERVICES & SITES

Do you know where you are going? Are there any areas in life – in love or in work – where you feel stuck or stagnant? Have you ever felt that you could use a bit of a nudge – or a big push – to get out of a rut or to move more quickly in the right direction?

If you are a boomer, it’s now or never!!!!!

To help you through mid-life transitions, Boomerz is putting together on-line resources and has mentoring, life planning, and executive coaching services that will help you do just that.

On-Line Life-Planning Help

If you would like a “quick and dirty” birds-eye view of your interests and abilities, you can take advantage of some free helpful on-line resources.

  • Related to the Meyers Briggs Temperament indicator, this site will help you with on-line job searches - www.keirsey.com

  • This one includes some career assessment exercises and job search tips - www.lifeworktransitions.com

  • A fabulous resource for those who want to fulfill their passion and purpose in life created by Dick Bolles who wrote the famous "What Color Is Your Parachute" www.jobhuntersbible.com

  • For paid opportunities with non-profits, check out www.idealist.org

  • Discover is an on-line career guidance and information system designed to help you uncover your interests, skills and values. These assessments will then link you to potential career possibilities. The system can also help you learn more about your career options, majors, colleges, and universities. To obtain a user ID for Discover, please call Scottsdale Community College Career Services at 480-423-6523 or send an e-mail to raymond.dixon@sccmail.maricopa.edu.

  • Into Careers Website: The State of Arizona has a website with a bit more in-depth profile available at www.azcis.intocareers.org/. When you reach that page, it will ask you for a user ID and password. Your user ID is scottsdalecc and your password is 4azcis02. Use only lower case letters and make sure the 0 in the password is a numerical zero, not a letter.

If you are looking for volunteer opportunities, click on Volunteer Opportunities (under Civic Engagement) on the Resource Navigation toolbar to the left.

COACHING
Which Coach is Right for You? Looking for a coach but not sure whether a Life Coach or Career Coach will give you the results you’re looking for? Are you confused by the benefits they offer? Check out the points below to help you decide the type of coach that’s right for you?

About Career Coaching
Career Coaches offer advice and counsel specific to a career change or job market search.  They assist individuals in planning and implementing a transition to a new job or career alternative.  Also referred to as Career Counselors or Consultants, their expertise and experience is valuable if you are searching for a new job or career and need the following services:

  • Seeking expertise in understanding the job market

  • Learning how to effectively utilize all sources of job leads

  • Offering assessment to match interests, skills and talents with new career options

  • Re-packaging your skills & experience for today’s job market

  • Developing a resume  

  • Preparing for the job interview

  • Negotiating the job offer

About Life Coaching

Life coaches inspire you to take action towards what you want.  They help you identify that longing for something more when you don’t yet know what that is or where to start. They are your partners in creating a plan for how to accomplish your dreams.  A life coach can motive you to make dramatic changes in your life that result in feelings of fulfillment and happiness.   Life coaching can assist you in the areas of:

  • Asking what’s next

  • Making choices, changes & transitions

  • Creating a vision of your future path

  • Leaving a legacy

  • Desiring more meaningful work or community involvement

  • Developing goals and action steps

  • Longing for a new endeavor but not sure what it is

  • Pursuing entrepreneurial dreams

  • Wanting better work/life balance

  • Discovering your passions

  • Identifying your skills and talents

Career Coaches ($95 an hour)
Brad Taft has extensive experience in supporting individuals in career transition and specializes in assisting mature workers in achieving continued career success with a strategic planning approach. He is co-author of Boom or Bust!: New Career Strategies in a New America (Cambridge Media, LLC, 2006), a Career Management Guide for Baby Boomers and older workers. He is President of Taft Resource Group in Scottsdale and provides outplacement and career management consulting services to people interested in continuing their successful careers.  His early career was in executive recruiting with firms including Korn/Ferry International.  Brad then moved to the outplacement industry, where in addition to founding two of his own companies he held senior level consulting, management and marketing positions with three national firms. He received a B.A. in communications and a M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. He holds the Career Management Fellow certification, the highest designation for career management consultants, and is licensed by the Industrial Commission of Arizona to provide career consulting services to individuals. An accomplished public speaker and writer on career and organizational issues, he has written numerous articles and has been quoted in various publications including the Wall Street Journal, Money, Los Angeles Times and the Employment Law Letter.

 George Fleming has built his career transition coaching practice on a simple concept: "Manage your job search like any other project: define your objective, create to tools to used, identify the strategies to be reach it, and execute your plan with an eye on focus, productivity, and results."  His list of coaching clients includes business leaders from companies of all sizes and all industries and from all parts of the country. A recent client comments, "George was my career coach after I recently moved. He listened to my thoughts and helped me arrive at the critical considerations. He asks stimulating questions. He has wonderful resources, from interviewing questions to salary negotiations, to professionals willing to share ideas. George made a significant difference in my job search. I will continue to tap George through out my career." George and Momentum Coaching Resources have excelled in this market, and have been published, interviewed, and quoted numerous times in the Arizona Republic, the Wall St. Journal, Jobing.com, and the Mesa Tribune. George has over 20 years experience in business management, working with people in both corporate and field office environments. With over six years as a management consultant, he has worked with companies at every stage of growth. He received his BA from Amherst College and his MBA from Columbia University.

Life Coaches ($375 for a four 50-minute session program)
Catherine Ross, CPCC. Whether it’s life planning, work-life balance, career transition, building a small business or leadership development, Catherine Ross helps business and professional women discover and realize their dreams. She brings a background of over 16 years in management and leadership development experience to her coaching, and received her coach training and certification from the premier Coach Training Institute (CTI). Catherine’s client list includes executives from Fortune 500 companies living across the country, women re-entering the workforce, published authors, entrepreneurs and small business owners. Her workshops have been presented nationally and include topics from leadership to work/life balance.   She is co-founder, past president and board member of the Phoenix Chapter of the International Coaching Federation.

Loretta Love Huff is the President and Principal Consultant of Emerald Harvest Consulting, LLC, your Performance Improvement Partner™. She is a seasoned corporate executive with over 30 years of experience in human resources, information systems, commercial lending, and market research management. She has coached leaders and teams within Hewlett-Packard, APS, Visa, Sprint, Allstate, Wells Fargo Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Arizona State University, the State of Arizona and the Mayo Clinic. Loretta is a Director on the Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee for the Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council and was recently awarded the Class I MBE Supplier of the Year. She teaches Career Management, Organizational Leadership and Change Management, Systems Thinking, Organizational Behavior and Conflict Management for the graduate divisions of the University of Phoenix and Ottawa University and has made TV appearances on the Fox10 Morning News show with Rick D’Amico in Phoenix.  Loretta is a member of the National Speakers Association and a certified member of the International Coach Federation. She holds a B.S. in Psychology from Howard University and an M.B.A in Finance from the University of Chicago.

Francesca Lyons, ACC, Life Design Coach at Coaching for Discovery, invites you to join her in the coaching arena to look at and clarify your visions, values and goals in tandem with discerning the obstacles that stand in your way.  Engaging Francesca as a Coach will facilitate clearing a path to:

  • Opening and freeing the channels of energy to Time, Money, Physical Vitality, Relationship, Creativity and Enjoyment  

  • Handle and release stress from your life

  • Experience balance and abundance in your life

Francesca’s career is highlighted with over 25 years in corporate advertising as a successful producer of television and radio commercials as well as an account executive for NET, a subsidiary of PBS Television.  Following her North Star, Francesca trained and graduated from The Academy for Coaching Excellence to become a certified Coach and member of the ICF.  Francesca is also certified as a HeartMath Provider, DISC behavioral assessment instrument and Enneagram typology tool provider.

 

One-on-one life & career planning services are available through Boomerz. For more information or to make an appointment, call 480 990-1450 or go directly to the registration form:

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