More About Joanne's Coaching
Your Future, Your Direction
Many use the terms "career counseling" and "career coaching" interchangeably. While there is overlap, counseling is more process-oriented while coaching is more results-oriented. In each, the counselor-coach's role, and the role of the client, are well-defined. A good counselor-coach should be able to use both sets of skills with you. Joanne Meehl blends the two and uses a fairly directive approach so as to keep things moving quickly.
You would meet with Joanne for several sessions either in person and/or on the phone. Her style is to work with a sense of urgency.
This is a process during which the client takes responsibility for his or her activity, which is as it should be because it's your search and should genuinely be about you. Those who partner with Joanne in this manner move more aggressively forward to their success. Coaching is not for the person who expects the coach to do the search for them.
Result: Over several sessions, you learn a lot about yourself in ways you hadn't before, and about your value in the job marketplace. You may decide on a complete change, you may decide on a slight shift, or you may even decide that what you're doing is exactly where you should be. And your job search is shorter and more effective, with you hitting your goals and exuding authentic confidence.
Job Search Time Management
Where Are You on the Time Management Matrix?
Many job hunters need a guide so that they use their time in the best ways. The following illustrates one way we work with clients to improve their use of time, always a precious resource in the job search.
Take this short quiz to see how you might use job search coaching.
First: Some Background
This is the Time Management Matrix from Dr. Stephen Covey's research (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 1989). He refers to it as a self-management matrix, because what are we managing when we manage our time, but ourselves?
The Question: Where Are YOU on this Matrix?
Think about your job search activities. Look at your planner for last week, if that helps. Where did you spend most of your job search time? Which quadrant -- I, II, III, or IV best describes where you are, job search-wise? Come on, be honest. Are you dawdling about and "getting ready", in Quadrants III or IV? Or constantly putting out fires in Quadrant I? Or planning and regenerating in Quadrant II?
Your Answer
If you are mostly in Quadrant I, you are rapidly heading for burnout. Job search coaching with Joanne can help you avoid being here so much. You'll learn how to be more in control of your time, instead of it being in control of you.
If you are mostly in Quadrant II, you're in the right place, investing in yourself and using your time well. Job search coaching can help you stay here. Simple check-ins with Joanne are a key part of the coaching you'd use.
"This is the most activity I have had in 6 months and is ALL YOUR FAULT! ;) You can quote me: Joanne helped me realize I have a lot of tools and knowledge I can offer to any employer and she helped me describe this knowledge in a more attractive and professional way.."
- Product Manager
If you find yourself in Quadrants III or IV most of the time, you are stuck in your comfort zone, and are doing things that waste valuable job search time. Your job search will be a long one if you don't move out of these quadrants! Job search coaching can get you OUT of being stuck and INTO an effective search. Joanne would help you set goals and stick to them.
