AWIS - Your Partner from the Bench to the Boardroom
You know AWIS as a networking and mentoring resource – now try us as you move to the next stage of your career. If you could use a professional or personal boost, try our new Coaching Program. A professional coach is trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to your individual needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from you; they believe that you are naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that you already have. While a coach may offer advice, that is not the primary role of the coach. Coaching is not therapy. If your coach sees an issue that would be better handled by a therapist, she will let you know and will provide resources to help you select a therapist. Isn't coaching like mentoring? Why work with a professional coach? If you are interested in making a career transition, a professional coach can help you evaluate your career choices through the lens of your strengths, values and long-term personal and professional goals. If you want to better position yourself for a raise or promotion, a coach can help you develop more confidence, create strategies to improve your visibility and promote-ability and give you a safe place to practice critical conversations. If you want to better work-life balance, a professional coach can help you look at the way your current choices impact your work-life balance and identify the changes that will have the biggest impact on your personal satisfaction. A professional coach can help you objectively assess your leadership, communication or conflict skills and provide you with tools you can use immediately to increase your emotional intelligence and become more effective both personally and professionally. If you are experiencing a difficult situation at work, a professional coach can be an objective sounding board, helping you clarify the outcome you’d like to see and identify strategies to deal with the situation effectively. What are the benefits of coaching? Depending on the reason you choose to work with a coach, the benefits you might expect are:
Our one-of-a-kind program, with individual and group coaching components offered by experienced coaches, is specially designed for women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
What is coaching?
Isn't coaching like mentoring?
Why work with a professional coach?
What are the benefits of coaching?
What is coaching?
Coaching is an individualized approach to your personal and professional development that works best when you see a gap between where you are now and where you want to be.
While there are some similarities, coaching and mentoring are not the same. Check out Monica Horvath's column, Coaching vs. Mentoring, in Spring 2007 issue of AWIS magazine.
There are as many reasons to work with a coach as there are people!
NEW PROGRAM!
We are pleased to announce that the AWIS Coaching Program has partnered with Dr. Peggy Wallace, founder of Making Conversation, to offer interview preparation services.
Click here to read more.
Click here to read Making Conversation Communication Tips #1
Questions about the AWIS Coaching Program?
Contact Pam Williams
at 727-393-2341 or coaching@awiscoaching.org.
Listen to the AWIS Leadership Coaching Group Tele-forum and Live Coaching Demonstration
- Individual Coaching - Introductory Session
- Individual Coaching - Monthly Agreement
- Career Transition Leadership Group
- Leadership Coaching Group
TIP: Some organizations will pay for coaching services. Check with your supervisor or HR Manager.
Coaching Profile
The program director for a small biopharmaceutical company, responsible for an annual drug development budget of >$40 million, turned to coaching to help her deal with her biggest workplace frustrations: lack of recognition and navigating politics in an organization whose senior leadership was all male. Read more...
