Career Coaching | Coaching to Optimize your Career

Why Coaching?

Are you or do you know individuals who are:

Stuck and unmotivated? Feeling non-productive
Seeking guidance to manage cultural issues in the workplace
Not confident about strengths and how to utilize them

Unsure about the next career direction or move
Struggling with productive interpersonal communication
Seeking guidance about managing more effectively

What is Coaching?

Coaching helps individuals to recognize their strengths and talents, patterns of behavior, and how to shift or adapt some behaviors to be more successful.

Coaching also engages clients in examination of workplace climate, structures, and operations and how these may affect optimal performance.

Coaching provides perspective-taking about issues, peers, and supervisors.

Coaching benefits career optimization.

Coaching for Optimization Requires:

Commitment
Coherent and clear planning
Connections and networks
Communication strategies for effectiveness

Benefits & Outcomes

of Coaching

Finding solutions for career plans
Enhancing management and leadership capabilities
Not going it alone; having a collaborator

Recognizing strengths and building confidence
Objective, confidential opinion about work dilemmas
Moving forward with plans for personal and professional excellence

The AAG Coaching Process

Getting Started

30-minute complimentary session
Signed letter of agreement required to proceed
Communication between the client and coach are strictly confidential

Coaching Tasks

Completing a written self-assessment
Sharing your resume
Goal-setting: What you want to accomplish
50-minute coaching sessions
Homework

Coaching Roadmap

Clarifying motivating forces
Setting goals and outcomes
Completing communication and leadership assessments*
Affirming personal and professional competencies
Identifying emotional blocks
Planning for next steps

* Leadership assessment optional

Note: Group rates are available for employers.

AAG Coaches

Dr. Patricia Arredondo

Dr. Patricia Arredondo, president of AAG has coached professionals in industries such as banking, healthcare, higher education, and the sciences. A licensed psychologist, she strives to empower her clients to consider goals, choices, and alternatives, and how to best meet their career plans. She has extensive experience coaching persons of diverse backgrounds.

Dr. Linda Liang

Dr. Linda Liang, AAG Senior Consultant has expertise in leadership and communication assessments. She uses data to inform individuals about their strengths and areas of improvement. An organizational consultant, she has worked with The Sara Lee Corporation, the National Science Foundation, Nation Pizza Products, and others.

Testimonials

Diana

University Administrator Testimonial

Navigating my leadership role as a professional female of color often feels lonely, foreign and unforgiving of diverse viewpoints and perspectives that don’t subscribe to the male-dominant culture in higher education. It’s not simply enough to show commitment, expert acumen and do an exceptional job.

Dr. Arredondo gave me a much-needed perspective and support to help me to stay confident and secure without getting distracted by people who do not share my values, work ethic or core beliefs. She provided informed and balanced coaching that motivated me to reflect, respond, and honor my professional and personal hopes and dreams, all while staying grounded in who I am.

Eleanor

Graduate Student

Throughout our mentoring sessions, Dr. Arredondo coached me through some very challenging issues that I encountered as a woman in a leadership position in academia. She helped me to think critically and reflectively about what my leadership skills and how I could draw on them to be effective in my position. Dr. A was instrumental in my decision to pursue my doctoral studies—she helped me build my self-efficacy tremendously and I doubt I would have applied to programs without her encouragement. I am graduating May 2019 at the University of Minnesota.

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