chapter FOURTEEN
Transition and Career Management
Sooner or later, every coach will meet the client who needs coaching on his or her career, even if, as often happens, the career issues appear unexpectedly in a program that started with a different agenda. Companies are reshaping more frequently, recession creates fierce competition for jobs, more people are interspersing periods of consultancy with stretches of conventional employment, and the average length of job tenure is steadily diminishing. It is no longer unusual for senior clients to change jobs every two-and-a-half years.
Transition management and career coaching involve a rigorous process of reviewing where clients currently are in their private and work lives, identifying ...
