Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to progress their coaching practices in creative avenues. Without losing sight of fundamental coaching values and practices, it aims to encourage coaches and career advisors to adapt their practice by harnessing imagination, intuition and critical reflection to engage clients in all contexts. Hambly and Bomford consider the usefulness of creativity alongside traditional coaching models to help reach `harder to help' groups. It considers a whole brain approach to creativity, emphasising the need for coaches to adapt their client-facing skills for individual cases, combining their knowledge of labour markets with creative methods of decision making. It works through how clients make career decisions, how to frame a creative coaching session using techniques such as metaphor, visualisation and role play, how to use practical tools and techniques to resolve a client's individual needs, and how a coach maintains their own resilience. Combining the latest neuroscientific research with activities, summaries and case examples throughout, it provides a practical, skills-based approach to coaching. Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is the first book to summarise the Creative Career Coaching Model, and they provide practical examples of how to engage clients from 'harder to help' groups within this framework. It will be an indispensable resource for students of career development, career coaching, coaching psychology and advice and guidance courses. It will also be of interest to career coaches in practice and in training, particularly those seeking to enhance their skills.