6 Summary
By now, you should be feeling more informed about what career coaching is. You’ve explored some of its history and looked at how it can make a difference to individuals in the workplace. You’ve also looked in more detail at how Kolb’s learning theory underpins the coaching approach.
You should now be able to:
- understand how and why career coaching has developed
- recognise the difference career coaching can make
- describe some of the theory that underpins coaching.
Reflection
Use the box below to note down any actions you will take as a result of what you have learned this week. This will be useful when you come to Week 8, reflecting on what you have learned over the whole of the course and planning your next steps, but you can also use it to check on your progress at any point.
Next week, you will continue to look at career coaching, this time with an emphasis on how coaching can benefit you. You’ll start by looking in more detail at a range of the techniques and approaches coaches use.
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