A coach is trained to help find solutions to make both your work and personal life more complete and balanced. A career coach, like a sports coach or music teacher, challenges you to more clearly define what winning in life means and having the courage to meet those challenges.

You can achieve:

	More confident career decisions
	Strength to face and deal with outplacement or other personal challenges in uncertain economic times
	Better balance between family and work
	Motivation to advance a career to the next level
	An improved current job situation or the confidence to make a job transition
	Motivation to proactively design or redesign your professional or academic life
	Insight to better understand your potential to seek the right career
	Strength and courage to take charge
	Increased potential for career growth and future earning power

How does coaching work?

Coaching tends to be short-term and goal focused (three to six months). A highly trained career coach works with clients on an individual basis, either on the phone or in person. Weekly sessions keep the process moving and the individual on track, recognizing progress and clarifying the next steps.

The coach:

Why hire a coach?

Gone are the days when only top ranked athletes and CEO's hired personal coaches! Now anyone can have this incredible secret weapon for personal success. A coach is your counselor and partner in going after the life you know you want and can accomplish, personally and professionally. A coach helps you hold yourself accountable for your life, to make sure you sincerely strive to achieve your potential. Managers, technology and non-technology professionals and administrative personnel can benefit through the objective counseling a professionally trained coach offers.

A coach helps the client:

	To think "outside the box" in order to create real answers
	To look honestly and objectively at how you are responsible for many circumstances in your life
	To work with the coach to identify obstructions to success
	To focus on a meaningful career or educational plan
	To help determine innovative ways to build a business or career
	To assist people with disabilities to strategically deal with workplace issues while meeting their individual health care needs

Executives, managers, and downsized professionals or even mature adults entering or reentering the workforce need career and job guidance. To make a successful change, you need to develop the tools and techniques for the career search, the job search and the right position for you. Whether employed, unemployed or underemployed, the tools of the trade, properly presented can make a huge difference. At GTS we help you every step of the way with a comprehensive portfolio of services dedicated to providing you with the tools for career success.