Hi all,

I have a client who wants me to help him with getting more confident about various things (which sounds easy enough) and also wants ''career development advice'' as he wants to ''move on'' from his current job but is unsure about what to do.

I don;t have much experience with such matters. Does anyone know of any good resources/models/patterns for career development/planning?

CG

Hi, you could elicit his core values and genereate a state of having all of those in his life. Then elicit the submodalities of the state so client can calibrate to them. That can then act like a compass - if a job/choice is in line with the compass etc..

Hi Chris,

You can certainly give him some basic advice about doing what he's good at, finding a job that he loves and so forth. However, I would seriously consider referring him on to an NLP-trained coach. There's an awful lot of specialized knowledge that can be helpful to your client that someone trained as a coach would have available.

If you'd like to do this sort of thing in the future, I would advise you to consider learning more about these issues yourself, but unless you're very fast study, I wouldn't recommend you use this client for 'on-the-job training'.

Another possibility would be to find a coach and ask if you can sit in on the session alongside your client to observe. This allow you to get on the idea of what's involved and whether or not that's a skill set that you would be interested in picking up.

I hope that helps!

Be Well,

Michael Perez