What Is Career & Life Coaching?
Career counseling is a highly individualized and supportive process through which you and your coach work together to help you define your career/life path. You work with your coach, at your own pace, on exploring the career possibilities appropriate to your needs and goals. Usually our clients come for four to six one-hour sessions. Appointments are arranged at your convenience.

Who Should Get A Career & Life Coach?

Career & Life Coaching helps to bring focus and clarity for individuals in numerous life situations, but is often specifically helpful for:

1. •Students seeking to determine how to select a career that matches their interests.
   

2. •People already employed who wish to look for a new career.
   

3. •Those who wish to work toward promotion in their existing career field.
   

What Does Coaching Entail?

The Oaktree Coaching Method includes:

SELF ASSESSMENT

Using a variety of assessment tools, we help you clarify your skills, values, interests, personality traits, preferred work environment, desired people, interactions, talents, and career development needs. (We often employ the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, the Strong Interest Inventory®, and the California Psychological Inventory®.)

DISCOVERY & EXPLORATION OF CAREER OPTIONS

Through discussions with your career coach, the results of our interviews and the standardized assessment inventories, we help you identify career options to consider. Learning about your career choices is an important step in this process.

How Does Life Coaching Work?

It works by providing the following features:

1. •It provides a skilled, caring and experienced coach who seeks to align with you in defining, pursuing and achieving your goals. We first listen carefully to obtain a preliminary understanding of your desired results and then establish a developmental partnership toward these important outcomes.
   

2. •We then use appropriate assessment instruments and questionnaires to clarify and more accurately define where you are and where you might want to be. This helps describe your strengths and weaknesses, so that we can appropriately leverage your internal and external assets and work on necessary improvements.
   

3. •This leads to the development of an effective action plan for targeted areas of progress and success with specific and measurable benchmarks
   

4. •This results in winning teamwork as you and your coach, align and work together, far surpassing what you might achieve on your own.
   

5. •We help you choose others who might be valuable allies in achieving your dreams and goals, such as selected friends, family members, co-workers, mentors, etc.
   

6. •Ultimately, you achieve your most important personal goals through action and structure: which includes support, challenge, accountability, and coaching, measuring progress at frequent intervals along the way.
   

Experience The Benefits!

Contact Oaktree by phone at (818) 952-1969 or at info@oaktreeassociates.com and ask for a complimentary Coaching Needs Assessment. Often, this can be accomplished in one telephone call, but an in-person meeting can be arranged if you prefer. We look forward to meeting you!