EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This is a report detailing the roles and responsibilities of a Career Coach translating into the importance of long term success of an organization. It studies the meaning of career and what it means to an individual. It also covers the importance of a career coach and how having a coach helps in the approach to reaching certain goals. The management of an organization should understand the benefits, a career coach can bring to its processes and to its employees. Coaching is a process that involves certain factors for it to be effective, such as having the right environment as well as how and where it can be utilized. This report explores all that and to also study one such coaching model known as the GROW model. I would like to take the term of Career Coach and take the two words apart and focus on ‘career’. Career is not to be confused with a job though most people cannot clearly define the two given its similarities and the loose manner in which people use them in daily conversations. A job is born out of necessity and in most cases, out of requirement due to financial reasons. It is something that people do by offering their skill or service in exchange for monetary payment. They may or may not like what they are doing and satisfaction is all the more, a secondary issue.
On the other hand, a career is something or a view that most people would take towards a particular occupation in which they hope, would be long term.’ Career’ is a term that evolves from ‘job’ with the difference coming from a few factors. In a career, people would spend more time evaluating the prospect of the job they are going into; if it is something they want to be doing for the long term. The evaluation process may also involve family members as this will concern working hours and whether it entails traveling overseas for work. Also up for consideration are the