CCS Accredited Career Coach Training covers the following content:
What is Career Coaching?
- What career coaching is and how it differs from personal counselling
- The CCS Five-Stage Framework of Career Coaching
- Key theories of career development and career choice
- The relationship between career coaching, personal development, and organisational contexts
Essential Career Coaching Skills
- Active listening, reflecting, summarising, and giving constructive feedback
- Building rapport and maintaining professional boundaries
- Visioning and generating new career possibilities
- Identifying blocks and bridges to action
- Setting objectives, action planning, and managing outcomes
- Managing endings and transitions
Working with Career-Related Issues
Participants will explore both presenting and underlying issues, examples might include:
- Career transitions and life stages
- Work–life balance
- Career decision-making
- Organisational change and redundancy
- Performance-related issues
- Neurodivergence in the workplace
- Menopause and career impact
The CCS Career Coaching Toolkit
- Introduction to the CCS Career Coaching Toolkit
- Selecting and using tools effectively
- Tools focusing on motivation, values, and career drivers
- Completion of selected exercises from the manual
- Using questionnaires in career coaching
- Advantages and limitations of questionnaires
Managing Change and Transitions
- Emotional responses to change and their impact on career coaching
- Transitions and identity shifts
- Two models for supporting effective change management
Professional Practice, Ethics, and Standards
- Professional standards and ethical principles in career coaching
- Confidentiality and data protection
- Screening, contracting, and managing client expectations
- Referral: recognising limits of competence and signposting clients appropriately
Supervision, Evaluation, and Self-Management
- Case management discussion and supervision
- The importance of reflective practice and self-care
- Evaluating career coaching effectiveness
- Designing an ethical career coaching service
Application, Assessment and Licensing
- Production of a professional and personal Action Plan
- Eligibility to become a Licensed CCS Career Coach
- Completion of the post-course licensing test (usually within one month of course completion)