Personal Career Coaching
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Personal Career Coaching |
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About The JOB DOC
Q. What exactly does Larry Daly offer?
A. I help working people get raises, promotions, better jobs, set and achieve their own career and personal life goals, as quickly, inexpensively, and effectively as possible.Q. How do you do this?
A. By Personal Career Coaching, a unique, self-help self-development program, customized for you, in four different ways:
Personal Individual Career Coaching by the hour
A 6-session Short Program (partial 12-Step Career Program)
A 50-session Full Program (full 12-Step Career Program)
And anything in between, because everyone is different, and needs something individual.Q. Do you give classes?
A. No formal classes. No formal textbooks. (However, Career Zen is required reading.) This is Individual Personal Care and Attention, giving each person what he or she needs, either alone or in 3- to 5-person adult career study groups working together on common goals, usually in 2-hour sessions, usually once a week.Q. How can you help me with my career problems?
A. First, like a doctor, the JOB DOC, examines your specific job symptoms to see where your career hurts, right now, using my copyrighted checklists of 67 different career and life problem areas. Together, we see what you need, set some preliminary life and career goals, and start your self-help program. By first defining what is most important to your success, as you define it, we can plan steps and goals to get there, set a schedule to work on each item needed, until you are much more result - effective than at present.
Then we rehearse career - oriented exercises such as job interviews, negotiating pay and terms, networking, work style, people skills, etc. We videotape these rehearsals to analyze and design self-improvement drills and exercises for you to practice on your own and with your team. Whether entering a room, making a speech, directing subordinates, shaking hands, greeting strangers, or 263 other career-related and personal items, you must watch and hear yourself doing it, from outside, to best improve yourself at it.
With other like-minded career-oriented self-helpers you drill and practice until you gain professional proficiency in these things. (It's like a "Career Finishing School".)
Then (here is where my coaching is better than any other method) we continue to work together developing your career, meeting monthly, quarterly, annually, or as needed. Why? Because a career is not a single act, but a continuing process, lasting all your working life, an on-going process of choosing your best educational options, making the best career decisions, refining plans at each stage of your progress toward your annual goals, all much too important and critical to do alone, by trial and error, guess and hope, with no net, every moment in danger of crashing and burning all alone, and never knowing why. You need continuing professional feedback, guidance, experience, perspective, cooperation, friends, and more.
My personal individualized coaching helps you achieve more than you can any other way. You're not hiring a one-time plumber or car mechanic or career counselor, not the dehumanized production line method of conventional education, but a working guide through what is, to you right now, uncharted mental, emotional, career, and social territory.Q. Do you handle Unique or Special Career Problems?
A. Yes. Everybody I've ever met is unique and has special career problems. I'm here to help you in evaluating and choosing your educational options, life planning, career planning, raising money, and much more. You do. I guide, coaching you in self-help, finding and using information, thinking for yourself, making your own decisions, building your self-discipline and self-confidence, overcoming perceived barriers (often self-created, but often socially imposed to keep you a docile obedient sheep in the flock), and taking your own action. When you know what to do, see how, are ready to do whatever is necessary, you can 'handle' your own problems. The coach won't tell you what to do, can't play your game for you. He stands on the side, observes, drills you to overcome your limits, do more, and do it better. But in the end you must play your own game. It's your life, and up to you what you do with it. Coaching only helps you develop a better game, a better career, a better life, for yourself.Q. How Long Does It Take?
A. You can achieve real career results fast: a raise in 3 weeks, a promotion in 6 weeks, a better job in 12 weeks, once you are ready, fully prepared. We don't waste time on things you already know or can do. Alone, 1-on-1, or in my fast career 'attack' teams, there is no waiting for class slow-pokes or rigid schedules. You go as fast as you can. My 6-week Short Program is merely a list of assignments most people can do in that time, but others can do in less. My 50 week Full Program is a much tougher list of 50 assignments some can do faster. If you need the help of specialists (wardrobe, speech, etc.), we can hire them for what they can do, then move on, fast, toward your goals.Q. Specifically, what do we study? Examples, please.
A. Only half of every job you ever have will be the work itself -- the rest is dealing with people, from bosses to inferiors, from technical experts and artists and vendors to clients and specialists of every kind. Many will be fine, and a pleasure to work with, most simply self-concerned, but some will be truly odious, and worse. Everything we do all our lives, and especially in our careers, is in the context of other people, so 'peopling' is your number one study and project. Learning people types and how to deal successfully with every kind, and especially difficult people, and other people-related subjects, will take up much of your time and energy here, rather than technical stuff you can get in any course. You will role-play good and bad types, and analyze videotapes of yourself until you can deal successfully with all 16 major personality types, 4 communication types, and 3 Neuro - Linguistic types, among many others. From networking for contacts and references and ideas to money loans, from forming alliances and power partnerships that benefit both parties, and more, you will learn by doing, acting, rehearsing, drilling, refining your techniques and attitudes. You also study and practice the things you will be doing in the job above you, that you are aiming for; writing memos and reports, making presentations, and whatever else that job needs, to be ready when that job opens to you. This is mental, emotional, and practical career preparation for success, with all the tricks and techniques.Q. How much does The JOB DOC charge?
A. Different for everyone, depending on what you need, but in general, for individuals, right now, usually only $65 per 2 hr* session, once a week. Special arrangements can be considered for those who are serious but short of cash. That's less than a TV repairman, plumber, psychiatrist, masseur or hypnotist charges per hour, but I'll raise it soon. For corporate and institutional service, $120 per hour, minimum, plus travel and expenses. [*Actual session time may be 10 - 15 minutes less if my schedule is tight, or may go longer if I have the free time - I'm not a clock watcher, not out to become a millionaire.]Q. What are your Terms?
A. Cash, pay as you go, each session. There is no contract to compel you to stay and pay if you are not getting what you want; you can drop out anytime if you are not satisfied. No credit cards, billing, or other complications. I'm a coach, not a bloody bookkeeper.Q. What are your Hours?
A. Flexible, your choice (days, evenings, night, weekends, but always by appointment only, with no exceptions, ever).Q. What is your Location?
A. I usually see clients in my home-office (upper east side, Madison Ave. & 96th St. express bus stop; Lexington Ave. station, #6 Line, 2 blocks away) or we may meet outdoors in good weather - Central Park is 1 block away. I do rent midtown facilities if needed, but then charge higher rates, accordingly.Q. Do you offer a Guarantee?
A. Yes. 108% money-back refund, same as putting your money in the bank, but only for my Full Program, not for my short 6-week program or my hourly coaching. The 50-week Full Program is thorough and comprehensive, exhaustive (and exhausting!) career preparation; the short program and hourly sessions only focus on just what you need at the moment, or as we decide at that time. This is a zero-risk program. Here is my no-baloney 78-word (count them) 108% money-back promise:My Money-Back Guarantee: If, within six months after completing my full, one-year (50 week) Self Help Career Program, you have not increased your income by at least 50%, or otherwise met or achieved the position or other goal we have both agreed upon in advance as most desirable and reasonable for you, I will personally return every dollar you have paid me for my program, plus 8% bank-rate interest on it, and I'll STILL help you achieve that goal, gladly.
(Signed) Larry Daly, July 30, 2002
Q. What other expenses are involved?
A. For each client, different. Every client should [1] take at least one educational course per year in his business field; [2] develop a reading list of at least a dozen periodicals in his specialty; and in related and general subjects; [3] read at least one book a month to one a week (yes, 12 to 50 books a year!) in his and related career fields, to keep up with (and get ahead of change in) everything else, to be ready to make career changes necessary to get to his life goals. In the past you worked for one company all your life; today you must plan on making one or two major career changes per decade, maybe a dozen in your working lifetime. Companies now rise and fall in a few years, are absorbed and downsized without warning, and vanish overnight, sometimes into Chapter 11, or worse. Read the news. You must be ready for anything. My personal Career Coaching and my copyrighted lists of Seven Rules for Getting Raises and Promotions, and 50 Career Rules helps my clients do exactly that. And, since computers and other electronic technologies are vital in every occupation today, you must own, or quickly acquire, an up-to-date system of your own, with Internet access, and become proficient in their use. All of these are necessary expenses for your Career Success. I wish I got a percentage, but I don't; you spend these where they will do you the most good. You must invest your time and effort in your own success. I usually suggest re-investing 5% to 10% of your income in constant upgrading yourself, all your working life.Q. What is your Experience?
A. Now 69 and semi-retired, with 53 years experience in 36 businesses in 11 fields; owned 2 businesses and partner in 2 others; author of 3 books published, 3 more not yet published; and created the Space Age Super Studies (SASS) Discipline for corporations. I successfully coached about 300 people informally, 1990 to 1998, then began my professional practice at it, upon retirement, September 1998.Q. Have you any Certification?
A. No. This is a new kind of personalized help method, so it is not certified yet. I have not yet fully documented my methods or results for any kind of certification, and may not, due to client confidentiality, and because counsel advises me that my methods are valuable trade secrets and proprietary information. And because every client is different. Every time that I think I have discovered a 'rule', a week later I discover an exception, too! And, since you are the one doing all the hard work, the results are more up to you than to my minor expertise. There are many highly qualified 1-visit career counselors and advisors in the New York area, many highly certified in psychiatry and other fields (whether they have had as much actual working experience as I have had), all using traditional standardized methods, if that is what is most important to you, or all you need at this time.Q. Have you any Testimonials or proofs of your ability?
A. Yes. You may question any of my former clients about the benefits of my coaching. However, you must ask yourself if their success is valid for your needs, or are your goals and problems different, perhaps unique? The best and fastest way to evaluate my knowledge and to decide for yourself whether my methods can help you personally, is to first read my short book, Career Zen, Read it here on my web site for free, or send for a printed copy ($39.95, returnable up to 6 months, if in salable condition, or free with my coaching, after six paid sessions). Then we can talk about references and testimonials.Q. You mentioned assignments. What are they like?
A. They are difficult for most people, thus the need for teamwork. Everything today is teamwork, in sports, medicine, business, research, science, and even art. So I use the same self-help cooperative and competitive team strategies and tactics in self-education and self-improvement and career advancement preparation. For instance, in each session I give you an assignment (such as writing out your résumé, or researching the companies you may want to work at). You bring in the completed work at the next session and we discuss it, and you get the next assignment. (There is no scoring or grades or passing or failing -- by doing the work yourself, you have already learned more than anyone can teach you, and better and faster.) Together, we design these assignments to give you just what you need; every assignment is on something that you personally need to know, or be able to do, to go where you want to be in your career and life. This kind of coaching and guided self - education helps you learn much more, faster and better than traditional teach-and-test methods, better than from any textbook, and it's what you personally need to achieve your own specific career goals. No time wasted on what you already know. Or other useless baloney. This is work, and often very hard work, but helps you become the professional you must be for success. To fully understand this, read my book, The Corporate Option (COP), which is written for company CEOs.Q. Why so much hard work?
A. Because to build a successful career, you must surpass every other employee who is also looking for raises and promotions and career advancement, and everyone else seeking the same good positions you want. Today at least 30 people respond to every job ad, and many more apply for the really good jobs. You need all the help I can give you -- and some unfair advantages I can help you develop. But it's not easy. If you are not ready for hard work, not ready to change, not ready to do whatever is necessary, I can't help you. If you want success without effort, go now to where magic things do happen. I wish you good luck.Q. What is your Career Coaching Philosophy?
A. Three major things.One: Most of us must work for a living most of our lives. From age 20 to 65 is 45 years of work; that comes to 2,250 weeks, or about 11,250 days of work. Right now, at your age, what are those numbers for you? [Write them here:]
Years: ____ Weeks: ___ Days: _______
That is plenty of time enough to do anything you may want to do in your life, if used well. You can just get through them and retire and die. Or you can enjoy and make something out of all that time, and be remembered as valuable, perhaps great!
Two: People used to have one job for their whole lives. No more. In today's 45 year work life there is so much change, so fast, that you will probably have at least 10 jobs in at least 3 different career fields, meaning that you must learn 'the art of change', and the benefits of it, and how to take charge of and live it, rather than trying to ignore it and getting blind-sided and hurt when you least expect it.
Three: Today (written in 2001), there are over 10 million businesses employing over 140 million people in the US, from little 2- and 3-person firms to those employing hundreds of thousands, and the government, employing 15 million. Over 4 million jobs open up each year as people quit, die, get promoted or fired, or change jobs. Last year almost 1 million altogether new jobs were created, many never heard of before, some of them in totally new kinds of business or enterprise. Every company, even if not actively looking for anyone, will recognize, and hire, a valuable person who approaches it. On any given day there are 400,000 to 5000,000 jobs wide open, 75% of them desperate for a body because the previous employee did not give enough warning before leaving. 85% of these jobs are never advertised in the classified help wanted pages (the "hidden job market") because employers first ask friends, relatives, other businessmen, others at social and civic organizations, at his clubs, associations, and other groups, if they know anyone with any experience in the work needed. They will try any other possible source of help, even stealing from another company, before the last resort of placing ads, because of the high cost, and because they bring the wrong kind of applicants most of the time. This means all the career possibilities you need are open for you, right now, today. (You only need one really good one.) Conclusion? Your career future is wide open for the picking, if you know how, through my coaching.
Q. Do I need college to become successful?
A. It helps, but no. Most of the most successful men in the world never finished college; many never went to college at all. What do you need for career success? I'll tell you, in only 6 sentences: [1] A clear and specific goal, dream, or vision. [2] The ambition, determination, emotional stamina, energy and tenacity to achieve it. [3] Enough bravery to get out of the pack and go for it, conquer yourself and your fears, be an individual, make your own decisions, find your own road, learn the facts even if they contradict accepted beliefs. [4] The imagination and mental resourcefulness to go through, over, under or around real and perceived obstacles between you and your goal. [5] You need the people skills necessary to get help from others and direct them effectively. [6] And enough business knowledge to make more money than you lose. That's all you need. And I'll coach you along in developing them, yourself, starting right here, right now.Q. What benefits does your personal coaching offer?
A. Many. To summarize, my personal job and career coaching can help you get raises and promotions that can bring you $10,000 to $20,000 more a year than you are making now, in the first year. Within 5 years you can be making $50,000 more a year. Within 10 years you can be making $100,000 more a year. Maybe sooner. Maybe a lot more. What does that mean to you? What would you do with this money? In the list below are 42 possible benefits. If you can think of others, add them.
Which of these are most and least important to you? Please rank them in importance, from most important at top to least at bottom of the list.1. You will have more spending money
2. You can afford a better house or apartment, decorate it better, live a better lifestyle
3. You can afford to travel, take better vacations, trips, maybe foreign
4. You can afford better clothes, better appearance
5. You can afford a new car, maybe buy or lease a better one
6. Maybe you can afford a boat
7. You can afford the latest in equipment, tools and toys,
8. Maybe you can have a summer cabin
9. Maybe you can buy land, a small property, real estate
10. You can afford health, medical insurance and feel more secure
11. If you or a loved one needs an operation or therapy or other help, you can afford it.
12. You can put aside some savings, for retirement, rainy day, college for the kids
13. You will have a happier spouse and family, parents, kids
14. You'll have time and money for a hobby or interest or to pursue a personal dream
15. You can continue your college or personal or professional studies
16 You can afford to entertain friends, relatives, boss,
17. You can have the admiration of your friends and associates, and peers
18. You can gain acceptance into exclusive groups, clubs
19. You can get your boss's personal attention, respect, be treated by him with equality
20. You can live healthier, being able to afford a better diet
21. You will feel less personal pressure and stress, less hurry and rush and frustration
22. Being happier has a good effect on your health, which means less illness, and a longer life
23. You can afford gifts for your spouse to show appreciation for her or his help
24. Raises and promotions build your image in the eyes of family and friends
25. Career success builds your self-confidence, security, and assertiveness
26. You can be a hero to your family, friends, boss, company
27. You will have more control over your own life, your own future
28. Not having to suck up to bosses, being treated as an equal
29. Being able to plan and design your own life
30. You will have more business and social contacts, a real life, at last
31. You can have others take care of details, saving your own time for more important things
32. You will have more time for cultural activities
33. Having time for community activities
34. You will be able to help others
35. You can afford to donate or volunteer in good causes, needy political or religious benefits
36. You will have time to teach or share your knowledge and experience with others
37. You will have a good time, be invited to parties and events as an important person.
38. Maybe you can afford to have someone in to do cleaning and other housekeeping chores
39. If you are single you will be able to meet and enjoy more of the other sex
40. You may be able to solve personal problems such as loneliness, or getting out of bad relationships
41. Others will admire and emulate you, seek your favor, offer their help and support, get on your parade
42. You may get closer to achieving fame, or wealth, or power, or whatever your goal in life is
__. What else is most important to you in your life and future?
Q. Why doesn't the JOB DOC publish a book or course for the public?
A. Two reasons. One: Because if everyone else knew all these things, you gain no advantage over them. My book, Career Zen, is for my clients only. Two: No mass market book or course can ever give you the individual care and attention of your own Personal Career Coach. You do have to do all the hard work, because its your life and what you do with it is up to you, but that coaching is your secret weapon. As of August 2002 my book, "The Corporate Option Plan (COP)" is available to read for free, on the web, at www.Larry-Daly.com, as is Career Zen. Paperless publishing, to help save the environment. Click HERE to go to the Introduction, HERE to go to the Table of Contents, and click HERE to go to Chapter One of Career Zen
Q. What is the Greatest Career Success Secret?
A. Why employers really hire and promote people: The greatest secret to know toward your career success is that employers hire and promote you for their reasons, not yours!
Basically your career challenge is relatively simple:
All you must do is make your chosen employer want you more than the salary and benefits he must pay you; make him want you more than any other candidate, make him want you for a particular reason or purpose, for what he believes you can do for him that others can not. It must be something he really believes he needs, such as to increase his business volume, or reach a certain market, or raise his profit or bottom line, or whatever. When you offer him that bait, you can reel him in. I'll show you how.Q. What are the most important questions to ask myself?
A. There are six.1. Do I love my job?Q. Do I Need Larry Daly's Personal Career Coaching?
2. Am I making enough; am I getting ahead fast enough?
3. Am I really doing something, right now, something really effective, to develop a better career and future for myself?
4. If what I'm doing now is not working, should I try something else that might work better?
5. Is it worth $65 a week to me, for 6 to 12 weeks, to make $10,000 more per year?
6. Should I read Career Zen to see if this is what I need?
A. Here's a list to help you decide for yourself (check y or n):1. Y/N I need help. All alone. Don't have anyone yet.
2. Y/N I need backup income (2nd job, etc.). Don't have yet.
3. Y/N I need a real career. Don't have one yet.
4. Y/N I need steady income (job, career). Present income is sometimes good, sometimes bad. Erratic.
5. Y/N I need more ___. Have some, but not enough. (Fill in the blank, for what you want most: Time; money; autonomy; . . .)
6. Y/N I have a good job, but it is not what I want to be doing.
7. Y/N What I am doing is not really a career, or not my chosen career.
8. Y/N I have a good job, but it takes too much time and effort, leaves me no time or energy for myself, my family, community.
9. Y/N I have a good job, but it does not pay enough; I need to get more income from my effort and time.
10. Y/N I have no place to train, drill, practice, rehearse new career skills and behaviors and personality ideas, and other personal and interpersonal skills that can help me get ahead.
11. Y/N I have no (tough!) impartial and knowledgeable judge of my abilities, skills, potential, needs, etc.
12. Y/N I have no similarly career-minded people to practice and rehearse with, to develop my skills, abilities, etc.
13. Y/N I have nobody to videotape my rehearsals so I can study myself and my performance and see how to improve myself
14. Y/N I have nobody tough enough to drill me where I need.
15. Y/N I have nobody who cares enough about me to be hard on me for my own good, help me build self-discipline.
16. Y/N I can not afford to invest in myself and my future.
17. Y/N I can't afford $65 a week to make $10,000 more a year.
18. Y/N I have never thought enough and deeply enough about all these things in relation to myself and my future.
19. Y/N I look backward more than I look forward.
20. Y/N I don't know how to plan my life and my career.
21. Y/N I am an amateur at goal-setting and can learn from a professional who has done it many times for others.
22. Y/N I've been thinking for years about taking courses, but there are so many. How do I know which is best for me? I have analysis paralysis about this.
32. Y/N Any general course or study program is good enough for me; I'm just like everyone else.
33. Y/N I need a personalized program, designed for my own particular abilities and needs and goals, because I am a unique individual, slightly different from everyone else.
34. Y/N I am not going to do anything special with myself, just coast and depend on luck, make less than I'm worth . . .
35. Y/N I am afraid to make changes, take chances.
Q. When Can I start?
A. Immediately. No waiting for school terms or classes. This is personal and as fast as you can go. Call today. . . Start Tomorrow! Got my number? 876 - 5483Any other reasons, thoughts, questions, please email, call, or fax me.
Click HERE to go to Career Zen Introduction
Click HERE to go to Table of Contents
Click HERE to go to Chapter One of Career Zen
Click HERE to go to Career Zen Introduction
Click HERE to go to Table of Contents
Click HERE to go to Chapter 1 Your Career, your Life Work
Click HERE to go to Chapter 2 People Study
Click HERE to go to Chapter 3 Your Career in Context
Click HERE to go to Chapter 4 Setting Your Career and Life Goals
Click HERE to go to Chapter 5 Long Term Career Development
Click HERE to go to Chapter 6 Career Strategies and Tactics
Click HERE to go to Chapter 7 Realistic Expectations
Click HERE to go to Chapter 8 Your Personal Career Support Team
Click HERE to go to Chapter 9 Team Management; Research and Writing
Click HERE to go to Chapter 10 How to become an Expert
Click HERE to go to Chapter 11 Miscellaneous, and Executive Summary
Click HERE to go to Chapter 12 Your Personal Career Research Resources
Click HERE to go to Chapter 13 Those Awful People At Work Problems
Click HERE to go to Chapter 14 Assumptions and Expectations
Click HERE to go to Appendices
Click HERE to go to Bibliography
Click HERE to go to Index
Click HERE to return to my HomePage, to access COPClick HERE to access other documents
Careerists, please contact me directly to obtain your own personal printed copy of Career Zen, more complete and up to date, especially with the latest on Internet career information sources and research. Note that Career Zen is privately published, is only for my clients, and is not available in any bookstore or from any other source.
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