Coaching Services

TalentRight provides the following services.

Career Transition Coaching - a confidential, one-to-one career marketing program designed to:

• Identify your key selling points
• Unleash the power of your personal brand
• Capture market attention with your resume, cover letter and your personal presentation
• Build confidence and competence in networking
• Develop a Job Search Success Plan
• Create connections with potential employers through best-practice interviewing and negotiation techniques

The program is tailored to your stage of effectiveness in launching and managing your transition. A typical program is 2 to 4 months with weekly meetings, email and phone support and includes materials and assessments.

Executive and Business Coaching - a confidential, one-to-one development program to optimize your competencies in: leadership, influencing, executive presence, strategic planning, delegation, communicating with superiors, peers and team members, networking relationships, and work/life balance. Business owners and sales professionals often focus on increasing sales, revenue, productivity, marketing effectiveness and customer relationships.

Goal setting, action planning, hands-on daily application and reflective processing are key components of a successful client experience. Dedicated change and shifts in behaviors, skills and outlook usually occur for individuals over a period of 3 to 6 months. Most clients continue monthly meetings to propel their new success patterns to a higher level and ensure they have a trusted advisor, objective sounding board and feedback partner on their side.

Team Coaching - Facilitation of a leadership team's development in the areas of:

• Strategic planning
• Setting measurable objectives
• Project management to ensure objectives are delivered on time and within budget
• Collaboration with cross-functional business units
• Promoting progress and communicating with stakeholders
• Networking for strategic influence
• Team behaviors profiling

Team facilitation programs are delivered as multiple-day strategic planning sessions, team building retreats, workshops for team-cohesion and on-going team coaching meetings. Organizations typically hire TalentRight for periods of 6 months to 12 months for improvement and development of their leadership teams.

Coaching Program - The Talent Maximizer

The Talent Maximizer Complete Career Transition Program is a 10-session, personalized career transition marketing program for executive, senior management and business professionals.

Components of the program can be purchased separately or as a unit.

Component 1 - Talent Assessor - Typically 2 sessions.

• Includes three qualitative and one quantitative assessment of your values, skills, interests and performance.
• The quantitative assessment is the Profile's Performance Indicator Report, a scientifically valid and reliable assessment that measures your typical behavioral tendencies in 6 critical job-related requirements: Productivity, Quality of Work, Initiative, Teamwork, Problem Solving, and Adapting to Change. It contains multiple suggestions for improving your effectiveness in each area. Also measures your Response to Job-Related Stress, Frustration or Conflict and your Motivational Energy.

Component 2 - Talent Edge Communication Plan

Typically 2 coaching sessions plus Resume Preparation. Resume editing, writing and proofreading services conducted by TalentRight are counted toward a session and documentation is provided by TalentRight. A typical professional resume can take TalentRight from 1 hour to 4 hours of editing time.

Your transition begins when you can communicate your value to your target market. For industry/career-changers, it is imperative to position your accomplishments in stories, language and context that will be understood and sought after by your target organizations.

Includes:

• Resume evaluation, critique, feedback and recommendations to help you develop a resume that optimizes your key selling points.
• Resume worksheets and a list of questions targeted to your industry that will help you compose statements that sell.
• Key Word distinctions that will appeal to your target audience.
• Recommendations on resume structure, layout and references.
• Talent Positioning Statement - Coaching on how to introduce yourself in written documents and in speaking to maximize attraction, connection and alignment with your market.
• Cover Letter recommendations for specific job applications.
• Resume Template in MS Word.

Component 3 - Leader Marketing Plan
Typically 3 coaching sessions.

Includes:

• Assistance with developing a Job Search Strategy.
• Weekly Accountability and Results Monitoring Program.
• Target Market analysis conducted jointly with client.
• Review of and recommendations for your Marketing Plan.
• Relationship Building Plan strategy, feedback and recommendations.

Top Talent Interview and Negotiation Success
Typically 2 interview strategy sessions PLUS two 30-minute interview debriefing phone calls.

• Interview rehearsal, role play and strategy sessions to prepare you for success in behavioral, situational and other types of interviews.
• Feedback on communication effectiveness, strengths, and recommendations for improvement.
• Negotiation techniques as you discuss expectations with potential employers.
• Interview debriefing and follow up strategies

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Presentation Topics

Deb presents highly engaging, informative and relevant topics which will help you and your organization maximize personal and leadership effectiveness, take charge of your career, network with ease and build a leadership culture.

Contact Deb Welke via email or by phone at 515-371-9018 to explore the outcomes you would like to achieve with a keynote, luncheon speaker, motivational speaker, seminar series or a private seminar within your organization.

Upcoming and Recent Presentations

• December 9, 2008
  Women's Development Connection
  From Fear to Fantastic: 5 Factors to Help You Build Your Network for Success
• October 2008
  American Women's Business Association
  5 Secrets of Creating an Extraordinary Career
• IA State University
  An Executive Briefing: Developing a Leadership Culture
• First Bank Eat and Educate
  Thriving During Change: Strategies for Success