The Firework programme

• Are you a great coach, yet feel there’s something missing when you work with clients in career transition?

• Are you looking for help to take your career coaching to a new level?

If you’d like a powerful new set of tools as part of a structured approach to add to your existing toolkit, the groundbreaking Firework Career Coaching Programme may be just what you’re looking for.

Researched and developed by two coaches with many years of personal experience in this area, Firework Career Coaching provides a tied and tested framework for helping your clients through a career transition.

Join our one-day training ‘intensive’ and benefit from:

• an experiential, learning-packed training day familiarising yourself with the programme content and tools.

• hands-on practice under the expert guidance of Firework coaches.

• a comprehensive Career Coach’s Manual plus CD containing all the ready-to-use client exercises you’ll need.

• promotion of your business on the Firework website directory of Firework Career Coaches.

• the ability to use the Firework logo to co-brand your own marketing materials.

• a lifelong Firework Career Coach License to use the programme with your clients.

• tips on how to market the programme.

• a follow-up teleconference with Marianne Craig MCC, Co-creator and Director Firework Coaching Company, to share best practice.

The Firework Career Coaching programme was developed by coaches for coaches. Kate Edmonds, PCC and Marianne Craig, MCC found they needed a clear structured process to help clients wanting to create or discover their new career. So in 2002 they set about creating it. After a year of development and testing, they’d created a programme which provides the coach with everything necessary to coach a client to find the work they were born to do.

The programme is based on a simple premise: that those who are most satisfied and motivated by their work are in careers which reflect who they really are, their true nature, their real passions, their innate strengths. However, self-knowledge alone is not enough. Something more is needed to help clients create exciting, appropriate and realistic career possibilities and turn them into a plan of action that works in the real world.

The Firework programme provides you with all the tools you need to take a client from having no idea what is their right work to having total clarity about their new career direction and the motivation to make it happen. The great thing about the programme is that it combines your coaching skills with a tried and tested toolkit and innovative process.

The programme is in three phases: the first phase is a deep exploration into self-knowledge. This is needed as a foundation and as raw material for the second, highly creative phase. During this second phase, using the innovative Firework technology, the client generates a host of possible ideas for new careers. Even the most unimaginative clients can respond to the Firework process. In the third and final phase, the client focuses on the most compelling the many possibilities and turns an exciting vision into an inspiring real-world action plan. Clients find the process hugely rewarding and enjoyable.

Our intensive one-day induction will familiarise you with the Firework programme – it's a highly experiential day – by the end, you’ll have experienced all aspects of the programme and leave feeling confident to start using the programme with your clients.

And you’ll receive a fully-detailed career coach’s manual, giving you step by step guidance on every aspect of the programme. There’s a CD containing emailable briefing notes for your clients on every assignment and exercise, plus some innovative "structures" for capturing the work they do as they proceed. The programme conveys a high degree of professionalism, which will be reflected in your confidence as a coach using the framework and materials.

The Firework programme is a framework, yet it can also be used as a treasure chest of tools and techniques with both career clients and life coaching clients. Some coaches and some clients prefer a more unstructured approach – the programme works well for them too.

Using the Firework programme, you may develop a niche in the growing and valuable career coaching market. Clients are willing to invest in coaching to find a new career, as such a large part of their lives is spent at work. And an unfulfilling career is so soul-destroying. Think how rewarding it is to help a client discover the work they were born to do!

Click here for details of the next Firework Programme Training Day

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