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Sally East
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Sally East worked for 15 years as a freelance career coach predominantly for an organisation that provides assessments and coaching for young people in schools to help them to make decisions relating to A levels, Further and Higher Education, and careers. She has also worked with adults looking for career transitions helping individuals to gain an insight into these relating to the work environment.
Her background of teaching in pre and post compulsory education within a largely widening participation environment has enabled her to help individuals explore their skills, interests and their own personality, and to maximise this within their career choice.
Sally is now enjoying writing and editing career material and exploring further in areas such as multigenerational working and boundaryless careers. She has a particular interest in the working population who are over 50 years of age, considering how to break down ageism in the workplace and how individuals can navigate strategies for doing this. She has recently co-edited a book on this subject and is looking to expand the conversation further.
Integrity means I feel a sense of validity within what I'm doing and understanding of the shared purpose with the client. For the coaches, themselves, the integrity, is partly about their own inner confidence of how I feel about all time talking about what I'm able to offer, and how I'm doing it. And then the outer confidence is about how I'm actually doing it, sharing it and showing it as I coach my clients.
Whilst there are plenty of opportunities for managers and leaders to coach colleagues in an organization, more are choosing to strike out and start their own career as a coach. They have had some basic workshops as part of the on-the-job training, and, typically without clear guidance as to when to appropriately use their coaching skills in various situations, they may have had a diverse range of results. Now that they have applied this thing called ‘coaching’ and it’s worked, some of them want to be a coach (and exit their current role).
I’ve been thinking about loyalty, in my life as well as in coaching. To start with I explored coaching through authenticity, and the idea of how centred we are within our roles in my first piece with the good coach, and I’m now expanding that to encompass what it means with regard to how loyal we are to our employers.
It is useful to start a discussion referring to coaching and counselling with some kind of working definitions.
Sally East
