The Holistic Career Coaching Handbook

""This book provides great insights into how to holistically manage the career development needs of different staff in the workplace. I shall be dipping into it frequently and recommending it to colleagues."" Elisabeth Rudman, Managing Director, Global Financial Institutions, Morningstar DBRS. ""An excellent addition to your toolbox if you want to develop a much deeper understanding around how to engage in authentic conversations with employees about their careers. Centring around the principle of a “whole-person” approach and the importance of focus on peoples strengths, it’s a must read for all progressive people leaders looking to create a positive team/organisational culture."" Gary Kindon, HR Director Teva Pharmaceuticals ""Practical, rich, and every bit as holistic as the approach itself, this Handbook already feels like the definitive word on career coaching as a discipline - and is invaluable for anyone coaching in this area, whether professional coaches, or professional managers supporting their teams."" Richard Goff, Chair, The People Director Partnership ""This book offers important new thinking to help line managers and coaches understand the impact of career reflection for individuals at every life stage. The idea that any valid career conversation should address the ‘whole self’ is a vital one and a key part in understanding how much work contributes to life experience. Highly recommended."" John Lees, author of How To Get A Job You Love ""This book fills an important gap in the market, offering practical guidance to managers and employers who want to support the career development of their employees. The chapters are full of gems, written by specialists who draw on their own experience as career coaches, alongside evidence and models from the academic literature. Practical exercises, suggestions and case studies bring the ideas to life, and readers are offered a range of frameworks, tools and skills to help make their career conversations meaningful and effective. Empathic, holistic career support is more important than ever, and this book elegantly shows us how we can do it."" Dr Julia Yates, CPsychol, SFHEA Associate Professor, Deputy Head, Psychology Department, City, University of London ""Rob and his colleagues have gifted us the fruits of all their experience to support coaches, line managers and organisations in delivering high quality, research- led career support for clients at different life stages with specific career needs. The combination of case studies, practitioner research, career tools and reflective questioning makes this a highly valuable resource based in real world career coaching in organisations in the 21st century."" Janet Sheath, Birkbeck College, University of London ""This was an excellent read, full of fresh and challenging concepts, laid out to make them relevant and relatable to anybody interested in creating a modern working environment. I’ve seen the workplace change drastically since 2020. This book really helped me to look at how we can improve relationships with our employees to ensure that each individual attains maximum satisfaction from their work and the organisation enjoys the full benefit of each employee."" David Whitmarsh, CEO Standard Gas Technologies ""Employing organisations often expect managers to have career conversations with individual employees, but rarely equip them to do this effectively. This handbook offers practical frameworks and tools for givers of career support, acknowledging the challenges facing a diverse workforce at different life stages in different situations."" Wendy Hirsh, Principal Associate, Institute for Employment Studies, Visiting Professor of Career Development, University of Derby