Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to creatively progress their coaching practice. Without losing sight of fundamental coaching values and practices, it encourages career development professionals to adapt their practice by harnessing imagination, intuition and critical reflection to engage clients.

Hambly and Bomford consider the usefulness of creativity alongside traditional coaching models to reach "harder to help" groups. They consider a whole-brain approach to creativity, emphasising the need for coaches to adapt their client-facing skills for individual cases. They work through how clients make career decisions, how to use labour market information to motivate clients, how to frame a creative coaching session using techniques such as metaphor, visualisation and role play, how to use practical tools and techniques to resolve a client’s individual needs, and how to deliver on digital platforms. Combining the latest neuroscientific research with activities, summaries and case studies, this book provides a practical, skills-based approach to coaching.

Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is the first book to summarise the Creative Career Coaching Model. It will be an indispensable resource for students of career development, career coaching, coaching psychology and advice and guidance courses. It will also be of interest to career coaches in practice seeking to enhance their skills.

Liane Hambly is a Senior Lecturer in Career Development. She has worked internationally for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and is also the trainer of choice for many public sector careers providers in the UK, having worked as a trainer and consultant with Careers Wales, Skills Development Scotland, Northern Ireland Careers Service, the Career Development Institute and many contract holders for the National Careers Service. She is responsible for developing the Creative Career Coaching model which is now widely used in the UK career development sector.

Ciara Bomford manages people development for Careers Wales, the Welsh Government’s all-age careers service. She is responsible for the Level 6 Diploma in Career Development CPD for qualified advisers. She has twenty years of experience training and managing teams of careers professionals.