<![CDATA[Private Practice Online : Activity]]> Elgg http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/ <![CDATA[About Dr. Sal]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3298.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3298.html Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:31:57 GMT <![CDATA[Instruct a colleague on how to register on a professional blogging, networking platform.]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3090.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3090.html Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:17:00 GMT platform. You will know if you have explained the process of registering effectively if your colleague has set up his/her e-profile.



Here are the steps to registering on lifeworkps.com:



1. Go to Main Index.

2. View examples of complete profiles.

3. Register for an account.]]> <![CDATA[Building and Managing a Career Strategy Plan]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3012.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3012.html Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:18:57 GMT
2. Research information in print and distance-delivered media and conduct field research.

3. Narrow down your options and identify a goal (short or long-term).

4. Create and implement a plan to put your goal into action.



Based on Knowdell's Job and Career Decision-Making Process]]> <![CDATA[Recurit and Retain Members through a Blogging, Professional Networking eCommunity]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3002.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/3002.html Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:28:33 GMT What

Learn how to start up and manage a blogging, networking e-community. Create an environment where members can have discussions through blogs (web logs), plan and announce events, and connect with other related associations.



When



Thursday Evenings 5 pm to 6 pm Pacific Time.



  • January 24, 2008, 5-6 pm Pacific, 8-9 pm EST.

  • Janurary 31, 2008, 5-6 pm Pacific, 8-9 pm EST.

  • February 7, 2008, 5-6 pm Pacific, 8-9 pm EST.



    Delivery



    1-Hour Real-Time Teleclasses with Internet Access



    Presenters



    Dr. Sally Gelardin

    Marilyn Harryman, M.S.



    Audience



    Counselors, Career Practitioners, Counseling and Career Organizational Leaders



    What You Will Learn





  • Discover your Web presence.


  • Create a professional Web presence.


  • Create and update your online personal profile easily.


  • Set up and manage an e-community.


  • Communicate with clients and colleagues through restricted access blogs.


  • Set up hyperlinks.


  • Web "Netiquette."




    • Fee: $89 for three 1-hour telesessions. Listeners are required to have Internet access while participating in the telephone conversations.



    For More Information...



    Call Sally Gelardin 415 312 4294 or email Sal @jobjuggler.net. In subject line, enter "eNetworking Telesessions."]]>         <![CDATA[Web Etiquette]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2995.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2995.html Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:12:12 GMT


  • The Practice of Internet Counseling (National Board for Certified Counselors).

  • ACA Code of Internet Ethics(American Counseling Association)

  • Ethics and Regulations of Cybercounseling (You may need to be logged in as an American Counseling Association member with your username and password.)

  • Definition of Netiquette(Wikipedia)

  • Web Etiquette (Linkedin)
    • ]]>         <![CDATA[Entrepreneur Decision-Making Article]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2923.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2923.html Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:22:58 GMT 1. Assess Your Entrepreneurial Strengths

    To decide whether to start or grow a business, it can be helpful (with the assistance of a career counselor) to assess your interests, skills, family and other early influences, values, and personality traits. In addition, it can be helpful to examine your inner motivations and learning style preferences.



    Examine Your Inner Motivations



    Are you primarily a risk-taker, a relationship person, or a peacekeeper? English's Inner Motivation Exercise can help you to identify your primary motivations for making a decision (such as whether to start or grow a private practice or whether to provide distance and/or in-person counseling).



    Determine Your Learning Style Preferences



    What is your preferred way of learning? In other words, do you learn best by reading or viewing movies (visual), listening to audiotapes (auditory), writing (kinesthetic), talking (interpersonal), reflecting (intrapersonal)? Following is a decision-making model that emphasizes being present as you think about the future or reflect upon the past. View the Tightrope Artist Model for Decision-Making (Gelardin, 2006) to determine whether to start a business. The underlying principal of this model is that to make a business decision, it is important to be fully present; i.e., not to let your fear of future failure or regret of past mistakes stand in your way of moving forward.



    Assessment Tools Available on the Internet



    There are many free and for-fee assessment tools that can help you identify your interests, skills, values, and personality traits (see list in Resources). A free reference for assessing your interests, values, and skills online is O*Net Online, The Occupational Information Network. Several for-fee entrepreneur assessment tools, available both in paper and online, that can help you figure out if you "have what it takes" to be a successful entrepreneur are available in Entrepreneur Kits.



    2. Research information



    O*Net is filled with information that is useful to anyone considering starting a business. This site will also link readers to the Small Business Administration (SBA) site. SBA is an "independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation" (About SBA).



    In addition to Internet research, you can read books, magazines (such as Entrepreneur Magazine), and explore a wide variety of resources. You can also conduct informational interviews with private practitioners to learn how they conduct their businesses.



    3. Take Action



    It's one thing to start a business and another to make it work. Sole practitioners can be lonely if they make business decisions by themselves. To support you in the process of starting and growing a business, I gathered together 16 leading career entrepreneurs (counselors, counselor educators, and coach trainers), who run their own businesses. I asked them to both write about their experiences identifying mentors, getting started, managing challenges, and identifying resources, as well as provide exercises for the reader to perform that can help in the entrepreneurial process. Then I compiled these experts' reflections and exercises into a National Career Development Association (NCDA) monograph, Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy: Successful Career Entrepreneurs Share Stories and Strategies. I moderate panels of leading career entrepreneurs all over the country and present workshops on how entrepreneurs and "intrepreneurs" (entrepreneurial practitioners who work within an organization) can enhance their services by employing electronic tools.



    A monograph and panel discussions, though helpful in getting you started thinking about starting or growing a business, may not be enough to keep you going. Having run an Internet-based business for several years, I am aware of the value that technology can offer to new and growing businesses. Therefore, I invited monograph contributors to host blogs on entrepreneurial topics to which you can respond or through which you can ask questions.]]>         <![CDATA[View a Post and Respond to a Post]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2893.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2893.html Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:10:24 GMT my personal profile to see an example of how you can establish (and easily update) an Internet presence to attract clients and to provide a service that you can offer to clients.



    2. First register on lifeworkps.com.



    3 Return to the Private Practice Online Community and join this community. In yellow box, "Click here to join this community."



    4. Click on Distance Tele Topics in the gold box. View a post and respond to a post.



    5. After you register, for help in any of the above tasks, click on LWPS Help in top right header of any LWPS webpage.



    Summary

    You have viewed a post and responded to a post in the Private Practice online Community. You now have the basic technical skills needed to participate in this Community. To further develop your Internet presence, click on Create Your Profile.]]>         <![CDATA[Set Up an eCommunity]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2752.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2752.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:07:35 GMT


    You can set up an online private or group practice or an organizational e-community. For example, view Ed Colozzi's eProfile. Then view "Owned Communities" in the right column. Click on his "Dove" eCommunity. View my eProfile, and then view the "Owned Communities" that I have set up, such as the GCDF eCommunity.



    You can publicize both services and products in your eProfile or in an eCommunity that you can create. If you are part of an organization, you can link this eCommunity to your organization's website.



    Set up eCommunities To Inform Potential Clients of Services





    For example:

  • Career Development Facilitator Training


  • Career Development Facilitator Instructor Training


  • Job Search Practitioner Training


  • Distance Job and Career Transitions Coach Training




    • Set up eCommunities To Encourage Communication Over the Internet



    Examples:

    Job Juggler eCommunity

    Entrepreneur eCommunity]]>         <![CDATA[DJCTC Frequently Asked Questions]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2733.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2733.html Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:53:07 GMT What are the advantages and challenges of distance job and career transition coaching?


  • Both client and coach can save on travel time and expenses, whether they communicate in real time or at different times.

  • Since client and coach depend more on written word, they must present their thoughts carefully on the Internet.

  • Clients may prefer to share more in an distance relationship than they would in a face-to-face (F2F) setting.




    • How can Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches incorporate distance coaching in their work?




  • Help clients organize their career development process by setting up electronic portfolios.

  • Administer online self-assessment instruments for clients and help them interpret results.

  • Guide clients in performing field research through distance modalities.

  • Help clients enhance their job search and employability skills through distance modalities.

  • Guide clients in managing their web presence.

  • Practice "netiquette" (Internet etiquette), as well as distance coaching ethical and legal standards).




    • What competencies will be addressed during the training?





  • Job and Career Exploration


    • Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches can identify relevant distance delivered research and resources.
    1. How to Use Libraries and The Internet
    2. Field Research Rather Than Information Interviews
    3. Using Networking to Obtain Information, Ideas, Referrals and Interviews


  • Distance Coaching Process


    • Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches can apply a distance-delivered career development process that includes the following:
    1. Identification of skills, values, and personality traits
    2. Field research
    3. Setting intentions
    4. Taking action steps


  • Assessment


    • Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches understand and apply career development assessment tools through distance modalities.
    1. Prioritizing Career Values
    2. Identifying Transferable Skills
    3. Using Work and Management Style
    4. Career Interest Assessment
    5. Assessment in Perspective


  • Setting Intentions


    • Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches help clients focus on an immediate job objective or a long-term career intention:
    1. Matching Skills With Tasks
    2. Matching Styles with Managers and Peers
    3. Matching Career Values with Organizations


  • Building and Managing a Career Strategy Plan
    Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches practice proven job and career coaching techniques.




  • Ethical/Legal Issues
    Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches work within the parameters of ethical and legal-regulatory guidelines that govern face-to-face and distance-delivered helping services.




  • Mentoring
    Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches understand how to seek mentoring and know how to refer clients to professional services outside their experience and competency.




    • How are my distance job and career transition coaching competencies evaluated?



    Each component of the training includes an assessment in the form of one or more of the following: a demonstration, responses to multiple-choice progress, discussion, and review questions, quiz.


    Can I obtain continuing education for this training?



    You will receive 20 Contact Hours upon completion of the training.


    Do I need a certain level of education and experience in this area prior to participating in the course?




  • You must be comfortable working on a computer, and have an email address and a fast Internet connection (i.e., DSL, cable).

  • You must have earned the Job & Career Transition Coach or Job & Career Transition Development Certificate, the Job Search Practitioner Certificate, the Global Career Development Facilitator Certificate, a Master's degree in a helping professional field from a regionally accredited college or university, or completed a master's level career development course at a college or university, and have a minimum of 2000 hours of career advising experience.
    • ]]>         <![CDATA[Distance Job and Career Transition Coach (DJCTC) Training]]> http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2625.html http://lifeworkps.com/ppo/weblog/2625.html Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:33:00 GMT Topics Covered

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