Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
DepEd Complex, Meralco Avenue
Pasig City

SESSION GUIDE

Session Title
CAREER COACHING SKILLS

Target Participants Career Advocates

Duration of the Session 90 minutes

At the end of the session, the participants will be able to:
a. identify the different essential skills and stages in career coaching;
I. Learning Objectives
b. differentiate Career Coaching from Career Counseling; and
c. apply the skills learned by performing a sample career coaching dialogue through a triad
II. Key Understanding/s A session guide is the road map of the learning facilitator. As such, the

Parts of the Session Guide

Objectives of the SG vis-à-vis Methodologies and Activities

Methodologies of the Session

Activities in the Session

The Walkthrough assumes that the NTOT Session Guides are FINAL. While suggestions for improvement may be
entertained, major corrections should be referred to the management for consideration.

This session presents the different career coaching skills as an important part of training a career advocate. The activity
Link to the Previous Session/
gives the participants a full appreciation of the SG as it aims to reflect the key concepts of the topic as well as the stages
Topic
and skills of career coaching needed to be an effective career advocate.
Link to the Next Session/
This session give the participants a glimpse of the essence of being a totally effective career coach.
Topic

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Contribution of the Session
to Program Outcomes
III. References
IV. SESSION GUIDE
OBJECTIVES:
The participant should be
able to:
Get an overview of the
Career Coaching Skills
Unfreezing Activity
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This session does not only provide key information on the SG that will be used for the NTOT but will also build confidence
of the participants as they prepare for the MTOT.
Lecture of Career Coaching Skills
KEY LEARNING METHODOLOGY/ ACTIVITY MATERIALS/ TIME/
POINTS SLIDE DURATION
NUMBER
Greetings
Awareness of the Important
life’s realities • Give an unfreezing activity where introduction of coaching 5 minutes
where career will be used/employed
advocates are • Participants per table will be asked to choose a COACHwho
needed and of will serve their leader (appox. 5 groups), each coach will
utmost necessity pick a rolled paper with assigned sports for them to Slide No.2
perform with action
• Basketball – Shoot
• Volleyball – spike
• Football - kick
• Pingpong - plok
• Swimming - splash
• (baseball - bat)
Note:
• Call all assigned coaches and instruct them to orient their
respective group mates on what to do.
• The facilitator will start the game by saying and doing the
action of baseball bat.
Example: Baseball – Bat, Baseball bat..pass it to…(mention whom
to pass)..basketball-shoot
• Once all groups have been called, the game ends.
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 • Presentation of Objectives Slide No. 3 2 minutes

• Case Scenario – Show Jesse’s Case Slide No. 4 7 minutes

Introduction discuss within your groups:
• Considering your role as the career advocate, what will you
do to help Jesse in his concern?
• Consolidate your answers and assign somebody to report.

 identify the different • Video presentation “What coaching is”

essential skills and stages (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh75mbmucY) Slide No. 5 3 minutes
in career coaching; Instructions before the video”
• Consider the owl as YOU being the Career Advocate and the
Fox as your client
• Take note of some characteristics of the owl and the fox
Define coaching
• helps guide and motivate learner to
Slide No. 6-10 10 minutes
create new outcomes;
• leads to discover strengths;
• develops a career strategy by providing different tools and
assessments on goal setting, and self-improvement;
• is a process of helping realize inner potential and
fulfillment; and
• helping to identify their opportunities and supporting them
while they go after their goals.

-Coaching is a distinct service and differs greatly from therapy,

consulting, mentoring, or training. ICF defines coaching as
partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process
that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional
potential.

Introduced the stages of coaching through video presentation

“How coaching works”

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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY75MQte4RU) Slide No. 13 4 minutes
Stage 1 - Meeting
Stage 2 - Vision (Problem identification)
Stage 3 - The Plan Slide No. 14 7 minutes
Stage 4 - Journey (Exploration)
Stage 5 - Success
(Each stage will be discuss using the observed stages in the video)

Discuss the Skills needed for effective Career Coaching

1. Listen with Curiosity
When we speak about listening with curiosity, we're talking about
conveying a genuine interest in what others are saying. This is of Slide No. 15-25 12 minutes
particular value in the coaching dialogue
• S – sit squarely
• O – open posture
• L – lean a bit forward
• E – eye contact
• R - relax

2. Take in What You Hear

You need to pace the conversation and put yourself in the shoes of
the other party. You need to hear the words, read the gestures,
and take in the thoughts, ideas, and emotions of the other party.
3. Reflect with Accuracy
Reflecting back with accuracy shows the person you’re really
listening and confirms that you have digested the right
information.

3 Ways to Reflect:
• Paraphrasing - Restate the essence of what you heard in
your own words, or repeat what you heard using the same
words the other party used.
Ex. Client: I want to enroll in Tourism but it’s only offered in the
private school, I’ve heard of financial assistance for students

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 enrolling in private schools.
CA: You want to enroll in Tourism and avail of DepEd’s voucher
program for students enrolling in private schools.
b. Summarizing - When you hear a lot of information, you may
want to summarize the main message into short and concise
sentences. When people have conversations, sometimes
information doesn't emerge in an orderly way. You want to help
your client focus on what seem to be their most important issues.
c. Repeating meaningful words - When you repeat meaningful
words, you let the other person know that you heard what is really
important to them. It enables them to sense that you're listening
and understanding them.
4. Questioning for Exploration
Asking questions extends the conversation and allows for a more
proactive dialogue. Ask open-ended questions that allow more
exploration to occur. By asking open ended questions, you give
your client an opportunity to find answers within themselves.
5. Provide Feedback for Development
When providing feedback, coaches should strive to make it clear,
make it relevant, make it non-evaluative(non-judgemental), make
it helpful, and make it positive.

-Introduce the Theory on Solution-Focused Therapy - SFT is future-

focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on
the problems that brought clients to seek therapy Slide No. 26- 20 minutes
Assumptions: 36
• SFBT approach assumes that all clients have some
knowledge of what would make their life better
• Everyone who seeks help already possesses at least the
minimal skills necessary to create solutions

3 Core “Rules”or Major Tenets of SFT

Rule 1 – “If It Isn’t Broke, Don’t Fix It” - Making an issue that

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 differentiate Career is not an issue for clients can cause difficulties in areas that were
Coaching from Career previously manageable. Focus is on generating solutions, not
Counseling; and additional concerns.

Rule 2 – “Once You Know What Works, Do More of It” -

Once success are identified, clients should replicate them.
Avoid the temptation to become more elegant or try something
different to move more quickly.

Rule 3 – “If It Doesn’t Work, Don’t Do It Again, Do Something

Different” - If at first you don’t succeed, try again. When trying
again, it is important to use different strategies to yield different
results.

Solution-Focused Therapy Techniques

Once the helping relationship is established, move to the
cornerstone of SFT;
• The Miracle question – helps the client to envision the
future, what he really want, what will make a difference in
his life.
Example:
CC: If by some magic a miracle happens tonight as you sleep, and
when you wake up you don’t feel angry and irritated when your
mother insisted you taking STEM strand, how will your day be like?
C: it feels great!
CC: what small step do you think you can do to make it happen?

• The Scaling technique – assist the client in identifying

where he is now in relation to career goal.
Example: if your career goal is in 10, how do you define 1? and
where do you think you are now?
- Determining actions to move up the scale naturally follows
- establish short and long term steps to achieve the goal.

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 • What do you think you should do to move up to the next
scale?

Career coach and career counselors have unique and different

approaches to helping clients
Slide No. 37-45
• COACHING - Re: Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013
• Section 9. xxxxxx. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section
27 of Republic Act No. 9258,…. the career and employment
guidance counsellors, who are not registered and licensed
guidance counsellors, shall be allowed to conduct career
advocacy activities to secondary level students of the school
where they are currently employed; Provided, That they
undergo a training program to be developed or accredited by
the DepED.
• COUNSELING - Re: "Guidance and Counselling Act of 2004″
Section 27. Prohibition Against the Practice of Guidance and
Counseling. - No person shall (a) engage in the practice of
guidance and counseling without a valid Certificate of
Registration and the valid Professional Identification Card or
a special permit;…...
Coaching versus Counseling
Coaching Counseling
focus on the current may look for past
situation and often create experiences or barriers or
action goals to move may dig in what might be
forward causing the challenges and
apply theoretical
approaches to help the
counselee.

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 provide a distinct service
that helps clients work on
their goals for the future
and create a new life path
work in a less structured
environment
work with healthy clients
who are striving to
improve their
circumstances
is about “discovering.”
has a narrower focus
• On Emotions - coaches • On Emotions -Counselors
assume they are natural
and can be normalized
• progress is “rapid and • progress is often slow and
usually enjoyable”
spend more time
examining the past,
looking for solutions to
emotional concerns and
seeking a diagnosis
work in a more formal
relationship
work with persons needing
help and hoping to identify
dysfunction or trauma to
heal and resolve old pain
is about “uncovering” and
“recovering”
has a deeper spectrum
assume emotions are a
symptom of something
wrong
painful

Activity:

APPLICATION Using the observed characteristics by the owl (Career Coach) and
the fox (client), let’s now apply the career coaching skills. Slide No. 48-51 22 minutes
 apply the skills learned by
• Participants will be ask to create a triad.
performing a sample
career coaching dialogue • In a TRIAD, each one will act as OBSERVER, COACH and

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 through a triad CLIENT. They will take turn every after 7 minutes (at the
signal of the Facilitator)
• Role to perform:
Observer will have a checklist of every skills observe
Coach will Apply the Skills learned
Client will present a concern/present problem.

Processing - randomly call 3 participants and ask:

• Were you able to genuinely apply listening skills?

• What difficulty did you encounter?
• In a scale of 1 to 10, honestly how will you rate your
coachingskill? Why?
Closure Close the session with a quotation and say thank you to the Slide No. 52 1 minute
participants.

References Web Sources: Slide No. 54-

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJNolDtOegQ 55
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esh75mbmucY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY75MQte4RU
• https://www.inc.com/yael-bacharach/five-essential-skills-
for-successful-coaching.html

WRITERS:

MARIA GRACIA E. BALUCA, RLGC NENA F. BARDOQUILLO, RLGC DULCE MARIA ROSARIO S. de GUZMAN, RLGC
GC III/BASUD NHS/SDO-CAMNORTE/R-V GC I/CONSOLACION NHS/SDO-CEBU PROVINCE/R-VII GC I/DUMAGUETE NHS/SDO-DUMAGUTE CITY/R-VII

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