Young adults are often asked “What career do you want to follow?”. For people who do not have a clear vocation this can be an almost impossible question to answer. The range of career options today are fluid, dynamic and confusing. It is often said that the jobs that young adults will do when they enter the workplace have not yet been invented. Using well known careers psychometrics, I work with young adults to help them navigate their way through this confusion so that they make more informed decisions.
If the decision is to progress to tertiary education, I help students decide which subjects they should consider at A level, IB, or Leaving Cert in light of tertiary education or career choices using a career based psychometric as a guide to discussion and exploration.
I work with graduates to help them explore and identify appropriate career paths, to articulate in a CV and an interview what they bring
Very often early career choices do not develop the way we want. I work with young adults to help them address these sorts of
concerns and by offering objective, evidence and experientially based guidance to help my clients make informed career choices
Everyone, at some stage in their careers, will have to take responsibility for their career management. CML helps clients in this process.
CML works with corporate clients to help them to identify and develop future managers and leaders through leadership skills analysis and executive leadership programmes.
We work with individuals and groups of managers to help them learn about management skills and techniques and then coach them in the development of these disciplines.
We work with teams at all organisational levels on general and specific issues to help them develop into high performing units and experience the positive aspects of working in teams.
Whilst we are not huge fans of running around woods “crossing piranha infested rivers”, we work with teams on issues relevant and ‘real’ to them. Through providing them with feedback and encouragement, we facilitate effective team working.
We assist organisations by helping managers identify succession planning paths and then help them as individuals to chart their own
Many people find that at some stage in their careers they lose direction, become restless or lack motivation. CML helps clients in this position to re-focus and re-energise themselves for their own and their employer's benefit.
Supported by their CML coach, clients undertake an in depth personal review of their skills, strengths and weaknesses, Values and Needs and their overall attitudes to themselves, their careers and the situation in which they find themselves. We then help each client to create and implement a realistic and achievable action plan.
CML helps the individuals involved to understand and resolve the causes of the dysfunction through the use of coaching, counselling, if appropriate, and mediation if necessary.
CML trains managers to identify and deal with stress on a first line basis. Where invited, we work with individuals to help them resolve their situations through stress management.
Leadership - In Business
CML works in partnership with CEOs and senior managers to help them build and lead successful businesses
“Know Yourself… Lead your business”
CML uses its corporate leadership experience in its work with School Leaders. Today’s schools require of School Leaders many of the disciplines found within business. The coaching provided by us takes these disciplines into the education sector.
CML provides training in mentoring skills which enable individuals to help others constructively. Training is typically half day one-to-one, small group or online courses.
Using my counselling and psychological background, I work with my clients to help them regain control over their lives and help them develop the confidence to approach the job market and their careers as confidently as possible.
I also work with older clients who have experienced or are experiencing illness and by using my counselling and psychology skillset, help them to address their concerns and move forward in their careers in a way of their choosing.
CML works with individuals and groups of people who are facing the challenges of re-deploying within their organisation. As with our Career Management work, we help clients to identify their personal 'assets' and challenge them to think differently about themselves and their careers.
We then help them create action plans which will lead to career transition success.
Frequently, individuals are promoted into management positions because of their success in a technical role. For many, this change can be difficult because it requires an additional skill based on the softer skills of empathy, self awareness and communication. We work with clients to help them develop their softer skill set and coach them in their new roles.
Despite increased life expectancy, many people are faced with early retirement which can be voluntary or not. CML works with people in this position to help them identify and build the next stage of their careers.
Many clients I work with are in their late 50s or early 60s and either through choice or not, are leaving their jobs and the security and structure that they have grown used to. I work with them to help explore, plan and engage in ‘active retirement’ through, for example, developing a portfolio career.
I graduated in 1981 and my early career was spent in recruitment, sales and marketing and franchise development. In 1991, I decided to change career direction and started my career as a career counsellor which involved training in Workplace Counselling. In 1999, I set up Career Mapping Ltd. working with clients at all stages along the
I decided to shift direction and trained as a occupational psychologist and my work now combines my psychology and counselling skills and experience.
25 years’ experience of career and personal counselling
Certificate in Counselling in the Workplace , TDA and The Roehamton Institute (1992)
