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Imagine your life in balance. The right balance between work and play. Feeling good about your life, though there may be problems to solve and challenges to face. Overall, your life works even though you can still see where it could use improvement and where it is less than perfect. Life is not trouble free, but overall it is fulfilling, with hopes and dreams of the future. Most importantly, you generally feel peace in your relationships at work and in your personal life. Your relationships are not perfect, but you have a deeper sense where fulfillment comes in your relationships, and a clearer sense how to establish and maintain peace with others, even those relationships you thought were impossible.

Does any of this really sound possible? We deny the possibility of such things in our life, but coaching is a human technology that can direct us toward such possibilities. Coaching guides us, inspires us, challenges us, and helps us find the truth in life, that all these things are possible for most of us. When we include ourselves in this possibility a whole new life opens up before us. Dare to dream, and dream big, fulfillment in our life comes from such dreams.

Professional Experience

Twenty years experience providing personal
development services to individuals including:

Personal Development	Initiates specific work with individuals at all levels of life who need development as individuals and leaders.
Arbinger Trained and ICF Certified Coach	Fosters deep internal work resulting in profound, lasting, and results focused changes in relationships in one's life. Tom completed his coaching training through the Arbinger Institute, Tom is authorized to use Arbinger methods and materials in one-on-one coaching. He is a certified coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Personal Assessment	Assists in assessing your strengths and weaknesses, setting specific goals related to your life that are developed around your strengths and weaknesses. Including psychological testing when requested.
Personal Coaching	Actively engages in the process of self understanding and problem solves aspects of your life which are interfering with the achievement of goals where personal happiness is at stake.
Personal Training	Presents assertiveness and other training topics to individuals and groups to improve team functioning and individual effectiveness.
Career Development	Facilitates the career process and has managed a Career Center.

Benefits of Coaching

There are many reasons why you could benefit from personal coaching:

To improve your effectiveness and interpersonal competency.
To identify and better understand your strengths and weaknesses.
To build more effective relationships.
To improve outcomes of your decisions in life planning.
To create a more positive and productive life environment.
To know better what you want and make progress in achieving it.

Services

Coaching regarding the identification of specific and important life goals and advancement toward the realization of those goals.
Assessment of strengths and weaknesses with feedback to you to improve personal and interpersonal effectiveness.
Interventions to increase personal and interpersonal functioning and effectiveness.

Methods

Assessment through interview and psychological survey and testing (as necessary).
Direct involvement and follow through to assist in specific progress toward goals.

When appropriate, referral to other professionals who can assist in your attaining your goals.
Managerial assessment through interview and psychological survey and testing.

Your return on investment can yield results for
you over and over again. So why not consider
discussing the coaching relationship today?

What You Can Expect

Some of the ways you could benefit from personal coaching.

Increased confidence and self esteem.
Greater personal and interpersonal effectiveness.
Increased abilities to develop, maintain, and manage goal related behaviors.
Greater job satisfaction.
Better risk management, weighing risks to benefits of a course of action.
Increased overall happiness and a sense of well-being.
Increased ability to relax and enjoy life.

All coaching is done in a personal and confidential manner.

Situations Which Warrant Coaching

If you feel you have a "higher potential" that you are not realizing.
If you see that you want to develop more as an individual or in your career.
If you are facing a particularly difficult life decision.
If there are unusual circumstances in your life which requires a strategic intervention.
If you are demonstrating consistent difficulties in the management of your life.

Career Coaching Services

Tom Krapu provides the following career services:

Career Planning and Development

Career Planning and Development is a lifelong process which follows basic principles. Tom has extensive training and experience in finer points of working in the area of career development. Coaching services are offered to help assess strengths, organize and plan career decisions, and set goals for implementation. The process of career development is integrated in a manner which can result in a better ability to make career decisions throughout the life span and a clearer vision to know when you are on track.

Interest Testing and Interpretation

Tom has had significant experience helping individuals and groups understand the career process and has helped people develop an integrated plan regarding their work and career. Interest testing can be an integral part of this process and Tom provides testing services as well as comprehensive interpretive services.

He has directed a University Career Center in the past in addition to having worked with a multitude of individuals in this area of career life development. In the case where interest testing is available though other sources, Tom provides comprehensive interpretive services based on extensive training and experience in the area of career development. His work has included helping individuals who are transitioning their career because of external circumstances beyond their control as well as individuals who see that their career needs a different direction.

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Thank you for your interest.

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