Steve Garrett
Chicago, IL
Expert at: Career Coaching, Career Development, Career Discovery, Career Transition, Communication Coaching, DISC Behavior, Entrepreneurial Coaching, Interpersonal Skill Training, Interviewing, Job Hunting, Listening Skills, Mentor Coaching, Mock Interviews, Networking, Resume Writing, Self Assessment, Selling Yourself
Languages:
English
Credentials:
• Extensive expertise in human behavior analysis and change, gained through over twenty years of individual coaching and group training experience in career development, performance management and leadership development consulting.
• Specific organizational coaching experience in healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, utilities, and public accounting. Particular client organizations have included: W.W. Grainger, Integrys (Peoples Energy), Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Caremark, and Archer Daniels Midland.
• Additional career transition training and coaching experience over a number of years with Right Management Consultants, Mainstream Access, and internal career development groups within Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Harris Bank & Motorola.
• Solid foundation in organizational understanding and business acumen gained through MBA degree, BS accounting degree and career experience in financial auditing, university career counseling and corporate human resources.
• Training in coaching methods by The Coaches Training Institute, Corporate Coach University, The Hudson Institute, The Inventure Group, and the Association of Career Professionals International (ACPI). Graduate of the Dale Carnegie Seminar in Public Speaking and Human Relations.
• Certified Career Management Practitioner. Qualified Interpreter of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Self-Directed Search and Kolbe Index, and experienced in the use of the DiSC assessment. Has previously served as a president of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Career Professionals International and as a vice president of the Board of the Career Transitions Center of Chicago.
Experience:
As Principal of Garrett Consulting for over twenty years, Steve Garrett provides a broad range of talent management consulting, coaching & training services to a variety of organizations and individuals. His special focus in coaching includes the following:
* Executive Performance Coaching and Mentoring
* Managerial Engagement & Retention Coaching
* Career Vision & Transition Coaching
* 360 Degree Feedback Interpretation Coaching
* Individual Development Planning and Assessment
* Leadership Development Consulting
Prior to founding Garrett Consulting, Steve gained broad business experience in corporate Human Resources, academic career counseling and financial auditing. Steve held positions as Recruiting Coordinator in the Human Resources Department of Amoco Corporation, as Career Counselor with Indiana University's Business Placement Office and as both Financial Auditor and Executive Search Consultant with Ernst & Young.
In addition to his coaching and consulting activities, Steve is actively involved as Program Co-Chair for the Internal Consulting subgroup of the Chicago Organizational Development Network. He has also served as a past president of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Career Professionals International, and as a past vice president of the Board of The Career Transitions Center of Chicago.
Steve earned his Masters in Business Administration Degree, with a concentration in Human Resources Management, from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting, Magna Cum Laude, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is also qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Kolbe Index, two widely-used assessment instruments. Steve is certified as a Career Management Practitioner by the Institute for Career Certification International.
Description:
Garrett Consulting provides one-on-one career coaching services to individuals in all functional types of career paths, using a combination of in-person and telephone-based coaching. These services benefit people who want to:
a. Proactively determine a new future career vision,
b. Enhance their career prospects within their current position and/or organization, or
c. Make a career transition after their positions are eliminated in either company reorganizations or in challenging individual circumstances.
Garrett Consulting can provide the following career coaching services as a continuous whole, from start to finish, or as a series of selected component pieces, depending upon the needs of the individual.
• The mental outlook on career transition - dealing with the emotions of change.
• Self-assessment of Values, Interests, Personality and Skills/Accomplishments.
• Career options and next position objective.
• Current job enrichment strategies.
• Career discussions with current manager and/or mentors.
• Resume and correspondence development.
• Job search methods and strategy (with special emphasis on networking).
• Interviewing skills.
• Negotiating and offer decision techniques.
• On-going career management strategies and actions.
• Tips for success in starting new roles.
My Philosophy:
Garrett Consulting's philosophy and approach are based on a desire to support individuals in reasserting control over their own career and life choices, regaining confidence and finding a feeling of self-fulfillment. Several key beliefs support this philosophy:
• Finding a sense of purpose and passion through one's work is essential to both career success and personal fulfillment.
• Self-assessment and career reflection, with the objective assistance of a career coach, are helpful for most people to identify and move towards best-match future positions and career objectives.
• Most successful transitions to new careers take advantage of the individual’s current values, interests, personality traits, and skills, packaged together in new ways.
• Achieving a desired personal and professional lifestyle balance is an important component in selecting short and long-term career objectives.
• Being in-between positions is not a professional liability, and can actually be a position of strength from which to conduct a job search.
• Search strategies focusing more on the personal relationship-building approach of networking will generate greater success in most career transition situations than searches focusing primarily on either resume/correspondence-based or internet-based activity.
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