Coaching | mentoru

Career & Leadership Coaching

Jay's philosophy, purpose & approach

While MentorU coaching packages are tailored to the needs of each individual client, my philosophy flows from my belief in the 3 fundamental principles for creating a significant life: taking action, remaining open-minded and identifying authentic interests, values and strengths.

My fundamental purpose in coaching clients is to help them improve the two most important skills for significance: a sense of personal agency (confidence, self-awareness and intrinsic motivation) and adaptability (creativity, critical thinking, interpersonal skills and resilience).

I introduce clients to a variety of exercises and interventions borrowed mostly from positive psychology and humanistic counselling techniques. We use these tools together as a means to facilitate self-exploration and purposeful discussion, rather than to offer simplified solutions to complex questions. A sampling of the instruments we use can be found on our resources page.

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Professionals

Career: motivation, meaning and transition

I can help you if...

You are unsure of how you can make best use of your unique set of interests, values and skills to create a meaningful impact on the world around you;
You are looking to make a positive transition to another role, company, industry or field.

I will help you by...

Guiding you through the following steps:

Identify your motivation for seeking career coaching
Understand the source of your career indecision or dissatisfaction
Adopt objectives to develop a complete picture of your authentic interests, values and talents
Analyze how these preferences can be translated into a meaningful career
Outline an action plan to help you start moving toward your ideal self
Check-in to provide support and accountability

Your program will include some combination of the following tools and interventions, depending on your personal motivations, needs and goals:

Career decision-making assessment
Vocational personality inventories
Strengths identification tests
Reflective reading and writing exercises
Targeted mentorship
Exploratory research & information gathering

Leadership development

I can help you if...

You or one of your team members needs support in developing and implementing effective leadership skills such as self-awareness, communication and interpersonal skills.

I will help you by...

Guiding you through the following steps:

Identify the attitudes and behaviours you are looking to build
Understand the importance of these aspects of your leadership style
Adopt objectives to develop a complete picture of your authentic leadership style
Analyze how this style can be be implemented effectively
Outline an action plan to help you start moving toward your ideal self
Check-in to provide support and accountability

Your program will include some combination of the following tools and interventions, depending on your personal motivations, needs and goals:

Exploratory research & information gathering
Vocational personality inventories
Strengths identification tests
Values identification and prioritization exercises
Reflective reading and writing exercises

Public speaking

I can help you if...

You or one of your team members needs support in developing and delivering a meaningful speech or presentation.

I will help you by...

Guiding you through a personalized version of our Speaking for Significance training program. While the process is based in the same principles, individual coaching allows for more time to be spent on amplifying your individual strengths and correcting your challenges. This process involves the following steps:

Define the purpose of your presentation
Identify important characteristics of your audience
Outline a coherent and impactful structure to your speech
Acquire in-depth knowledge of the material you are presenting
Develop a compelling narrative to connect the audiences members to your story
Integrate your authentic self into the style and delivery of your message
Practice the skills that will enable you to engage the audience's emotions and persuade them

Your program will include some combination of the following exercises, depending on your personal motivations, needs and goals:

Self-reflection
Storytelling
Delivery for a test audience
Recording and reviewing of your practice speech

Students

Post-secondary, gap year and career guidance

I can help you if...

You are a high school (grade 11 or 12) or post-secondary student;
You would like some guidance in deciding what post-secondary education program and/or institution to attend;
You are taking a gap year and need some support in planning and undergoing a purposeful transition year;
You want to find a job or career, and need help uncovering what you would like to do and how to do it.

I will help you by...

Guiding you through the following steps:

Identify your current interests, values and talents
Understand how these relate to making good choices and positive transitions
Adopt objectives to enable you to pursue meaningful experiences
Outline an action plan to help you start moving toward your self-identified goals
Check-in to provide support and accountability

Your program will include some combination of the following tools and interventions, depending on your personal motivations, needs and goals:

Career decision-making assessment
Vocational personality inventories
Strengths identification tests
Reflective reading and writing exercises
Targeted mentorship
Exploratory research & information gathering

"Jay has a way of creating a supportive and enriching environment for personal and professional growth. Our sessions together provided me with a great appreciation of just how much joy he gets from coaching young adults. He understands what tools we need in order to be successful, as well as how to help us achieve our goals. He remained a mentor and helped me with an unrelated project even after our sessions were finished!"

- Mitchell Geis, Engineering student '16, University of Ottawa

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