EXERCISES
CAREER COACHING
1. Strengths
A simple coaching exercise to help you identify your strengths & transferrable skills
3. Motivators
Helps you identify what intrinsically motivates you i.e. why you get up in the morning
5. Career Questions
10 questions about your career that you may not have thought about before
7. Beliefs
Beliefs, feelings, thoughts and actions exercise to help you overcome your limiting beliefs
9. Future Self
An exercise to help you visualise and get clarity on the future life that you desire
11. Unique Abilities
An exercise to help you identify what makes you unique and how other's see your uniqueness
13. Time Management
Top Time management tips to help you be more effective and efficient
15. Interests/Pastimes Log
Identifying what your interests and pastimes are so you can find a job or business aligned to your passions.
2. Values
A quick and easy way to ascertain the values you live your life by - go on gut feel
4. Needs and Wants
This defines what you need or want to have in your life and career to help with decisions
6. Career Brainstorming
A black page with 1-50 on it for you to stare at until the ideas start to flood in
8. Saboteurs
An exercise and analysis of your saboteurs - the parts of you which hold you back
10. Legacy
Exercises to help you define the legacy you desire to leave at the end of your life
12. Confidence Wheel
A great exercise to understand what makes up your self confidence and how to improve it
14. Time Log Template
Timesheet template to help you plan and monitor how you spend your time
16. Self Connection
15 ways to strengthen your connection with true self and really understand what is important to you.
17. Self Care Checklist
Fab little self care checklist from themilitarywifeandmom.com
BUSINESS COACHING
1. Starting a Business
12 essential steps to take when starting a business.
3. Time Management
Top Time management tips to help you be more effective and efficient
5. Pomodoro Technique
A technique for time boxing you work to help you be more productive
7. Business Canvas
Basic Business Model template. Follow these great tips to help you to fill it out:
https://www.alexandercowan.com/business-model-canvas-templates/
9. Lean Start Up Model
Fantastic Diagram showing the Lean In
Business Building process from MM1.com
11. Digi Marketing
A overview of Digital Marketing from SMEI (Sales and Marketing Executives Int)
13. Market Research Tool
An easy survey tool for basic market research from Typeform.com
15. Webtraffic Analysis Tool
A very quick website analysis from NeilPatel.com including errors, keywords and SEO effectiveness
17. Cashflow Calculator
A simple spreadsheet to help with your cashflow forecasting
19. How to Rank on Google
4 simple steps to start ranking on Google's
first page.
2. SWOT Analysis
A quick and easy way to ascertain the values you live your life by - go on gut feel
4. U-I Grid
This defines what you need or want to have in your life and career to help with decisions
6. Procastination
An overview of procrastination, and tools to help you to stop.
8. Business Planning
A link to the Business and IP Centre at the British Library, with a wealth of information about business planning and starting a business.
10. Business Plan
Lovely Business Plan template from the Prince's Trust
12. Customer Avatars
Hubspot.com's Persona tool to help you build avatars of your ideal customers and clients
14. Positioning
Positioning Exercise - In progress
16. Keyword Tool
Link to a keyword tool, check out your competitors Keywords and use them in your site for improved SEO
18. Business Wheel
What does your business need? This tool will help you review your business objectively
20. SEO Checklist
The basics of how SEO works and what you can do yourself to get most of the way there