David Glober, Life and Career Coach
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My training is in Career Management Coaching and a process called Life Blueprint Facilitation. I also have backgrounds in Art, Art History and Art Therapy; Psychology and Education; Sales, Public Speaking, Marketing, Branding and Advertising; Banking and Finance; Computers and Web Design, the Restaurant and Building trades, plus — Ecology, ranging from Organic Food Cultivation to Environmental Business.I often help people with great creativity and intuition integrate increased ability to think on their feet, and often help analytical and methodical clients add greater imagination and spontaneity to their decision making and work-life balance. I draw from a combination of Active Listening, Creative Problem Solving, Best Practices in Enterprise, Business Planning, and Project Management. I'm 55 with a precocious 9 year old Godson; my Clients are of all ages, genders and backgrounds. Many of my Clients work in Information Technology, Social Enterprise, Public Health, Human Resources, Environmental Science, Environmental Business, Horticulture, Marketing, Sales, Public Relations, Health Care, Education, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, User Experience Design, Project Management, Finance, Law, etc. Many are Vice Presidents or Professionals. Several are transitioning between employment and self-employment or vice versa. |
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My coaching process is a combination of asking relevant questions with identification and follow through on practical steps. Often this will follow a process of "mirroring, validating, and empathy" – just as often I will challenge and support you in ways that will help you focus. On the simplest level the idea is to figure out what floats your boat and what doesn't - so you can find the motivational energy that will stimulate and sustain success. Steve Martin recently told Charlie Rose - that success for him consisted even more of knowing what to let go of, than of what to focus on. But we'll navigate all of that, in the context of real life and real challenges. Often we'll discover what really matters to you right now; as a Coach I will support you in making dreams come true by identifying what your dreams are in the first place, and helping you be accountable to yourself and people and ideas you really care about. It's not rocket science, and yet, I provide something that's missing in many people's lives - real attention to what's going to work best for you. |
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Like with many things in life, 90% of being a successful Coaching Client is showing up. Like many Coaches, I've been listening to other people's needs since I was 10 years old. It's what I do. Your job is to make yourself available to the support and scrutiny that helps unravel whatever tangle you may find yourself in. Maybe you crave advancement on your job. Maybe you don't want to do the same kind of work any more. Maybe your work life is fine but you'd like to have more of a life. Often it's a combination of all of the above and additional factors. In time I can help you be able to state very clearly to yourself and others what's really up for you in your work and life, and how you're being resourceful in these challenging times, and how you can gain what I've started calling "traction for satisfaction" – not just wondering what-if but carrying out what-matters. |
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"I thought to myself, 'What a pleasant and perceptive guy' … intelligent in different ways, at different levels which fit the purpose. And all at once, too." — Project Manager/Industrial Engineer for Multimillion Dollar Construction and Software Engineering Projects "David is a fantastic career coach and resume reviewer. With original ideas, a real eye for detail and an incredible amount of patience and realistic optimism, David is a wonderful person to consult with when considering a career change." — VP at a Law Firm, Attorney, Senior Counsel "Thank you for everything. I thought a lot about what you said and I have some thoughts on the ideas we discussed. Our discussion really opened up my mind to a more clear-cut direction again. Again, thank you." — VP in Commercial Banking "The discussions with you about my career have been as helpful as the improvements to my résumé. I cherish your input." — VP of Business Development for a One of the Largest High Tech Companies in Silicon Valley "Thank you for getting me through rough waters to my present level of success. You helped me identify my priorities and make key choices at very difficult moments. Now my business is doing great all over the country, and my personal life is much happier, too. You helped me decide what to keep, what to let go of, where to focus – gave me good input at critical moments when I had several things in front of me at once. I appreciate that you were flexible enough to be there on an ongoing basis but also at a moment's notice when so much was happening at once. Now it's much smoother sailing. Thanks!!" — Fashion Accessories Entrepreneur / Fashion Photographer "Thanks for listening, your insight truly helps…." — Corporate Turnaround VP / CEO – with expertise in Operations, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Legal, Financial and International Employment Issues "… your tips have been right on and extremely useful! You have clarified several key points I need to know on job interviewing and making a transition to my next career level. You're right on, I do have the skills employers need, but I have to find ways to make it easy for them to know it, too, and you've helped me to accomplish that. Thanks for all the great work!" — Graphics Designer, Ad Agency Website Developer/Producer "Both job interviews this week went much better today than any time previously. I felt much more calm and prepared, I know I aced most of the questions and at least did really well on all the other ones. Now I don't have to wonder if there was one question I answered 'wrong' that's going to bounce me from those jobs, and they're both great jobs that I hope will give me a second interview. Thanks, the time you spent going over the structure of the interview and then practicing with me really made a difference I could feel the whole time I was in each of those job interviews." — Public Relations Executive "I just want to thank you for all your help and great work. I know that was a little bit of a rush, but you kept your promise and finished on time. I really appreciate all your effort, and it was a pleasure working with you. You are the best!" — Automotive Industry Researcher/Sales Consultant/Technician "I got the second interview! And I used everything we went over in the coaching session. I was interviewed by two recruiters, and the 15-minute initial session went an additional 15 minutes. Now I'm meeting with the Vice President, and I just want to review salary negotiation and a few other fine points. I wanted you to know that." — Marketing/Training Administrative Assistant for Large Commercial Bank "This résumé is fantastic. Everything looks great. Your work exceeded my expectation. Thanks for all you've done." — IT Administrator "I really appreciate your work ethics and the time you have spent helping me [and] your probing questions." — VP, Finance "After meeting with you I told my partner about the experience and … relief at the realization that I did not have to continue with where I was, I could do anything I want.... I never realized self awareness could be something so powerful.... This is all coming to a head with the assignment we discussed, and the two other areas I've been working on." — Project Manager in Technology |
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First conversation is typically 20 minutes to an hour, at no charge. Actual sessions range from 60 to 90 minutes, sometimes longer. If we get on well during our initial conversations, and you feel really heard, and you want to give it a try, then it's $75 to $120 per sessions for 3 sessions, pre-paid via PayPal or check in the mail or check or cash at Session 1. After that, we will know each other well enough as Client and Coach, to set up a pre-paid monthly retainer, for weekly or twice-monthly sessions, with email and phone contacts encouraged in between. |
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Coaching comes from the idea of sports Coaching, but it's also a bit more like coaxing. Clients often seek a Coach thinking they want to be pushed or pulled into carrying out a particular plan in work or life. Thinking that if the Coach can just help them do what they intend to do, they'll be fulfilled. Usually by about half a dozen sessions, Clients are more sophisticated in what they seek in Coaching, and are learning to just be more present with themselves, and are much better at self-monitoring for incremental steps and quantum leaps. We may use some self-assessment tools. The main tool will be attentive, caring, sometimes challenging: conversations. So-called "Coaching Conversations" are focused on you and what you want and need and how you can get that. We explore what's up for you, from a number of perspectives, including hopes and dreams, talents and skills, communication and relationships, and yes, quite a bit also, income and retirement. The Coaching piece that is similar to sports Coaching has to do with gaining greater intimacy with your own motivation and from that, carrying out clear sets of "next steps". |
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Many Coaching sessions are by phone, and some Clients I have never met in person. I also meet with Clients at my home - office, or at nearby cafés. I live and work in the eastern part of San Francisco, with a view of the Downtown Financial District, near the Oakland Bay Bridge and Highways 280 and 101. |
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I began Coaching officially in 2003, but like many Coaches, people have been coming to for advice or emotional support since I was about 10
years old. This doesn't mean I already had great answers, just that people sensed I'd give them the time of day and not turn them away on things that other friends or
contacts would just brush aside but were important to them. Over time I've learned to not really give advice quite so much; Coaching is in part a professional practice
and a kind of personal path that keeps informing us Coaches that there are always more surprises just around the corner in terms of what a real live human person can
think, feel, want, need, discover, or sort out. We never have all the answers. If anything, and this is almost a cliché in the Coaching profession - we're largely helping Clients discover how much they have answers inside themselves, or within their capacity to get things to make more sense and be more fulfilling in their own lives. We really are, in that sense, facilitators. Our skill is to see where the pivotal points or moments are and to not let them pass. Our skill is to do that with just about any one, but then we do tend to have our own interests and work well in certain areas or with certain people. My certifications are as a "Career Management Coach" and a "Life Blueprint Facilitator". I find Coaching to be one of the most demanding, at times bewildering, overall exciting, and generally one of the most deeply rewarding things that any one could do. To me, Coaching requires huge amounts of intention and attention, deep commitment, an inspired and maybe slightly crazy need and desire to make things better, and a gift and insight to bring out what's already great in a situation, a person, a decision, or a way of being in the world. In terms of my own interests and motivators, along with Coaching, I find myself going deeper in two areas of exploration – leadership coaching combined with a field now called talent management, and, the environment, and people's relationship with the natural world. The leadership and talent management piece is about really helping people feel they're not wasting time in their lives, that they're fulfilling who they're meant to be. The environment piece is not just because of Katrina, Al Gore, polar bears, and melting ice sheets, though that does add urgency, doesn't it now. I worked as an environmental political activist in the early 1990's. I sold solar energy accessories and insulation for windows, roofs and attics, in my overcast hometown of Cincinnati way back in the 1970 's. And I was a small part of a landmark research paper delivered to the City of Berkeley in the mid 1990's about attraction and retention of environmentally friendly businesses. I was one of the people involved in building an environmental economy years before there were cool websites with daily green business news items like TreeHugger.com and IdealBite.com. I've also been a dotcommer and built or contributed to the development of 25 websites from private professional to corporate level. I helped the esteemed Thomas Register of American Manufacturers enter into the computer age; now it's Thomas.net. I've explored Cognitive Science, aka learning how people learn, and worked for a program called Active Learning, based on Rogerian Active Listening, that helped high school and college students do better in school, collaborate more effectively with teachers, make homework easier, and speak up for their needs. I've worked in the building trades, from swinging a hammer to laying pipe in the hills of Colorado. I've also ushered for concerts and theater. I've traveled to Europe and the Middle East, and across about a third of the U.S. I have a wonderful life partner, an active and precocious 9 year old godson, and an active and precocious and sociable year and half old cat. I studied journalism in high school and college, once edited a third newspaper in a major metropolitan area, wrote about music and dance, and interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one on one. In addition to journalism and public speaking I studied theology in college, and I'm self taught in psychology and art history, with some understanding also of art therapy and body-mind integration. |
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To some extent I utilize testing and assessments. These have some value, mostly to verify or corroborate what we discover in Coaching conversations. My earliest training was in human interest and political journalism - i.e. feature stories and news reporting, and I ask a lot of questions to get to the core of the matter quickly, and then expand out what to research together that will help you on your way. For every one hour of Coaching, I will anticipate you'll benefit from an additional hour to four or five hours on your own, and sometimes more, but I don't monitor that, it's up to you to get the most out of the process that you can. A fairly typical approach is to list five or six potential careers, and/or life scenarios, and begin to envision what will be fulfilling. I have found that contentment consists of having some match between occupation and education, and a general happiness with what you're doing, with whom you're doing it, and where you're doing it. In some ways these are simple questions to ask - what you pay me for is largely that I know how and when to ask them. I take a real interest in your thoughts and feelings, wishes and desires, etc. We build on past successes, cultivate future dreams, and come up with best case scenarios. Sometimes we create a life and work plan that's modeled on an abbreviated business plan. It's all about both strategy and discovery, at every step. If you feel in any way delighted or curious or intrigued by content in this website, you'll do very well with the process - especially if you feel inspired to ask questions; inquiry of any kind is very beneficial. For Clients who are under 40 or under 30, or feel they haven't really seen the world yet or learned all they can do, we may engage in a discovery process that's very kind and patient - provided that there is a fundamental respect on the part of the Client for taking time in this way. For Clients with more life experience, we look more at choices and decisions you have made so far, how you have made them, and how, at this point, you want to continue in that path or process now - and what else might truly be available. |
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Interview coaching takes you beyond memorizing answers to the 120+ possible interview questions. You'll learn and practice a very natural structure for the interview process. The points in this article can help you make the transition from second guessing how the employer may be second guessing you, into a more conversational and collaborative interview experience, and a clearer sense of the steps and stages of the interview process at that organization and for that opening. Practicing interviews in role play can help you even further, of course, but reading the following can be a really good place to start in shifting how interviews go for you and getting you past figuring out after the interview what bright thing you might have said in response to that one seemingly trick question! Read more about job interviews. |
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Appointment Hours, in Person or By Phone (Pacific Time):11 am to 9 pm: Monday ~ Tuesday ~ Thursday ~ FridaySessions run typically 60 to 90 minutes. Appointments are Set 48 Hours or More in Advance. Cancellations Made Within Less than 24 Hours in Advance are Billed at One Hour. |
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Life and Career Coaching are still relatively new; people still are finding out how it compares or contrasts to therapy; coaching also comes in
as many styles and flavors as there are coaches. Recently, I have been invited to numerous workshops to clarify that I don't have a professional practice, I have a business.
I find this really unfortunate. What I find unfortunate is the idea that these areas have to be separate; they don't have to be and can't be. Coaches need to have a plan, need to know whom they best serve, need to be paid for their time. That's the business part. But coaching also involves careful building of steps and connecting dots in ways that are specific and personal to the Client. That's the professional part. And professionals hopefully, continually get better at what they do. That's the practice part. |
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Before I became a Coach, I used to tell people I wouldn't have time to gossip about what they'd told me about themselves, because some one
else would be showing up right about then to confide something else. For a long time people have told me that they've shared things with me they hadn't opened up to people
who had known them for years. On the other hand, this is a not uncommon experience for me, and while I don't take it for granted, I don't have much to prove or brag about in this area; it's been part of my life for a long, long time. I do feel that what people share with me is more or less sacred. It's not just the story lines or personal revelations – the sharing itself is special. In addition to that, I agree with the importance of protecting privacy in every way. I never use any one's name who hasn't told me to do so, and I never rent or sell any names or addresses for mailing lists. |
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David Glober, CCMC, LBF Life and Career Coach Professional Resume Writer and Job Interview Coach Since 1995 624 Carolina Street San Francisco, CA 94107 david[[at]]davidglober.com Resumes Website Financial Resumes Land: 415.206.1490 Cell: 415.652.1178 Fax: 415.821.2772 |