Visual Thinking to Enhance Career Coaching

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services and university relations and recruiting professionals
Competency: Coaching
Fee: $250 (member); $375 (nonmember);

Summary
Participants will consider how to use visual thinking in coaching to help the coachee organize their thoughts and improve their ability to think and communicate. Through creative activity, participants will learn how to visualize abstract thoughts into tangible concepts. The course will begin with a definition of visual thinking followed by looking at enhancing goal setting, self-awareness, and development.

Course Content Areas:
- Part 1. The value of visual thinking in career coaching with specific training for the key skills, knowledge, techniques, and strategies which will lead to successful coaching sessions;
- Part 2. Using visual thinking to enhance goal setting; and
- Part 3. Using visual thinking to enhance self-awareness and development.
Following this program, you will be able to:
- Learn the benefits and value of visual thinking;
- Discover the value of visual thinking related to coaching techniques;
- Understand the value of visual thinking coaching techniques as they relate to listening and feedback skills; and
- Learn how using visual thinking can enhance goal setting, decision making, self-awareness, and development.
Presenters

Meg Flournoy, Director, Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Meg Flournoy is sector director, global and health, for the Career Management Center at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Flournoy is an experienced career services professional providing guidance to graduate business students and alumni from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University interested in general management and global opportunities. She has experience with global career business development, the healthcare industry, coaching, and advising. Flournoy developed coaching skills through positions at the University of Maryland, University College, Muhlenberg College, and Lafayette College. Over the past 15 years, she has worked with undergraduate liberal arts students, engineering students, and evening graduate school students. She has also worked with divisions of companies on the topics of staff development, self-assessment, and team building. Flournoy holds a master's degree in counseling psychology from Lehigh University, and a bachelor's degree in political science from Susquehanna University. Flournoy is past president of the Susquehanna University alumni association.