Life & Career Coaching
Organizational Consulting

Welcome!

"A coach is your unconditional support when you take a hit."

Thomas Leonard
 

Thank you for visiting my website to learn about the benefits of my life and career management coaching and consulting services.  You will find that the information on these pages details my services in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand format.

I invite you to sign up for Tips from LaRock, a free, brief monthly message with life and career hints that I know you will find informative and useful.  Click on Contact Barbara; the Tips signup page will pop up. 

Ensure success in your organization--and career.

• Be visible in your organization. 

• Keep in mind that it's your value to your organization that counts.

• Offer to take on extra projects and responsibilities.

• Avoid participating in passing on office rumors and gossip.

• Keep an ongoing record of your accomplishments and results. 

• Keep your resume updated and make sure it includes quantifiable data that highlights your accomplishments and results.

• Develop a plan B and be ready to activate that plan if you do get a pink slip.

Tips to help you manage job loss:

• Ask your employer about severance, COBRA and outplacement services.

• Acknowledge the emotions you are feeling. Take a few days to let the loss sink in.

• Activate your network and network everywhere you go.  Develop and practice your self-introduction.  Become proficient at using social media.

• Develop a strategy to manage your finances while you're out of work.

• Spend some time identifying activities that energize and sustain you when you're stressed and engage in those activities during your job search.

• Consider whom you will ask for a reference.

• Check out my Resources--->Other Resources tab for valuable reading suggestions.

Need a life?  Get a coach.

Feel free to contact me via telephone, email (contact information below) or via my Contact Barbara page on this website.  I'd love to hear from you.

September Quotations

"If what you are doing is not moving you toward your goals, then it's moving you
away from your goals."

Brian Tracy, Author

...and on a lighter note...

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else."

Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, Baseball Player and Team Manager
 

Barbara M. LaRock, M.Ed., is a Limited Liability Company.
 

For more information, please contact Barbara LaRock at 703-709-8600 or via email at .
 

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