licensing

Are you a coach or career coach who is looking to:

  • enable your clients to transition more successfully:
    – from education to work?
    – from work to retirement?
  • open up a new business stream for your business?

Evolve Consulting Services and Career Counselling Services have combined to offer two unique licensing training programmes to use the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and Testing the Water® toolkit with your own clients:

  1. Testing the Water® education to work
  2. Testing the Water® work to protirement

why licensing?

  • we know that young people are finding the transition from education to work daunting: with over 80 applicants per graduate job, and 20.4% unemployment in young people in the UK.
  • we know that older workers are finding the transition from work to retirement challenging: with only 50% of employers providing some form of support in the UK.
  • we know that career coaches have asked to use the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and Testing the Water® toolkit with their own clients.

Read on to find out more about the two licensing programmes:


Testing the Water® education to work

potential benefits

  • a way to opening up a new business stream
  • own electronic copy of the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and toolkit to help clients to facilitate their own transition to work
  • the confidence and competence to use a research-based questionnaire with existing and new clients
    a structure to address and resolve the clients questions concerning their transition from education to work
  • a sensible way of scaling down clients’ work ambitions to more workable plans

approach

Central to this licensing workshop is becoming familiar and confident with the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and Testing the Water® toolkit.

The Testing the Water® e-questionnaire has been designed by Cathy Brown, and developed over 18 months of research applying research standards set by Birkbeck College, University of London. It aims to help clients to assess their readiness for work.

The Testing the Water® toolkit has been designed by Cathy Brown. It is designed for coaches and career coaches to use with their clients. It aims to provide practical exercises for clients to facilitate and check out their move from education to work.

The licensing approach has a number of steps:

step one – testing the water

ahead of the workshop, you will receive your own Testing the Water® e-questionnaire to complete (allow up to 90 minutes)

step two – building familiarity and confidence

  • the licensing workshop takes place either individually or in a group of up to 12 coaches and career coaches
  • the session lasts for one day
  • the workshop will help you to make sense of your own Testing the Water® e-questionnaire results, and become familiar with the Testing the Water® toolkit
  • there will be the opportunity to coach and be coached, using the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and Testing the Water® toolkit
  • case study discussions will bring alive the different client scenarios you could face

step three – developing a business stream

  • the licensing workshop will also provide some practical advice and pointers in developing your own marketing approach
  • we will provide pricing guidelines for the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire, one-to-one coaching sessions and client workshop

step four – receiving follow up support

supervision and business support: the fee for the licensing workshop includes one 1:1 session with Cathy Brown to support the development of your work

price

£695 + VAT, which includes the workshop day, a one-off licence fee, your own Testing the Water® e-questionnaire, a starter pack of three of the Testing the Water® – Helping You Take Your First Steps From Education to Work Career Guide and one supervision/business support session with Cathy Brown.

The next course is running:

Please contact us to find out the next course date.
Licensing courses can be arranged to be run on a one to one basis.

If you are interested in applying for this course, then please complete the our application form.


Testing the Water® work to protirement

potential benefits

  • a way to opening up a new business stream
  • own electronic copy of the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and toolkit to help clients to facilitate their own transition to retirement
  • the confidence and competence to use a research-based e-questionnaire with existing and new clients
  • a structure to address and resolve the clients questions concerning their transition from work to retirement
  • a sensible way of scaling down clients’ life ambitions to more workable plans

approach

Central to this licensing workshop is becoming familiar and confident with the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and Testing the Water® toolkit.

The Testing the Water® e-questionnaire has been designed by Cathy Brown, and developed over 18 months of research applying research standards set by Birkbeck College, University of London. It aims to help clients to assess their readiness for retirement. This research has led to a new approach to retirement, protirement.

The Testing the Water® toolkit has been designed by Cathy Brown. It is designed for coaches and career coaches to use with their clients. It aims to provide practical exercises for clients to facilitate and check out their move from work to retirement.

The licensing approach has a number of steps:

step one – testing the water

  • ahead of the workshop, you will receive your own Testing the Water® e-questionnaire to complete (allow up to 90 minutes)

step two – building familiarity and confidence

  • the licensing workshop takes place either individually or in a group of up to 12 coaches and career coaches
  • the session lasts for one day
  • the workshop will help you to make sense of your own Testing the Water® e-questionnaire results, and become familiar with the Testing the Water® toolkit
  • there will be the opportunity to coach and be coached, using the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire and Testing the Water® toolkit
  • case study discussions will bring alive the different client scenarios you could face

step three – developing a business stream

  • the licensing workshop will also provide some practical advice and pointers in developing your own marketing approach
  • we will provide pricing guidelines for the Testing the Water® e-questionnaire, one-to-one coaching sessions and client workshop

step four – receiving follow up support

  • supervision and business support: the fee for the licensing workshop includes one 1:1 session with Cathy Brown to support the development of your work

price

£695 + VAT, which includes the workshop day, a one-off licence fee, your own Testing the Water® e-questionnaire, a starter pack of three of the Testing the Water® – Getting Set For Your Protirement: A Fresh Approach to Retirement Practical Guide and one supervision/business support session with Cathy Brown.

The next course is running:

Please contact us to find out the next course date.
Licensing courses can be arranged to be run on a one to one basis.

If you are interested in applying for this course, then please complete the our application form.

payback

The course investment can give a quick financial payback:

For example:

  • if you charge £100 per hour for coaching
  • and each Testing the Water® client requires 3 hours of coaching
  • you will recoup your course investment on seeing your third Testing the Water® coaching client

application form

To apply for the the Testing the Water® Licensing Course, complete our application form.

What our clients think…

What our licensed coaches think…

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