Mentoring

Mentoring provides you the knowledge, training, and skillsets to improve your communication, writing, and career.

Communication

  • Explore your personal communication style

  • Learn question-asking and listening techniques to understand a person’s motivations, perceptions, and beliefs

  • Receive personalized edits to your written work and explanations to improve future materials

  • Strengthen relationships through concepts like ALPA (Ask, Listen, Pause, Ask)

  • Manage and work with challenging personalities

  • Develop skills to address disagreements, find common ground, and reduce conflict

  • Adapt your communication approach by understanding how a person's experiences influence their behavior

Writing and Authoring

  • Improving your storytelling by understanding the 3 “C”s (character, context, and conversation)

  • Minimizing distraction and developing routines for the writing process

  • Developing stronger scenes through the use of language, structure, and pacing

  • Learning ways to overcome writer’s block

  • Revising your manuscript while keeping your tone, voice, and writing style

  • Receiving personalized copyediting of your work

Career Development

Entering the Workforce with Confidence

  • Defining your personal brand and learning how to communicate what makes you unique

  • Participating in mock interviews to learn how to answer common questions and to learn techniques to manage anxiety

  • Writing resumes and cover letters that communicate your story, interests, and strengths

  • Using networking best practices to find and apply for the job you want

    Growing Skills to Meet Your Potential

  • Improving public speaking for presentations, briefings, and workplace discussions

  • Learning question-asking best practices to work with different personalities

  • Learning how to manage career challenges, setbacks, and uncertainty

  • Defining what leadership means to you and developing your personal style

Tranistioning Careers

  • Building or expanding your network by learning how to conduct informational interviews

  • Participating in mock interviews to learn how to answer common questions and to learn techniques to manage nervousness

  • Learning how to tell the story of your strengths, past accomplishments, and potential to future employers

  • Developing ways to manage stress, uncertainty, and setbacks during your transition

Contact us:

jaz@anindependentflame.com

Jaz Azari

An Independent Flame

Coaching | Mentoring