Member since: Apr 30, 2008
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LaVonne Dorsey
Executive, Career and Life Coach
Welcome to Living!
Seattle, Washington 98116
What LaVonne does
LaVone offers pragmatic, compassionate and honest coaching to individuals seeking to make a commitment to themselves and changing their lives for the better. LaVonne's clients realize their full potential by envisioning and verbalizing their dreams and goals, while taking small steps one at a time, transferring their lives towards a more vibrant, fulfilling future.
What is Coaching?
Coaching is a pro-active, optimistic interaction that focuses on peoples inherent strengths. It facilitates the actions that take people from where they are in their personal or professional lives to where they want to be.
Welcome to Living offers coaching in the forms of one-on-one, private groups and workshops.
PEOPLE USE COACHES TO:
Help build a small business. Achieve short- and long-term goals for financial success. Create and implement a plan for personal or professional development. Leverage strengths to make the most of their current jobs or careers. Develop leadership and networking skills. Clear out the clutter and organize their lives/businesses/homes. Achieve a creative endeavor. Discover and clarify the personal values that inform life decisions.
Find the dream that has been hiding and bring it to life.
As an On-Boarding, Career and Life Coach LaVonne works with her clients to
• Develop and maintain effective coaching plans with the client participant; This may include testing
•Integrate and evaluate interpretations that help the client participant to gain awareness and to achieve agreed-upon results;
•Create opportunities for ongoing learning, in work/life situations. Clients then take on new effective actions on agreed-upon coaching results;
•Create Individual development plans (IDPs) based on the job requirements and competencies at the next level.
•Collaborate with the participants' supervisors, staff, and HR. Identify - clarifies career goals and aspirations.
•Strive to enhance the leadership capacity of the individual.
In addition to helping others grow in their lives and organizations, LaVonne has established her own Career and Life Coaching team involving other consultants.
She has brought her drive, inter-personal skills and management experience to a number of boards, including serving on several as corporate representative.
What LaVonne does best
I help my clients to
Create and implement a plan for personal or professional development.
Leverage strengths to make the most of their current jobs or careers.
Achieve short- and long-term goals for financial success.
Build a small business.
Clear out the clutter and organize their lives/businesses/homes.
Achieve a creative endeavor.
Discover and clarify the personal values that inform life decisions.
Find the dream that has been hiding and bring it to life.
Develop leadership skills.
Develop networking skills.
In short, I am best at helping my clients discover what has real meaning for them and then go about achieving the goals they set.
What does LaVonne need?
I would like to create a network of professional coaches to brainstorm, network and refer clients to. Creating an intellegent support network that I can leverage.
Education
Coaching Training Alliance Business Consultants Network Academy of Coaching Excellence University of Washington
Experience
With more than 15 years of consulting experience LaVonne has worked for several large organizations including Microsoft, Nordstrom and Eddie Bauer. She has professional training and many years of experience in leadership development, strategic planning, team building, career planning and time management
LaVonne 's location
Seattle, Washington 98116
