Success Orientations Life & Career Coaching

Hello!

My name is Paul Kurucz. I developed the Success Orientations model from my teaching and faculty development experiences as a professor and higher education leader for 25 years in Canada and the United Arab Emirates. Use of the model spread to employment, career, relationships, public and homeschooling, and parenting contexts as it is applicable to the whole human experience.

I have personally helped dozens of people individually and thousands of people in group settings learn to use the Success Orientations model to improve their lives personally and professionally. I would be pleased to support you. The concept of success orientations is simple but the implications profound and it can really help to have someone make sense of what it means for the unique person you are. In just one coaching session we can immediately uncover ways in which your natural success orientation strengths can align more clearly and powerfully in your studies, work and career, personal relationships, family life, and/or parenting. If you are working through a specific problem, decision you have to make, person you are in conflict with, or other challenge, I can help! A few examples of my coaching that made a big difference:

• Education. A university student had felt pressured by her parents to go into the program she was in. We uncovered her true passion (she was highly relational) and I helped prepare her not only to change educational pathways but also with how to have the confidence and clarity to express her choices to her family in a way that honoured her and them.
  
  
• Career and jobs. Changing to a new career or job within the same industry/company can be hard to do. I have helped people identify what careers they would really be in natural alignment with (and therefore enjoy and excel in!) and helped them have the confidence to make a change. Sometimes this resulted in an immediate shift to a new direction and sometimes, because of family responsibilities for example, we explored a plan for how to make a transition happen with minimal disruption.
  
  
• Relationships. Dating, spousal, parent-child, siblings, grown-up child to a parent, co-worker, employee to a boss, and simply "friends". This is an area that is often the point of much friction when it comes to success orientations and one I have helped many people with. I am compassionate and emotionally intelligent in my support and can help you understand others and identify practical ways you can better interact with them personally and/or professionally.
• Business and services. Clients, customers, business partners, and teams all find the success orientations model useful. Example: In a city's real estate board workshop I facilitated the real estate agents ("realtors") discovered they were typically very "goal oriented" and the office staff who handled the paperwork of a real estate purchase/sale transaction were required to be very "process oriented". Both parties learned how to work better together - real estate agents to respect the due process and timelines of the office staff and the office staff to acknowledge, hold boundaries, and occasionally when to adjust their priorities due to timeline pressure of a deal. Fun: One office staff member said this to everyone in the workshop, to laughter from everyone:
  
  "Now that I know agents are goal oriented and feel the need to interrupt my work to pressure me to help them get something done quickly I will put a wooden fence up around my desk so they can't come and disturb me when I have to work through my pile of deals and stay focused."
  
  Another example: Therapists, coaches, consultants, advisors, guides, alternative health practitioners, etc. all have initial interactions with potential clients where a "fit" by both parties is determined - a good fit or not for working together. These interactions are through one or more of a website, social media page, by email, and/or by phone / Zoom / etc. Unconsciously both parties tend to see the other through their own lens. If a process oriented potential client comes to a website and sees primarily a relationship oriented expression of a coach, for example, they may not feel it is a good fit:
  
  "I want to see details on the exact steps of our coaching and what exactly will be the agenda of each session, how long each session will be, how much it costs, when and how to pay, what are the qualifications, certifications, and credentialing board of the coach, how many clients they have worked and who, etc. This website is mostly just "fluffy touchy-feely" stuff about them and how they work with people. I want facts, steps, and processes. I don't want to work with this coach."
  
  In my work with clients I have helped them quickly discern the orientation of a potential client or service provider through written, verbal, body language, and visual evidence as part of learning whether a good "fit" is evident and if it is possible and desirable to adjust their interaction approach with the other person in a way that works best for both parties. Sometimes it is just not a good fit! Other times both parties can quickly and easily find middle ground and a productive working relationship unfolds.

How may I be of support?

My coaching sessions are offered by Zoom and I am available to support you wherever you are in the world. A typical session is 45-60 minutes but I don't set a time limit so that we have all the time we need to explore your situation, needs, and to find practical and actionable ways to move forward in a way that helps you feel safe, empowered, confident, and excited!

Fun: Can you discern my primary success orientation from 'How may I be of support?' writing? I work well with clients with strong orientations of all kinds but best when clients have a strong or secondary ________ orientation... ;-)

Learn More: Success Orientations explained.

How To Teach International Students using Success Orientations.

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