Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Table of Contents
1. Performance Objectives
3. Counseling Settings
Performance Objectives
Evaluation
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Interpersonal Counseling Techniques
The needs and expectations of a client begin with the first contact and
continue through each session. A checklist of open ended questions to ask
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your client will help you identify the problems you will need to address and
will help you keep the counseling session focused.
Using a checklist, you can help the client identify his or her next steps and
set goals. Your role as a counselor is to coach the client into coming up with
the best answer for his or her business. Once clarified in the client’s mind,
help to formulate goals and action steps. These are best accomplished when
written down by client.
After goals have been set, it is important to have some method for following
up with the client to check progress and answer questions.
Demonstrate Center EX and our website with the client so they can receive
our services when our offices are closed.
Face to Face sessions occur in a variety of places and need not necessarily
occur at the office of the business counselor.
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o Request counseling through Center Ex (see next section)
Materials Sharing
There are occasions where printed materials can be used such as face-to-
face meetings with no internet access. The materials disseminated should be
current to those we share using Center EX.
Barriers of time and place are broken down with web technology, across all
organizations. Our digital world is one where clients can, and do, help
themselves to information, products and services at all hours in a day.
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• Auto-generated document recommendations
• Documents manually referred by counselor, including market research
• Survey participation
• Access to Wyoming Business Tips articles
• Features to come in 2009
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Returning clients can access their Dashboard by using their email listed in
our system and a password. A password can be sent to them using the
Forget your password? option in the middle of the page.
New clients will use the New to our network? field at the bottom of the page
by entering a zip code and clicking on the Locate Offices button.
Once the client signs in, the Client Dashboard (as shown below) will appear.
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Module 2 Training Checklist
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COUNSELING CHECKLIST INSTRUCTIONS:
Imagine you are the client who is now being counseled as you observe the
session. Answer the following questions by circling the number you feel most
accurately measures your observations of how the client feels. Then note
any comments or questions you would like to discuss after the client has left.
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He/she gives the
impression of being
intellectually
superior to me.
He/she talked too much.
The counselor
understands distance
counseling technology.
Center EX was clearly
explained to the client.
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