Exam and Interview Coaching Services from Procoach Systems

Exam and Interview coaching assists clients in mastering multidisciplinary learning and performance strategies for critical and stressful education and business situations. This collaborative, professional relationship confidentially supports, guides and advises clients in peak-performance mind focus strategies. Mind tools are taught to help prevent test and exam anxiety, study stress, stage fright, interview anxiety, choking and other under-performance syndromes. Clients realize more educational and career potential, while minimizing sub-optimal performance obstacles.

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Discover Your Strengths And Weaknesses

We are making this valuable 68-item assessment tool available to you at no charge to assist you in determining what is getting in the way of your performing to your full potential in interview situations. It will help you quickly discover your strengths and weaknesses and provide you with an overview of where you stand in these often stressful, yet critical performances.

You can print this for your own use, or fill it out and then email or fax it to us as a way to begin the interview coaching process with us.

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Exam & Interview Coaching Assessment Package

This comprehensive, highly-detailed professional educational tools package will give you an even deeper and more accurate analysis of your exam and test anxiety and interview mental game. It will show you your exact mental strengths and weaknesses, and show you where you should begin working to improve your interview skills. This $250 package combines our Procoach Systems proprietary written assessment instrument, containing 212 questions, and a one-hour review/coaching session with Bill Cole, CEO of Procoach Systems. Learn more about this Exam & Interview Coaching Assessment Package.

Student Discount Exam and Interview Coaching Assessment Package

Anyone enrolled in any academic or professional program is eligible for this student discount. Your investment in yourself and your exam and interview abilities for this assessment package is at a discounted fee of $150. This is an introductory, special discount price for an initial one-hour coaching session and assessment.

The Traction-To-Action™ Interview/Media Coaching Discount Starter Package

You want to build more interview confidence, make a positive impact and sell yourself and your ideas to people.

Think of any interview you give as a series of miniature speeches. You may be sitting, doing the interview over the phone or be in a TV or radio studio with no audience, but it is still essentially a series of mini speeches. Bill will help you craft your message, practice it, polish it and deliver it with impact.

Bill's Interview/Media Coaching Has 14 Helpful Features To Boost Your Confidence:

New Client Coaching Discount Offer

Our standard coaching fees for private pay individuals are $125 an hour, but we want to give you a starter discount. Choose this Traction-To-Action Starter Package and take off $75 over three hours of coaching. You pay only $300 for all the above 14 points over three valuable hours of coaching with Bill. Travel and associated expenses are extra, if we come to you.

We have coached individuals from Saratoga, Los Gatos, Campbell, Cupertino, Palo Alto, Almaden Valley, Santa Cruz, Los Altos, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and many other locations in the San Francisco Bay area. Silicon Valley, and around the United States. You can come to us, or we can come to you.

We can also work virtually. We also regularly consult with clients by phone and email from countries around the world, such as England, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, China, Canada, Israel and South Africa.

To start your interview/media coaching, simply email us, call us Toll Free at 888-445-0291, or click on the button below to sign up now.

We can often start you the same week you contact us. We stay busy, but we know you have important interviews and media events coming up, and we want you to be prepared, confident, and to give outstanding performances. If you need emergency, last-minute interview/media coaching, call us, and we will do everything we can to help you right away. We always go the extra mile for our clients!

Order Exam & Interview Coaching Services

Procoach Systems coaching rates shown here are discounted for private pay individuals. Rates are higher for corporate, governmental and other entities. Please contact us for those fee schedules.

Our discounted coaching fees are $125 per hour, with additional discounts offered for blocks of six and twelve hours.

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Read These Coaching Articles

These articles explain the importance of pre-performance routines or rituals in preparing for an exam or interview, why and how people engage the services of a professional coach, and some of the ways peak performers play and win at the game of life.

Performance Rituals

Powerful Pre-Event Routines Help You Perform to Your Potential

Bill Cole, MS, MA

Athletes, students, sales people, teachers, public speakers, media people and anyone else who "officially performs" successfully uses pre-performance routines or rituals. Even if you don't view what you do as a performance, you can use routines to help you relax, focus and prepare mentally and physically for an upcoming event such as an exam or job interview. Read this article to learn why you need pre-performance routines or rituals, how they work, and the top 20 strategies peak performers use to psych up for top performances.

Why Hire a Coach?

Ten Terrific Ways to a More Powerful Life

Bill Cole, MS, MA

A personal coach, business coach, executive mentor, tennis coach, golf coach, sport psychology coach...What do all these coaches have in common? Why work with a coach? A coach won't do the work for you, but here are ten ways a coach can help launch you to the next level. ... Read the rest of this article.

What's a Mental Game Coach?

Bill Cole, MS, MA

There are many types of mind coaches, mental trainers, psychology consultants and therapists. How can you choose the right mind practitioner? To find out, read this article.

Meet Bill Cole, Your Exam and Interview Coach

You no doubt recognize these big media outlets -- MSNBC.com, Golf Magazine, the BBC, ABC-TV, Fox News, the Associated Press Radio, The New York Times, The San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Yahoo! Sports, ABC-TV, Entrepreneur Magazine, The San Jose Mercury News, The Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Kansas City Star, Tennis Magazine, Presentations Magazine, Professionally Speaking, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. Bill has either been interviewed by them himself and/or coached people to give successful interviews with them.

Bill understands the pressures, challenges and time constraints of the media. He should. He's a former sports writer, columnist, magazine correspondent, book author and the executive editor of numerous professional newsletters. He earned his first press credentials in 1980. He has conducted hundreds of interviews himself and knows how the media work. He'll team with you to make your interview successful. He currently writes a national column for the financial magazine Transaction World on sales, customer service and business strategies. His articles appear all over the world in hard copy and electronic media outlets.

Bill has interviewed celebrities, famous sports figures, musicians, artists, politicians, well-known book authors, military figures, business owners, executives and social figures. He'll help you craft smart strategies to navigate the media world to create the right kind of street buzz and polished image that will help you and your cause.

A best-selling book author called Bill to help her navigate the media on her book tours and she said this about Bill's interview coaching and consulting:

"As a Stanford performance expert and credentialed sports psychologist who worked with top athletes at the Olympic Training Center in Greece, I was looking for the best media coach possible to help me prepare for my international interviews on major TV networks - BBC, ABC, Fox News, and Associated Press Radio.

Choosing to work with Bill Cole, The Mental Game Coach, is without a doubt, one of the best decisions I've ever made. His brilliant media coaching, including scripting, clever sound bytes, media strategies, and performance methods helped me to feel prepared for anything that might happen during my national TV interviews. The mock interviews we did helped me to think through and craft my material to the reporter's needs. With Bill's expertise, I learned how to play the media game and feel comfortable in high pressure media situations.

As a result of our intensive coaching, the TV interviews went extremely well. I felt relaxed and ready, I was confident with my material and delivery. The reporters loved the sound bytes that we created, and I got national and international exposure that I never thought possible.

Bill Cole knows the media well and he is fun and a joy to work with. I always enjoy our sessions. He comes up with some amazingly clever phrases that keep the media coming back again and again.

Bill is an expert at creating and building good relationships with his clients and with the media. While in Greece at the Olympic Games, I was interviewed by the Associated Press Radio. This interview was syndicated and broadcast to over 5,000 stations worldwide. I've done repeat interviews with the BBC-TV and ABC, as well as the New York Times, Time Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.

I highly recommend Bill Cole's media coaching services to anyone who wants more positive exposure to skyrocket their career. If you really want to see IMMEDIATE and SIGNIFICANT results, Bill Cole, the Mental Game Coach is the best resource in the business. His coaching was well worth the investment."

JoAnn Dahlkoetter, Ph.D
Keynote Speaker
Best-selling book author, YOUR PERFORMING EDGE
Winner, San Francisco Marathon
Stanford Performance Expert
www.YourPerformingEdge.com

Bill has been featured as an expert presentation coach in Presentations Magazine, the most important speaking magazine in the world, in the article, First Aid For Podium Emergencies. They interviewed Bill on how to coach speakers to handle the many problems that can happen in a presentation.

Bill was hired as the head speech writer and presentation coach to famed Silicon Valley SnapTrack CEO and Founder Steve Poizner, who is ranked in the top six of all-time Silicon Valley CEO's, since selling his company to Qualcomm for $1 billion. You may recognize that he is the newly-elected 2007 California State Insurance Commissioner. Poizner ran for the State Assembly in California in 2004 and was one of a handful of politicians who were endorsed by "The California Governator", Arnold Schwarzenegger. Bill crafted the content and staging for Poizner's speeches, debates, TV and radio spots and other appearances. Steve had this to say about Bill's presentation consultation:

"Bill, thank you for your excellent writing, coaching and guidance with my speeches and presentations. Your help was invaluable in my political campaign."

Bill has also been engaged as the Speechwriter and Presentation Coach to Steve Poizner in his new role as the California State Insurance Commissioner. Learn more at the California State Insurance Commissioner's web site.

Bill prepared this internationally known inventor-speaker-author before he shot a national TV infomercial in Los Angeles.

"Bill Cole was helpful from the first minute we started media training coaching. He was insightful, supportive and clearly possessed a level of expertise and understanding that allowed us to be very productive. The net effect was that while on camera, I was rock solid confident that I knew how to come across, due to my training with Bill. I recommend him highly."

Ed Strachar
Author/Speaker
www.geniuszone.com

Here is what a business owner who called us at the last minute to help her prepare for a high-stakes media interview had to say about our coaching:

"Boy, am I glad we were able to get together before this interview with The New York Times!! Thank you Bill for your media coaching! You're the best!! Thank you so much for your time and sharing the knowledge you have. I felt sooooo much better after our meeting - you are so very good at what you do. I went over the interview strategies you gave me again. It's such good solid material, and it really helped me do a great interview with the reporter from the Times.

So once again I really thank you. I felt so much more prepared for the interview. Thank you so much for your expert help!!"

Beverly Lengquist
Creator of BCozy®
Realtor®
Thunderbird Real Estate
3555 Clares St., Suite WW, Capitola, CA 95010
www.beverlyl.com

Job Interview and Performance Review Coaching

Do you have a performance review coming up soon? On the hunt for a new job? Bill can help you understand what it is you really want from a career, assess your strengths and weaknesses, and craft strategies that will help you either find and land a new job, or move higher up the ladder where you are presently working.

Having owned a number of businesses, and been in other leadership positions, Bill has interviewed people, hired people, advanced people and let people go, so he knows what employers are looking for in new hires. If you want to embark on a job-hunting program, Bill can help you get the edge on the competition.

Bill recently provided interview coaching services for an Assistant Superintendent of Schools in a major school district in her quest for interviewing for the top Education Chief's position. This included interview strategies, crafting position modules, peak performance approaches and videotape of her in action. She got the job. She was quite grateful and wrote:

"Bill, I wanted to tell you how much you helped me prepare for the series of interviews I recently completed in seeking the position of Superintendent. Your assistance was invaluable in helping me achieve success in this job-seeking campaign.

Our sessions prior to each interview gave me a lot of confidence and helped me prepare in ways I couldn't have by myself. Thanks for coming over to my office that time on such short notice, and on a weekend! That's going the extra mile for your clients. I really appreciate it.

I used many of the things we had talked about. The 'interview mini-speeches' content we crafted and the facial expressions you helped me be aware of, including 'smiles' was very, very helpful. Our videotape sessions were eye-opening! You helped me know what to expect once in the interview, and how to turn the stress into peak performance. I felt very calm once I got through the very first question. You are a great coach! So, thanks to you for all of your support and helpful feedback. Once the dust settles, I know I would like to call upon you again--there will be many speaking opportunities and I would like to continue to work on my skills in this area.

I will certainly recommend you to other people who could use your expert coaching. Many thanks again for all your help and your great coaching."

Suzanne Boxer-Gassman, Ed. D.
Superintendent
Los Gatos Union School District
17010 Roberts Road
Los Gatos, CA 95032

School Interview and Certification/Licensing Interview Coaching

Taking a certification exam or professional licensing exam that requires a personal interview? Taking professional boards that have a verbal testing section?

You need a smart strategy and intelligent interview practice systems to perform at your best in these pressure situations. These scenarios can stress you to the maximum, but if you have an experienced coach helping you prepare for your interview, you will gain the confidence that will make the successful difference in the end.

Here's what a high-tech client who had to take a rigorous professional certification exam to keep her job had to say:

"Hi Bill, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that I really appreciated all the time you spent with me, especially on such a short notice. I thank you for all the coaching you provided. Also, wanted to let you know that it was time well spent. I PASSED THE EXAM : ) Yeah!!!

They still don't have the results posted on the ABIH web page, but I have been notified of the results, and needless to say, I was THRILLED! Thanks again Bill!"

Business Executive
Silicon Valley, California

Interviews Are Like Miniature Speeches

Far more than simply answering questions put to you by the interviewer, you need to have a cohesive strategy for taking charge of an interview situation and placing your own indelible stamp on it. You want to feel in control of making the very best impression on the interviewer.

Bill will help you craft smart answers to the toughest questions anyone can throw at you, and develop a series of speaking modules that help you stay on track mentally and delivering the goods. A good interview is very much like a good speech, with a powerful opening, meaningful content and a memorable closing.

Bill knows how to help you do that very thing. He travels regularly on the pro speaking circuit giving keynotes, workshops and seminars, speaking at state and national conventions, corporate events and for professional groups. His one-hour keynote fee is $4,500. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Speakers Association (Northern California) for two years. For seven years he appeared in the honor rolls of NSA's National Who's Who In Professional Speaking.

He is a speech coach to professional speakers, business speakers, sales professionals and everyday folks who just want to give a good speech and not break out in a sweat.

"Coach Bill has the winning blueprint to help you feel more confident, polished and prepared in any speaking or performing situation. His energetic and witty approach makes learning fun. It's obvious he loves what he does and he's the best at it."

Nancy Koran, author of the books The Zen Of Tennis and The Victory Dance: Placing Yourself in the Winner's Circle

For more about Bill, see his full bio.

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