More Passion, More Success, More Satisfaction, More $$

Wouldn’t it be nice to... Expand your career options Narrow your career options Gain clarity on tough career decisions Sharpen your soft skills to leverage your expertise and advance your career Discover how to use the job you hate to move to the career you love Speed up your job search Receive higher $$ offer Create a YOU-nique one of a kind career strategy, not a cookie-cutter process the outplacement firms use Design new solutions to current challenges

Success Discoveries’ Career Coaching for Adults™ is an innovative program specifically designed to create a shift in career. This program is ideal for people currently in transition and those wanting to proactively set their dreams and vision into motion. Many clients simply want to explore the idea of changing careers without any “external event” forcing their hand. Career Coaching for Adults™ sets a person in motion with positive forward movement regardless of the original circumstances. 

Options include:

1. Self-Directed Guidebook and Talent Assessment
2. One-on-One Coaching Packages
3. Group Coaching Packages

Career Coaching for Adults™ addresses a wide range of key components to achieve your dreams and experience passion in your career including: 

• Self-Confidence
• Personal Performance Skills
• Job Fulfillment
• Purposeful Career Direction
• Networking

From assessing and identifying your talent and how those talents will serve you to setting goals and polishing your resume and interviewing skills. Career Coaching for Adults™ can be self-directed or add a coaching option to include the kind of support best for you. Regardless of the options you choose, you receive Success Discoveries career planning guide, My Career in Motion™, and a personal profile report containing incredible detail about your talent and personal insights that will help you prepare for the next stage in your career.

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ABOUT THE TALENT ASSESSMENTS

1. Career Planning Insights™
2. Success Insights Workplace Motivators™
3. Personal Talent Skills Inventory™

The assessments are administered via the Internet. The first assessment report, Career Planning Insights™, serves to identify your behavioral style, your current behavioral work environment and your ideal work environment using the DISC behavioral model.

The second assessment, Success Insights Workplace Motivators™, identifies what excites you, what gives you passion.

The third assessment, Personal Talent Skills Inventory™, identifies how strong you are in specific work-related soft skill attributes. This report is offered in different versions based upon your desired focus.

Your workplace motivators along with your behavioral style and soft skill attributes help to identify those natural talents you carry into the workplace. By utilizing career research based on your natural talents, you have a much greater chance of choosing a new career path that you will be successful in and enjoy OR modify and manage the career you have.

The assessments also support becoming more self-aware - a key trait of highly successful people. Any job-required competencies that are important to a particular position can be identified and developed as part of your strategy for success.

ABOUT THE CAREER PLANNING INSIGHTS™ REPORT AND BEHAVIORAL STYLES
Over 80% of our behavior is needs motivated. William Marston, one of the key researchers into the nature of human behavior, developed a behavioral model over 80 years ago that is considered to be one of the major cornerstones of research into human behavior. Contemporary behavioral research has enhanced and improved on his ideas considerably. Yet, the importance of his contribution in dividing human behavior into categories or dimensions and using measurements of the strength of behavioral responses as a means to predict human behavior remains undiminished. Today, his research and the applied research maintain the premise that all people demonstrate some behavior in each dimension.

A person’s behavior is a necessary and integral part of who they are. In other words, much of our behavior comes from “nature” (inherent), and much comes from “nurture” (our upbringing). It is the universal language of “how we act,” or our observable human behavior.

In this report we are measuring four dimensions of normal behavior and applying the information to career choices. The behavioral dimensions are:
==> how you respond to problems and challenges
==> how you influence others to your point of view
==> how you respond to the pace of the environment.
==> how you respond to rules and procedures set by others

Research has proven that those who are in jobs that are a match to the person’s natural behavioral style are more successful and experience much greater job satisfaction.

Report Content
Personal Characteristics - an overview of your behavioral style
Personal Strengths - those specific talents and behaviors you bring to the job Basic Needs - those needs that must be met for you to perform at an optimum level
Adapted Style - those characteristics you display based on your interpretation of what is needed to be successful
Present Wants - what will motivate you the most
Ideal Environment - specific duties and responsibilities that you will enjoy doing
Checklist for Communicating - list of communication requirements that will help you be successful
Strengths and Weaknesses - listed without regard to a specific job or career but may reveal areas to work on to be successful
Style Insights Graph and Wheel

IDEAL WORK ENVIRONMENTThe Ideal Work Environment instrument (included in the Career Planning Insights report) was developed to help explore the behavioral demands of your perceived IDEAL job. This report compares your ideal and, if applicable, present job. If the ideal job and present job are the same on a factor, only one list of statements will appear. A side-by-side listing will be printed when they are different. This enables you to discuss and clarify the type of behavior you want to use on the job. Your career coach will examine the results of your ideal environment and compare and contrast to your natural talents and behaviors. This analysis will help to further define and refine the list of potential career options to consider.

YOUR WORKPLACE MOTIVATORSThe Workplace Motivators report is based on the writings of Eduard Spranger. Values or attitudes are how we see the world, a way of looking at life, a mind set, a paradigm or thought. These attitudes, according to Spranger, determine what we value positively or judge negatively in life. We see the world through the window of our attitudes. Our view of the world is colored by our attitude. We use our attitudes or values to create a call to action. That is why they are sometimes referred to as “intrinsic motivators” or “why” we do what we do.

Careers and activities that are in line with a person’s attitudes or intrinsic motivators will arouse a passion in the person impelling them to action. Careers and activities that are opposite a person’s attitudes will cause stress and dissatisfaction, a negative response or indifference. 

Report Content
Understanding Your Report
Detailed Description of Workplace Motivators including:
...General Characteristics
...Value to the Organization
...Keys to Managing and Motivating
...Training, Professional Development and Learning Insights
...Continuous Quality Improvement
...Motivator Norms and Comparisons
...Motivational Insights Graph and Wheel Charts
...Values Action Plan
...Quality Improvement Action Plan

YOUR PERSONAL TALENT SKILLS INVENTORY REPORT (PTSI)
The PTSI report is based on the work of Dr. Robert Hartman and provides you with an exceptionally insightful look at the current state of your core soft skills. Attributes, or soft skills, can be developed.

The purpose in measuring your attributes is to determine if there are any core attributes that need strengthening in order for you to succeed in a particular career. Your attributes are not another dimension of your interests, however, we know that even those with a solid match to a particular career can have difficulty if certain soft skill attributes are not present. To clarify this point, you can not acquire a different behavioral style but you can acquire soft skills through training and coaching.

The strength of eight-three (83) work-related attributes are measured and categorized into functional areas of competencies. Depending upon your desired focus, there are seven (7) versions from which you will be able to select. They include:
General Employment
Leadership/Management
Sales Management
Professional Sales
Healthcare Services
Customer Service
Emotional Intelligence

Each version organizes the attributes into functional areas specific to the desired area of focus. If you are not sure which area of focus to select, go with the General Employment version. If you are experienced in one area but are looking to change careers, select the report version you are most interested in. In addition, your report will examine your strengths and weaknesses across three dimensions: people, tasks and systems. Each dimension is examined from your external and internal focus. Your external focus is how you see the world around you and your internal focus is how you see yourself.

Together, all three assessments create a holistic picture of your talent so that you and your coach (optional) can explore potential career options with confidence that you are basing your evaluation on solid validated science. 

ABOUT THE CAREER COACHING FOR ADULTS™ GUIDEBOOK
An easy-to-use Success Discoveries career planning guide, Careers in Motion™, is included with the personal reports to help you apply the information and determine a strategy for taking steps toward a desired career.
Report Content

Identifying high potential career options
...Assessing my talents and interests
...Crystallizing needs, interests, career options and life goals
...Identifying and articulating desired career options

Mapping the Strategic Plan for My Chosen Career Path
...My big picture
...Identifying my transition support team
...Creating, building and maintaining my network
...A personal SWOT analysis
...My competencies
...Setting goals and objectives
...About resumes

WHAT OUR CLIENTS HAVE SAID:
“It was invaluable. The assessments were incredibly insightful. Using the guide helped zero in on what would be the most logical options. The coaching created a significant shift for me personally and professionally. I have an entirely new outlook on who I am and what I am capable of. This exceeded my expectations.” Michelle

“Talk about a pleasant surprise. I wasn’t sure what to expect but what I got went straight to the point in a very efficient and highly meaningful way. Very useful information and the guided exercises were simple and quick. I thought I was just getting some simple little report. This is better than the outplacement services.” Bill


WE CUSTOMIZE OUTPLACEMENT SERVICES

We also offer career transition workshops for groups.

We can customize to any need.

Want to use the Career Coaching for Adults™ as a corporate solution? Ask for details and special pricing.

Contact Success Discoveries for more information