CAREER COACHING

Today people need to repeatedly review career choices and transitions. A career coach facilitates a process thereby individuals reflect on their past career experiences in order to look forward and plan ahead. Through structured reflection, individuals focus on significant learning episodes in their life. This reflection provides greater clarity about their career experiences and allows them to use this understanding of themselves and the nature of work today, to make soundly based decisions as they are faced with, or uncover, new opportunities.

Personal Career Audit

We work with individuals to undertake a career audit that is designed to assist people in reflecting on their experiences, skills and abilities. It covers, but is not limited to:

• Work experience

• Achievements

• Transferable competencies

• Values

• Work style and motivation

• Work/Life issues

Use of psychometric tools such as The Birkman Method and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is often a part of this process.

Some of the outcomes of Career Coaching:

• Identification of abilities, capabilities and marketability.

• By examining past work roles, experiences and opportunities, individuals have a clearer focus on managing decision and transition points in their careers.

• Understanding what Work/Life balance means on an individual level and how to work towards achieving this.

• Assessment of short and long term career development options.

• Identification of development needs to fulfill options.

• Implementation of a career plan and action steps towards achieving the plan.

Sessions: The duration of sessions ranges from 60-90 minutes. Career coaching is tailored to the individual and charged at a session rate.

CAREER MANAGEMENT

“Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values.  Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person, hardworking and competent – into an outstanding performer”.
Peter Drucker, “Managing Oneself”, Harvard Business Review, March-April 1999.

Our Career Management programmes assist individuals in managing the progression and ongoing development of their careers.  We tailor our programmes to suit individual needs as there is no 'one-size-fits-all' answer to career management.  

Individuals identify their strengths, their needs, what motivates them to succeed, what their values are and how their past experiences can guide them in making future decisions on what career direction is best for them.
 

The process we follow involves:

Each session is between 60-90 minutes. A typical Career management Programme involves 5 to 7 sessions. We use Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Birkman profiling tools to assist individuals in identifying fit, motivational areas, interests and preferences:

 

The Birkman Profile provides individuals with two main reports:

The Relational Reports describe effective style in up to eleven significant areas, preferred environment or motivational needs in those same areas, and probable stress reaction if those needs are not met on a consistent basis. They also describe level of interest in ten important areas.
The Occupational Reports indicate the extent to which you have answered the Questionnaire like (or unlike) other people who work in particular broad and narrow job categories.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

The purpose of using the MBTI is to suggest how your personality preferences can be used to help you choose to change a job or career or increase your satisfaction with your present role.
The MBTI instrument is designed to identify your particular strengths and to offer suggestions as to how you can best use those strengths during your career exploration.
 

Benefits Of The Programme

• It provides people with effective strategies for managing their career paths in the short and long term by providing them with the skills necessary to make informed career decisions.

• It helps identify the new learning needed to meet future career goals

• It provides people with the support they need to overcome perceived roadblocks to their career development

• It gives people a greater insight into their transferable skill sets

• It addresses the values fit necessary for a successful job fit

     


COACHING – who, me?

What is Executive / Management coaching?

The USA Institute of Personnel and Development defines coaching as the provision of “help and support for people in an increasingly competitive pressurised world in order to help them:

• Develop their skills

• Improve their performance

• Maximise their potential

Executive / Management coaching’s aim is to maximise the individual’s performance through the achievement of measurable results that contribute to the organisation’s business needs.

Why do you think I need it?

Ask yourself: Why does Tiger Woods use a coach?
It is the brightest and the best within any organisation that benefit most from coaching.

What is the process?

Coaching is an enabling process, consisting of one to one development discussions, based on outcomes (both individual and organisational) agreed before the coaching begins.
The four inputs of the coach are:

• Ask questions

• Playback/summarise

• Make suggestions

• Give feedback

KSJ coaches are skilled in these roles and have a wealth of experience to draw upon in selecting the questions that will enable and support your executives / managers in both releasing and maximising their potential.

Our coaching is targeted at individuals from senior executives and managers to operations and technical professionals. Our coaches work with your organisation in a number of areas that can encompass performance improvement/enhancement; development of leadership and people-related competencies; and career coaching.

What is the result?

Perhaps this quote from John Russell, MD, Harley–Davidson Europe Ltd says it best:
“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.”

What are the Fees?

We charge on an hourly basis and use of assessment tools such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Birkman are an additional charge.

CAREER/SHIFT

• For employees whose positions have been made redundant

• For employees who are faced with decision making on whether or not to remain in an organisation that is moving through significant change

• For employees requiring practical assistance during the redeployment phase of the change process

KSJ Associates have extensive experience in providing career transition support to individuals and organisations. We have worked with a number of organisations to assist with the change process; project manage large-scale outplacements; set up in-house Career Centres; provided a range of customised workshops for small or large groups, and delivered programmes to fit organisational and individual needs.
 

Our Services Include

Management support during change

• For significant change initiative announcements and termination meetings with employees. We will brief your managers on how to prepare for, and manage this process.

• Provision of a consultant on-site when you are announcing significant change to groups within your organisation and / or advising employees their roles are affected.

Employee support during the change process

• General support for employees who need to discuss a range of issues concerning their options during this time.

• Assisting employees to prepare for internal applications, including CV preparation, applications, coaching in interview techniques, preparing for presentations.

Individual CAREER/SHIFT Programmes

Our programmes cover timeframes ranging from one month through to six months and they cater for a range of employee levels:

• Executive and Senior Management

• Management

• Professional; Specialist levels

• General and Administration

All programmes cover the core elements of career transition and are customised to suit individual requirements. A range of tools and activities are available to assist individuals with their career decisions.
 

Additional services include:

• Financial Counselling

• Secretarial Support
   

CAREER/SHIFT Workshops

Our consultants work with candidates facing role redundancy or career change. Our groups are small (up to 10 participants) to maximise learning.

Workshop content includes:

• Self Assessment of your career to date

• Identifying your values and interests

• Identifying your competencies

• Looking at Work/Life issues

• Writing successful letters and CVs

• Interview techniques and practical practice sessions

• Networking and the hidden job market

• Practical advice including managing finances and redundancy questions

Workshops are a cost-effective way to offer the benefits of transition support to a greater number of people within your organisation.

The CAREER/SHIFT process:

A typical career transition process covers off the following (self employment and portfolio work are optional choices suited to some, not all, people).
 

      

HR CONSULTING

Our Aim

Is to assist you to maximise your organisation’s capability by working with you in maximising the potential of its people.

Our Philosophy

This can be summed up by the quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

“If we take people as we find them, we may make them worse, but if we treat them as though they are what they should be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.”

Our Services include:

• Coaching line managers in people management

• Developing HR strategy, policies and processes. We have assisted numerous organisations and companies with policy development

• HR Planning

• Change management – project managing change management processes

• Recruiting and building management teams

• Recruiting, developing and holding the right people

• Employment relations, including

  • Negotiating collective employment contracts

  • Working with managers in identifying performance problems, identifying and implementing solutions

• Provision of outsourced HR support