{"id":3715,"date":"2010-06-19T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2016-08-11T03:25:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:25:04","slug":"what-a-career-coach-does-part-ii-career-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/what-a-career-coach-does-part-ii-career-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Career Coach Does: Part II: Career Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

In yesterday\u2019s blog post, What a Career Coach Does: Four Steps to a Satisfied Client: Part I,<\/span> you learned the process and value of first part of the Career Coaching process, the career history.\u00a0 Using the medical analogy we started with yesterday, once you have a complete history, you move on to……<\/p>\n

What a Career Coach Does: Step Two\u2013Make a Diagnosis<\/h3>\n

For a Career Coach, the diagnostic process ideally includes four types of input: the career history, your experience and intuition as a Coach, your client\u2019s behavioral and values assessments (the DISC and PIAV at a minimum, described below), and your client\u2019s written vision of her ideal job or career.\u00a0 What a Career Coach does<\/a><\/strong> is to put all these pieces together into a coherent whole to guide and coach your client to his most rewarding and least stressful career outcome.<\/p>\n

1) The Career History<\/h3>\n

First is all the information you collected in the career history.\u00a0 When you compare likes and dislikes, skills, etc. across your client\u2019s work history, it will become obvious which job or career factors are consistently positive experiences for your client and which are consistently negative.\u00a0 What a Career Coach does<\/strong> is use those factors as a strong starting point for your diagnosis.<\/p>\n

2) Your Experience and Intuition as a Coach<\/h3>\n

Next, add in your own experience and intuition.\u00a0 What did you hear in your client\u2019s voice?\u00a0 What jobs or aspects of jobs was he excited about?\u00a0 Did he say he has a degree in something and \u201cshould\u201d be doing that, but his tone of voice was resigned and depressed?\u00a0 Did he sound excited when he talked about columns of figures that add up the way they should?\u00a0 Or did she speak longingly of being part of the design team, but says she \u201cdoesn\u2019t have the background for it?\u201d\u00a0 What a Career Coach does<\/span>, like what any personal coach or life coach does, is to read between the lines and hear what the coaching client isn\u2019t saying.<\/p>\n

3) Your Client\u2019s Behavioral and Values Assessments<\/h3>\n

Optionally, but ideally, the third piece of the diagnostic puzzle is a technology piece including DISC and\u00a0 PIAV\u00a0 assessments.* If you have your client take these two quick but highly accurate online assessments, one about your client\u2019s behavioral tendencies and one about the values that guide his decisions and actions, they can help inform your diagnosis.\u00a0 These assessments differ from what a job counselor would use because they are not about specific skills, but rather about your client\u2019s innate behaviors, styles of communication and natural comfort zones. They provide information about what kind of environment and job or career culture will be a comfortable fit for your client, and what style of personal interaction and communication is most comfortable for her.\u00a0 You can have a three-way interpretation of the results of the assessments for you and your client with a coach specially trained to do this, or you can learn to interpret them yourself.<\/p>\n

4) Your Client\u2019s Personal Vision<\/h3>\n

The fourth piece is your client\u2019s personal vision of her ideal job or career.\u00a0 Have your client spend an hour, or as much time as she needs, in a relaxed state, just daydreaming about what her ideal career would look like if there were no constraints, and write down all her thoughts, ideas and plans, as if anything were possible.\u00a0 Where would she be?\u00a0 Who would she be?\u00a0 Who would her colleagues be, or would she be happier in a solitary job with only herself as a supervisor?\u00a0 What tasks would she love to spend her time on?\u00a0 What would she like to delegate and never have to do herself?\u00a0 Would travel be part of the picture?\u00a0 What would her products or services look like and who would benefit from them?<\/p>\n

What a Career Coach does<\/span> is to integrate all the information from these four diagnostic pieces: the career history analysis, listening skills and intuition, the assessment results, and the client\u2019s vision.\u00a0 When you have done that, you are in a position to move on to the third step to a satisfied client.<\/p>\n

Look out for Part III of What a Career Coach Does in tomorrow\u2019s Blog Post.<\/p>\n

*The behavioral tendencies profile is called a DISC profile, standing for Dominance, Influencing, Steadiness and Compliance.\u00a0 These are four different behavioral styles which identify the natural tendencies of your client in terms of how they respond to problems, people, pace and procedures.\u00a0\u00a0 The PIAV is the Personal Interests Attitudes and Values profile, which assesses the values and passions which drive your client\u2019s choices and interests.\u00a0 These and other assessments are available from JTS Advisors.<\/p>\n

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Dorine Kramer,<\/p>\n

JTS Advisors Strategy, Accountability, & Assessment Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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