Why personal and professional assessment?
A long-term and successful cooperation with your employees is based on the match of their career and development goals, and your needs as an employer. In personal and professional assessment, I work with your employees on their career interests and goals, as well as on their awareness of their personal capabilities and strengths. Once the coaching is finished your employees are able to express their goals and needs, and therefore are able to actively participate in a discussion concerning a professional future together. Your advantage is that you can keep valuable know-how in your company and at the same time invest in the targeted development of your employees. In the long run if the match is not there, your employees will think about alternatives in good time and this will make an unavoidable separation much easier for both sides. Personal and professional assessment for employees in times where this is a lack of specialists contributes actively both to retention management and to a responsible culture of separation.
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My personal and professional assessment is based on the idea of a strategic career planning which is related to personal strengths. People who build their career on their strengths will achieve above average performance with a reasonable use of energy – also when he/she grows older. The centre of consideration is your employee with his/her personality, inclinations and needs. These are very often unconscious factors. The goal of the personal and professional assessment is to make them aware so that these factors can be integrated in the shaping of their careers. A personal and professional assessment helps to recognize and further develop their personality. As a result, your employee sees his/her professional focus; they know their preferred job content (What do I like to do? What I am strong in?) as well as the working conditions which allow them to feel comfortable and to achieve optimal performance (How am I? What do I need?). Furthermore, they know their professional and personal challenges and shortcomings they can further work on.
Methods
In the personal and professional assessment, I stimulate the self-reflection of my clients. This is why I don’t like to use personality and aptitude tests. My simple and comprehensible exercises enable my clients to get to know and understand themselves better, and to recognize their needs. They learn to structure their ideas and to increase awareness of their unconscious personal affinities and interests. Clarity and determination to shape the professional future can only be gained by new findings which have been self-developed. My approach asks for the readiness of my client to continue to work on the topics between our meetings. The exercises I use also encourage my clients to have a closer and careful look at their future professional situation, because personal and professional assessment is a lifelong task for everyone. The good thing about it is: Fundamental questions regarding the shaping of a successful career stay the same over time.
Procedure
Briefing free of charge
Success in the personal and professional assessment achieved with your employees is based on working together. In the centre of our collaboration there is the relationship between your employee an me in the role of a coach. Therefore, I offer your employee a 30-minute briefing free of charge. This gives him/her the opportunity to get to know me and my working style. For the information of your employees about the personal and professional assessment please find the information document on my homepage.
Duration
The personal and professional assessment takes 4 meetings of 90 minutes over a period of 1-2 months.
Follow-up work
For follow-up work with the applied concepts, the participants will need a total of around 6-8 additional hours between the meetings (this means around 2 hours per meeting). The larger the effort of your employee between the meetings, the more results he/she will achieve.
Evaluation and feedback
In the last meeting I evaluate the whole coaching process with my clients. My feedback to you as the sponsor of the personal and professional assessment only covers the coaching process. Your employee will give feedback on the content of our collaboration and the findings thereof directly to the sponsor (line manager or HR). If desired, an evaluation of the personal and professional assessment in a three-way conversation between principal, coachee and coach is also possible.
Quality assurance
As part of the cooperation it is important for me to work with an agreed contract and verifiable objectives. I evaluate the coaching with my clients and I discuss my – if needed – work with my own personal supervisor and coach as well as with my coaching network.
Terms / contact
If you have any questions or if you would like to discuss a specific project, please feel free to contact me. I would be very happy to send you my actual terms and conditions for a personal and professional assessment for employees by e-mail.
About me
«For more than 20 years I have been advising my clients about their careers. Since 2008 I do personal and professional assessments with technical specialist and managers of different levels and industries. I offer these personal and professional assessment within outplacement processes, for private individu-als as part of their career planning and for employees, offered by the company as part of their talent development.»
Peter Näf
Master of Arts University of Zurich
Executive Master of HR Management
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