CoachCompass® Assessment
"HEMISPHERES"

INSTRUCTIONS: Please read the statements of each numbered item and place a check mark in front of the statement with which you most agree regarding your career. Please check only one statement per numbered item.

 

At present, my priorities are to:

1.

Plan my first career.

 

Acquire workplace maturity and life skills.

 

Increase my knowledge of ideas and concepts as they relate to my interests talents.

 

Become a member of a group or community.

 

Promote my career by learning to market my value.

 

Analyze my career situation for the purpose of improvement or enhancement.

 

2.

Establish priorities between family and work.

 

Identify and assemble critical resources that will allow me to be successful with work.

 

Discover unusual and non-traditional ways to gain new wisdom.

 

Be known at work for my accomplishments and achievements.

 

Identify opportunities to contribute to people and society.

 

Re-define my entire life/career for greater contentment.

 

3.

Establish a strong personal or professional identity.

 

Develop more vocational skills.

 

Define new areas of expertise discovered through life experiences.

 

Prefer security and safety over promotion and change.

 

Compete and show off my capabilities.

 

Redefine or change my career.

 

4.

Make the correct decisions with regard to work and family.

 

Recognize greater fulfillment within my work performance.

 

Expand my career through alternative methods or paths.

 

Be recognized as an expert authority in my field.

 

Measure my personal impact in the world.

 

Move on to something totally new in my life and work.

 

5.

Establish personal independence.

 

Gain more occupational or vocational abilities.

 

Master skills in order to acquire greater proficiency in them.

 

Increase my professional network.

 

Find approval and support of others at work.

 

Look for a new position or re-invent my present one.

 

6.

Clarify my work/life priorities.

 

Prove successes through performance.

 

Be fully utilized in my present profession, finding purpose in what I do.

 

Achieve expert status and authority.

 

Make a personal contribution to the world around me.

 

Re-invent myself in a totally new career.

 

7.

Define exactly what I want in life.

 

Place more emphasis on school than work at present.

 

Identify opportunities for internship or mentoring.

 

Identify a role in work that serves my needs

 

Be recognized and promoted for my value to my employer.

 

Be creative in changing and improving people and things.

 

8.

Balance/integrate life and work choices.

 

Orchestrate people and resources to produce successful outcomes.

 

Move beyond my present situations to engage in activities that offer a greater sense of personal purpose.

 

Feel a sense of importance at the workplace.

 

Leave situations better than how I came to them.

 

Create a new and more ideal life.

 

9.

Improve my self-esteem.

 

Obtain more skills to get a better job.

 

Learn new ideas and concepts.

 

Be clear as to my role or function at work.

 

Measure or benchmark my progress; progress my career to the next level.

 

Be discriminating and discerning about my present career.

 

10.

Adapt to new changes in my personal life (i.e., marriage, children, new job, etc.).

 

Ask for the resources and support that will facilitate greater success.

 

Try something new that allows me to move to the next level.

 

Measure my achievements by symbols most meaningful to me (e.g., status or possessions).

 

Be admired for my contribution to my community.

 

Completely transform my entire life.

 

11.

Be able to answer the question "Who am I?"

 

Add to my vocational skill set.

 

Expand my life experiences.

 

Establish a brand new role within the workplace.

 

Possess marketable skills that could facilitate/ensure career promotion.

 

Take risks and make changes that will improve my career.

 

12.

Integrate the values of my life into a new professional identity.

 

Be systematic within work.

 

Redirect my life by developing new concepts and expanding career potential.

 

Be financially and publicly rewarded for my work.

 

Have a measurable contribution in the world.

 

Transform my entire life in ways that will result in total personal and professional reinvention.

 

13.

Develop greater personal independence.

 

Build a completely new skill set for my career.

 

Apply my old skills in a creative new way.

 

Identify ways to perpetuate positive behaviors that are of benefit to myself and to my professional environments.

 

Be onstage in my work.

 

Accept new risks and challenges.

 

14.

Know how to appropriately assign value within the relationship between home and work.

 

Prove my career performance by acquiring/attaining new career successes.

 

Redefine the ways that I explore life and work.

 

Be publicly identified for my work.

 

Define unique personal reasons why I should be contributing to my present job or career path.

 

Know that I can plan a new life that will be entirely new to the old one.

 

Choose the prime motivator for seeking coaching services at this time in your career.
Choose only one.

15.

Personal Identity and Confidence Development (career planning assistance, self-esteem, gaining independence)

 

Life and Vocational Inventory (vocational planning assistance, gaining new skills)

 

Knowledge and Experience (educational planning assistance, expanded work experience, career options)

 

Membership and Affiliation (career/behavioral profiling, networking assistance, image)

 

Marketing (career promotion, marketing assistance)

 

Career Enhancements (career improvement or changing career direction)

 

Choose the secondary motivator for seeking coaching services at this time in your career. Choose only one.

16.

Life/Work Integration (career/life choices, balancing)

 

Career Performance (career fruition, entrepreneurial, business/success support)

 

Career Potential (career alternatives, non-traditional work styles, work satisfaction)

Professional Achievement (career status, executive coaching)

 

Evolutionary Impact (career altruism, personal satisfaction and contribution)

 

Career/Life Transformation (whole life redirection)

 

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