Our Approach & Methods
The coaching and developmental techniques developed by Anthony and used in Careerfoundations™ are based on practical experience. The needs of every client are unique to them. Your own personal needs and circumstances are assessed before your consultation with Careerfoundations™ to ensure that you get the best possible results.
Careerfoundations™ and Assessment
Assessment is a building block in our approach whose value has consistently demonstrated itself in hundreds of individual consultations. The Birkman® instrument for personal assessment provides unique, detailed and specific personal information which our associates are highly skilled at ensuring that you get the maximum benefit from.
- Identifies and defines key life interests
- Clarifies behaviours and – crucially - reveals why you behave as you do
- Highlights innate potential for some jobs and lack of application for others
- Pinpoints working environments that are likely to be successful
- Indicates the kind of "corporate environments" that are likely to be productive
- Demonstrates how you approach problems and analysis
- Reveals all key attributes of personality and "emotional intelligence" EQ
Our Core Values
What makes our approach different?
We believe that everyone has strengths, talents and weaknesses. Understanding and using them is a pretty good starting point on the road to success.
Doing what you are best suited to in life and to the very best of your ability, is a useful working definition of success. Anyone doing that certainly won't be failing!
Helping you focus on strengths is a key part of our programme. However, it is just as important to know what you're not so good at. In fact, only when you appreciate that it makes no sense to try and do everything, can you start begin to focus on what you really like doing. That is the start of the road to success!
In many ways our interests are what define us. The extent to which we are aligned with what we actually like doing determines in large measure the quality of the lives we live, how satisfied and fulfilled we are likely to be and how we measure our own self-worth.
Knowing what drives us is an important part of knowing who we are. To deny , or neglect our strengths and interests is an invitation to frustration and failure. Finding and nurturing what American writer Martha Beck has called your “North Star” is a key element of fulfilment and success.
Careerfoundations™ is about self knowledge of course, but much more as well. We can - and do - help people make better decisions and thereby materially improve their success.
Notes on Birkman®
The Birkman Method® is a psychometric instrument. Developed initially in the fifties in the U.S. by the renowned psychologist, Dr Roger Birkman it is now used worldwide by companies and,individuals. The Method® is endowed by the American National Foundation for Science and is fully supported by technical reliability and validity studies freely in the public domain.
As in any other area, the workman is as important as the tool. It is vital that Birkman® results are correctly interpreted and delivered. Careerfoundations™ has the experience and training to ensure that you will always get maximum value from the process.
Books we Commend
True Colors - Dr Roger Birkman, Ph.D. - Signature Press, Inc (Available through Careerfoundations)
Happier - Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. - McGraw Hill
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman - Bantam Books
Primal Leadership - Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence - Goleman, D., Boyatzis,R. and McKee - Harvard Business Press
The Road Less Travelled - M. Scott Peck - Random House
