Career and Executive Coaching from Hong Kong

The Harrison Assessments are an excellent tool for accelerating and deepening your self-awareness in relation to career and leadership development. The Assessments provide detailed information on your personal traits, strengths, preferences, paradoxes and inconsistencies.  I love their very positive theoretical basis, the strong scientific validity, the practical flexibility, and the ease of use. Most of all I'm impressed by the depth of insight they provide. 

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Why should I use Harrison Assessments?
What are the benefits?
How does it work?
Is it possible to cheat on the questionnaire?
How are they different from other assessments or profiles?
How can I use Harrison Assessments for changing careers?
How can I use Harrison Assessments for developing my management and leadership skills?
What reports should I buy and how much do they cost?
Can I see sample reports?
How do I get started?

Why should I use Harrison Assessments?

• Accelerate your rate of learning about yourself.
• Get an outside, neutral perspective.
• Gain a deeper self-awareness.
• Benchmark yourself against the best in your job function.
• Identify specific areas for development.
• Confirm specifically what makes you tick. (ie. what satisfies you, what you are good at etc.)

What are the benefits?

Harrison Assessments:

• Support a very positive view of personal development based on what you WANT not what you SHOULD be
• Identify specifically what satisfies and fulfills you
• Provide new and powerful insights into the cause of the patterns in your life
• Allow you to identify the specific traits required for success in a particular career or position
• Reduce the guesswork over how much you will like a new job or career
• Allow you to benchmark your own traits so you can understand what you would have to change to be successful in your role
• Provide step-by-step guidance on how to develop yourself for specific traits
• Give you a completely custom view of your personal traits without type-casting or pigeon-holing
• Provide an individual rating on more than 100 different traits and preferences
• Predict both your conscious and unconscious behaviour so you can have a more objective view of yourself

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How does it work? 

We make all of our choices in life based on our preferences. Those choices become our personal strengths, weaknesses, motivations and behaviours. For example, if you prefer to spend a lot of time talking to people, you'll do it a lot, you'll get good at it, get compliments for your people skills and be seen as a 'people-person'. 

In the HA Questionnaire, you will rate your preferences for over 100 different criteria. The Assessments then indicate your communication styles, leadership styles, work styles, motivations and correlate all of these with the success traits of specific careers or job functions. The Assessments give you a completely customized description of you without using any types or categories to pigeon-hole. All results and correlations are based on solid research and proven methods. 

The HA Questionnaire asks you to prioritize lists of criteria. It's a simple process, taking approximately half an hour to complete. 

Is it possible to cheat on the questionnaire?

If anyone tries to cheat or rig the results, the system will detect a high level of inconsistency and reject the questionnaire. This lie-detecting feature is made possible through cross-correlation of results and could only be avoided with extreme effort by someone who knew the system thoroughly. 

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How are they different from other assessments or profiles?

Harrison Assessments:

• Recognize the completely individual characteristics of people without type-casting or pigeon-holing
• Analyze seemingly paradoxical traits in combination rather than individually giving a more accurate prediction of your effectiveness
• Are based on detailed analysis of the best performers (not average performers) so that you can make choices leading you to excellence, not mediocrity
• Identify both strengths and weaknesses allowing full choice in how to approach challenges
• Reveal both conscious and unconscious behaviour
• Predict exactly how suitable you are for specific careers and job functions
• Are based on both Western scientific theory and Eastern concepts of yin and yang

How can I use Harrison Assessments for changing careers?

It is important to ensure that your new career will satisfy and fulfill you more than your current job. The Harrison Assessments allow you to:

• clarify exactly want you want from your work life and 
• determine what careers would most likely provide it.

You can then focus your job search more effectively and promote the unique qualities that make you the ideal candidate.  Knowing yourself helps you find the best job proactively, avoiding costly mistakes, and enhancing your job search strategy. 

If you are on a budget, or just want to take a first step, the Basic Career Package will point you in the right direction. Because jobs vary so much and their requirements cannot be generalized, I strongly recommend you opt for the Career Transition Package. The extra reports will give you insight into your personal traits and how they will help and/or hinder you in your future career.  

In addition to helping you discover your best career choices, these insights can help you adjust more quickly to a new career, knowing exactly what you need to develop about yourself and exactly which of your strengths will help you excel. Read a recent case study.

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How can I use Harrison Assessments for developing my management and leadership skills?

The Harrison Assessments will give you specific, neutral, valid feedback on over 100 different traits, particularly in the areas of interpersonal, achievement and leadership skills. This information could otherwise takes years to discover. The traits are assessed in combinations to paint a complete picture of you, not just looking at single traits in isolation.  

In addition, your traits are correlated to the traits required for best performance in your chosen job function (e.g. senior management) so you can see exactly how you differ from the ideal. 

To take most advantage of this new perspective on yourself, I can help you understand how you have used your personal traits to succeed, where certain traits are out of balance, and how to adjust yourself or your situation to become more successful. This personal evaluation is completely customized and it is possible to create a new way of working for yourself that will easily shift you to start getting the results you want. Read a recent case study.

The Management Development Package is designed for management and leadership development. 

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What reports should I buy and how much do they cost?

1)  The BASIC CAREER PACKAGE identifies what type of career would best suit you. The package includes: 

• The Career Development Report describes your preferences, strengths, motivations and interests in relationship to careers
• The Career Options Report rates your suitability to 600 different careers
• The Career Comparison Report describes you in relationship to a specific career
• 45-minute telephone coaching session 

Cost: HK$1500 (US$190)
Additional Career Comparison Reports cost HK$195 for two. (US$35)

2)  The CAREER CHANGE PACKAGE gives insight into your career performance potential and what will satisfy you.  You'll discover how your personal preferences work together to create your strengths, weaknesses, motivations and behaviours, and how they all affect your career. You'll gain insight into why you run your life the way you do and what exactly you could do differently to get different results. The package includes:

• Paradox Graph and Narrative -illustrates and describes your scores on 24 paradoxical success traits (that seem to be opposite but in fact work together, such as frankness and diplomacy) in a vivid, easy to understand format. 

• The Traits and Definitions Report shows your score on over 100 different traits and preferences as they relate to your chosen job function. 

• In addition, these reports can be correlated to your job function to give you an indication of the difference between your traits and those of the most successful people in that job function. 

• The Career Options Report rates your suitability to 600 different careers

• One hour telephone coaching session 

Cost: HK$2880 (US$380)
        HK$3980 with one-hour in-person coaching session (in Hong Kong)

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3)  The MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PACKAGE gives insight into your management performance potential and how to develop yourself. You'll discover how your personal preferences work together to create your strengths, weaknesses, motivations and behaviours, and how they all affect your management style. You'll gain insight into why you run your department the way you do and what exactly you could do differently to get different results. The package includes comprehensive and in depth analysis on your traits, the ability to rate your suitability for different job functions and one-on-one coaching to ensure your understanding and implementation of changes. You'll receive the following reports:

• Paradox Graph and Narrative -illustrates and describes your scores on 24 paradoxical success traits (that seem to be opposite but in fact work together, such as frankness and diplomacy) in a vivid, easy to understand format.

• The Main Graph represents graphically the interaction between 36 different traits. With expert interpretation, the Main Graph is a powerful tool for understanding how you operate, what you want and what you might develop about yourself to get different results. 

• Written Interpretation of your Main Graph report 

• Position Comparison - Behavioural Impact Graph -a graphic representation of your suitability for a specific job function. You can choose graphs for as many job functions as you want. 

• Interview Guide -insightful questions to help you raise your self-awareness and prepare for job interviews

• Development Report -a step-by-step guide to developing yourself for a specific job function 

• One 90-minute in-person coaching session or three 45-minute telephone coaching sessions

You can upgrade to the Management Development Package from the Career Transition Package. 

Cost: HK$5500 (US$700)

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You can see samples of all the reports at www.harrisonassessments.com/SampleReports.html.

Custom packages are also available. Please contact Angela for more information.

READY TO START? 

To be assessed, all you need to do is:

1) Request the link to the on-line questionnaire by sending a blank email . Complete the questionnaire on-line. It takes about half an hour.

2) Let me know which reports you want and how you would like to pay. Payment can be made by Hong Kong cheque or money order, direct deposit, bank transfer or PayPal using your credit card. If you need help deciding, please give me a call. 

3) I will email you an invoice and once I have received payment I will supply the reports by email and contact you to arrange our coaching session(s). 

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