Personal Services

The most important quality of a successful individual is self-awareness. If you know about yourself, you are able to work around your strengths and weaknesses. However, if you do not know who you are, then you are unable to plan for your future. Dr. Atsaides offers consulting services to individuals to help them gain a greater self-awareness. These services are provided one-to-one in a coaching style session(s), and paid for by the individual. Sometimes parents would want to have their children participate in these programs for their greater awareness and to help them set a plan for their future. Jim has significant experiences in help people develop and become successful.

These are ongoing coaching sessions with Dr. Atsaides to help the individual understand themselves better and focus on their next steps for personal growth and success. The coaching sessions are focused on greater self-awareness and development and can use the concepts of the Executive Axioms For Leaders for personal training. Assessment instruments to understand the individual’s personality and work style, as well as feedback sessions are included with this program.

This program has been designed to help individuals understand their own career interests and how this gets translated into their career planning. This is an excellent program in understanding what one likes to do, and then to explore how realistic that is for the individual to achieve. This program uses assessment instruments to look at career interests as well as work style measures. The person completes a career interest inventory that compares him/her with over 200 groups of people in positions that they find rewarding. The feedback session(s) cover a lot of material to help the individual understand themselves better. For those interested, the program can also include resume analysis and development.

This program is effective for many individuals, for examples those that want to:

• Leave their current position and search for a new job
• Explore a new career direction from what they have been pursuing
• Understand their vocational interest patterns so they can pick the right college major (for students)
• Understand what they would like to do in retirement that would be satisfying to them

The participants in this program are also provided the Career Awareness Handbook written by Dr. Atsaides that has significant information about understanding one self, identifying one’s competencies, looking for a position, writing cover letters and resumes, networking, etc.