As a coach, I find psychometric assessments to be an invaluable tool for several reasons:
Objective Insight: They provide me with an objective understanding of a client's personality, cognitive abilities, and motivations. This objective perspective is crucial for recognizing natural tendencies, strengths, and areas of development without personal biases.
Enhanced Self-Awareness: These assessments significantly boost a client's self-awareness. Knowing oneself deeply is the cornerstone of personal and professional growth. With this increased awareness, my clients are better equipped to make informed decisions about their careers, relationships, and personal development.
Customized Coaching Strategies: The insights from these assessments enable me to tailor my coaching approach to each client’s unique needs and characteristics, making the coaching process more effective.
Effective Communication: Understanding a client's communication style helps improve our interactions, leading to more productive and meaningful coaching sessions.
Goal Setting and Development Planning: These tools aid in setting realistic goals aligned with a client’s skills and potential. They also help in crafting effective personal development plans.
Benchmarking and Progress Tracking: I use psychometric assessments to establish a baseline for coaching and to periodically measure progress, ensuring that we are moving in the right direction.
Enhanced Team Dynamics: In team coaching scenarios, these assessments provide insights into the diverse personalities and working styles within a team, fostering better collaboration and performance.
Effective Conflict Resolution: By understanding the underlying personality traits and motivators, I can address and resolve conflicts more effectively, whether they are interpersonal or internal.
Career Development Guidance: In career coaching, these assessments are invaluable for identifying careers and roles that align with an individual's personality and interests.
Personal Empowerment: These assessments empower my clients by uncovering insights and knowledge about themselves, facilitating personal growth and empowerment.
In essence, psychometric assessments are a key part of my coaching toolbox, offering vital insights for a personalized and impactful coaching journey.
Assessments offered:
More than 4,000,000 couples have prepared for marriage or enriched their relationship through taking the Prepare/Enrich assessment and working with a Certified Facilitator. The assessment itself has been proven to improve relationship satisfaction; however there is something extraordinary about the relationship a Facilitator develops with a couple that truly helps the couple grow more than they would on their own.
Prepare/Enrich is one of the most widely researched assessment tools. Professors and students at colleges and universities worldwide use the scales as a tool to conduct and evaluate their research. Prepare/Enrich continues to adapt and react to the changing reality of relationships through continued research and development of assessments and resources.
DISC
DISC provides data to develop self-awareness, make better decisions, build better teams, and support everything you do (e.g., how you prefer to lead, how you communicate, how you are seen by others, etc.).
DISC measures one’s stable, hard-wired natural style vs. what respondents think they need or want to be – Extended DISC® identifies the true strengths and developmental areas, which allow for accurate performance improvement.
FinxS Open 360
FinxS® Open 360 is a powerful leadership development tool. It is a multi-rater tool that solicits feedback from stakeholders such as managers, peers and direct reports. FinxS® Open 360 is designed to provide very clear and actionable feedback to the participants to improve their competences and behaviors. This assessment is customizable.
Myers Briggs
The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator is a self-report inventory designed to identify a person's personality type, strengths, and preferences. The questionnaire was developed by Isabel Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs based on their work with Carl Jung's theory of personality types.
TKI (Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument)
The Thomas Kilmann conflict mode Instrument (TKI® assessment) is a conflict management tool that helps trainers, managers, and other professionals conduct productive one-on-one and group discussions about conflic
FIRO-B® assessment
The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation™ (FIRO®) assessments help people understand their interpersonal needs and how those needs influence their communication style and behavior. These accessible and universally applicable personality assessments have helped individuals, teams, and organizations grow and succeed.
The CPI 260® assessment
The California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) assessments are powerful tools for helping individuals improve their performance. Using a sophisticated technique to extract detailed personality insights, they summarize and explain how other people see a person and judge his or her leadership style. The CPI 260 assessment enables organizations to find and develop high-potential employees, making it an essential tool for employee training and development.
The Strong Interest Inventory®
The Strong Interest Inventory assessment provides robust insight into a person’s interests, so you can help them to consider potential careers, their educational path and the world of work. Built on psychologist John Holland’s theory, it’s backed by more than 80 years of research into how people of similar interests are employed, and what motivates individuals in the workplace. It delivers effective and powerful results that contribute to your students’ success.
The CliftonStrengths assessment measures one’s talents –One’s natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving -- and categorizes them into 34 CliftonStrengths themes. CliftonStrengths is a tool that allows one to:
-Discover what one naturally does best
-Learn how to develop one’s greatest talent into strengths
-Use the personalized results and reports to maximize one’s potential