As coaches, assessments provide data for clients to create their
own story. Assessments can be a valuable starting point for the coaching
conversation. As coaches we want to use assessments as a springboard for awareness, action and insight.
There are many different assessments coaches may think about
including into a group or team coaching process including:
Strengths – Individual strengths work using StengthsFinder
or VIA Strengths. or collective
strengths like the Team Diagnostic
Styles – MBTI, Disc
Values – Barrett
Roles -Belbin
Leadership – Leadership Circle Inventory, Leadership 363
A great starting place is to ask your client what
assessments they have used in the past, and what could be of value to them.
What is it that they are trying to measure?
Another consideration with assessments is – What is the focus?
Is it collective (across the entire team) OR is it to explore the individual level
and then scale up to the team level?
Team assessments such a Team Coaching
International’s Team Diagnostic Survey is unique in that it maps a teams strengths
as a system, rather than providing a collation of the snapshots of individual
team members.
Six questions:
- What is important to explore more fully?
- What do you want to measure?
- Is it important to explore it on an individual or collective level?
- What is the story the team is making up about the item?
- Looking at where you are now, where do you want to go?
- What will success look like?
Jennifer Britton, CPCC, PCC – Potentials Realized
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner (2018) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
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