Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Expanding your group and team coaching toolkit - Assessments (7)


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.
Expanding your coaching toolkit - Assessments

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:
  1. What is important to explore more fully?
  2. What do you want to measure?
  3. Is it important to explore it on an individual or collective level?
  4. What is the story the team is making up about the item?
  5. Looking at where you are now, where do you want to go?
  6. 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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