Assessments
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True North Services In recent years, both organizations and individuals have taken a keen interest in knowing more about how they operate. Research has shown that this knowledge directly affects the bottom line.
Understanding people’s strengths, styles, desires, and how they approach work gives both the individual and the organization the power to use their talent most effectively. Assessments are an efficient manner of gathering this data. It can provide information on a person’s intelligence. leadership style, emotional maturity, learning preferences, interpersonal and communication style. It can isolate weaknesses and highlight strengths which can be capitalized on in the coaching series. Assessments can provide a useful framework to open up discussion and clarify issues. In addition, they provide management with useful information about their staff.
Assessments are especially useful for executives who need clear feedback and specific action steps to improve their interpersonal, managerial or leadership skills. Clients are assessed using agreed-upon metrics of leadership competencies in advance of a coaching or development program. Using feedback collected by the coach from client stakeholders, coach and executive meet one-to-one to fully review the feedback. Coach-client conversations significantly increase the leader’s awareness and understanding of their impact on others. The debrief session results in a practical development plan that inspires the client to stretch—identifying key behavioral changes to be incorporated into the framework of the coaching series. Coaches employ a range of diagnostic tools to provide the leader being coached with the insight and awareness needed to create a meaningful Personal Development Plan with measurable goals. Assessments are recommended prior to coaching to increase the efficacy of the engagement.
The purpose and benefits of assessments are many: Understanding Self Through the use of assessments you will begin to develop a better understanding of yourself and come to appreciate how others see you. This insight gives you the ability to recognize both your strengths and weaknesses and to appreciate your potential areas of development. Understanding Others Using the knowledge gained through assessments, a strong coach will help you develop new interpersonal strategies for better results. These strategies will enable you to recognize others’ behavioral styles and be able to adapt so that you can connect more powerfully with them. Understanding the Organization Assessments also help management understand the culture of their organization. Companies today are looking to increase their leadership effectiveness, forge stronger relationships, better manage, communicate more effectively, or improve their planning and implementation skills. Often, they are interested in how they make decisions, how they manage change, or perhaps in looking at how individuals function within a team, and handle ambiguity or stress. The range of learning opportunities is immense.
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