What's My Coaching Style

Overview

What's My Coaching Style is a coaching assessment and workshop that measures personality style and explores how it relates to coaching and interpersonal relationships. Coaches and managers identify and understand personality traits, learn how to capitalize on personal strengths, and minimize potential weaknesses.

Accurate, easy to use, and and easy to apply, the coaching assessment measures an individual's preference for one or more basic behavioral styles: direct, spirited, considerate, and systematic. With this knowledge, individuals can better understand why they behave the way they do, learn how to adapt their behavior to improve interpersonal relationships, develop rapport, and ultimately, become more effective coaches.

How It Works

The What's My Coaching Style? assessment starts with an 18-item inventory that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Each of the 18 items is a pair of statements. With a limit of five points, assessment-takers distribute points between the two statements in each pair - indicating the degree to which they feel the work describes their behavior. Scoring the assessment reveals "My Coaching Style Profile" and a dominant preference for one or more four personal styles: direct, spirited, considerate, and systematic.

In addition to the self-assessment, the What's My Coaching Style feedback form allows individuals to gauge how they are perceived by those they coach. It is particularly useful in the early stages of a coaching relationship.

If you are planning to use What's My Coaching Style in a business coach training session, we recommend you allow approximately one hour for interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debrief, and action planning. The facilitator guide also offers an easy-to-follow workshop outline that expands What's My Coaching Style into a 1.5-hour program.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify personal preference for one of four behavioral styles
• Develop an awareness of personal behavior patterns
• Learn how one is viewed by those he or she coaches
• Create an action plan to immediately apply in the workplace

What's My Coaching Style is appropriate for anyone to use for both personal and management development. The assessment can be used as a standalone training assessment, or it can be incorporated into a more comprehensive coaching skills training program.

Product Type
Assessment

Measures
Personal coaching style

Dimensions

• Assertiveness
• Expressiveness

What to Order

The What's My Coaching Style? facilitator guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session from comprehensive background information and activities to a professional PowerPoint presentation. You will need to order a facilitator guide per trainer and either one print participant guide or one online assessment for each individual learner. Facilitator support materials will be available to you as a digital download link in your order confirmation.

Deciding whether to order online or print assessments? Both versions include a personal style report, full color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. The online version is an excellent choice for enterprise-wide training or audiences that are geographically dispersed. It offers 24/7 access, streamlined distribution, and instant scoring. It's also a great way to reduce paper use in your training. The print version is ideal for facilitators who prefer to oversee scoring and administration of the assessment, who don't know who the participants will be before the session.