Coaching is one of the most powerful drivers of growth in any organization – and it shapes every leader, manager, and employee relationship. Effective coaching empowers employees to achieve their goals, elevate performance, manage stress, embrace continuous learning, and strengthen communication. With so much riding on the impact of coaching, developing strong coaching skills isn’t optional – it’s essential.

What many people don’t realize is that your effectiveness as a coach is influenced by something deeply personal: your personality style. That’s why the coaching assessment tools in What’s My Coaching Style are so invaluable.

What’s My Coaching Style, part of HRDQ's best-selling Style Suite, is a coaching style assessment and workshop that measures personality style and explores its relationship to coaching and interpersonal relationships.

Coaches and managers identify and understand personality traits, learn how to capitalize on personal strengths, and minimize potential weaknesses. 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.

The What's My Coaching Style coaching assessment tools start 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 describes their behavior.

Scoring the assessment reveals your "My Coaching Style Profile" and a dominant preference for one or more four personality styles:

1) Direct
2) Spirited
3) Considerate
4) Systematic

In addition to the print assessment, the What's My Coaching Style observer 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 the interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debriefing, 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.

By the end of this assessment, participants will do the following:

• Identify a personal preference for one of four behavioral styles
• Develop an awareness of personal behavior patterns
• Create an action plan to apply in the workplace immediately

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

Note: What's My Coaching Style is not designed to promote one "correct" coaching style. Instead, the goal is to help participants

• Identify their coaching styles.
• Learn how to capitalize on the strengths and overcome the trouble spots of their styles.
• Learn how to interact effectively with other styles.

Onsite Print Facilitator Guide

Order one per trainer. The Facilitator Guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session, from comprehensive background information and activities to detailed instructions for administering the assessment and leading the workshop.

Every Style Suite Onsite Print Facilitator Guide comes with sample Style accessories, including 1 Style Model Wall Poster and 1 Sheet of Style Stickers. Additional digital Facilitator Support Materials are delivered via email upon order completion. This includes a PowerPoint Presentation, Learning Overview, Theory Background, FAQ, Certificate of Achievement, Program Evaluation, and a sample copy of the Online Assessment Report.

Onsite Print Assessment 5-Pack

Order one pack for up to five participants. The print assessment is ideal for facilitators who prefer to oversee the scoring and administration of the assessment if you don't know who the participants will be before the class begins or if your learners do not have easy access to computers. It includes pressure-sensitive forms for scoring to aid manual tabulation.

Onsite Print Observer Form 5-Pack

Order one pack for up to five participants. The Observer Form is designed to check the accuracy of a coach’s perception of their style by allowing the coach to see how their coaches perceive their style.

Online Assessment Credit for Administrators

Order one per participant. You can purchase credits here for the online version of this assessment, which is administered to participants through the HRDQ Assessment Center and includes personalized reporting, full-color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. A detailed report is delivered electronically to the facilitator/administrator when complete.

Is this your first time purchasing HRDQ online assessments?

Administrators with an HRDQ Assessment Center (HAC) account may purchase Online Assessment Credits above. After checkout, log in to your HAC admin account to confirm receipt of your credits. If you have any issues, please contact us.

Don't have a HAC admin account yet? Start by purchasing administrator access. After you check out, we'll add your account to the HAC portal. Note that account setup is not automated and takes up to one business day.

Self-Enrollment Online Learning or Product Evaluation

Order one per participant. Students and individual learners may take a self-guided online version of this assessment without a facilitator, and without the requirement to setup a HRDQ Assessment Center administrator account. 

This option is also excellent for organizational trainers and consultants who want to evaluate the online assessment before inclusion in a curriculum or delivery to a larger group.

To purchase and complete a self-guided online experience, you must order your assessments from our Online Learning Self-Enrollment page.

Personality Style at Work – Companion Book

Gain a better understanding of how your behaviors affect your performance and interactions with others with Personality Style at Work. Written by Kate Ward in collaboration with HRDQ, this book offers an in-depth look at how to communicate in the workplace, across all personality styles. You'll learn how your personality style influences how others see us, governs the kinds of career choices we make, affects the way we make decisions, determines how we lead others, and plays a significant role in the way we communicate. Personality Style at Work is an excellent read, and the perfect companion for any HRDQ Style Series title.

Style Suite Stickers

Style Suite Stickers are a perfect way to liven up your next session! Participants have fun and engage more when their own personality is on display. They also serve as a friendly reminder that flexing one's style is the key to effectively working with other employees. One 5-pack of Style Suite Sticker Sheets provides 100 stickers total (25 of each Style).

Style Model Wall Poster

The 17" x 22" poster can be used as a quick reference and visual aid during the workshop. The reverse side features the HRDQ Experiential Learning Model. Additional copies of the poster are available for purchase, as many facilitators tell us they like to display training posters at various locations in the workplace.

QuickStart Train-the-Trainer (QST)

QST is a convenient, one-hour virtual coaching session for first-time facilitators of this product. You'll receive personalized, one-on-one coaching with a subject matter expert who will get you up to speed quickly and accurately so you can step into the onsite with confidence. We'll answer all your questions about the facilitation of the product. And you can add additional coaching hours as needed. Your coaching session can be provided by telephone or video call and at a time of your choosing.

Facilitators will also receive an HRDQ Certificate of Completion for completing the QuickStart session.

The HRDQ Development Team creates soft-skill learning solutions that help to improve the performance of individuals, teams, and organizations. At HRDQ, we believe an experiential approach is the best catalyst for adult learning. Our unique Experiential Learning Model has been the core of what we do for more than 40 years. We combine the best of organizational learning theory and proven facilitation methods with an appreciation for adult learning styles. Our philosophy initiates and inspires lasting change.