What's My Coaching Style

Coaching is an important aspect of any organization and any leader/manager-employee relationship. Coaching helps employees attain professional goals, have better performance, reduce stress, continue learning, communicate effectively, and more. With all these important results of coaching, it's clear that being a good coach is crucial. Did you know that a lot of who you are as a coach relies on your personality style? That's why an assessment that evaluates your personality and coaching style is an invaluable tool to help you become an even better coach.

What's My Coaching Style, a part of HRDQ's best-selling Style Suite, is a coaching style 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.

This coaching assessment is accurate, easy to use, and easy to apply. It's also newly updated and contains the same great content! What's My Coaching Style 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.

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

• Direct
• Spirited
• Considerate
• Systematic

In addition to the paper 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:

• 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 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.

• 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.

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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.

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: 1-Hour Virtual Coaching Session for This Product

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.