Assessment tools can be a really great way of working with clients!
Executive coaches tend to use them more than life coaches but they have a wide variety of uses.
If you haven't used them much or are wanting to expand your tool box take a look at what our sponsor Consulting Resources Group has to offer at:
www.crgleader.com
I took their train the trainers program and have used their products for years in teaching, training and coaching and can say that they are a terrific suite of products. Made here in Canada by a great team of people who are located in Abbotsford.
I spoke to the President Ken Keiss today and he has always been very helpful in offering whatever I needed to be successful. I have used their material to teach several sales trainings and conduct a communications course at a vocational college where we used the results to help students understand themselves and learn how to "style shift" to gain more credibility in their life and careers.
Agree, CRG has some great assessment products and I have used them along with other assessments in working with clients. In particular, I have started using the CRG Leadership Skills assessment with key leaders in a manufacturing company and found it to be very workable and it relates well to the user at a face value.
I would like to also share a resource that has simpler assessments, exercises and models that work well for group coaching, or coaching mentoring partners for example. Im not trying to self-promote or sell, just to share an alternative that is locally created in Vancouver in case people are not aware of it and might be something that they are looking for. It is a practical resource called Tri-namics Power of One, Two, Three: Provocative Questions for Leadership Wisdom 2009 co-authored by Erna Hagge and Debbie Payne. This resource supports the Tri-namics System that was first implemented at Terasen Gas in 2002 and is now used as far away as Australia at the University of Wollongong in their Leadership Development Program. Coaches and consultants are becoming aware of this resource and finding creative ways of using it with their clients. Recently we have also been excited to know more about Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan and John King who have researched in the last few years natural groups in the workplace and observed the value of triad work, the base of which is in Tri-namics. So, it is nice to see what we created through intuitive observation is now supported by significant research. We tend to work on a referral basis so you wont see tons of marketing on Tri-namics however if you are curious and want to know more please feel free to contact myself or Erna Hagge, or check out our website at www.deberna.com
I appreciate that you have other assessments but I would counter that CRG assessments are easy and simple to use and created for group and mentoring partnering applications. Yes our Leaderships Skills is the most complex but also reflects that level of client and depth of work to develop leaders.
Sorry I have not heard of Tri-namics but you are welcome to forward something to me as I always like to learn about what else is out there.
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