What's My Coaching Style
Understanding personal style is the first step to developing successful coaching relationships. By responding to the 18-item What’s My Coaching Style? inventory and receiving feedback from coachees, participants identify their personal style and build an understanding of the people they coach. Ultimately, coaches learn how modify to their own styles to create better rapport with their coachees.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify preferences for one of four coaching styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, or Systematic
- Develop an awareness of personal behavior patterns
- Understand how personal style reveals itself in coaching
Theory
What’s My Coaching Style? and the other titles in the HRDQ Style Series are based on the well-known research and personality theories of psychologists Carl Jung, William Moulton Marston, and others. Most research has identified two basic dimensions of style, which we refer to as assertiveness and expressiveness. Assertiveness is the effort a person makes to influence or control the thoughts or actions of others. Expressiveness is the effort that a person makes to control his or her emotions and feelings when relating to others.
How It Works
Participants respond to 18 pairs of adjectives, using a pressure-sensitive form. After scoring is complete, easy-to-read charts allow respondents to quickly scan the strengths and trouble spots that characterize their particular coaching styles.
The Facilitator Guide lists optional activities that allow participants to practice using flexibility when working with other styles. In addition, each Participant Guide provides a personal action-planning worksheet so that coaches can apply what they’ve learned to the workplace. To determine compatibility of styles in the coaching relationship, the Feedback Form reveals how coachees view their coaches.
Uses for What’s My Coaching Style?
What’s My Coaching Style? is ideal for training anyone who coaches another and wants to create an environment of high performance, change, and learning. It makes an effective component in training programs for a variety of topics, including:
- Coaching
- Motivation
- Performance Management
- Leadership/Management/Supervisory Skills
- Communication
- Team Building
- Diversity
What to Order
Order one Facilitator Guide per trainer, one Participant Guide per participant, and one Feedback Form for each of the participants’ coachees (to be used separately from the training session).
Facilitator Guide includes:
- Administrative guidelines
- Background information
- Sample training design
- Blank training outline
- Optional activities to conduct using StylePlay - 12 Group Card Games
- Sample copy of re-formatted Participant Guide
- CD-ROM containing Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation and reproducible masters (Certificate of Achievement, Training Evaluation, and overhead transparency masters)
- Convenient binder format
Participant Guide includes:
- 18-item assessment
- Instructions
- Pressure-sensitive Response Form
- Interpretive information
- Charts depicting style strengths and trouble spots
- Action planning worksheet
Related Assessments and Workshops
Related Reproducible Training Library Titles
Coaching in the Workplace > Course 3050 - The Art of Successful Coaching
Coaching in the Workplace > Course 3051 - Coaching Conversations
These programs come ready-to-deliver and include a Facilitator's Guide, Participant Guide and PowerPoint presentation or register for an in-house session.