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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.
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"Participants in my Style Series training
sessions walk away with two important things: a
common language and a process of leadership and
coaching to drive their business success."
David Levine,
Vice President
Director of Learning & Development
Citizens Bank of Massachusetts |
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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
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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
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