My proprietary coaching model includes powerful assessment tools for individuals, teams, and organizations.
Knowing oneself and understanding your current life, work, and leadership is vital to create a development plan for yourself and organization. I am certified and highly experienced using these tools with executive leadership, business owners, staff, and individuals for personal growth and leadership development.
Organizational Culture and Engagement Culture Assessment
Culture encompasses more than just beliefs and statements; it reflects the daily behaviors and actions of individuals. Every business possesses a unique culture, characterized by engagement or disengagement, toxicity or honesty, stagnation or progress. Simply put, culture can be defined as “the way we do things around here.” It plays a vital role in shaping the strategic direction and competitive advantage of your organization.
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SUMMARY:
The Culture and Engagement Assessment aims to shed light on the crucial aspects of your company’s culture across six key areas. A quantitative evaluation is conducted through an online survey to gather a comprehensive and inclusive perspective. Additionally, a qualitative assessment is conducted via one-on-one interviews with a diverse range of employees, representing different roles within the organization. The resulting report highlights real-time issues and provides solutions, which are then shared and discussed with the Owners/Executive Leaders of the company.
The six indicators assessed in the culture evaluation are as follows:
- Client Loyalty: Examines the extent to which clients are satisfied and loyal to the organization, indicating the effectiveness of customer relationships.
- Employee Engagement: Measures the level of commitment, motivation, and involvement exhibited by employees, reflecting their connection to the organization’s mission and values.
- Opportunities for Growth: Assesses the presence of development prospects, such as training programs, career advancement, and skill-building initiatives, which contribute to employee satisfaction and retention.
- Innovation Incentive: Evaluates the company’s encouragement and support for creative thinking, experimentation, and the implementation of new ideas, fostering a culture of innovation.
- Team Collaboration: Focuses on the degree of collaboration, cooperation, and synergy among teams and departments within the organization, promoting effective teamwork.
- Communication: Assesses the effectiveness of internal communication channels and practices, ensuring transparent information flow and enabling efficient decision-making processes.
OUTCOME:
By examining these key culture indicators, the Culture and Engagement Assessment enables a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s culture, empowering you to identify areas for improvement and leverage cultural strengths to gain a competitive edge.
Individual Assessments
The Max Insight DISC assessment tool is a valuable resource utilized by professional coaches to gain insights into an individual’s behavioral style and preferences. It provides a framework for understanding how individuals tend to interact with others, make decisions, and approach tasks. As a popular tool in the field of coaching, the DISC assessment helps individuals and teams enhance communication, collaboration, and overall effectiveness.
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SUMMARY:
The DISC assessment is based on four primary behavioral styles, each represented by a letter in the acronym “DISC”:
- Dominance (D): Individuals with dominant traits are typically assertive, results-oriented, and direct in their communication. They are often driven, decisive, and prefer taking charge of situations.
- Influence (I): Individuals with influential traits are often outgoing, sociable, and persuasive. They enjoy engaging with others, building relationships, and tend to be enthusiastic and optimistic.
- Steadiness (S): Individuals with steady traits are known for their patience, reliability, and cooperative nature. They value stability, and harmonious environments, and excel at supporting others.
- Conscientiousness (C): Individuals with conscientious traits are detail-oriented, analytical, and methodical. They prefer structure, and accuracy, and take a systematic approach to tasks.
When individuals complete the Max Insight DISC assessment, their responses are analyzed, and a report is generated that provides valuable insights into their strengths, communication preferences, decision-making styles, and areas for development. Coaches can then use this information to tailor their coaching approach, helping clients leverage their strengths and address any challenges related to their behavioral styles.
OUTCOME:
The DISC assessment tool is particularly useful in professional coaching as it helps individuals and teams gain self-awareness, understand their communication dynamics, improve collaboration, and enhance overall performance.
DISC GROUP REPORTS :
Have your entire group take the DISC assessment to engage and energize your team. By recognizing and appreciating the diverse behavioral styles within a team, conflicts can be minimized, and effective strategies can be implemented to maximize productivity and success.
Clifton’s Strengths Finders 2.0
The StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment promotes a strengths-based approach to personal and professional development. It encourages individuals to focus on their unique talents and invest in areas where they have the greatest potential for success.
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SUMMARY:
The StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment consists of a series of questions that assess individuals across 34 different talent themes. These talent themes are categorized into four domains:
- Executing: This domain emphasizes individuals’ abilities to make things happen, take action, and accomplish tasks efficiently and effectively.
- Influencing: This domain highlights individuals’ strengths in persuading, influencing, and inspiring others, as well as their skills in communication and relationship building.
- Relationship Building: This domain focuses on individuals’ talents in building and nurturing strong connections, fostering collaboration, and cultivating positive relationships with others.
- Strategic Thinking: This domain explores individuals’ strengths in analyzing information, thinking critically, and developing innovative solutions. It emphasizes their abilities to see the big picture and formulate effective strategies.
Coaching Sessions engage with the assessment to develop self-awareness around a person’s strengths and name them (become familiar), claim them (take ownership), and then aim them (use them intentionally).
STRENGTHS FINDER GROUP REPORTS:
Have your entire group take the Strengths Finder assessment to engage and energize your team. By recognizing and appreciating the diverse talents within a team effective strategies can be implemented to maximize productivity and success.
Building an Unstoppable Team
Want a high-performing team? Of course, you do! Discover where your team performs in the key behaviors and how to eliminate time wasters, office politics, and poor communication. The assessment allows for honest, clear, and actionable conversations.
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SUMMARY:
Striving to create a functional, cohesive team is one of the few remaining competitive advantages available to any organization looking for a powerful point of differentiation.
The Table Group team assessment aims to transform teams by addressing critical aspects of teamwork, such as trust, communication, conflict resolution, and alignment. By leveraging the outcomes of the assessment, teams can improve their effectiveness, collaboration, and performance, leading to greater success in achieving their collective goals.
OUTCOME:
The Table Group team assessment produces the following outcomes for teams:
- increased team cohesion
- improved communication
- enhanced trust
- clarity of roles and responsibilities
- effective conflict resolution
- alignment with goals and objectives
- increased accountability.
These outcomes contribute to stronger teamwork, better collaboration, and improved performance.
Motivating By Appreciation
Appreciation has been identified as one of the attributes for the highest employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention. The Motivating by Appreciation Inventory is an online assessment that assists supervisors, managers, and coworkers to communicate appreciation to their colleagues in ways that are meaningful and which “hit the mark” for the person you want to encourage.
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SUMMARY:
Using the Motivation by Appreciation inventory in a business setting has numerous benefits, including improved employee engagement, strengthened relationships, increased retention and loyalty, enhanced team collaboration, customized recognition efforts, boosted morale and motivation, and the cultivation of a positive organizational culture.
Industry Specific versions of the MBA Inventory are designed specifically to relate to the terminology and action items of each industry. For example, for those who work in veterinary settings, including small animal clinics, and veterinary hospitals, and for those who provide services for large animals and onsite visits, the Veterinary Version includes the unique characteristics of and demands on veterinary treatment teams.
OUTCOMES:
These benefits listed above contribute to a happier, more productive workforce and ultimately lead to better business outcomes.
What Clients Are Saying
“With Jim’s coaching and team building, we have developed a robust group of managers to ensure we have the right people in the right seats, championing the right tasks.”
“Coaching with Jim furthered my ability to examine my strengths and apply this knowledge in multiple ways. Homing in on my limitations and leveraging my strengths to overcome these challenges helped me grow personally and professionally in a very short period. Implementing the coaching strategies directly resulted in a quick promotion!”