Who are we working with?
Ikigai? Coaching Institute
1. Enable 100.000 people worldwide unlock their Ikigai and 2. Assist ambitious coaches grow a healthy coaching practice
As we saw in our?first column: step one is, who are we?
The next step is: if we, more or less, know who we are ourselves, who do we have in front of us? What is driving our client forward in life and work?
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Step 2
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A personality assessment can speed things up. However, with personality questionnaires there are things to watch out for. Every assessment should always be viewed through two lenses.
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And please, please, even the most predictive Personality Questionnaires have very limited validity. In other words, never present the results as the truth to your client! It's extremely difficult to measure personality. And the risks are obvious: turning people into charicatures and wrong conclusions.
The final point to make here is the size of the reference group. Mind you, there are many assessments without any reference group at all! And thousands of people are taking them. With of without any guidance. Not supported by any science! Please be careful.
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There are countless personality assessments these days. Choose wisely and avoid getting into the superficial level of?horoscope?type of assessments. Choose for an assessment that has a scientific basis ànd that is easy for your client to remember.
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However, we believe that you don’t always need to use a personality questionnaire to understand your client. You can simply also ask your client to do a quick self-assessment and ask where she recognizes herself most. For instance, use the four personality types of DISC:
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Nine out of 10 times, this will give you already a good starting point. Accurate enough to set your approach. If helpful, you can also create a 360 degree version of the self-assessment by letting your coachee ask five trusted people to give their perception too.
Under- and over-thinkers
As your client goes through the coaching, it’s important to consider whether someone is an under- or an over-thinker. An over-thinker enjoys the thinking process itself. She needs to have a lot of data before deciding. She will analyze sometimes more than is healthy to make progress.
The under-thinker, on the other hand, enjoys action. And has a tendency not to think things through. If this goes on for years, he will start to bite his own tail. And the person loses impact because his actions are superficial, and he gets easily distracted.
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To be effective as a coach, you need to know what your own preference is. Know yourself. Then know that your coaching is not about you. So you can be there 100% for your coachee.
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