Assessments Today

Audios: Ed Schein on Career Anchors and Phillip V. Olsen on Proscan

Andrew Neitlich founded The Executive Think Tank in 2008.  So it is a new site but he has loaded up a good starting point for resources.  On of his recent additions is an interview with Ed Schein that I enjoyed.  While it has been about 6 years since I last used Career Anchors, I often recommend it to others.  It was a great refresher for me.

Ed Schein, legendary developer of the extremely popular Career Anchors assessment tool, provides an overview of the anchors that define your unique combination of perceived career competence, motives, and values. He also explains some of the subtleties of when to use this tool, and when not to.

Go here to see Career Anchors Online version.

Proscan is another assessment that has been around for 30 odd years. If you have seen it or as you listen to the recording, you will definitely notice some similarities with various versions of DISC.   I know about this tool as one of the products offered by PDFWorks.

Phil Olsen describes the power of the ProScan Assessment, which is a reputable and statistically validated tool for helping us articulate our strengths, understand where our natural self is having to adapt to the environment, and discover stress points in our work and personal lives.

My published article in choice magazine now available

I very pleased to announce that choice Magazine is now in circulation and this month's theme is on assessments.  Publisher Garry Schleifer asked me to submit an article and it was selected.  

"The assessment package is the coach’s palette and, in skilled hands, the beginning of the magic and mastery of coaching."  

Margie S.Heiler, MS, MCC, CEC

Quote from another colleague's article. You are welcome to read my full article below and I hope you enjoy it.

Another article in this month's magazine is by Phillip Sandahl, CPCC, MCC called  "Assessing the Assessment - Four key questions for coaches"

Phillip does a great job in looking at 4 key points to help you determine what is the "right" assessment for your coaching business.  I have my own 10 Criteria which cover these  issues as well as a few others to consider.  For a list of these along with a teleclass recording, scroll down to the bottom of the right hand column on this page and click the tab "Recordings"

Videos on various Assessments Tools/Models

I just came across Typexperience - a video sharing community designed to provide individuals with the resources to express what it's like to be them. Typexperience is a service of TypeLabs.

From the look of things it is a relatively new site and has an accompanying discussion forum:    TypeHive : International Personality Type Discussion Forum  There isn't a lot of activity to date.

There are five channels on Typexperience with limited videos at the moment.

Enneagram

Psychological Type - Myers and...

DiSC Personality System

Emotional Intelligence

Temperament / Colors

I have no idea the quality or accuracy of the videos -  some appear to be from YouTube, but will keep a look out to see how this develops.  If any one has more information, please share your comments.

What’s Your Cooking Personality?

The New York Times has a cute little quiz up today on one's cooking personality.  There are 5 questions and 5 types.  You guessed it, I managed to answer one in each. 

Here is the trick - I know exactly why this happened.  People say to me - "Oh so you're the cook in the family?"  My reply is simple - "NO, I merely put food on the table and hope it is edible."  So there  you have it.   How can I possibly have a cooking personality when I don't cook?  Now, that may say something about my personality in general but that might require another "personality test". 

How about you?