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Title: Psychometrics in Coaching

Competency: coaching

Who benefits: professional coaches and organizational consultants

Consultant Usage: various assessment tools for coaching

What’s it about? A psychologist tells his patient “I have completed my diagnosis and have determined that you are a psychoceramic.” “What in the world is a pyschoceramic” asks the patient?  The psychologist replies: “A crackpot.”

Groan if you must, but I have been waiting years to write that joke.  If you are not a professional coach or organizational consultant, I suggest you stop here.  Smile and get back to your work.  Today’s post is for those of you who make a living from coaching or consulting.

Personal disclosure: I am paid a miniscule amount intermittently by Envisia Learning who hosts this Blog site.  One of the principles has an article which appears in this book (and a mighty fine article it is, boss).

Psychometrics in Coaching: Using Psychological and Psychometric Tools for Development (2008) explains a variety of models and concepts for practitioners and how to use them in coaching practices.

Besides being a new book, it is an important book.  Coaching is more and more being recognized as an important profession and in need of professional standards.  Just saying you are coach and being a good listener does not make one a professional coach.  If you are not up on assessment instruments and good at using them as feedback in your practice, you are not coaching at a high professional level. 

There are 35 contributors, many of the names you are likely familiar with.  I urge you to have this valuable resource in your tool kit.  You can order the book from the original publishers in the United Kingdom, Kogan Page, Ltd. or from our friends in the USA at Amazon.com.

Catch you later.
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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.