Coaching and Consulting Assessment Tools

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools in personal and organizational development. Effective feedback heightens awareness, which in turn leads to additional discovery and expanded learning. Assessments, when utilized appropriately, can be an exceptional method for gathering feedback. The assessments used by Link Resource Group are designed to help you understand who you are, how you work and how you are perceived by those around you. They measure strengths, behavioral patterns, natural abilities and communication styles. And they help us to better adapt and customize coaching to the individual’s needs.

Each of our assessments can be taken online, and most of them give instant feedback. You and your coach will then interpret the feedback, and identify the best approach to leverage the feedback into meaningful action.

Our clients often comment on the power of the assessment phase of coaching. Many have told us that the assessment phase not only helped them understand themselves and those around them but also gave everyone involved the permission to communicate more effectively. There were fewer taboo subjects and people could give and receive feedback without judgment or defensiveness. This leads to higher levels of collaboration and group decision making, which in turn fuels expanded efficiency, productivity and profit.

Tim Link and Link Resource Group affiliates have received advanced training to administer each of the assessments used. The following are some of the main assessments used:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) assessment provides a useful tool that allows you, as an executive, to get at the root of the problem more quickly by understanding how your people are wired. The assessment meets them where they are rather than making faulty assumptions. MBTI  Reliability / Validity data is available on the one-page summary found at this link: https://cpp.com/Products/mbti/mbti_info.aspx


The DiSC Profile

Evaluation of the Everything DiSC® assessment indicates that there is strong support for the reliability and validity of this tool. Analyses suggest that the scale's reliabilities are in the good-to-excellent range at 80% reliable, meaning that eight out of ten people that take the profile will report that it is an accurate description of them.

360 Degree Performance Feedback

We also favor using the 360 Degree Performance Feedback process of live interviews with key stakeholders accompanied by a customized feedback report.  The interview questions are based on the individual client’s objectives.  We find that this usually produces much richer data and provides clients with far deeper insights into their behavior patterns than online tools can.  It eliminates blind spots and  really helps us to understand the individual’s operating system or frame of reference within which they work. In layman’s terms: how they are perceived within the organization.  It also helps identify specific areas of focus for coaching goals in leadership development.  

 We have found these assessments to be the most accurate and reliable tools available, as an adjunct to our coaching model.