Meaningful Metrics believes that personal and professional development begins with a clear understanding of our behavioral and communication styles, drivers and motivators, emotional intelligence, competencies (soft skills) and our self-and world view (acumen and decision-making). 

We also believe that people and organizations should understand their strengths and aptitudes, as well as how you are perceived by others. Our approach includes a variety of assessments that help you understand yourself and your team or organization from the inside out, and how you are perceived from the outside in! This provides a solid foundation for personal and professional development. To start the process, please reach out and we can explore how we can help you gain a better understanding of who you are and how you are perceived. We can also help you assess what motivates you, and where your strengths are so you can focus your efforts on your best work and life.

Assessment plays a crucial role in the coaching landscape, particularly in the context of executive and life coaching. It serves as a foundational step in understanding a person's current behaviors, strengths, leadership styles and areas for improvement. We use assessments in various ways to create an objective framework of personal and group understanding, and to provide a baseline for measuring progress:

• Initial Assessment: At the beginning of a coaching engagement, an initial assessment helps to establish a baseline. This can include self-assessments, 360-degree feedback from stakeholders, and other diagnostic tools. The goal is to gather comprehensive data on your current behavioral style, drivers, EQ, soft skills and decision making styles.

• Stakeholder Feedback: In many situations, we offer clients the opportunity to receive stakeholder feeback using a customized 360-assessment. Stakeholders (e.g., bosses/managers, supervisors, peers, staff) provide confidential feedback on the leader's strengths and areas for improvement. This feedback is anonymized and aggregated into a report and debriefed with you. The process offers valuable insights into how you are perceived by others and provides the foundation for a personal development plan.

• Ongoing Assessment: Throughout the coaching program, periodic assessments are conducted to track progress. This can involve follow-up 360-degree feedback, self-assessments, and regular check-ins with stakeholders. These ongoing assessments help to ensure that you are making measurable improvements and staying on track with your development goals.

• Self-Assessment and Reflection: A major part of personal and professional develompent arises out of self-reflection. We encourage clients to engage in regular self-assessment and reflection. This practice helps them to internalize feedback, recognize their progress, and identify areas to continue to focus on development.

• Accountability and Adjustment: Assessments also serve as a tool for accountability. By regularly reviewing assessment data, both the coach and the individual can make necessary adjustments to the coaching plan, ensuring that it remains aligned with the leader's evolving needs and goals.

In summary, assessment is a continuous and dynamic component of the coaching process. It provides the data and insights needed to drive meaningful behavioral change and helps to ensure that the coaching engagement delivers lasting, positive results. 

Understanding from the Inside-Out - Behaviors, Values, EQ, Thinking, Skills

Meaningful Metrics can provide individual, team or organizational assessments using TTI's research-based, assessments. These provide psychological- and behavioral-based insight into your behavioral and communications preferences, your motivators or driving forces, emotional intelligence, acumen and decision making, and 25 key soft skills/competencies that affect what kind of work for which you are well-suited:

• DISC - behavioral and communication preferences - how you typically engage

• 12 Driving Forces/Motivators - the why behind how you behave - what motivates you, attracts you to projects

• Emotional Intelligence - how you perceive and manage emotions individually and in group situations

• Acumen/Hartman Value Profile - how you perceive yourself and the world, and how that influences decisions

• Talent DNA 25 - Competencies - how well you have developed 25 critical soft skills  

• Individual and Organizational Stress - what level of stress are you under, and how well are you handling it

• 360-assessments - receive confidential, anonymized insight from those you engage with regularly

• Prioritized Leader - how you perceive your role as a leader and how to optimize it

• 8 Factors of Engagement - how engaged your are employees are in their jobs/with your company

These assessments provide an inside-out based insight based on behavioral psychology and provides a strong foundation for development of self-awareness and personal development.  

Clients generally take one or more assessments to gain personal insight, and use this to create a personal development plan as part of their personal growth strategy. We not only debrief your assessments with you personally, but also educate you in the underlying sciences so that you can use your new insights and knowledge to better understand and develop yourself, but also how to 'read' and engage with other people successfully.

We can also develop and conduct 360-degree surveys to help clients understand how they are perceived by bosses, peers, team members and staff - providing them with an objective context for interactions and performance.

Meaningful Metrics staff are certified in all of TTI's product offerings and are authorized distributors of their products.

For more information on our TTI assessments please click here.

Understanding from the Outside-In - Your Personal Brand