371: Get Smart About Assessments, with Ken Nowack
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ken Nowack: Envisia Learning
Ken Nowack is a licensed psychologist and President and Chief Research Officer of Envisia Learning. Ken also serves as Chief Learning Officer of Organizational Performance Dimensions and is a member of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations and is a lecturer at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
Key Points
The three types of assessments:
- Personality and style-based tools
- Skills and abilities
- Interests, values, and motives
Resources Mentioned
- talenttools.org
- Clueless* by Sandra Mashihi and Kenneth Nowack
- Envisia Learning
- Finding the Career That Fits You*
- The Ultimate Guide to Using Your Strengths to Get Hired*
Related Episodes
- Susan Cain on The Power of Introverts (episode 44)
- Leverage StrengthsFinder for Your Team (episode 293)
- How to Leverage Your 360 (episode 341)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Strenges finder, the Myers-Briggs-type indicator, disc, the big five, 360s. |
| 0:06.5 | All are assessments. Many of those you've heard of and some of them you've probably used. |
| 0:12.0 | But how do they all fit together? |
| 0:14.6 | When and why should you use one and not the other? |
| 0:18.4 | On this episode, the practical framework you need |
| 0:21.5 | to determine what assessment tools are right for others? framework you. This is |
| 0:25.0 | this is coaching for leaders, episode 371. |
| 0:29.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, |
| 0:32.4 | Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:35.0 | Readings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:42.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:46.4 | Leaders aren't born. |
| 0:48.0 | They're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom |
| 0:52.1 | that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:55.7 | And if you are a leader, manager, |
| 0:58.1 | or any role of influence in your organization, |
| 1:01.1 | chances are you have either been through an assessment or a survey |
| 1:05.8 | yourself or perhaps you have considered utilizing assessments, surveys, or other instruments |
| 1:12.1 | for your team to help people to understand their strengths, |
| 1:16.0 | get to know themselves better, to measure engagement in the organization, there's a whole bunch of reasons |
| 1:20.5 | you may have done this. |
| 1:21.8 | And yet I know I struggled with this early in my career. of |
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