Assessment Instruments to be Used in Conjunction with Professional Coaching: A Resource List

B Bergquist 1900

The list of instruments in this document is not intended to be definitive. These instruments have been presented to illustrate the broad range of resources that are available for instrument-based coaching and to point to several places where an organizational coach might turn when building a library of appropriate instruments for use as a professional coach. Six criteria were used for selecting the instruments included on this list: (1) the company producing the instrument is stable and unlikely to go out of existence in the near future, (2) the company producing the instrument provides satisfactory or excellent customer service, (3) the instrument has been used by myself or my coaching colleagues and found to be of value in various organizational settings, (4) the instrument is reasonably priced, (5) the instrument measures a dimension of executive functioning that has been found to be of interest to many coaching clients, and (6) the instrument can be administered and interpreted without a professional license (though in some cases, formal training and certification is required to use the instrument, or certain data from the instrument can only be interpreted by a licensed professional). In some instances the instrument was chosen in part because of the interesting format of the questions or scoring form. Many of the instruments are available directly from the Professional Coaching Library (with link to the specific instrument) or from the Center for Personal and Organizational Assessment (P. O. Box 70, Harpswell, Maine 04079). In most cases it must be order from the company listed with the instrument.