More Assessment Tools for Consultants
Due to the positive response to last month’s focus on the Work of Leaders Profile and 20/20 Insight assessment tools and feedback from attendees, the next meeting will focus on two more instruments that can potentially expand the services and support you provide to clients: the FIRO-B and the Strength Deployment Inventory.
Patrick Chaffin will provide an introduction to the FIRO-B instrument. The letters in the acronym stand for Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior. Originally developed to predict how military personnel would work together in groups, this short instrument was developed after painstaking research by William Schutz in the late 1950’s. Since then, the concepts and instrument are used to examine work group compatibility, interpersonal dynamics, team development and most importantly, insight how the group can facilitate its own development and return greater effectiveness and member satisfaction. Within organizations, consultants can use the FIRO-B process to aid individuals and groups to build on existing performance and to explore higher levels of team achievement.
The Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) will be overviewed by Ed Hampton. The SDI provides deep insight into the behavioral propensities regarding conflicts in relationships. Mapping a person’s Motivational Value System (MVS), the SDI provides the ability to understand how Self or Other’s behaviors might change during the three stages of conflict theorized by the SDI’s creator, Dr. Elias Porter. These insights give one the ability to self-manage arising feelings. The SDI is, thus, a powerful EI/EQ development tool. It is also a powerful team or organizational development tool - when results are presented in an aggregated team view. An underlying premise of the SDI is that conflict is not to be suppressed. Rather, it is to be expressed so its inherent power is productive for the organization. Attendees who register and provide an email address by May 19 will be provided a free access code to experience this powerful insight tool. Please send your email address to ceo@performanceperspectives.com. Additionally, those results will be aggregated into a compiled view so attendees will experience this SDI application. The on-line control panel used to administer on-line participation will be demonstrated during the session. Ed will also cover how the SDI may be used in a wide range of interventions and applications.
Patrick Chaffin is the consulting principal at Windermere Performance Consultants specializing in the enhancement of team and individual performance. His client engagements include executive coaching and development, organizational process consultation, meeting facilitation, mergers and acquisitions, talent planning and other team focused management development activities. He is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana having an undergraduate degree from LSU and a Masters from the University of Oklahoma. His professional experiences include active duty as an army officer where he was a member of the Army’s ground breaking OD program, an assistant professorship at Tulane University in New Orleans and progressive Human Resources roles in the private sector. These include positions managing human resources at the corporate level, organizational development, talent planning/staffing, employee relations, compensation, and training functions as well as extensive merger and acquisition experience.
Ed Hampton is managing member of Performance Perspectives LLC. He has been an active organizational effectiveness consultant since 1982. He has evolved his consulting focus to Talent Development; developing and helping to implement a broad range of strategies to assist individual and organizational talent development. He tailors assessment-based programs to help organizations, teams, and individuals attain optimal performance. Performance Perspectives LLC supplies individual and group/organizational behavioral profiles from Personal Strengths Publishing (providers of the SDI), an Everything DiSC Wiley Authorized Partner, Integro Leadership Institute, the Schutz Company as well as custom surveys. Ed has taught for the University of Central Florida (where he served as Assistant Chair for the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department after retiring from a 23 year career as a US Army officer), the Duquesne University School of Leadership and Professional Development, and the Florida Institute of Technology. Ed holds a MS degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and is a graduate of the US Army’s Organizational Effectiveness School.
Feel free to bring your lunch and please note the change in meeting location.
Reservations are required for effective meeting planning and are easily made via the GOOD website. Also, should any meeting details be changed, we will be able to notify you if you are on the RSVP “yes” list.
Greater Orlando Organization Development Network
