Organizations the world over are recognizing the benefits of offering career development and coaching to their employees.

It’s a smart move–such organizations measure the results in terms of  (1) better employee retention (2) enhanced talent management (3) and higher visibility as “an employer of choice“.

Online self-assessment tools are easy-to-use and offer employees a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses–opening them up to opportunities they might have otherwise overlooked with their current employer–which benefits both the employee and the employer.

Here are 3 essential online developmental career development and coaching tools that can help you identify strengths your employees are underutilizing–which could impact their career path based on their interests, values, skills, personality, and work styles.

3 Indispensable Career Development and Coaching Tools

1. MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions, and was designed to help people identify the jobs where they are the most comfortable and effective.  The MBTI helps individuals learn more about themselves and make more effective career choices.

2. Work Style Assessment Inventory

Most companies are good at screening for technical skills; the biggest area of improvement is in developing people with the right personality characteristics and behaviors (“Work Styles”).  A Work Style Assessment is an evaluation of a person’s behavior at work – how they interact with others, how they solve problems, how they get things done, and other personality characteristics. The idea here is to help you align an employee’s work style strengths with the requirements of their job. The greater the match between a person’s work style strengths and their job–the more likely they’ll make successful career choices.

3. MAPP Assessment (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential Assessment)

The MAPP Assessment is a personal assessment that provides individuals with valuable information about the type of work they enjoy most –helping them identify their true motivations toward work, and providing guidelines to match themselves to job categories where they best fit. 

Using these career development and coaching tools, you’ll get a better understanding of your employees’ strengths and weaknesses–and will be able to offer insights and recommendations for specific actions that will help them become better at what they do, and match them with other opportunities you might have available, (or you might want to create, at your company).

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