Info for Coaches

Behavioral profiling - information for coaches

Are you an exceptional coach?

"Exceptional coaching relies on having the information to enable you
to tailor your coaching style for each athlete and the benefit of the team"

Bo Hanson,
Multi-medal winning, four-time Olympic athlete
Founder of Athlete Assessments

Why do I need behavioral profiling as a coach, or for my athletes?

Athlete Assessments' behavioral profiling for coaches and for athletes helps you realize your potential to be an exceptional coach. The key to achieving this is all about developing self-awareness, and understanding your athletes as individuals.

Self-awareness is the recognition of one's behaviors, strengths, weaknesses, beliefs and values and how these help create your experiences in life. Coaches who are more self-aware can control and exhibit the types of behaviors that create great and consistent performances.

Exceptional coaching is about much more than technical knowledge. Did you know that.

Athlete Assessments Behavioral Profiles

The importance of profiling in sport cannot be overstated. Athlete Assessments' sports profiling products give you the insight and analysis you need to become self-aware and to understand your athletes.

As a coach, Athlete Assessments offers you two profiling options:

1. CoachDISC profiling system - for yourself as a coach.
2. AthleteDISC profiling system - to help you understand your athletes and your team's dynamics.

CoachDISC and AthleteDISC are unique behavioral profiling products developed specifically for coaches and athletes. They are based on a well founded methodology and draw on many years of experience from top level athletes and coaches.

1. CoachDISC for coaches
   
   

   As a coach, completing the CoachDISC behavioral profile enables you to:

   • Build self-awareness of your coaching style, preferences, strengths and limitations.
   • Understand the impact you have on your athletes and fellow coaching staff.
   • Learn how to apply your style, improve your communication and adapt your behavior to encourage greater, more consistent results from each of your athletes and/or your team.
   • Use a tangible methodology to develop and improve your communication with others.
   • Get feedback from others about how they perceive your behavior. (You can build a '360 degree' profile by asking your peers to evaluate you).

   Applying the feedback and analysis from your personal CoachDISC report is extremely revealing. The personalized report you receive changes the way you approach your coaching, makes you a better coach, and helps you to help your athletes realize significant improvements in their performance.

   
   

   ‹‹‹ View a sample CoachDISC report here.

   Or watch a short video that takes you through a sample CoachDISC Report: "Debriefing a CoachDISC Profile Report". Bo Hanson personally takes you through the CoachDISC Profile Report, page by page. In around 7 minutes, you will have confidence and a strong understanding about what is included.

   

   
   
2. AthleteDISC for athletes
   
   

   Once you've seen how the CoachDISC profiling product works, you will see the value in asking your athletes to complete their own behavioral AthleteDISC profile. See the information for athletes page to learn in detail what this provides for athletes.

   Successful coaches can take many different approaches, but the one thing they all have in common is that they understand their athletes as unique individuals, and tailor their coaching accordingly to consistently bring out their athletes' best performances.

   As a coach, through your online team account, you can send assessment invitations to your athletes. They receive an email invitation with a link to complete the survey. Once they have completed their survey, they receive their own private login to access their results. Their results are also available to you through your team account.
   

   The benefits for you as a coach are:

   • Understand each of your athletes' behavior and personality, including their unique motivators, their preferred communication style, what environments and coaching style will bring out their best performances.
   • Learn how to coach each athlete according to their specific personality and needs.
   • An easy to use, very quick, automated and completely online system.
   • Provides a detailed, accurate insight into each athlete - in mere minutes!
   • Athletes can complete a one-page summary within their report that acts as a practical coaching guide for you.
   • Makes understanding and managing team dynamics easy. The system can combine athletes' responses and graphically illustrate the team dynamics. You can use this to manage and improve relationships within the team.

   ‹‹‹ View a sample AthleteDISC report here.

   Or watch a short video that takes you through a sample AthleteDISC Report: "Debriefing an AthleteDISC Profile Report". Bo Hanson personally takes you through the AthleteDISC Profile Report, page by page. In around 7 minutes, you will have confidence and a strong understanding about what is included.

   

   
   

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How does the process work?

Using CoachDISC and AthleteDISC is simple. Everything is done online.

As a coach, you have three options:

1. Complete your own CoachDISC assessment.
2. Direct your athletes to individually purchase AthleteDISC assessments for themselves (you don't have direct access to their results).
3. Set up a team account and invite your athletes and/or other coaches to complete their own AthleteDISC or CoachDISC assessments (you have direct access to their results and other team analysis and capabilities).
   

• Complete your own CoachDISC assessment
  
  
  1. Click on 'Order Coach's Assessment'.
  2. Input your credit card information in our secure payment section.
  3. Complete the online survey. This takes approximately seven minutes.
  4. Select a username and password (to use as your personal login).
  5. Use your login to access your personalized home page.
  6. Access your report through your home page. You can also access a number of additional functions and resources from here.
• Direct your athletes to individually purchase AthleteDISC assessments for themselves
  
  

  The process is very similar to above. Direct your athletes to simply click on 'Order Athlete's Assessment' to start the process. They purchase the assessment themselves and create their own login to access their results. Or see the information for athletes page for more details.

  You do not have direct access to their results and you need them to share the results with you. For you to have access to your athletes' results, use the team account system. There is no cost to establish a team account and you can benefit from volume discounts when purchasing more than four assessments.
  
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• Set up a Team account
  
  
  1. Click on 'Set up a Team Account'. Note: volume discounts are available when you order more than four coach and/or athlete assessments. Please click here for details of volume discounts.
  2. It is free to set up your team account. You will get a password and login to access your account.
  3. You purchase the number of assessments you want through your team account using your credit card in our secure payment section. Enter your athletes' and/or coaches' name and email details. They will receive an automated email with a website link, inviting them to complete the assessment.
  4. You can track their response, or send them reminders if necessary.
  5. Once assessments are completed you can access them online from your central team account.
  6. Each athlete and coach who complete an assessment through your team account also have access to their own results through their personal login. You are also able to block and provide access to individual's results, as appropriate.
  7. There are also special 'team account' functions you can use to combine and analyze the results (see more below).

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What do I get with my assessments?

1. Your CoachDISC Assessment
   
   

   Once you have completed your CoachDISC online assessment, you receive an in-depth 23-page personalized profile report.

   Your report is a comprehensive analysis of your personality and behavior as a coach.

   It accurately and concisely analyzes your communication style, strengths, preferences, motivators, and opportunities for improvement. Your report gives you all the insight you need to become a self-aware coach, and the tools to reach your full potential.

   CoachDISC report features:

   • Your own private home page to access your report.
   • Sports specific, written in a language coaches understand .
   • Accurate results, using a proven methodology.
   • A one-page 'Quick Step' guide to show you how to get the most out of your report.
   • A detailed 'Tour Guide' to show you all you can do with your home page and the information within it.
   • The opportunity for you to invite others (your athletes, fellow coaches, family etc) to contribute their observations of you, and build a '360 degree' perspective of you as a coach .
   • Color-coded graphs to clearly display results and concepts. These are updated as others add their observations of you.
   • Additional reference materials to assist you to get the most from your CoachDISC profile.
   • Satisfaction guaranteed! 100% money back guarantee.

   ‹‹‹ View a sample CoachDISC report here.

   Or watch a short video that takes you through a sample CoachDISC Report: "Debriefing a CoachDISC Profile Report". Bo Hanson personally takes you through the CoachDISC Profile Report, page by page. In around 7 minutes, you will have confidence and a strong understanding about what is included.

   

   
   

   Athlete Assessments' CoachDISC profiles cost just AUD $97.00 or US $74.95. It's a small investment (about the cost of a pair of training shoes) for a big reward.
   

   

   Buy it risk free, with our 100% money back satisfaction guarantee!

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2. The AthleteDISC Assessment
   
   

   An overview is provided below in the Team accounts section, otherwise please refer to the Info for Athletes section for all the details about the AthleteDISC profiles.

   
   

   ‹‹‹ View a sample AthleteDISC report here.

   Or watch a short video that takes you through a sample AthleteDISC Report: "Debriefing an AthleteDISC Profile Report". Bo Hanson personally takes you through the AthleteDISC Profile Report, page by page. In around 7 minutes, you will have confidence and a strong understanding about what is included.

   

   
   
3. Team accounts
   
   

   When you create a team account and purchase the AthleteDISC and/or CoachDISC assessments for your team to complete, all assessment reports are available online to you via your team account login.

   Each individual assessment produces a comprehensive, 23-page personalized report. These reports are very revealing. They explain and analyze each individual's unique motivators, their preferred communication style, their strengths and limitations, what training environments will bring out their best performances, and a lot more information. Reports also have a one-page summary, which serves as a useful quick reference coaching guide.

   As a coach these reports provide many features and benefits for you:

   • Allows you to tailor your coaching style to bring out the best in each individual athlete.
   • Understand each of your athlete's individual motivators, strengths and limitations.
   • Receive practical strategies to effectively coach each athlete according to their specific needs and preferred communication style
   • Time efficient and effective. The surveys take approximately seven minutes to complete, and results are automated, detailed and highly relevant.
   • The option to ask others (teammates, colleagues, family etc) to contribute their observations of each individual, to produce an in depth '360 degree' perspective of each person.
   • Easy to use, color-coded reports using leading edge technology.
   • Written in a language specific to coaches and athletes.
   • Accurate results from proven methodology.
   • Convenient and private online access - any time, any place.
   • Satisfaction guaranteed - 100% money back guarantee on each report.
     
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   Team account capabilities

   Team accounts also feature some sophisticated and very useful capabilities. These allow you to combine the individual results in various configurations to clearly understand your team's dynamics. You can see how different personality types combine. This helps you to trial different team combinations and learn how to manage team dynamics effectively. See the article on Team Dynamics.

   You can also use your 'master level' team account to easily manage and share results, including establishing 'sub accounts' for others to access.

   Get inside your team's head and reap the rewards!

   

   Single AthleteDISC and CoachDISC profiling reports cost just AUD $97.00 or US $74.95 - that's about the cost of one pair of training shoes. Surely you and your athletes are worth it. Or click here for details of volume discount information.

   Buy it risk free with our 100% money back satisfaction guarantee.

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Our additional services

Additional services also include DVDs, Sports Program Reviews, Team Performance Consultations, 'Athlete Centered' Coach Development Workshops, One-on-one Coach and Athlete Consultations and Keynote Presentations.  Click here for more information. 

To find out how Athlete Assessments can help you or your team or organization please contact us today and we’ll be happy to talk about your needs.

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