You’ve seen the overview of five tools in this blog series: Myers-Briggs Temperament Inventory; DiSC Profile; StrengthsFinders; the Enneagram of Personality; and Sacred Pathways. You’ve encountered the common uses and purposes of these five inventories in five different posts. I’m imagining you might be asking: what’s the point of all these tools?

A valid question.

Any inventory is developed to give supportive information to the responder (you) to give you a better sense of what your interaction patterns can look like in the setting for which you take the inventory. Professional organizations tend to use inventories that have demonstrated results in helping individuals and teams be more effective in their work setting.

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In the context of my coaching process, the point of using a variety of tools is to give you a comprehensive look at your patterns of response, your strengths, your blindspots, your habits in order to develop strategies of growth support to allow you to thrive in your work, life & faith. Each client gets to choose which inventory they want to learn from. If you already have results from one or more we work with that information to develop an action plan to focus on that one area that keeps bugging you, that one place where you want to make change but aren’t sure how to effectively do so.

What would that be like for you?

Action step: give yourself permission to imagine what your life would be like if you didn’t resent your co-worker, could respond to your family instead of react, felt like you are connecting with God in deeper and meaningful ways and were actually seeing yourself grow and change even in this stage of life?