by Daniel Riemenschneider | Jan 20, 2019 | Coaching, IPSAT
Do you know how to discover, optimize, and unleash the resources inside of you?
The Identity Profile Self-Awareness Tool (IPSAT) is a guided discovery and coaching experience designed to help you understand the resources in you that set you apart – the unique combination of your personality, strengths, skills, spiritual gifts, and passions. Learn what you do best, where you have gaps, and how to communicate this information with others.
As a certified IPSAT coach and IPSAT Independent Contractor, I am prepared to coach and bring value to you.
My IPSAT coaching commitment to you
- My highest priority: confidentiality & providing value to you.
- I will share helpful tips/tools for maximizing your IPSAT experience.
- I will provide one IPSAT coaching session (via phone) when you complete the assessment.
- Many previous IPSAT clients have requested additional coaching sessions – which I offer.
Who are you? How are you living purposely – a life that matters? What are you capable of when you are in your sweet-spot? What has a potential to derail you? Engage in the IPSAT here >>
by Daniel Riemenschneider | Jan 10, 2019 | Coaching, IPSAT
Please follow these simple steps to get the maximum value from this experience after you create your account:
- Be sure to watch the tutorial video on the front and back end of the onboarding process. The videos are short and informative.
- There is an Identity Overview Statement Worksheet download link on the final step of the onboarding process (under the video), right before taking the IPSAT. Spending a few minutes with this worksheet before you take the IPSAT will simplify the process of creating the initial draft of your Identity Overview Statement.
- There is a video on your IPSAT dashboard to help you prepare for your coaching session. I encourage you to watch it.
- There is a link to a pre-coaching prep worksheet on the IPSAT dashboard. It will upgrade your experience significantly if you print that and spend some time reflecting on it before the coaching session.
How else can I bring value to you?
by Daniel Riemenschneider | Jan 4, 2019 | Coaching
Woohoo! Congrats on completing the IPSAT assessment and coaching session!
If you have not already, please complete the coach evaluation sent via email from myipsat.com. If the IPSAT has been helpful to you, please give a high rating.
Now What? (re)Crafting Your Identity Overview Statement
The IPSAT and coaching session gave much airtime to crafting your Identity Overview Statement. An excellent next action for you is to (re)craft your statement.
But first, some inspiration from a Bloomingdale Church participant. Here is his first draft of his Identity Overview Statement:
I care about helping people, if they want to be helped. I love learning new and interesting things. And I don’t like seeing people fail.
After coaching and (re)crafting, here is his Identity Overview Statement now:
I am a no nonsense, tell it like it is traditionalist, who stands for what is right. Going out of my way to help someone is not uncommon. I’m the peacemaker when needed, also can be the enforcer. Being a strategic thinker I can formulate a plan, put it in place fully aware of multiple possible outcomes and respond analytically. As an over-achiever I’ll challenge myself to be the best father/ husband/son/ect. And I also believe in leading by example in everything I do.
Here are the highlights (from the webinar by Steve Moore, President of nexleader/IPSAT):
- Start with your identity – then work on your statement (You need to understand your identity first, before “word-smithing”)
- Personality/MBTI – What words do I identify with the most?
- Strengths – ie “I love learning and sharing what I learned with others” (learning strength)
- Skills
- Spiritual Gifts – Start by seeking to understand correct Biblical meaning
- Passions – ie “an expression of my passion for…”
- Make every word count (100 words in all)
- Begin with “I am”
- Ruthlessly get rid of filler words
- Front load your statement – Prioritize first 20-25 words
- 25 words are what you can comfortable saying in a normal conversation
- Consider putting passions toward end
- Focus on the balcony – not on the basement
- Balcony-side: Reflection of my very best self
- Basement-side: How my identity could derail me
Helpful Source Documents
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by Daniel Riemenschneider | Jan 3, 2019 | Coaching, IPSAT
We want the IPSAT to bring as much value to you as possible.
How is your Identity Overview Statement (re)Crafting?
Here’s how you can tell if you have a top shelf, 100% statement: Would you use your Identity Overview Statement, as it is currently written, on a resume you submit for a job you really want? If the answer to that question isn’t an enthusiastic “Yes,” you aren’t there yet.
Your Identity Overview Statement is meant to be shared others. It should be viewed as something you would post in your office, not hide in your journal. If you don’t refine it, you won’t be motivated to share it. That defeats the entire purpose. You need to get your statement as close to 100% as possible.
In another post we shared a webinar resource on how to improve your Identity Overview Statement. Here is another resource: Identity Overview Statement worksheet. (You may have utilized this worksheet in the onboarding process)
It’s time to Share Your Identity Profile
The refined version of your Identity Overview Statement reflects your internal self-awareness. Now it’s time to grow your external self-awareness by inviting feedback from a few people who know you well and want to help you optimize and unleash your potential. Typically, this will include a member of your family, and several people from your friendship network.
The IPSAT creators have simplified the process of inviting feedback by creating a sharable link available on the dashboard of your IPSAT Report page. Just login to your account, click on the view report link, then the share report button on the righthand side of the page. The share report button will generate a URL you can use to allow others to view your IPSAT results.
The sharable report doesn’t include any IPSAT scores. It simply summarizes the results of the five pre-IPSAT assessments and includes your latest IPSAT overview statement.
Consider using an email like this to invite feedback:
Hi (first name),
I’m on a journey to discover, optimize and unleash my potential using the Identity Profile Self-Awareness Tool (IPSAT). One of the key results of this experience is a less than 100-word statement I’ve created, with input from my coach, explaining how my personality, strengths, skills, spiritual gifts, and passions work together in my life.
Would you be willing to read my Identity Overview Statement and give me top-of-mind feedback?
You can see the results of assessments that are part of the IPSAT experience along with my Identity Overview Statement here. (Be sure to make “here” a hyperlink to your shareable IPSAT Report.)
After reflecting briefly on my Identity Overview Statement, just click reply with your answer to these three questions:
- On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being “this isn’t you” and 10 being “this is totally you,” what number would you apply to my statement?
- What part of the statement do you agree with most?
- What in this statement, if anything, do you find confusing, missing or inconsistent with your understanding of me?
Thanks in advance for considering this. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Your name
Make it your goal go obtain feedback from at least three people.
Focus on people who know you well and want to help you grow. If one of the people in your feedback group is a spouse or significant other, you may want to talk about it in person before you send the email.
Review the results from your feedback group and make any edits or updates to your statement. If the numerical scores average six or lower, you may want to invite additional feedback, especially if the information shared in response to the third question is incomplete (anything confusing, missing or inconsistent with your understanding of me?).
Get even more feedback by scheduling a meeting with the person you report to at work to talk about your IPSAT. People with high self-awareness know who they are, what they do best, where they have gaps, and they take the initiative to share this information with others. Remember, your Identity Statements, including your Overview Statement, are not just for you. They are also for the people around you.
How else can I bring value to you?
by Daniel Riemenschneider | Jan 2, 2019 | Coaching, IPSAT
Two powerful next steps you can take after growing your self-awareness are 1) creating a personal growth plan informed by your developmental priorities and 2) designing a mitigation strategy for a potential derailer in a specific vulnerable setting.
Your highest Return-On-Investment personal development (developmental priority) will be informed by your IPSAT results, and focus on taking some combination of your personality, strengths, skills, values and passions to the next level. Similarly, when you know how your identity predisposes you to self-defeating behaviors (potential derailers) and where or when that is most likely to happen (vulnerable setting) you are strategically positioned to design a mitigation strategy. Have a big vision for this, because God has good works planned for you to do (best contribution) as Ephesians 2:10 reminds “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Try this next action step:
Contact 2-3 people that you trust and who know you well in different areas of your life (family, work, etc). Ask:
- What do you agree with most from these five statements I have composed (Identity Overview, Best Contribution, Development Priority, Potential Derailers, Vulnerability Setting)?
- What is missing?
- What do you recommend I give extra attention to? Do you have any recommendations to me for how I should go about identifying and improving this area?
You can’t expect anyone to do this for you. Follow through on the commitment you made to yourself by taking ownership of your developmental journey.
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