Birkman International Creates Enhanced Coaching Report for Clients.

HOUSTON -- Birkman International, creator of the Birkman Method[R] of personality assessment, has enhanced its Coaching Report to include an optional workbook with built-in questions, in order to help both coaches and their clients.

"The Coaching Report is one of our most powerful tools," said Sharon Birkman-Fink, President and CEO of Birkman International. "It's a way for a coach to accelerate the coaching process and increase self-awareness early in the process."

The Birkman Coaching Report is designed to do five things:

1. Provide a means to increase personal and professional self-awareness

2. Provide information to complement other processes important to coaching, such as behavioral modification

3. Describe a person's specific tendencies relative to important interpersonal and task-related activities

4. Provide information to help pinpoint areas that may be current or future liabilities

5. Provide areas to be explored within the coaching process that can be translated into specific coaching goals.

The workbook features of the enhanced Coaching Report integrate seamlessly with the rest of the profile, helping to aid in the discussion of results and allowing the coachee to draw on experiences relevant to the behaviors under discussion.

Regarding the Coaching Report, Gail Frank, a job and career transition coach from Tampa, Fla., stated, "I have taken tons of assessments and I have never seen something that 'pegged' me so completely and so quickly."

For over 50 years, corporate human resources professionals, independent consultants, executive coaches, educational institutions and other not-for-profit organizations have used the Birkman Method with over 2.5 million individuals.

The Birkman Method accurately measures productive behaviors, stress behaviors, underlying needs, motivations and organizational orientation, helping people learn to be at their best at all times.

"The Birkman Method changes lives, effectively and scientifically revealing people to themselves," said Birkman-Fink. "Coaches help people discover their talents and hidden skills, and we help coaches do the best job they can."

About Birkman

The Birkman Method[R] has been in use for over 50 years and has been used by over 2 million people and 5,000 organizations worldwide, including corporations, not-for-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and individuals in their hiring, retention, motivational and organizational development activities. The assessment accurately measures social behaviors, underlying expectations of interpersonal and task actions, potential stress reactions to unmet expectations, occupational preferences and organizational strengths. For more information: www.birkman.com or 1-800-215-2760.