Example IAM Questions

1. How will participation in IAM affect my opportunity for career changes, promotion or advancement in my organization?
   

   Participation in IAM does not guarantee any additional opportunities in your company.
   
   Through the program, you will learn about your strengths and receive guidance on how they can best be utilized. It is up to you to take charge of your work and life to ensure your own individual and therefore your company's competitiveness.

2. How will my manager be involved in my IAM activity?
   

   You choose if and how to involve your manager in your work with IAM. Your manager is likely already involved with your development plans as part of your performance review process. The IAM program is separate from this review process and management involvement is not required.
   
   We encourage you to involve your manager to the extent it feels comfortable. We provide tools to support such conversations.
   
   Any conversation you have with your coach and results from your IAM work are confidential and will not be shared with your manager.
   

   
   
3. Who will see the data I generate using the IAM tools and questionnaires?
   

   No one but you. You may choose to share data with your coach and sharing your IAM information with your coach could be important to the coaching process. The decision is yours.

4. Will my coach report back on our conversations to my manager or others at my company?
   

   All conversations with your coach are confidential.
   
   IAM coaches do meet regularly to discuss common themes and trends in their coaching and do generate reports based on these conversations. All information is kept confidential and no individuals are identified in these reports.

5. What topics or situations are most appropriate to discuss with my coach?
   

   You can discuss almost any work or life situation with your coach. Exploring both personal and professional situations is normal when discussing development topics. Some examples include:
   

   • Not having enough time to complete the IAM tools.
   • Looking for different or additional ways to interpret assessment results.
   • Finding yourself without any options, feeling like you are boxed in.
   • Wondering how your manager or family might react to potential changes.
   • Saying that you haven't learned anything new. Use the coach to ensure you are stretching.
   • Celebrating successes like a bold new conversation with your manager.
   • Being confused about how to work with or apply IAM information.
   • Feeling unsupported by your family in following your dreams.
   • Wanting to brainstorm ideas of how you might proceed.
   
   
6. How often might I talk with my coach?
   

   Talking to your coach on a regular schedule will ensure you make steady progress in the IAM program.
   
   Initially, get together to go over your plan and goals for the program. Inquire about where the coach might be able to best assist you.
   
   The exact schedule of coaching will depend on the program established with your company.

7. How much time and energy does IAM take?
   

   Each learning module will take between 30 minutes and 1 hour. Because the tools require experimentation and reflection, we suggest allowing one week for each module. It may take between 3 and 6 months to complete the entire process depending on what learning modules are available to you.

8. How will I get the benefits of the IAM Program?
   

   Benefit comes from fully utilizing the resources and support offered through the program. Resources include self-directed tools and questionnaires that guide you through development related subjects. Support includes network connections made during orientation and coaching available via the program.

9. What is coaching?
   

   Coaching is a form of leading and consulting where you get help solving problems, reaching goals, designing a plan of action, making decisions and learning. A coach helps you maintain accountability to yourself as you learn to make choices that are in alignment with your individual awareness.
   
   Coaching is not therapy, advice giving or a time for complaining. Coaching focuses on the present and future, not the past, and learning from taking action, not analysis.

10. What benefits might I expect from IAM?
    

    Results will occur only if you take consistent action over time with respect to your development. The personal benefits from IAM may include:
    
    

    • Balancing efforts that address weaknesses with efforts to leverage the development of latent strengths and affinities.
      
      
    • Honoring motivations to access the courage necessary to seek goals that lead to the highest and most fulfilling levels of development and performance possible.
      
      
    • Following values to create alignment of time and energy with what is most important to an individual and an organization.
      
      
    • Maintaining and appropriately adjusting focus based on both internal personal and external business perspectives.
      
      
    • Making leadership decisions that are appropriate for individuals, groups and organizations.
      
      
    • Developing common language that can be used to communicate a person's values, strengths, and motivations (framed as needs and heartfelt wants);
      
      
    • Increasing the capacity for vital and inspired energy investment and energy ROI;
      
      
    • Setting healthy boundaries based on personal self-knowledge and organizational needs.
      
      
    • Learning about personal patterns of sabotage and inauthentic behavior and actions which lead to ineffective results.