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Unique insights into interpersonal compatibility

 

The FIRO® assessment provides business coaches, OD consultants, HR specialists, and relationship coaches with a powerful tool for exploring interpersonal connection. It gives you a unique insight into relationship compatibility – a key success factor for individuals and teams.

For business coaches and OD consultants, FIRO certification supports your work with leaders to understand their unique style, strengths, and challenges, and can help you bring positive behavioral change to improve team performance. For HR specialists and relationship coaches, FIRO certification gives you a great tool to help people to understand themselves better. You can use FIRO insights to explore interpersonal needs with individuals and teams – improving personal understanding that can be applied to communication, problem solving, decision making, and more, to build stronger professional and personal relationships.



Why become FIRO® certified?

 

The FIRO certification program will enable you to:

  • Expand your coaching toolkit with an assessment that pinpoints fundamental relationship needs.
  • Help individuals and teams become more effective by enabling them to understand their interpersonal dynamics and address problems in communication and collaboration.
  • Build trust and promote positive relationships by uncovering the motivations that affect communication style and behavior.
  • Influence real change in leaders and the leadership pipeline.
  • Access both the FIRO-B and FIRO Business assessments – the latter using business-focused terminology, which is particularly useful for multinational organizations.

Who should attend FIRO certification?

 
  • Business coaches
  • HR specialists
  • Relationship coaches
  • Organizational Development consultants
  • Performance coaches
  • Team leaders

What will you learn?

 
  • How to administer the FIRO-B® and FIRO Business® assessments and use the results to help others understand the impact of their behavior on others. 
  • How to use the FIRO assessments as catalysts for positive behavioral change and to unlock potential in both workplace and personal interactions.
  • The skills to highlight strengths and blind spots in an individual's approach to relationships and leading others.
  • Knowledge you can use to guide people and organizations to greater self-understanding and self-awareness, resulting in improved one-on-one and team relationships and more effective leadership.
     

Two ways to become FIRO certified

TRAIN YOUR GROUP IN-HOUSE
If there are six or more people at your organization wanting to become FIRO certified, we can deliver virtual or in-house certification training for your group.
Book FIRO In-House Certification
Join a public program
For individuals and groups of fewer than six, FIRO certification programs are delivered virtually and in-person throughout the year. Continuing Education (CE) hours are available for in person and virtual public certification programs from select professional organizations.
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Find answers to your FIRO certification questions in our FAQs.

Certification Dates

SAN ANTONIO, TX | Oct 13-14, 2021

Sheraton Gunter Hotel
205 East Houston Street
San Antonio, TX 78205

$1895

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Register by 10/1/2021

ONLINE | December 14-15, 2021

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This program will be delivered virtually.

$1895

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The FIRO-B® assessment and its results have had a great impact on behavioral awareness among the leaders and managers that I train.

— Peter Carr, Leadership Development, cwjamaica.comy

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After the FIRO-B® assessment, my clients understand their own motivators, each other’s motivations, and can build stronger relationships with their key colleagues, clients, and team mates. It has resolved many a conflict between employees and their bosses or key stakeholders.

— Kathryn Mayer, Training Consultant and Executive Coach, KC Mayer Consulting

Sunrise
The FIRO-B® assessment provides me with a tool for helping individuals understand what they seek from groups. It’s valuable in helping them manage their own motivations as well as respecting the different needs within groups they serve in or lead. It has strengthened my teaching programs, in that my clients can now see how their behaviors affect trust and conflict.

— Mitchell Owen, Organizational Development Consultant, Mitchen

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The FIRO-B® assessment has allowed me to coach executive leaders with greater depth, providing them with real data to support necessary changes.

— Martie Adler, Organizational Development Consultant, Indiana University

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Using the FIRO-B assessment, our employees achieved a deeper, better, and richer understanding of their interpersonal relationships and how to get work done.

— Christine Chopyak, President and CEO, Arlosoul

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