Assessments

We offer and utilize a variety of superior on-line assessments for the selection and development of people, whether inside organizations or for individuals seeking growth and development in areas such as:

Executive and Leadership Development

Interpersonal Skills

Selection and Placement

Team Building

Work / Life Balance

Conflict Resolution

Coaching

Supervisory Skills Development

Supervisor / Subordinate Relationships

Career Management

Management Competencies

Emotional Intelligence (EQ/EI)

Sales and Customer Service

Peak Performance

We have the right tool for you!

  > MBTI©, Team and Individual
  > Strong Interest Inventory©
  > FIRO-B®
  > Entrepreneur (MBTI© and Strong Interest Inventory©)
  > Career (MBTI© and Strong Interest Inventory©)
  > Leadership (MBTI© and FIRO-B®)
  > MBTI© Work Styles
  > OPQ© (Occupational Personality Questionnaire) - SHL
  > EQ (Emotional Intelligence) - SHL
  > Index of Emotional Intelligence (IEI©) - 360° - Lynn Learning Labs©
  > EQ - Map®
  > Leadership - SHL
  > Management Competencies - SHL
  > Team Impact - SHL
  > Team Types and Leadership Styles - SHL
  > Abilities (numerical and written) - SHL
  > 360°/720° - Booth Company

MBTI©, Team and Individual

The MBTI© is the most widely used personality instrument in the world and has made significant impacts every day in applications ranging from communication, to management development, to team building. Its unique implementation of Carl Jung's theory of psychological type has endured for fifty years, always reflecting the latest development in type theory as it evolves and changes with more than 4,000 studies from one of the most extensive empirical foundations for psychometric personality assessment.

Provides an in-depth, personalized account of personality preferences

Provides a detailed interpretation of 20 subscales (Step 11)

Includes information about the components of one's preferences, understanding one's type, and type development

Includes application information and tips that help enhance important skills such as communication, problem solving, decision-making, change management, and conflict management

Strong Interest Inventory©

The Strong provides the most valid, powerful, and up-to-date career information available. It measures interest in a broad range of occupations, work activities, leisure activities, and school subjects:

A comprehensive picture of perceived skills and interests

Measures a person's perceived level of confidence in performing skills related to six General Occupational Themes (GOTs)

Confidence levels are compared with levels of interest in the GOTs

Organizes results into four categories for prioritizing exploration

FIRO-B®

The FIRO-B® helps build powerful, positive, and productive organizational relationships. It is a tool that assesses how personal needs affect one's behavior toward other people. It offers insight into one's compatibility with other people, as well as individual characteristics. It assesses three areas of need:

Inclusion – the extent of contact and prominence and individual extends and desires

Control – the extent of power or dominance a person extends and desires

Affection – the amount of closeness a person extends and desires

Entrepreneur Assessment

Combines information from MBTI© and Strong Interest Inventory© to offer valuable insight into one's entrepreneurial style compared to both corporate leaders and small business owners. The information identifies functional areas of running a business, i.e. marketing, finance, and examines one's interests in each alerting one to potential blind spots.

Career Assessment

Combines information from MBTI© and Strong Interest Inventory© to better understand yourself and to expand your career options. It provides suggestions for identifying

Work environments and tasks that you may find satisfying,

Specific occupations that offer good possibilities for exploration,

Strategies for career development, and

Tactics for using your personality preferences to stay motivated during the career exploration process

Leadership (MBTI© and FIRO-B®)

Combines information from MBTI© and FIRO-B® to:

Explore and expand a persons understanding of the leadership style they use in organizations and how others might perceive and react to it

Both instruments tap into key aspects of personality and behavior in areas such as communication, problem solving, decision-making, and interpersonal relations. Each instrument is distinct, providing a view through a different window of the person's leadership personality. Together, they complement each other and provide useful information.

Describes the person's leadership style in the context of interpersonal relationships, teams, and organizational culture, and identifies the person's strengths and the challenge he or she might face in dealing with change and stress.

It provides an Action Plan for personal development agenda.

MBTI© Work Styles

Designed to help you improve your working relationship by:

Better understanding how you communicate

Identifying possible sources of misunderstanding

Resolve or avoid communication conflicts

Build on your combined strengths to develop a more productive working relationship

OPQ© (Occupational Personality Questionnaire) - SHL

The OPQ© is a validated self-report that measures personality characteristics that are relevant to success in the workplace. It has been normed for professionals and managers and is used by many of the top Fortune 100 companies and over 2,000 organizations worldwide.

It measures behavior dimensions that can determine to what degree a person is persuasive, controlling, independent, practical, democratic, conceptual, detail conscious, achieving, critical, decisive, etc.

It has been developed in accordance with the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures and meets EEO criteria for use in employment screening

It can be used alone or in conjunction with other assessments to create a customized method to select candidates or develop existing personnel

Its many applications include:

Selection for Managers, professionals and higher levels

Training and development diagnostics

Leadership identification and development

Teambuilding

Performance management

Identifying management competencies

Leadership and subordinate style matching

Succession planning

EQ (Emotional Intelligence) - SHL

Measures one's ability to stay healthy under pressure, develop trusting relationships, and creatively sense opportunities for future satisfaction and success. A unique Emotional Intelligence (EQ) assessment examining one's current level of EQ in such areas as; personal insight, feelings & emotions, social ease, etc. EQ is empirically linked to superior job performance.

Index of Emotional Intelligence (IEI©)

Emotional Intelligence is

The Index of Emotional Intelligence (IEI©) is an extremely powerful 360° assessment based on solid research linking emotional intelligence with high performance in leaders. It measures emotional intelligence in five areas: self-awareness and control, empathy, social expertness, personal influence, and mastery of purpose. It is validated across a wide spectrum of industries. The assessment collects survey data from the participant as well as from individuals such as a supervisor, peers, direct reports, customers, vendors, friends etc. This source of information produces a comprehensive written assessment and when combined with personal coaching becomes the foundation for leading a meaningful and fulfilled life.

EQ - Map®

The EQ Map® is an extensively researched emotional intelligence self-assessment instrument. It is designed to help individuals assess their personal EQ levels and enhance their EQ leadership and performance in life. It helps look at how one manages areas of their life such as: life’s pressures, life’s satisfaction, emotional self awareness, compassion, resilience, trust, personal power, etc. It helps pinpoint strengths and areas for improvement. The various factors are clearly tied to one’s ability to stay healthy under pressure, develop trusting relationships, and creatively sense and pursue one’s life goals with understanding and passion.

The information developed through the EQ Map® when combined with our coaching process is designed to help one achieve greater career and life success.

Leadership - SHL

Provides a detailed analysis of an individual's leadership potential. It is based on SHL's leading edge Leadership model, providing a competency based approach to leadership, designed to apply across a wide range of organizations and industry sectors.

Management Competencies - SHL

Outlines how an individual's typical way of behaving is likely to impact on management competencies. It details each competency and summarizes aspects of personality which contribute positively or negatively to each competency. It includes a summary of strengths and development needs for each competency based on personality styles, along with competency based development actions to address specific areas of limitation.

Team Impact - SHL

This report is based on the Team Impact Model. Three different versions can be used to select, manage and develop teams.

Selection – the individual's strength's and weaknesses in a team setting plus a competency based interview guide focused around eight key team behaviors

Development – the individual's strengths and weaknesses in a team setting

Group – combines profiles of all team members to provide an overall picture of the team's strengths and weaknesses.

Team Types and Leadership Styles - SHL

This report is based on Belbin's team types (individual's preferred role when working in a team) and Bass's leadership and reporting styles (individual's preferred leadership styles and likely style of behavior as a direct report.

Ability - SHL

Critical Reasoning Test Battery (CRTB) – is designed to assess reasoning skills at administrative, supervisory and junior management levels, including office supervisors, senior personal assistants, sales and customer service staff, and management trainees.

Critical Thinking Test (CTT) – is the first of a new breed of shortened ability tests that proviide clients with the capability to assess candidates in verbal and numerical reasoning more quickly than many existing ability tests on the market, while at the same time retaining all the rigor and reliablility that clents expect. It is designed for the assessment of graduates, managers and professional staff in a wide range of positions. The CTT has the most extensive set of norm data available having been drawn from over 23,000 people's data across 95 occupational groups.

360°/720° Task Cycle© Surveys - Booth Company

360-degree feedback instruments enable people and organizations to bring about positive change. The Task Cycle has six core phases, each of which has meaning for every organizational role. These phases are further broken down into dimensions or specific skills. Feedback is provided the participant from the people who are in a position to observe those skills helping individuals understand strengths and weaknesses in the skills that matter in the roles they perform. The Task Cycle phases and dimensions are sequenced thereby allowing management, leaders, teams and participants to readily understand how each skill has an impact on the next. This allows the participant to easily recognize and design their development plans.

Task Cycle Surveys identify observable behaviors. This leads to high statistical reliability, a top requirement in an excellent survey instrument.

They identify skills that matter most in the context of the participant's job.

They identify skills that can be taught. People can respond and make improvements on shortcomings rather than simply understanding their shortcomings.

Participants learn the impact of their behaviors. They link skillfulness to learn commitment.

They prioritize development needs. Participants see the areas that will bring them the greatest performance gains.