Assessing Personality
BySome of the tools we use consistently here at Monar Consulting are psychological/personality assessments, like the MBTI, DiSC and 16PF.
We use them as discovery tools, so our clients can not only understand themselves, but also the people around them. Mainly we use them in the workplace, but we’ve found that they certainly work well for any kind of relationship! We use a multi-assessment approach, as each assessment measures something slightly different. This gives our clients the opportunity to look at themselves and their coworkers, friends, family, etc. from several different perspectives and angles.
We feel it is generally necessary to start with assessment in our work in order to ground ourselves and understand where we’re starting from in a project. We do it on the individual, team and organizational level to gather as much information as we can. This helps us to know that our solutions will actually assist the client! The assessments provide individuals with additional insight and perspectives.
We have found value in the use of personality assessments, but we’re interested to know what all of you think….are they useful? Have you ever taken one for work, and did you use the results from it to make a change? How did it help…or not?
We have created a quick, 30 second survey about personality assessments below…..please feel free to share your thoughts and opinions here!
Here are a couple of interesting articles to check out!::
Personality Testing Grows in the Workplace::
http://www.performanceprograms.com/Surveys/PersonalityMarket.html
The MBTI :: Potential Uses and Misuses in Personnel Administration::
http://www.allbusiness.com/human-resources/343006-1.html
