WORKPLACE ASSESSMENTS
Why Is Understanding Personality at Work Important?
How people behave, react, and engage with others impacts the bottom line. Learning about personality can improve how individuals communicate, motivate, and persuade others.
Frustrated Coworkers
Susan, Terri, and Tom have been working together for years. Although they all get along fairly well, they are frequently frustrated by each other. Susan can’t understand why Terri gets so upset over minor changes or issues and seems to rehash them for weeks. Terri can’t understand why Susan is so “matter-of-fact” and insensitive all of the time, dismissing issues almost as soon as they are identified. And, neither Susan nor Terri can understand why Tom has to question everything all of the time.
Battling Bosses
Zack and Melody manage two competing sales divisions. Zack’s group is known for providing outstanding service and Melody’s group is known for closing deals quickly. Both are constantly bad mouthing and blaming the other for problems occurring with shared accounts. Senior management is fed up with their behavior and expects them to resolve their conflicts and create an environment of mutual respect or both will be asked to step down even though they are both valuable team members.
Top Performer
Lee out-performs everyone in the department and has consistently had outstanding reviews from his manager and customers. Senior management wants to know how he does this and if he can be cloned.
WorkPlace Big Five Overview
The WorkPlace Big Five Profile TM uses the most widely accepted personality traits around the world.
The WorkPlace Big Five Profile TM is a personality assessment based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality, the current standard for psychologists. It can easily be completed online in 10-15 minutes. The WorkPlace is written in straightforward language specifically for business applications. The WorkPlace measures 5 traits and 23 subtraits that reveal how individuals:
- Approach tasks and responsibilities.
- Express oneself and interact with others.
- Take into consideration others' opinions and feelings.
- Respond to adversity or pressure.
- Are open to various interests and ideas.
What Are the Benefits of WorkPlace Assessments?
Join the thousands of organizations around the world who are increasing their bottom line by using the
WorkPlace Big Five Profile TM.
Clients have benefited from the WorkPlace Big Five Profile TM by:
- Developing effective leaders.
- Improving team communication and productivity.
- Selecting the best candidates.
- Understanding behavioral tendencies and how they affect employee alignment, engagement, and productivity.
- Achieving workplace goals and objectives effectively.
- Increasing individual performance.
- Minimizing turnover.
- Maximizing engagement.
How Can WorkPlace Assessments Be Used?
The WorkPlace Big Five ProfileTM is designed for a variety of uses with people in the workforce.
WorkPlace Big FiveTM results have application opportunities that include: Application opportunities for WorkPlace Big FiveTM results include:
- Talent Acquisition
- Onboarding
- Leadership Development and Succession Planning
- Team Optimization
Blogs
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June 16, 2018
The WorkPlace Big Five Suite of Assessments uses a common language to identify and describe the individual traits that determine human behavior. The Five Factor Model is the core of the WorkPlace Big Five Profile and is considered the gold standard of personality measurement by psychologists and researchers. The WorkPlace Big Five is one of the most psychometrically valid and reliable instruments in the industry. There are thousands of scholarly articles on the five-factor model, supporting that this is a […]
June 12, 2018
Development of the five factors of personality began in 1933 when Louis Thurston challenged a group of professionals to create a common language for describing personality. The goal of this challenge was to shrink the more than 18,000 words that described the individual differences in the English Dictionary. Since then, much research has been done on the vocabulary and the relationship between words and individuals to the the major categories used to describe personality. The five-factor model was shared in […]
February 11, 2014
Colleges and universities are finally starting to realize that there is a lot more to a student’s potential than just one’s math and language test scores. I’ve known plenty of individuals who don’t do well on standardized tests yet they always seem to thrive in life when faced with challenges. Why? Because they aren’t afraid to admit it when they don’t know something and they look at each moment as a learning experience. They are emotionally mature, persistent, resilient, and curious. […]
April 4, 2013
lan Boyle recently wrote a great article that talks about how many organizations are no longer just gauging success on test scores and academic excellence. Instead, they are also looking at noncognitive skills (things like grit, drive, or persistence) which actually may do a better job of predicting individuals’ long-term success. I encourage you to take a few minutes to read Alan’s article – Noncognitive Measures: The Academic Trend that Could Change Everything. Let me know what you think.
August 6, 2010
Our personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from our early childhood years to after we’re over the hill, according to a new study. The results show personality traits observed in children as young as first graders are a strong predictor of adult behavior. Read more.