We all have special abilities. We can all excel at something.

The secret is defining those abilities, then putting them to good use.

Whether you call them abilities, talents, gifts, innate qualities or aptitudes, by measuring and defining your special abilities, you will learn what you can do best and how to apply them in your career, education, and leadership roles.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS PROFILES

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) assessment is the best known and most trusted personality tool available today.  From developing more productive work teams to building closer families, the MBTI can improve the quality of life for anyone and any organization.

After more than 50 years, the MBTI instrument continues to be the most trusted and widely used assessment in the world for understanding individual differences and uncovering new ways to work and interact with others.  More than 2 million assessments are administered to individuals annually —including employees of many Fortune 500 companies.

The MBTI family of tools reaches across the globe in 21 languages to help:

• improve individual and team performance,
• nurture and retain top talent,
• develop leadership at every level of an organization,
• reduce workplace conflict, and
• explore the world of work.

The Strong Interest Inventory®

The Strong Interest Inventory® assessments provide time-tested and research-validated insights to help participants in their search for a rich, fulfilling career. Developed for career counselors and practitioners who help adults with career decisions, the Strong empowers participants to discover their true interests so they can better identify, understand, and often expand their career options.

The Strong generates an in-depth assessment of the participant’s interests among a broad range of occupations, work and leisure activities, and educational subjects. To reveal the participant’s interest patterns, it presents results on a variety of complementary themes and scales:

• General Occupational Themes map out broad interest patterns to describe personalities and preferred work environments (corresponding to Holland’s RIASEC theory).
• Basic Interest Scales provide more specific information about the participant’s areas of interest
• Occupational Scales relate the participant’s interest patterns to those of satisfied workers within the occupation.
• Personal Style Scales describe the participant’s preferred style of working, learning, leading, risk-taking, and team participation.
• Recently revised to reflect all the latest changes in the world of work and study, this authoritative assessment of unparalleled reliability and validity is a powerful tool for anyone starting a career, considering a career change, looking for career enrichment, or seeking work–life balance.

The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI)

The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) is the world’s best-selling instrument for understanding how different conflict-handling modes, or styles, affect interpersonal and group dynamics and for learning how to select the most appropriate style for a given situation.

The TKI tool has been used successfully by businesses, educators, and organizational development professionals for over 30 years. Scoring for the TKI assessment is based on a revised norm sample and is presented in the updated TKI Profile and Interpretive Report with a more personalized analysis of results.

Benefits of the TKI tool:

• Offers a pragmatic, situational approach to conflict resolution
• Demonstrates how and when to use the five conflict-handling styles effectively
• Helps to initiate safe and productive dialogue to deal with conflict situations

Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™ (FIRO-B®)

For more than 40 years the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™ (FIRO-B®) assessment has helped people around the world understand how their need for inclusion, control and affection can shape their interactions with others at work or in their personal life. Easy to administer and complete, the FIRO-B assessment is ideal for one-on-one coaching, team-building initiatives, communication workshops and leadership development programs. The FIRO-B toolkit includes online and pencil-and-paper assessments, graphic and narrative reports, informative booklets and technical guide.

California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) - CPI 260

Building on the exceptional history, validity, and reliability of the California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) assessment, the CPI 260® assessment opens a new window on people’s strengths and opportunities for development.

With updated language and clear graphics, the CPI 260 instrument transforms the California Psychological Inventory into a leadership development and selection tool for today’s organizations. The CPI 260 assessment contains 260 carefully selected items that are used to measure three vector scales (interpersonal approach, intrapersonal values, and level of satisfaction) and more than two dozen scales in five broad areas: dealing with others, self-management, motivations and thinking style, personal characteristics, and work-related characteristics.

Building on more than 50 years of research and successful real-life applications—empirically derived and research validated—this powerful tool is designed for straightforward, easy administration that respects the time constraints of busy professionals. It offers practical, down-to-earth insights for the training and development of professionals in a range of business and organizational contexts. Feedback is available in two well-organized, highly intuitive reports: the Client Feedback Report and the Coaching Report for Leaders.

Help your organization with a variety of leadership and management development applications. The CPI 260 instrument is a highly effective tool for use in:

• Leadership development and management training programs
• One-on-one or group coaching
• Performance improvement initiatives

The California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™)

The California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) instrument provides a complex yet highly accurate portrait of an individual's professional and personal styles. For more than 50 years, coaches, counselors, and human resource experts have trusted this powerful assessment tool to help them promote teamwork, build leadership competencies, and find and develop employees destined for success—all to create more efficient and productive organizations.

With 434 items, the CPI instrument provides unmatched validity and reliability as a dynamic and objective measure of personality and behavior. The complete collection of tools includes narrative reports, comparative profiles based on both gender-specific and combined male/female norms, and a comprehensive tool kit of in-depth case studies and reproducible masters that demonstrate how the CPI assessment can be used in any business or organizational setting.

The Highlands Ability Battery

The Highlands Ability Battery™ is a series of worksamples that measure and define a person’s natural abilities. This is not a "test" in the traditional sense of the word. You are asked to do something in each worksample. How easily you complete a worksample defines how “naturally” the underlying aptitude comes to you. Each worksample is timed to reflect your innate abilities and not your skills.

After you complete the Battery, you receive a 30+ page report describing your results. The individualized report describes each worksample and what it measures. Your score is linked to how easily you can perform a task that focuses on a particular ability. After you have received your report, you go over the results in detail with a highly trained feedback consultant.

In a 2-hour feedback session, you and your consultant discuss your abilities as they relate to your career and the work roles for which your ability profile ideally suits you. This process is the foundation for developing a long-term career strategy.

The DISC Personality

The D.I.S.C. personality report or inventory profiles four primary behavioral styles, each with a very distinct and predictable pattern of observable behavior. Applied in corporate, business and personal situations the DISC inventory can lead to professional and personal insights. Understanding the DISC patterns has empowered millions internationally to better understand themselves and others. The results of the online disc profile report are designed to provide targeted insights and strategies for interpersonal success through more effective communication, understanding and tolerance. DISC is used for personal growth and development, training, coaching and managing of individuals, groups, teams, and organizations.

The DISC Online Profile is used as a learning tool to create rapid rapport and connection with people is fundamental in selling, managing, and leadership. Understanding behavioral styles benefits personal and professional relationships by improving communication skills and reducing conflict. Imagine being able to better understand what motivates people and being able to recognize how to effectively deal with others. 

Originally created by Dr. William Marston at Columbia University and researched and updated by Dr. John Geier and Inscape Publishing at the University of Minnesota, the DiSC model and its training assessments and various other tools have helped over 35 million people in 25+ languages over the last 40 years.