Assessments: First things first

Before charting the direction to take, know your starting point. What are your values and core competencies? What habits, communication styles, and worldviews bring you to this moment?

Here are some tools I use with clients:

California Personality Inventory – Helps people understand the characteristics, motivations, and work styles that shape personal and work-related endeavors.

Center for Creative Leadership’s suite of 360 assessments – Offers feedback on leadership skills, as well as context for comparing to peers serving in similar positions.

Enneagram – Sheds light on a person’s worldview and nine strategies that shape habits of thought, feeling, and behavior.

EQi2.0 – Measures emotional and social functioning in the workplace, offering customized strategies in conflict resolution, change management, teamwork, decision-making, etc.

Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B) – Assesses interpersonal needs and how those needs show up in communication and behavior.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) – Examines personality preferences and offers strategies for bridging differences with others in communication, work contexts, problem-solving, stress management, and change management.

Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment – Identifies and measures four behavioral drives and needs that lie behind a person’s workplace behavior.

Six Domains of Leadership Survey – Gathers data on perceptions of a leader from a variety of viewpoints within an organization.

StrengthsFinder 2.0 – Measures and categorizes talents, and reports on six domains of influence into leadership themes.