ASSESSMENT /
PERSONAL STYLE
Personal Style Inventory
Third Edition
Personality style is an integral part
of many training sessions. HRDQ’s Personal Style Inventory (PSI)
makes identifying and understanding personal style easy.
Based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types, the PSI
has helped thousands of people answer the question, “Why do I act
the way I do?”
What sets the PSI apart? Other Jungian instruments assess
respondents’ behavior, which can be affected by external factors
such as work environment. The PSI captures behavioral
preferences, which we believe more accurately measures a
respondent’s personality strengths and weaknesses.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify preference for 1 of 16
personality styles
- Explore the potential strengths
and weaknesses of each personality style
- Understand how each style is
likely to affect other individuals and/or group members
- Discover how to capitalize on
strengths of others
Theory
The PSI is based on Carl Jung’s theory of personality types.
Jung found recognizable and repeated patterns in behaviors linked to
our conscious perceiving of the world, our decision making about the
world, our attitudes toward life, and our relationship to the
expectations of the world. These patterns, for almost all of the
people Jung observed or read about, fell into 1 of several pairs of
reactions. We all engage in all of these behaviors, but almost
always engage in only 1 of each pair with any facility.
The pairs of reactions — or personal style preferences — include:
- Extraversion or Introversion
- Sensing or Intuiting
- Thinking or Feeling
- Perceiving or Judging
The PSI
vs. the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Both the PSI and the MBTI use Jungian theory to measure
personality style. However, each instrument asks the
individual to assume a different frame of reference. The MBTI
attempts to measure how people usually behave. The PSI
measures how people would prefer to behave. We believe this
unveils a style closer to the true nature of the individual’s
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How It Works
Individuals respond to a series of 32 statements, each describing a
behavior associated with 1 of the 4 pairs of personal style
preferences. The result is a personality style preference profile
that is abbreviated by a combination of four letters (i.e., ISTP =
Introverted/Sensing/Thinking/Perceiving).
A powerful tool for both individuals and teams, the PSI also
includes a chart for recording team member personality types,
questions for team discussion, and detailed instructions for
developing a team profile and conducting a complete workshop.
Uses for the PSI
The PSI is effective when used as a stand-alone learning
instrument or as part of a more comprehensive training program. It’s
the perfect start to a style-awareness training program or to
programs for:
- Personal Style
- Communication
- Diversity
- Team Building
For a complete training experience and
maximum impact, team PSI with
Exploring Personal Styles
(EPS), a compelling collection of activities based on the
Personal Style Inventory.
What to Order/Product Contents
Order 1 Facilitator Guide per trainer and 1 Participant Guide per
participant.
Facilitator Guide includes:
- Administrative guidelines
- Theoretical background
- Experiential Training Model
- Tips on interacting with each
personality type
- Complete 3-hour individual and
team workshop designs
- Alternative training designs
- Blank training outline
- Optional activities
- Sample copy of the Participant
Guide
- CD-ROM containing Microsoft®
PowerPoint® presentations and reproducible masters including a
Certificate of Achievement, Training Evaluation, and overhead
transparency masters
- Binder format
Participant Guide includes:
- 32-item inventory
- Pressure-sensitive scoring form
- Descriptions of the 8 dimensions
of personality and the 16 Basic Personal Styles
- Interpretive information
- Insights on how strengths of
different styles supplement each other
- The Strength/Weakness Paradox
- Charts for scoring individual and
team results
- Individual action planning
- Team discussion questions
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