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Personality Style at
Work Assessment
Derek T. Y. Mann, Ph.D.
Assessment, 10–15 minutes to take
Personality Style at Work
(PSAW) is HRDQ’s latest and most statistically accurate
assessment. It’s a simple, but highly effective tool with all the statistical rigor and
validity you expect to come with HRDQ. Extending beyond the mere measurement of
style, the PSAW assessment tool measures both the core behaviors that make-up an
individual’s style and the lens through which they choose to navigate their world.
At the foundation of each style—Direct, Considerate, Spirited, and Systematic—is a set
of three drivers that guide our actions, decisions, and general life approach. Delving
even deeper into the framework of personality is a look at the lens of expressiveness
and assertiveness—the learned behaviors that we use as a means of coping with the
demands and expectations placed upon us and which help to explain how we can
appear to have one personality at work and another in our personal life.
Personality Style at Work
assessment takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete.
Individuals respond to 94 different items designed to help them identify their
behavioral preferences, shedding light on how they react to and interact with the world
around them. Most statements ask them to respond by indicating the frequency with
which they approach, think about, or act in the way described. Each response is scored
and used to generate a detailed, highly personalized feedback report called the Core
Profile. The report identifies an individual’s primary personality style including its core
preferences and behaviors, the degree to which they practice each of the three drivers
associated with their style and the role assertiveness and expressiveness plays in the
effectiveness of their style. The report also offers are numerous tips and techniques for
building rapport, and optimizing relationships and interactions with other styles. The
report concludes with a section on using the information in PSAW to create a personal
action and development plan.
Lacking the complicated code at the basis of other personality-focused assessments,
PSAW’S simplistic language and presentation make it easy for participants to retain
the knowledge of their style and to use that knowledge to better understand their
strengths and to highlight and pinpoint areas for development.
Personality Style at Work
is, at its core, a developmental tool and is suitable for anyone
interested in understanding how their behaviors affect their own performance and
interactions with others. As such it has applications in leadership development,
management and supervisory training, team culture, team building, communication,
and career development.
Core Profile Online Assessment
$49 $40
L E A R N I N G O U T C O M E S
• Identify a preference for one of four primary
personality styles.
• Learn the core preferences and behaviors of
all four styles.
• Reveal the degree to which you practice the
three drivers of each style.
• Discover the effects of assertiveness and
expressiveness on your style.
• Understand how to flex or adapt your style
to meet the preferences of others.
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The PSAW model can help us to not only
better understand ourselves, but to help
us better understand those around us.
Each style comprises three drivers or motivators that define what motivates us and where
we focus our energy and attention.
THE SPIRITED STYLE
Initiation
Conceptualization
Collaboration
THE CONSIDERATE STYLE
Harmony
Consensus
Recognition
THE DIRECT STYLE
Control
Achievement
Challenge
THE SYSTEMATIC STYLE
Organization
Objectivity
Tradition
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