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work personality index®

IDENTIFY POTENTIAL AND DEVELOP TALENT

The Work Personality Index provides a clear framework for understanding the impact of personality on job performance. It helps you identify key motivators and behaviours – essential for hiring the right people and developing employees, teams and leaders. Unlike other personality assessments the Work Personality Index only measures traits that are directly related to the work environment and on-the-job behaviours. This focus helps professionals make the most efficient and effective match between people and work roles.

professionals choose the work personality index

21 work related traits provide critical insight

items and reports use work focused language

job match profiles reduce selection errors and time to hire

Modern reports provide results that are easy to read and interpret

WHAT THE WORK PERSONALITY INDEX MEASURES

This powerful assessment uncovers key traits that influence behavior in the workplace. Easy to interpret results, based on 21 distinct scales,  offer valuable insights into an individual’s work preferences and behaviour. Start making informed people decisions and provide feedback that fosters better collaboration, growth, and development.

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One assessment. Multiple applications.

EMPLOYEE JOURNEY

REPORT

SELECTION

DEVELOPMENT

TEAM DYNAMICS

DESCRIPTION

RECRUIT

Job Match

Efficiently evaluate candidates using behavioural benchmarks and overall "fit" score. Best for high volume / recurring recruitment. Reduces bias and builds consistency in your hiring process.

Select

Gain immediate insight into a candidate's workstyle, their approach to tasks, how they work with others, solve problems, and deal with pressure - suitable for most roles.

RETAIN & ENGAGE

Support individual and team development with personalized insights through a dynamic online dashboard. Helps individuals understand how their personality impacts performance. Facilitates enterprise-wide growth with scalable feedback.

Help people understand the kind of work that will keep them motivated and engaged. Used for individualized coaching and often as part of an enterprise employee development / retention strategy.

Straightforward, individualized feedback. Includes development suggestions for being more effective at work.

ADVANCE

Uncover leadership strengths and weaknesses with this comprehensive objective measure of work style. Includes tips for effective management in a hybrid work context.

Identify who is ready to take the next steps in their leadership journey. Used for coaching, development, and to measure the potential for an individual to move from contributor to impactful leaders.

energy and drive

  • Social Confidence
  • Multi-Tasking
  • Leadership
  • Persuasion
  • Ambition
  • Energy

work style

  • Persistence
  • Rule-Following
  • Planning
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability

working with others

  • Outgoing
  • Teamwork
  • Concern for Others
  • Democratic

Dealing with pressure and stress

  • Self-Control
  • Stress Tolerance

Problem solving
style

  • Innovation
  • Analytical Thinking

Managing change

  • Initiative
  • Flexibility

Applications for the work personality index

The Work Personality Index is a versatile assessment. With a variety of report options, the results can be used in recruitment, individual, team and leadership development.

leadership development

The Work Personality Index allows organizations to assist leaders identify their strengths and common challenges in areas important to leadership development including how they work with others, how they set goals, approach their work, solve problems, deal with stress and manage change. Using the Work Personality Index in leadership development will help an individual increase their effectiveness and identify pivotal issues – including leveraging their strengths and overcoming weaknesses that, when addressed, will significantly enhance their performance and effectiveness.

team building

Team Dynamics makes using the Work Personality Index with groups easy and effective. Instantly visualize how individual work styles impact decision making, conflict, communication, managing change, and team performance.

career development

Career development revolves around helping people gain self-awareness of their skills, preferences and values and then identifying occupations that provide a good fit. Results from the Work Personality Index are also helpful for examining job satisfaction in a potential career area.

employee selection

Used as a pre-employment assessment, the Work Personality Index helps match candidates’ characteristics with job requirements and can increase the effectiveness, accuracy and objectivity of an organization’s selection process. Organizations and candidates appreciate the straight forward work focused language of the reports and questionnaire. 

REMOTE WORK INSIGHTS

Working remotely requires methods and behaviours that are different from working in an office. To help people successfully manage these differences, our reports will provide additional feedback focused on hiring, developing and leading employees in a virtual or hybrid environment.

using the work personality index in your organization

The Work Personality Index is classified as a level A instrument and does not require certification or an advanced degree in psychology.

 

Languages

English and French

Items

113

Time to Complete

10 minutes

Administration:

Work Personality Index Resources

REsults using the Work Personality Index

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Leadership Development during times of change in both the public and private sectors.

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The Work Personality Index® assessment helps retail organizations improve hiring decisions.

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