ASSESSMENTS
Assessment Options
Focus varies: workplace performance, personal development, or gaining knowledge. Pulling from your strengths, address areas you need to watch out for, incorporate your personal values and respect and value those different from yourself. Which assessments?
The Myers Briggs Type Indicator®*
The Myers Briggs is a well-known personality inventory that highlights individual differences and personal preferences. The focus of this assessment is personal awareness geared toward understanding of your behaviors, communication style, and how you can put that knowledge toward meaningful change.
Main things to know about the MBTI®:
Informative but not predictive.
Measures identity (how you see yourself).
Measures 4 main personality elements
Energy (introversion, extraversion)
Information and learning
Decision Making
Organization of Environment
Results sort into 16 different “types”
You purchase this test through Myers Briggs or take it through a MBTI® Certified Practitioner.
HOGAN PERSONALITY INVENTORY*
This is one of Dr. Falwell’s favorites because it integrates valuable information about our day to day behaviors with our values - what drives and motivates us toward change. An excellent quality about the Hogan is its basis in reputation - not just your input about yourself, but how others perceive you.
Things to know about The Hogan:
Informative and predictive.
Measures reputation (how other’s view you).
3 Assessments blend for a wealth of information.
Specific details regarding:
Highlights in your personality
Areas that can derail your success
Motivators and values
Variety of reports available for individuals and teams, depending on your growth focus.
Why does identity and reputation matter in assessments? Most assessments are “identity” focused - what you say about yourself and your preferences. The Hogan specifically focused on “reputation” and the predictive value that comes from what other people say about you.
Identity: “I am a fun, spontaneous individual that looks forward to starting each day with a clean slate, ready to meet whatever challenges life has to offer.”
Reputation: Individuals responding this way tend to be inattentive to details, resist supervision, ignore small process steps, no plan ahead, and rarely think through the consequences of their actions.”
Why this is predictive:
We approach our own identity with familiarity and favor. We like our ways and are usually resistant to hearing not-so-great feedback about how we make situations challenging for others. Think about it for a second. Think about a person you love and appreciate. You have excellent experience with both their highlights and the things they do that are challenging, ineffective or even maddening.
The Hogan picks up on that type of information - how other people experience you. Great parts of you, the environment you create for others, what you are like when you don’t even know you are causing difficulty in your own world and bristle when it is brought to your attention.
We can rate ourselves all day long without having critical information about how others experience us as a friend, a teammate, a leader. The Hogan provides that in how it is set up - helping you see the consistency and the high likelihood you will respond in a certain way based on test results from others like you and how people experience you.
The HPI was developed in the 1980s in the context of socio-analytic theory. Within this model, getting along with and getting ahead of others are seen as the dominant themes in social life. The HPI captures key behavioral tendencies relevant to these life themes and are based on the five-factor model of personality.
Thomas-Kilmann Instrument (TKI)
The TKI is a an assessment that determines how you tend to respond to conflict (when your needs differ from those of another person), and what other conflict-handling options are available to you. It takes about 20 minutes to complete and there are no right or wrong answers!
Main things to know about the Thomas-Kilman:
Your results are sorted into 5 different categories of conflict styles.
VIA Character Strengths
The focus of the VIA is character strengths. This assessment is backed by research that supports the idea that when a person knows and lives out of their strengths (versus trying to build skills in a not-so-strong area), they are 18x more likely to flourish in meaningful areas of their lives. HELLO!!
Main things to know about the VIA:
The goal is to know your strengths and use them.
Results are meaningful across many topics: professional and career development, life changes, parenting, relationships, etc.
The theoretical basis of this test is both scientific and inspiring, the focus is not on whittling away at weaknesses.
Results rank 24 character strengths that are sorted into six (6) categories.
We ALL have ALL 24 strengths, we just use some more than others.
You can purchase a number of different reports that help you understand your strengths, including one for kid and teens!
*These assessments require a certification.
My background also allows me to work with content from the MMPI, PAI and other clinically validated assessments that help with mental health diagnostics.
Common takers of this service have taken assessments and want to understand them better and how to apply the results - pulling more out of their strengths, addressing areas they need to watch out for, incorporating their personal values, how to respect and value those different from yourself. An Assessment Review allows you to get the most out of tests or assessments you want to take or have taken in the past with committing to therapy.
* $1250 includes 90 minute review and assessment results
* $350/hour processing with previously taken assessment
* $2300 - Multiple assessment integration: The Hogan, The MBTI™, Character Strengths, Strengths Finder and RHETI Enneagram. Includes:
* Cost and administration of assessments.
* Two (2) 90 minute review appointments.
* Materials.
* Pricing for current clients differs.