Introduction

The WorkPlace Big Five ProFile 3.0™ (WB5P) is a personality assessment based on the Five Factor Model of Personality which has become the standard for psychologists. The WorkPlace was specifically written in workplace terminology to be used for business applications such as:

· Team Building

· Leadership Development

· Performance Coaching

· Job Selection and Hiring

· Succession Planning

· Management/ Supervisory Training

· Career Development

· Sales Training

· Conflict Management

· OD Intervention

The WB5P is a normative test and can be used for Job Selection; while many commercially well-known assessments should not be used for Job Selection.

The WorkPlace questionnaire and reports have been approved by an EEOC lawyer. Busy executives find it fast and easy to complete online in 10 – 15 minutes with only 107 questions. The coefficient alpha of 0.81 is among the highest of all other assessments. This is a level B APA accredited Psychometric Instrument and needs certification for use.

Dr.Pierce Howard and Jane Howard, the authors of the WB5P are visiting India in January 2008, to conduct Certification Programs in Mumbai/Pune, Hyderabad/Bangalore and Delhi.

What is the Big Five Model?

The big five or the five-factor model of personality is the most current, most valid, most reliable means of assessing personality available today. Psychologists use it as the primary means of understanding and interpreting personality. From the mid-1980’s to the mid-1990’s, the five-factor model of personality was primarily tested and re-tested in the academic and research communities world-wide and was found to be a superior model to earlier means of explaining and describing personality. The business community began to take the big five seriously when Pierce J. Howard and Jane Mitchell Howard’s article was published in the September 1995 issue of training and development, the trade magazine of the American society for training and development. The article, entitled, “Buddy, Can You Paradigm?”, gives a brief history of the model’s development and explains how the five-factor model may be used to understand individuals, relationships, and teams in work situations.

Organizations that want to be up-to-date and remove biases from the workplace are using the big five as their model of choice since it offers so much depth and understanding for employees and program participants in all aspects of human resource development. Some key components to the five-factor-model include:

§ Personality has five dimensions

§ Scores on the dimensions will fall along a normal distribution (or a bell curve)

§ Personality is best described by individual traits rather than type groupings

§ The strength of individual scores indicates personality preferences

§ People who score in the middle range of the scales will have a combination of traits

Uses of The Workplace Big Five Profile 3.0

Team Building

In a team building session using the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile, participants will learn about themselves, their teammates, and how to improve communication and teamwork with others including customers, vendors, etc.

Participants will learn:

· About their personality

· Where individuals on the team may have opportunities for conflict because they are so different on a dimension

· Who has more similar personality traits

· Tolerance of differences

· How to communicate with each other better

· That each individual has strengths to bring to the team, depending on the situation

· To seek out those with different viewpoints

Activities to perform in a Team Building Session:

· A continuum line up - teammates line up according to their score on each trait

· Everyone posts their Big Five scores on the flip chart

Other products: The Owners Manual for Personality at Work, The WorkPlace Big Five Workbook, The Teamer Report

Leadership Development

In a leadership development session using the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile, participants will learn about their personality profile and how it relates to the typical leader profile.

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