Personal Style Inventory

Based on Carl Jung's well-known personality theory, the Personal Style Inventory (PSI) identifies deep-seated style preferences along four paired dimensions:

• Extroversion or introversion
• Sensing or intuiting
• Thinking or feeling
• Perceiving or judging

The PSI makes it easy for people to "see" how they think, act, and feel. Plus, with eyes wide open, you've taken the first step toward improving your organization's communication, teamwork, leadership, and interpersonal relationships.

Using either the paper or online assessment, individuals respond to a series of 32 statements that relate to four paired dimensions. The result is a personality-style profile that is abbreviated by a combination of four letters symbolizing a preference for each dimension (i.e., ISTP = Introversion/Sensing/Thinking/Perceiving).

The paper assessment takes 15 minutes to complete, and we recommend you allow at least one hour for the interpretation of results, debrief, and action planning.

You can also extend the learning into two half-day training programs - one for individuals and one for teams - using the workshop instructions and PowerPoint presentation included with the facilitator guide. Trainer certification is not required to administer or facilitate the PSI.

What are the differences between the PSI and other Jungian-based assessments? Although these instruments use the same theory to measure personality style, the PSI asks individuals to assume a different frame of reference. While other Jungian-based assessments attempt to measure how people usually behave, the PSI measures how people prefer to behave. We believe this unveils a style closer to the true nature of the individual's personality style. Also, the PSI measures the relative strengths of each dimension, which is more helpful to individuals than either/or results presented by other Jungian-based assessments.

The PSI is effective as a stand-alone learning instrument or part of a more comprehensive training program. The PSI can be used as a:

• Centerpiece of a communication or leadership development program
• Discussion starter for individual and personal counseling
• Diagnostic instrument for career planning and job selection
• Tool for mapping a team profile and improving group dynamics

By the end of the workshop, participants will:

• Identify an individual's dominant personality style
• Learn about the 16 different personality styles
• Discover the characteristics, strengths, and potential blind spots of each style
• Understand how each style interacts with the others - and how to improve these relationships
• Discover what types of tasks are suited - or not suited - to each personality style
• Develop an action plan to improve performance and relationships with others

Product Type: Paper and online assessment. The Facilitator Guide is designed as a resource booklet for participants. The first half of the Facilitator Guide contains a 32-item inventory, an interpretive guide, dimension descriptions, a scoring form, charting of results, and a reference guide.

The second half of the Facilitator Guide contains exercises to help respondents understand their personal style strengths and how those strengths may best be applied (whether as an individual or in a team), and questions to help respondents deepen their analysis of their styles and plan actions for the future. The reference guide also includes more detailed information about personal style and a table showing the sixteen different personal styles.

Target Audience: The Personal Style Inventory is appropriate for all organizational members.

Dimensions: Introversion, sensing, thinking, and perceiving.

Time Required: Administration: 15 minutes. Interpretation: One hour. Workshop: Three hours.

Facilitator Guide: Order One Guide Per Trainer.

The Facilitator Guide makes preparation a snap with comprehensive background information, step-by-step half-day workshop guidelines, and a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. The guide also includes sample participant materials. Facilitator support materials will be available to you as a digital download link in your order confirmation.

Paper Assessment 5-Pack: Order One Pack for Up Five Participants.

The foundation for the workshop, the paper assessment is a comprehensive takeaway that includes critical content, worksheets, and forms used during the workshop, as well as additional tools for on-the-job use.

Online Assessment: Order One Per Participant.

The online assessment is administered to participants through the HRDQ Assessment Center and includes personalized reporting, full-color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. A detailed report is delivered electronically to the facilitator/administrator when complete.

Dr. R. Craig Hogan is founder and president of the Business Writing Center. He has more than 35 years of experience in business writing, group dynamics, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships. Dr. Hogan earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and supervision from the University of Pittsburgh. He has served as a professor at Illinois State University, University of Pittsburgh, and Allegheny County College. In addition to dozens of training materials, he is the author or co-author of several books, including Explicit Business Writing and Interpersonal and Consultant Supervision Skills: A Clinical Model.

Dr. David W. Champagne has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant in the HRD field, working with organizations to implement their organization development and training initiatives. Dr. Champagne is now an emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh and an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University and SUNY-Albany. His published books include The Intelligent Professor's Guide to Teaching, A Complete Trainers' Guide for Your Usual Needs Levels, and How to Make a Better School.