LEADERSHIP & PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS
Leadership starts with self and the foundation of leadership is self-awareness. We use a number of leadership assessment tools to help our clients understand themselves more and also to understand their teams. We are licenced to administer and train on the following tools:
DISC
Behavioral research suggests that the most effective people are those who understand themselves in terms of both their strength and weaknesses, so they can develop strategies to meet the demands of their environment. Our model, DISC Personality-Profiling depicts four personality styles based on people’s strengths and weaknesses and their behavioral tendencies as follows:
The High “D” Style (Dominant Personality)
The Powerful personality: (Choleric) -Goal-oriented, born leader, confident…..but can be bossy and insensitive.
The High “I” Style (Influential Personality)
The Popular personality: (Sanguine): Fun, outgoing, optimistic…but can be disorganized and too chatty.
The High “S” Style – (Supportive Personality)
The Peaceful personality: (Phlegmatic) -Pleasant, easy going, adoptable…. but can be sensitive and unmotivated.
The High “C” Style – (Cautious Personality)
The Perfect personality: (Melancholy) – Deep, thoughtful, organized…but can be negative and often depressed.
The four personalities are like a pie and are interrelated in fascinating ways, combining in multiple patterns; so that no one’s unique personality is totally defined or influenced by only one set of characteristics. The tools not only work on behavioral disciples but also on the aspect of motivation. This tool have three key objectives:
Leaders sometimes have a challenge leading because they prefer people to think and do things the way they do, hence denying their teams the opportunity to benefit from each other’s uniqueness.
INTEGRATIVE ENNEAGRAM
It is a program designed to develop communication as a life skill on people. The whole purpose of this learning experience is to raise awareness. Sustainable performance improvement can only come from increased awareness.
The Integrative Enneagram creates self-awareness and uncovers the patterns of behaviour that sub-consciously drive and motivate us to act in certain ways. When we make these patterns and motivations conscious, we are able to transcend them and develop richer, more supportive ways of being. Working with the Enneagram empowers individuals to take responsibility for their own behaviours and growth, from a greater understanding of why they act and react the way they do.
As a framework, the Enneagram also speaks to the journey of integration and development in a profound way. It is able to uncover the uniqueness of each individual and his/her journey. It does not only reveal what holds an individual back, but also offers insights into the journey towards strength and liberation, connecting us to our strengths and higher selves.
The Enneagram is, therefore, a sense-making tool or a framework that enables the development of self-knowledge and meta-awareness.
The Integrative Enneagram approach gives people an understanding of the subconscious motivations, beliefs, defences and fixed behaviour patterns that lead us to get stuck or frustrated. The report highlights powerful insights about your personality type, shining an illuminating light on both your potential and your challenges
The Integrative Enneagram gives you insight and ways to develop in a range of areas:
By going deeper into these factors, this tool supports you in growing your self-awareness and helps you accelerate growth, enrich your personal relationships and grow into your best self.
FIVE LENSES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
The Five Lens of Human Development is a set of products, processes and methodologies designed to maximize human performance. This dynamic and multidimensional “five lens” approach to measuring and reporting on behavior goes further than any other methodology in terms of taking into account the complexity of human behavior.
The platform draws on the 5LQ questionnaire to produce reports that have layers of depth and provide possible development directions for the delegate. Each lens provides self-insight based on a unique model of human development and the five lenses are:
i. Personal Mastery
Personal mastery is the ongoing commitment – through life-long learning - to unfolding and authentically expressing who we are. It is about understanding ourselves as individuals and about having a healthy sense of curiosity and becoming stronger and stronger at seeing reality as it truly is. A key outcome of personal mastery is improved performance and productivity in individuals, leaders and teams. The six mastery factors measured are Self-Acceptance, Directed Passion, Acceptance of Reality, Curiosity, Impact on Others and Global Connection.
ii. Emotional resilience:
Emotional resilience simply refers to one's ability to adapt to stressful situations or crises. More resilient people are able to "roll with the punches" and adapt to adversity without lasting difficulties, while less resilient people have a harder time with stress and life changes. Psychological and social research have demonstrated that emotional resilience is something that can be learned or improved upon no matter what level we are born with. Resilient people demonstrate flexibility, durability, an attitude of optimism, and openness to learning. A lack of resilience is signalled by burnout, fatigue, malaise, depression, defensiveness and cynicism.
iii. Social Drives
The Social Drives point to where an individual focuses his or her attention. These determine “what matters most” to an individual and point to what in life individuals will strive to obtain. Derived from the Enneagram and deepened by the work of Abraham Maslow and Richard Barrett this values based measure has three levels. Level one measures the basic fearful conditions that each person faces during their development – survival, affiliation, recognition for achievement – which, if not resolved, may persist as modifiers of their behavior into adulthood. Level two is defined as the level beyond fear, when a person moves from self-interest, through the transformation phase and into stage three which is about liberation. Liberated individual leaders and teams are less ego-driven and therefore a lot more productive.
iv. Energy Centers
The ways of processing what we experience and affect our sense making and decision making. This lens recognizes the growing body of scientific data that defines three centers of human intelligence: the head (intellectual), heart (emotional) and gut (instinctual). Each center represents a specific modality of processing information and making decisions. Achieving a balance between these centers – in individuals and in teams – can lead to significant improvement in interpersonal relationships that in turn drive performance.
v. Enneagram
The Enneagram refers to the nine different Enneagram styles, each of which represents a worldview and archetype that resonates with the way people think, feel and act in relation to the world, others and themselves. The Enneagram creates self-awareness and uncovers the patterns of behaviour that sub-consciously drive and motivate you to act in certain ways. When you make these patterns and motivations conscious, you are able to transcend them and develop richer, more supportive ways of being. Working with the Enneagram empowers individuals to take responsibility for their own behaviours and growth, from a greater understanding of why they act and react the way they do.
As a framework, the Enneagram also speaks to the journey of integration and development in a profound way. It is able to uncover the uniqueness of each individual and his/her journey. It does not only reveal what holds an individual back, but also offers insights into the journey towards strength and liberation, connecting us to our strengths and higher selves.
The Enneagram therefore is much more than a personality profile that offers insight into core personality traits, as it delves deeper into the core motivations, defense
