Assessments yield information that helps us evaluate teams and workgroups, while inventories yield neutral, insightful information about an individual.

Assessments In order to make sure we’re heading in the right direction, I use a variety of methods to learn about current conditions in your team, group or organization.

Surveys
We’ll co-design a survey for your specific situation or use products from other vendors. This works well for teams and workgroups.

1:1 Interviews When the situation warrants, we’ll design interview questions and I’ll conduct interviews.

Observation and Feedback This is another winner for workgroups and teams. The information is immediate and unfiltered and we evaluate it together, on-the-spot.

Inventories

Inventories provide a non-judgmental language for describing ourselves and others. Out of that language new conversations can emerge in even the most stuck situations. Here are my favorites:

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)®
The MBTI was developed by a mother-daughter pair to help servicemen returning from WWII find a career that fit them. Based on C.G Jung’s personality theory, the MBTI calls our innate preferences valid, and our personalities healthy. From these two sources of generosity, we have a personality inventory that has breadth and depth for a lifetime of support.

VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire
Martin Seligman, Ph.D., is considered the father of positive psychology, which focuses on what is right with us and what makes us happy. This is the inventory his organization uses as a basis for research. Teams love seeing each other’s results. It’s free and easily accessible from his website: http;//www.authentichappiness.org

Strengths-finder and Strengths-finder 2.0
You’ve got to buy the book to get a code that allows you to take this online inventory, but it’s well worth it. Your results will echo the VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire, but in language that is more