Evoke Development

Our personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from our early childhood years to after we're over the hill, according to a new study.

When the Center for Creative Leadership's flagship Leadership Development Program (LDP)® rolled out in June in its revised format, it included a new broad-based personality assessment — the WorkPlace Big Five Profile 4.0™. This assessment, published by CentACS (Center for Applied Cognitive Studies) of Charlotte, NC, relates to people's personalities in their everyday jobs. Instead of using clinical or psychological terms like many current personality assessments, the WorkPlace Big Five uses work terms and work-related examples in its questions and reports.

Isabel Myers and her daughter took Jung’s theories about perception and judgment and applied them to individual behavioral patterns. Since everyone perceives things differently, it is reasonable to assume that each person will react differently to different interests, values, motivations, and skills.

The Personal Profile System® was first developed in 1972 based on William Moulton Marston’s two-axis, four-dimensional model that divides behavior into four distinct dimensions.

The NEO inventories were developed by Dr. Paul Costa, Jr., and Dr. Robert McCrae to measure five broad dimensions of personality.

The 16 P-F is an objective personality test developed by Dr. Raymond Cattell. Using factor analysis, Cattell categorized 170 adjectives that described human behavior into sixteen dimensions or factors. These 16 source traits were then used to form his personality questionnaire.

In a world full of choices, making the right career decision can be difficult. The career decision-making videotape, A Tour of Your Tomorrow (1993), by Rich Feller and Joe Vasos, allows individuals of all ages to see and understand many of the career choices available to them. The two-part videotape series divides the working world into six Holland type-of-interest categories.  Segments on each category encourage individuals to use their strengths and diversity to find careers in which success and happiness rely on continuous improvement through lifelong learning and job satisfaction.