Personal Style Inventory
The Personal Style Inventory test and training workshop is an accurate, statistically reliable personality-style assessment.
About this Test
The Personal Style Inventory test and training workshop is an accurate, statistically reliable personality-style assessment. Use it for:
- 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
This test provides the answers you need to make informed decisions.
Want more information about this test? Get it now. Please REQUEST MORE INFO and we’ll reply promptly.
Not the perfect fit? No problem. We have many similar tests to choose from. See alternatives in the PERSONALITY category section of our site.
Self-understanding is a necessary prerequisite for learning, growth, and getting along with others. Without it, no amount of formal training or on-the-job experience will enable people to reach their full potential – or improve their relationships with peers, coworkers, and managers. Blind to their own behavioral patterns, they will continue to trip over themselves in the same old ways. So, as a trainer, where do you begin?
A bestseller for more than 25 years, the Personal Style Inventory (PSI) test and training workshop is an accurate, statistically reliable personality-style assessment.
How It Works
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.
Uses and Applications
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
Learning Outcomes
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 Details
- 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.
- Measures: An individual’s dominant personality style.
- Dimensions: Introversion, sensing, thinking, and perceiving.
- Time Required: Administration: 15 minutes. Interpretation: One hour. Workshop: Three hours.
What to Order
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 includes personalized reporting, full-color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. A detailed report is delivered electronically to the facilitator/administrator when complete.
Additional information
| Administration Time | |
|---|---|
| Appropriate For | |
| Comprehensiveness/Depth | |
| Format | |
| Language | |
| Legal in Canada? | |
| Scoring Options |
The Personal Style Inventory test and training workshop is an accurate, statistically reliable personality-style assessment.
Not sure which test fits your needs?
We can help you to make the right choice.