You think you know yourself? Think again – Free Personality Test!
Here’s a chance to find out about your own personality for free! Below are links to two personality tests that measure the 16 Personality Factors. I’ve tried the two – both are free-of-charge, and risk-free.
Personality tests enable managers to reflect on their own leadership style from a self-awareness perspective. Typically through an online assessment, these tests identify what you do well, as well as identifying blind spots. As a result, they’re practical tools for personal growth in the workplace, offering us a structured way to adapt your approach towards improving your relationships and performance over time.
Personality tests have been around for more than one hundred years – since 1921 in fact, with Rorschach’s Inkblot Test and Carl Jung’s book ‘Psychological Types’.
Personality tests can also help you to understand different attributes within your team. By identifying common traits within the team, managers can tailor their communication more easily. They can also highlight a diversity across both thinking and working styles, allowing managers to assign roles that may align more readily with a certain team member’s natural strengths. This identification allows managers to start motivating different individuals in different ways, resolving conflicts earlier and fostering greater collaboration. And team cohesion typically leads to increased job satisfaction and productivity.
Edmonds Facilitation uses two such personality tests (ie. an assessment tool and team debrief workshop) to help teams understand their collective strengths and behaviours:
- Team Building Workshop (using Extended DISC®), or
- Emotional Intelligence Workshop (Genos Assessments).
To chat about your team’s personalities, please email me on damien @ edmondsfacilitation.com.au or call me on 0447 147 788 today.
Here are the two free personality tests:
- Free online measure of Cattell’s 16 Personality Factors
Created by British psychologist Raymond Cattell, he then went on to create promote the 16PF Questionnaire. Cattell used a statistical procedure known as factor analysis.
- Free personality Test with 16 Personalities
I’ve been told the 16 personalities framework is the business world’s version of a horoscope! I’m ENTJ – how about you?!
Informed consent: These tests should be taken for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for any type of professional service, medical or otherwise.
For even more conversations, here are some further personality traits to look for in the workplace!:
- Are you typically:
- Task focused or People focused?
- Formal or Informal?
- Thinking or Feeling?
- Dominant or Go with the Flow?
- Finally, check out the Big 5 Personality Traits
- Openness to experience encapsulates our level of curiosity, creativity, and openness to novel experiences (high and low scorers).
- Conscientiousness is the ‘planner’ trait. How organised, dependable and goal-orientated we are (high and low scorers).
- Extraversion – Extraverts get energy from others, and Intraverts get energy from themselves.
- Agreeableness – If you find yourself sympathising, cooperating easily and avoiding conflicts, then you’re high on this trait. Those who are more competitive and challenging score lower.
- Neuroticism – A high score might indicate a tendency to experience negative emotions more frequently. On the lower end of the scale, people tend to be more emotional stable and resilient.
- Do you get energy from:
- Yourself? Introverts typically make up 40% of workplace
- Others? Extroverts typically also make up 40% of workplace). Australia has 2% more extraverts than intraverts (according to the 16 Personalities image below).
- Both yourself and others equally? Ambiverts – 20% of workplace).
Have fun having personalities discussions!
