Styles & Assessments

The Discovering Styles Thumball takes players through an activity that explores their work and management styles. It's a creative way to get to know each other a bit better. Thumballs look like soccer balls but are soft and safe for indoor use at work, school, and home. Catch the ball, look under your thumb, and share your reaction to the prompt.

ADAPTABLE FOR YOUR FAVORITE STYLE ASSESSMENT

With so many personality-type tools out there (DiSC, DISC, Meyers Briggs, Real Colors, True Colors, What’s your Style, etc.), this tool focuses on personality characteristics in general. It can be used with any of these common frameworks, to deepen learning while having some fun. Help players understand different styles, grow familiar with new terminology, practice categorizing qualities and characteristics as personality types, and consider how to draw out the benefits of each.

In fact, the ball was made silver and white so that it can align with ANY COLOR-TYPE FRAMEWORK!

EXPLORE A RANGE OF QUALITIES

You'll find personality qualities that correlate with a variety of "types"

• DECISIVE, COMPETITIVE, PERSISTENT, ASSERTIVE, GOAL-ORIENTED, EXTRAVERTED
• CHARISMATIC, OPTIMISTIC, PURSUASIVE, AFFABLE, INVENTIVE, TALKATIVE
• RELIABLE, STEADY, EMPATHETIC, COOPERATIVE, FRIENDLY, INTROVERTED
• DATA-DRIVEN, ANALYTICAL, FUTURISTIC, ORGANIZED, OBJECTIVE, THOROUGH
• CREATIVE, RESILIENT, SWIFT, VISIONARY, JUGGLER

FACILITATION SUGGESTIONS

Download a slide deck from our recent Show and Share event for more facilitation notes

Set up the experience by explaining that “similarity bias” is an unconscious bias that causes us to show preference for people who are like us. However, teams with a broad spectrum of perspectives and characteristics have been shown to outperform more homogeneous groups. By using the Profiles and Styles Thumball, you hope to expand the group’s understanding of different personality characteristics and types. Together you’ll explore how individuals with different qualities can intersect, balance each other, and improve team performance.

GAME 1: FOCUS ON ONE SINGLE QUESTION

Choose one question for players to answer when they catch the ball and look at the quality under their thumb. For instance, you might have them answer:

• How could you use this quality in a positive way?
• How can you support or encourage this quality?
• How can you best work with someone with this quality?
• Why is this quality important to our organization?
• Which of our personality type(s)/styles encompasses this quality?
• In what situations might this quality/characteristic be most effective?
• What happens if this quality is exaggerated…
• How might someone with this quality manage conflict?

GAME 2: ROUND ROBIN

In each round of play, answer a different question regarding the qualities on the Thumball. i.e.

• Round 1: “Catch the ball, look under your thumb, read the prompt aloud and answer: How could this quality be used in a positive way?”
• Round 2: “Catch the ball, look under your thumb, read the prompt aloud and answer: What happens if this quality is exaggerated…”

GAME 3: TEAM PLAY

Line up 2 teams opposite each other. The receiving team will catch the ball, read the QUALITY (the word in all caps) and quiz the other team on any one of these:

• A description or example of what that quality might look like at work.
• With which style “type(s)” might the quality be associated (i.e. “dominant”; “intuitive”; “spirited,” etc.) NOTE: the “type” should correspond with the specific assessment tool the facilitator has introduced.
• A colleague/teammate or famous person who is strong in this style

GAME 4: STYLE PAIRS

Look under both thumbs and consider how those two qualities might interact. Answer:

1. How might those characteristics balance or complement each other?
2. What challenges might arise when these two qualities merge?

FACILITATOR SUGGESTIONS

Our customer, CPTD-certified Kimberly Robinson, shared these facilitation notes:

For the first activity, I gave these instructions: 

• • Person #1 (Person holding the ball): Looks at where their thumb is placed. Shares the quality and description on the ball.
  • Person #2 (to the right): Gives an example of what that quality might look like at work.
  • Person #3 (next person): Identifies with which style type this quality might be associated (Drive, Influence, Support, Clarity).
  • Person #4 (final person): Identifies a colleague/teammate (or famous person) who is strong in this style.
  • Bonus: If someone else is strong in this style, speak up, so others know about another one of your gifts!

For the Style Pairs activity, after each person caught the ball and shared the qualities, the answered both questions: 

• • How might those characteristics balance or complement each other?
  • What challenges might arise when these two qualities merge?

©Trainers Warehouse – Trainers Warehouse holds the copyright for this set of questions. Reproductions cannot be made without express approval.

This ball is part of our exclusive Silver Series Thumballs.

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A personality assessment tool to get people talking AND hearing!

Uncover preferred styles of verbal and non-verbal communication with the fast and fun personality assessment tool.

Using a 24-item inventory, participants will:

• Discover their preference for one of 4 communication styles
• Recognize the various facets of communication
• Learn how to use their own style to enhance communication

The popular HRDQ Style Series™ is based on the well-known research and personality theories of psychologists Jung, Marston, and others, focusing on the dimensions of assertiveness and expressiveness.

The tool is easy to administer and score.

Learning Outcomes:

• Pinpoint personal communication style
• Understand the various forms of communication
• Recognize the strengths and trouble spots of each style
• Identify the communication styles of others
• Learn how to flex personal style to improve communication

What's My Communication Style? is ideal as a stand-alone training tool or as component in training programs for a variety of topics, including:

• Communication
• Customer Service
• Performance Management
• Negotiating and Selling
• Conflict Strategies
• Influencing Skills
• Listening Skills
• Assertiveness Training
• Management Development
• Leadership Skills
• Coaching Skills
• Diversity
• Team Building

The Print Assessment contains instructions for completing the assessment, the 24 statements participants will evaluate, a scoring form, instructions for calculating and charting scores, and general interpretative information. The Print Assessment is typically administered during the workshop; however, it can also be administered in advance as pre-work.

Order 1 Facilitator Guide (#RBWCSF) per instructor, 1 Workbook (#RBWCSW), and 1 Que Card (#RBWCSQ) for each student.

A personality assessment tool to get people talking AND hearing!

Uncover preferred styles of verbal and non-verbal communication with the fast and fun personality assessment tool.

Using a 24-item inventory, participants will:

• Discover their preference for one of 4 communication styles
• Recognize the various facets of communication
• Learn how to use their own style to enhance communication

The popular HRDQ Style Series™ is based on the well-known research and personality theories of psychologists Jung,Marston,and others, focusing on the dimensions of assertiveness and expressiveness. The tool is easy to administer and score.

PURCHASE PARTICIPANT WORKBOOKS

Learning Outcomes:

• Pinpoint personal communication style
• Understand the various forms of communication
• Recognize the strengths and trouble spots of each style
• Identify the communication styles of others
• Learn how to flex personal style to improve communication

What's My Communication Style? is ideal as a stand-alone training tool or as component in training programs for a variety of topics, including:

• Communication
• Customer Service
• Performance Management
• Negotiating and Selling
• Conflict Strategies
• Influencing Skills
• Listening Skills
• Assertiveness Training
• Management Development
• Leadership Skills
• Coaching Skills
• Diversity
• Team Building

The Facilitator Guide provides you with the tools you will need to lead a successful learning and development experience using the What’s My Communication Style assessment. It is organized into two parts. Part 1 provides information you'll need to familiarize yourself with the product. Part 2 contains detailed instructions for administering the assessment and leading the workshop. We have also provided sample copies of the Print Assessment and Workbook pages for your convenience.

The Facilitator Guide comes with 1 Style Model Wall Poster, 1 HRDQue Card and digital Facilitator Support Materials which are delivered straight to your inbox upon order completion. This includes a PowerPoint Presentation, Learning Overview, Theory Background, FAQ, Certificate of Achievement, Program Evaluation, and a sample copy of the Online Assessment Report.

Order 1 Facilitator Guide per instructor, and 1 Workbook (#RBWCSW) for each participant. In addition, 1 Assessment (#RBWCSG) for each participant and 1 Que Card (#RBWCSQ) for each particpant. If preferrable, an online assessment (#SOLASC) is available.

PURCHASE PARTICIPANT WORKBOOKS

What's My Communication Style provides employees at all levels insight into their everyday communication with others.

Communication skills are critical if your organization is going to thrive, particularly during challenging times. You can dramatically improve communication skills by building a better understanding of personal styles and their effects on others. What's My Communication Style is a proven process that identifies an individual's dominant communication style and the communication behaviors that distinguish it, then helps individuals learn to flex their style with colleagues.

Based upon the work of William M. Marston, and often referred to as DISC, the HRDQ Style Model provides a simple and powerful model that learners can apply to how they communicate, lead others, manage time, learn, coach and sell.

An excellent takeaway for participants, each 4" x 6" HRDQue Card is a quick-reference tool that features the HRDQ Style Model, summarizes each style, and lists their characteristics.

Order 1 Facilitator Guide per instructor, 1 Workbook (#RBWCSW) for each participant, and 1 Que Card (#RBWCSQ) for each particpant. In addition, 1 Assessment (#RBWCSG) for each participant or if perferable, an online assessment (#SOLASC) is available.

Includes 1 print assessment. Order one Self Assessment for each individual. Each Self Assessment includes:

CONTENTS

• Personalized, full-color report
• Results of 20-item assessment
• Understanding Leadership
• Understanding Leadership Style
• Your Leadership Profile
• Your Leadership Style Strength
• Your Leadership Style Trouble Spots
• Flexing Your Leadership Style
• Recognizing Others' Dominant Style
• Applying What You've Learned
• Comparative Data

HRDQ ASSESSMENT CENTER

Gone are the days of mailing pre-work to participants, shuffling paperwork, and tabulating scores in your head. Here is a streamlined solution that will transform the way you prepare for and deliver training with assessments, whether your audience is 20 or 20,000. The online assessment portal gives you complete control over the entire process, from distribution, to administration, scoring, and data management, all with just a few clicks of a mouse.

As a trainer, the Assessment Center enables you to distribute assessments simultaneously to a global audience, manage and track participant progress and completion, access scores immediately and control the release of results, provide full color results to your audience, and print interpretive reports on demand. Participants have 24/7 access to a secure personal account, the ability to complete assessments from any location, at any time, automatic scoring and instant results.

What's My Leadership Style?, by Mary Blitzer Field, is a management development and leadership style assessment that identifies leadership style and helps organizational leaders, managers, and supervisors improve performance and become effective leaders.

Part of the best-selling HRDQ Style Series, What's My Leadership Style is a validated assessment that quickly and accurately identifies a preference for one of four behavioral patterns based on measures of assertiveness and expressiveness: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, or Systematic.

With increased awareness of their personal style and a practical mental framework to build upon, aspiring leaders can assess and adjust their own actions, interpret the behavior of others, and improve their ability to win hearts and minds in any situation calling for effective leadership.

What's My Leadership Style? starts with a leadership style assessment in which individuals are given 20 pairs of actions relating to leadership behavior. With a limit of 5 points, assessment-takers distribute points between the two actions in each pair - indicating the degree to which they prefer either action when acting as a leader. The result of scoring the assessment is the identification of one's preferred leadership style: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, or Systematic. Completing the assessment requires approximately 10 minutes.

TIMING: After the assessment has been scored, we recommend you allow approximately 1 hour for interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debrief, and action planning. The Facilitator Guide also offers an easy-to-follow workshop outline that expands What's My Leadership Style into a 2-hour program.

INCLUDES:

• Facilitator guide
• Sample assessment materials

Gain Awareness of Personal Strengths

Based on theories of psychologist William Marston, the HRD Press DISCStyles assessment helps organizations understand how behaviors impact the success of their employees--and their bottom line -- and improve communication and conflict resolution skills.

PRODUCT BENEFITS

• Gain awareness of personal strengths and motivations
• Uncover career development opportunities
• Improve methods for interpersonal communication
• Enhance conflict resolution ability
• Create 360-degree feedback for your leaders
• Build and strengthen teams
• Improve professional relationships internally and externally

SAMPLE TOPICS

• Your Behavioral Style Tendencies, Strengths, and Struggles
• Your Management Strategies and What Motivates You
• Your Communication Preferences
• About the Four Basic DISC styles
• How to Identify Another Person's Style
• How to Use Adaptability for Greater Success

Each assessment includes a score sheet. The scoring can be completed by the test-taker or by a facilitator or HR representative. The booklet describes all the potential style combinations that correlate with the the scores.
Once the assessment has been completed, the test-taker has access to information about their particular profile characteristics in many environments -- at work, socially, under stress, etc. -- and review strategies for increasing personal effectiveness.

The package include 5 paper assessments/scoring bookets.

Help teams learn how to surface, diagnose, and work through the issues that impede effective teamwork.

For more than 15 years, the Team Effectiveness Profile (TEP) has helped teams eliminate or reduce blockages in the 5 vital areas of team activity:

1. Mission, Vision, and Goals
2. Team Roles
3. Operating Processes
4. Interpersonal Relationships
5. Interteam Relationships

Learning Outcomes

• Identify issues that block effectiveness
• Reduce or eliminate problems that can drain a group's energy
• Maximize the group's productive efforts

Theory

The Team Effectiveness Profile focuses on the 5 Categories of Team Effectiveness. The first 4 of these categories are based on those presented by Richard Beckhard in Organization Development: Strategies and Models (1969). Interteam relationship theory is the basis for the fifth category.

How It Works

The TEP has been designed to function as a self-administered learning instrument. The TEP yields an overall Team Effectiveness Score as well as separate scores for each of the 5 areas indicating the general health of the group and blockages that hinder team effectiveness.

Uses for the TEP

Appropriate for any type of team and all levels of team members and leaders, the TEP can be used as a stand-alone instrument or as a component in a larger team-building program. The TEP can be used to:

• Measure pre-team building conditions
• Orient new teams to potential problems
• Unblock struggling teams
• Determine post- team-building results

We recommend administering the TEP periodically, as issues will change over a period a time.

What to Order/Product Contents

Order one Facilitator Set (#RBWTEF) per trainer and one Participant Guide (product code #RBWTEP, sold separately) per participant.

Facilitator Guide includes:

• Administrative guidelines
• Team development theory
• Experiential learning methodology
• Normative and reliability data
• Sample copy of the Participant Guide
• 2-hour workshop
• 6 optional activities
• 2 alternative training designs
• Overhead transparency masters
• Reproducible participant handouts
• Reproducible article Building a Winning Team
• CD-ROM containing all reproducible materials, certificate of achievement, training evaluation, PowerPoint presentation
• Convenient binder format

Participant Guide includes:

• 50-item profile
• Pressure-sensitive scoring form
• Interpretive information
• Descriptions of the 5 team effectiveness areas
• Discussion guide
• Action planning

The TEP is a HRDQ publication produced by Christine Glaser, Rollin Glaser, and the HRDQ Development Team.

The Conflict Strategies Inventory improves an individual's ability to successfully handle workplace conflict. Based on more than 35 years of research, this training tool explores five different strategies: Integrating, Compromising, Competing, Smoothing, and Avoiding. Most importantly, the Conflict Strategies Inventory accurately identifies one's typical reaction to conflict, examines the potential outcomes associated with each strategy, encourages the use of more effective tactics, and provides skill practice in resolving day-to-day issues.

Participant Self Assessment accompanies the Conflict Strategies Inventory Facilitator Guide (#RBCSIF) by HRDQ.

NOTE: Order 1 per participant.

The Conflict Strategies Inventory is based upon the well-known Blake and Mouton Styles Grid as well as the works of many other respected researchers in the field of conflict management. Packed with extensive interpretive information, hands-on activities, skill development, and action planning, this is a great way to equip individuals with the knowledge and insight they need to address conflict in any situation.

Use the self-assessment to

• Pinpoint one's preferred strategy for managing conflict
• Discover the five different ways people respond to conflict
• Understand how and when to utilize the Integrating strategy
• Learn and practice when to use alternative strategies
• Create a development plan to put the learning into action

The self-assessment takes approximately 25 minutes to complete, and it is recommended to allow up to an hour for the interpretation of results, debrief, and action planning. Participants are presented with ten common workplace situations, individuals identify a preference for one of five basic conflict strategies: Integrating, Avoiding, Smoothing, Competing, and Compromising. Scores reveal a personal Conflict Strategies Profile.

Companion to What's My Coaching Style? Facilitator Set (#RBWCHF)

What's My Coaching Style? is coaching assessment for management development that measures personality style and explores how it relates to coaching and interpersonal relationships. Coaches and managers identify and understand personality traits, learn how to capitalize on personal strengths, and minimize potential weaknesses.

Includes 1 print Self-Assessment. TRAINERS: order one Self Assessment for each individual.

Self Assessment Table of Contents:

• 18-item assessment with pressure-sensitive response form
• Scoring and Understanding Your Coaching Style
• What is Coaching
• What is Style
• Coaching + Style = Coaching Style
• Why is It Important That I Know My Coaching Style
• Scoring What's My Coaching Style?
• Interpreting Your Scores
• Is There a Best Coaching Style?
• Too Much of a Good Thing?
• Action Planning
• References

Understanding personal style is the first step to developing successful coaching relationships. By responding to the 18-item What's My Coaching Style? inventory and receiving feedback from coachees, participants identify their personal style and build an understanding of the people they coach.

What's My Coaching Style? is coaching assessment for management development that measures personality style and explores how it relates to coaching and interpersonal relationships. Coaches and managers identify and understand personality traits, learn how to capitalize on personal strengths, and minimize potential weaknesses.

Accurate, easy to use, and apply, the coaching assessment measures an individual's preference for one or more basic behavioral styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic. With this knowledge, individuals can better understand why they behave the way they do, learn how to adapt their behavior to improve interpersonal relationships, develop rapport, and ultimately, become more effective coaches.

The What's My Coaching Style? Assessment starts with an 18-item inventory that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Each of the 18 items is a pair of statements. With a limit of 5 points, assessment-takers distribute points between the two statements in each pair - indicating the degree to which they feel the work describes their behavior. Scoring the assessment reveals a "My Coaching Style Profile" and a dominant preference for one or more four personal styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic.

Understanding personal style is the first step to developing successful coaching relationships. By responding to the 18-item What's My Coaching Style? inventory and receiving feedback from coachees, participants identify their personal style and build an understanding of the people they coach.

What's My Coaching Style? is coaching assessment for management development that measures personality style and explores how it relates to coaching and interpersonal relationships. Coaches and managers identify and understand personality traits, learn how to capitalize on personal strengths, and minimize potential weaknesses.

Accurate, easy to use, and apply, the coaching assessment measures an individual's preference for one or more basic behavioral styles:

• Direct
• Spirited
• Considerate
• Systematic

With this knowledge, individuals can better understand why they behave the way they do, learn how to adapt their behavior to improve interpersonal relationships, develop rapport, and ultimately, become more effective coaches.

The What's My Coaching Style? assessment starts with an 18-item inventory that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Each of the 18 items is a pair of statements. With a limit of 5 points, assessment-takers distribute points between the two statements in each pair - indicating the degree to which they feel the work describes their behavior. Scoring the assessment reveals a "My Coaching Style Profile" and a dominant preference for one or more four personal styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic.

In addition to the self-assessment, the What's My Coaching Style Feedback Form allows individuals to gauge how they are perceived by those they coach. It is particularly useful in the early stages of a coaching relationship.

If you are planning to use What's My Coaching Style in a business coach training session, we recommend you allow approximately 1 hour for interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debrief, and action planning.

The Facilitator Guide also offers an easy-to-follow workshop outline that expands What's My Coaching Style into a 1.5-hour program.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Identify personal preference for one of four behavioral styles
• Develop an awareness of personal behavior patterns
• Learn how one is viewed by those he or she coaches
• Create an action plan to immediately apply in the workplace

AUDIENCE

What's My Coaching Style is appropriate for anyone to use for both personal and management development. The assessment can be used as a standalone training assessment, or it can be incorporated into a more comprehensive coaching skills training program.

The What's My Coaching Style? Facilitator Guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session from comprehensive background information and activities, to reproducible handouts and even a professional PowerPoint presentation.

Facilitator support materials will be available to you as a digital download link in your order confirmation.

Order one Facilitator Set per trainer, and 1 Print Participant Guide (#RBWCHP, purchased separately) for each individual learner. Feedback Forms (#RBWCHO) are also available separately.

Effective communication can improve just about every aspect of your life. It's an especially valuable tool in business, where 70% of small to mid-size companies claim poor communication is their main problem. That kind of breakdown has led to communication being touted as the top skill employers are looking for in potential hires today.

In order to improve your ability to communicate effectively with others, you must first identify and understand your own dominant communication style. This self-assessment takes around 10 minutes to complete, and helps tally up the various communication attributes that define your own personal style.

*** PURCHASE 1 ONLINE ASSESSMENT PER PARTICIPANT! ***

HRDQ ASSESSMENT CENTER ACCOUNT NEEDED FOR MULTIPLE PARTICIPANTS

If you'll be conducting online assessments for multiple people, you'll need to make a one-time purchase of the Online Assessment Administration Fee to create an HRDQ Assessment Center Account for ongoing tracking, administration and support. See product code #SOLASADM, and add to your shopping cart.

PRODUCT DOWNLOADS

This is a downloadable product. You will receive emailed instructions on how to download the software. It may take 1-3 days to receive this email, depending on the day of the week that the order is placed.

24 QUESTIONS

This communication styles assessment works by asking you to respond to 24 different items relating to both verbal and non-verbal communication. Throughout the assessment, you'll have to select statements that best reflect your preferred way of communicating. Each response is taken into account to provide you with an overall summary that correlates with one of four dominant communication styles:

Direct

This type of communicator gets to the point when speaking, but could probably use some work to build better listening skills. While usually employing a firm handshake, the Direct communicator also maintains a safe distance with personal space, makes bold movements, and creates the type of workspace that suggests power.

Spirited

If you move quickly, preside over a cluttered workspace, and are a good storyteller, you're likely a Spirited communicator. This type of person typically doesn't mind getting a little close with personal space and offers handshakes enthusiastically. Careful though, because Spirited people also tend not to pay too much attention to details.

Considerate

Perhaps you would rather keep opinions to yourself, are always there to lend a helpful ear, and move in a slow, but deliberate manner? In that case, you're probably a Considerate communicator. These folks are also strategic with personal space, keep many photos at their desk, and are quick to offer a measured, but gentle handshake.

Systematic

If personal contact isn't really your thing, you might be a Systematic communicator. These types of communicators seeks facts when listening and are very precise when speaking. Their movements are controlled, their desks are organized, and their handshakes tend to be short, but polite.

As part of the bestselling HRDQ Style Series, What's My Communication Style? is more than a fun quiz to decipher how your self-expression can be perceived by others (although it can definitely be that!) The communication style assessment is a stepping stone to better self-understanding, and a beneficial tool whether you're a CEO at a large organization, a college student, a member of a marketing team, or someone who's just looking to expand their soft skills for personal reasons.

The full What's My Communication Style? program also follows HDRQ's trusted Experiential Learning Model. Through the Experiential Learning Model, participants are taught via practice and activities the seven different stages of learning: Focusing, Experiencing, Reflecting, Thinking, Modifying, Applying, and Integrating. For instance, through the program's facilitator, participants are able to focus on the concept of personality style. The communication style assessment then allows participants to experience taking inventory of their individual style, reflect and think about the overall style model, and so forth. HRDQ strongly believes experiential games, simulations, and feedback instruments can be incredibly useful for learning skills pertaining to communication, leadership, teamwork, conflict resolution, and more.

The communication styles assessment is also highly adaptable and can integrate easily as a piece of a larger training program. It gives users a powerful tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses in their own communication style, while laying a strong foundation on which to build future success.

HRDQ ASSESSMENT CENTER

Gone are the days of mailing pre-work to participants, shuffling paperwork, and tabulating scores in your head. Here is a streamlined solution that will transform the way you prepare for and deliver training with assessments, whether your audience is 20 or 20,000. The online assessment portal gives you complete control over the entire process, from distribution, to administration, scoring, and data management, all with just a few clicks of a mouse.

As a trainer, the Assessment Center enables you to distribute assessments simultaneously to a global audience, manage and track participant progress and completion, access scores immediately and control the release of results, provide full color results to your audience, and print interpretive reports on demand. Participants have 24/7 access to a secure personal account, the ability to complete assessments from any location, at any time, automatic scoring and instant results.

Gone are the days of mailing pre-work to participants, shuffling paperwork, and tabulating scores in your head. Here is a streamlined solution that will transform the way you prepare for and deliver training with assessments, whether your audience is 20 or 20,000.

The HRDQ Online Assessment portal gives you complete control over the entire process, from distribution, to administration, scoring, and data management, all with just a few clicks of a mouse.

ONLINE ASSESSMENT CENTER REQUIRED!

If you'll be conducting online assessments* regularly, add on this One-Time Online Assessment Administration Fee to create an HRDQ Assessment Center Account for ongoing tracking, administration and support.

This is a ONE-TIME ADMINISTRATION FEE. After purchase of the Online Assessment Account, you will receive instructions on how to set up the account and administer the online assessments. Personality Style at Work, What's My Communication Style, and What's My Leadership Style.

DOWNLOAD PRODUCTS

This is a downloadable product. You will receive emailed instructions on how to download the software. It may take 1-3 days to receive this email, depending on the day of the week that the order is placed.

FACILITATOR FEATURES

As a trainer, the Assessment Center enables you to:

• Distribute assessments simultaneously to a global audience
• Manage and track participant progress and completion
• Access scores immediately and control the release of results
• Provide full color results to your audience
• Print interpretive reports on demand

PARTICIPANT BENEFITS

There are benefits for your audience as well, including:

• 24/7 access to a secure personal account
• The ability to complete assessments from any location, at any time
• Automatic scoring and instant results
• Personalized, full color interpretive reports

Getting started with online assessments is easy!

What's My Communication Style provides employees at all levels insight into their everyday communication with others.

Communication skills are critical if your organization is going to thrive, particularly during challenging times. You can dramatically improve communication skills by building a better understanding of personal styles and their effects on others. What's My Communication Style is a proven process that identifies an individual's dominant communication style and the communication behaviors that distinguish it, then helps individuals learn to flex their style with colleagues.

Based upon the work of William M. Marston, and often referred to as DISC, the HRDQ Style Model provides a simple and powerful model that learners can apply to how they communicate, lead others, manage time, learn, coach and sell.

The Print Workbook deepens participants' understanding of the assessment results and is used during the workshop. Organized for easy follow-along, it includes background information and theories about communication, an explanation of the HRDQ Style Model, in-depth interpretive information, individual and group activities, and a personal development plan.

Order 1 Facilitator Guide (#RBWCSF) per instructor, and 1 Workbook for each participant.

Companion to What's My Coaching Style? Facilitator Set (#RBWCHF)

Includes

1 Feedback form. We recommend purchasing 3 Feedback forms for each individual completing the What's My Coaching Style self-assessment.

Feedback Form Table of Contents

• 18-item assessment with pressure-sensitive response form
  
• Scoring What's My Coaching Style? – Feedback
• References

The Better Teams Online Coaching Assessment is like getting a personal coach for your whole team. The 35-question assessment helps you identify on your team’s critical issues so you can work together more effectively and knock your team building out of the park! Have EVERY TEAM MEMBER take the test, then see how you stack up as a group.

ONLINE TEAM ASSESSMENT FEATURES

The Better Teams model focuses on five critical areas necessary for a high-functioning team. After each person on the team completes the assessment, you'll see a profile of your whole group's strengths and weaknesses, in terms of these 5 critial facets of team succes:

• Leadership
• Alignment
• Readiness
• Happiness
• Trust

The questionnaire includes 30-multiple choice questions (6 for each of the 5 disciplines of team effectiveness) plus 5 open-ended questions. Responses are compiled into a single, anonymous team report.

INCLUDES

• 35-question Online Assessment (takes about 15 minutes to complete)
• Leaders Guide
• 20-page Assessment Report

[NOTE: repeat purchase is required for follow-up assessments or additional teams.]

COMPLETE TEAM ASSESSMENT REPORT!

The Better Teams Online Coaching Assessment provides you with an easy-to-understand, thorough, 20-page report. Use the report to quickly understand your group’s strengths and blind spots. stimulate discussions about how the team is doing and what the team wants to do to increase their productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction. At a glance, you’ll see:

• Team’s average score for each of the 5 focus areas
• Team’s average for the 3 characteristics of each focus area
• Dimensions on which the team is polarized and lacks agreement
• Range of answers on each multiple-choice question that the team answered. If a team scored low on a certain attribute, they have an opportunity to discuss
• Synthesis of answers to open-ended questions.

Energize and engage your team by empowering them interpret the results and determine what actions to take. All you need to do is follow the simple debrief guide and facilitate the discussion to help the team create strategies and actions that they own.

[NOTE: You’ll receive the report about 48 business hours, after every person on the team has completed the assessment.]

EASY-TO-USE LEADERS GUIDE

Facilitate team discussions about the results of the assessment. Simple follow the Leaders Debrief Guide to coach your team through a productive debrief meeting that results in actions. Plan for 2-4 hours.

GROUNDED IN DECADES OF EXPERIENCE

The team assessment aligns with the Better Teams Model developed by Leigh Ann Rodgers, CPF, and is based on her experience working with teams for over 20 years.

REVIEWS & TESTIMONIALS

"The team participants found the survey easy to use and the report results equally user friendly. The “5 Qualities” of a happy and high-performing team is a useful overall framework. These characteristics are like the iceberg below the water line. Companies don’t always see them or pay attention to them on a day-to-day basis. When the team adds comments on the survey for each question, it opens the door in the live review session to bring up sensitive but important conversations that team members are unlikely to bring up on their own in a live meeting. The facilitator guide is a great help in preparing for the actual review meeting with the team." ~ September Spore, Consultant, Meeting Facilitator, Change Coach

"As an LD/OD consultant I have always looked for an assessment that spoke to teams and their leaders about the impact of trust on their success. Trust is the 'wrapper' of the Better Teams Assessment model and provides real time speak without the buzzwords to help each team member leverage themselves and each other more productively. The Better Teams Model helps teams and their leaders gain real alignment on what they need from each other by encouraging conversation about what may be getting in the way of a trusting working environment." ~ Beverly Winkler, President, Inspire Leadership Now, LLC

"Helping people work effectively as a team is a core aspect of my group process facilitation business. When I searched for a team model and assessment, I found that the Better Teams Model was exactly what I wanted! It helps teams assess their work and relationships and gives me a rich way to support them." ~ Barbara Pedersen, CPF, Barbara Pedersen Facilitation Services Inc.

Analyzing and Improving Team Performance Just Got Easier-and More Affordable!

Quickly find out how your teams are performing with the Team Essentials Survey. It’s simple, affordable, and easily accessible. The assessment draws on the deep knowledge of Corporate Learning Institute’s Dr. Tim Buividas, and has been proven to be reliable and valid (see report).

FEATURES

• Snapshot views: see how your team performs in 6 success factors.
• Easy administration of assessment: Create an account and start launching your assessment right away. The Corporate Learning Institute is available to for support, as needed.
• Ready-to-Share Results: Clear, concise score are easy to read, and sharable instantly with others.
• Customizable: Customize your team assessment to include all 6 Team Essentials Success Factors, or just the few you want to focus on.
• Short Completion Time: It takes 10-25 mins to take the online assessment. Your exact time depends on the number of success factors you evaluate. Each trait has 3-6 subcategories and 4 questions.

6 FACTORS OF TEAM SUCCESS

Understand your strengths and weaknesses, AS A TEAM. Assess your team on 1 to 7 traits:

1. Support
2. Output
3. Effectiveness
4. Leadership
5. Individual Contributions
6. Infrastructure

TEAM ASSESSMENT REPORT PRESENTS ACTIONABLE RESULTS

• Color-coded, easy-to-read report: Includes a comprehensive 57-page Team Essentials Team Report. Each report is customized to the unique needs of your team.
• See where your team stands on each trait:
  • Blue – indicates your team’s overall score
  • Purple – shows norms of well-performing teams
  • Red – displays your opportunities for improvement
• Develop Unity – You’ll quickly see if there are areas where everyone ranks low or high, indicating group needs for growth or development
• Honor Diversity – understand where your team diverges in their approach or thinking. These indicate opportunities to discuss and bridge differences.
• Define Next Steps – develop an action plan to incorporate learning and continue to grow

INCLUDES ALL YOU NEED

• Facilitation Guide will help you conduct the assessment:
  • Administer test
  • Review results
  • Online tool to manage the team assessment
• Send pre- and post- emails, reminders, and results to team members
• Link to Assessments
• 57-page Team Assessment Report – after all team members have completed the assessment, youll receive a comprehensive, actionable report
• 1 hour Coaching/consulting support – call Corporate Learning Institute for 1 hour of support to help you get started or answer questions as you go.

A new, affordable, easy to DISC Professional Styles Assessment and Workbook!

Do you want to understand others better at work? If people at work could come with instruction manuals, it would be the DISC Professional Styles Assessment!

Each of us has a unique “style” or approach to achieving results at work. Dr. Susan Cain's DISC Professional Styles Assessment measures style preferences and the natural strengths and challenges that each of us brings to work every day.

FEATURES

• SPEEDY: take about 10 minutes to complete, and you receive a completed, fully downloadable report instantly.
• ACTIONABLE: Develop an Action Plan to incorporate learning and continue to grow
• CUSTOMIZABLE DASHBOARD: Create your own dashboard and launch DISC assessments yourself.
• AFFORDABLE: The DISC Professional Styles Assessment is one of the most affordable DISC assessments on the market!

DISC ASSESSMENT PERFECT FOR ORGANIZATIONS

• Personal strength assessment: understand individual strengths and opportunities for growth. Learn how your profile makes you exceptional at some tasks.
• Selection and hiring: Find out more about your candidates using DISC Professional Styles.
• Team building: Supercharge relationships at work to increase mutual understanding and support. Generate your own free team report to facilitate team growth.
• Leadership development: Develop self-awareness and upskill your leaders and managers
• Communication and conflict resolution: Help employees learn to communicate with people different from themselves and resolve conflicts that arise.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion: Improve equity and inclusion: DISC helps everyone learn the value of diverse styles and appreciate the strengths and challenges of each style.
• Culture Development: DISC opens the conversation for shifting culture toward the core values of appreciating diversity, leveraging strengths, and collaborating.

FACILITATION TOOLKIT HAS ALL YOU NEED!

• DISC Facilitation Tips
• Project Dashboard – customized dashboard helps you organize each DISC assessment you launch, synthesize results, and create customed DISC Professional Styles Team Reports.
• DISC Handout Packet
• URL for easy access to project dashboard
• 1 hour of consulting support – Utilize 1 hour of coaching from CorpLearning to help get you started!

NOTE: This is a digital product and you should receive an email from our partner Susan Cain with a link to the software within 2 business days

GAIN AWARENESS OF PERSONAL STRENGTHS

Based on theories of psychologist William Marston, the HRD Press DISCStyles assessment helps organizations understand how behaviors impact the success of their employees--and their bottom line -- and improve communication and conflict resolution skills. The HRD Press DISCStyles assessment has been crafted specifically to assist organizations in understanding how behaviors impact the success of their employees—and how it all links to the bottom line.

The DISC Styles Facilitators Guide contains all the information you need to run an effective an engaging DISC session. The opening pages of this Leader’s Guide provide you with an overview of each program option—the half-day (4 hours) and the full-day (7.5 hours) as well as preliminary information you will need. Following these pages are The DISC Presentation Outlines for both options.

Although guidelines or “scripts” for conducting activities and/or presentations are provided, you still must prepare for the session in advance! Don’t expect to just wing it and get great results. You will want to customize the script by including your own stories and examples or making key points that are particularly relevant to your participants

THE FACILITATOR GUIDE - HALF-DAY OR FULL-DAY PROGRAM

• Program overview for 4-hours and 7.5-hours event
• DISCStyles Presentation Outlines: includes page references for presentations, activity listings, and scripts
• Presentation - slides to share with participants
• Activities - description of the activity and debrief
• Scripts - what to say when introducing the session or activities within it.

NOTE: while guidelines or “scripts” are provided, facilitators are advised to prepare adequately fo the session. Customize the notes to your needs, include personal stories, and add examples that will be relevant to your participants. If you want excellent results, don’t just wing-it!

BENEFITS OF USING DISCStyles

• Gain awareness of personal strengths and motivations
• Uncover career development opportunities
• Improve methods for interpersonal communication
• Enhance conflict resolution ability
• Create 360-degree feedback for your leaders
• Build and strengthen teams
• Improve professional relationships internally and externally

SAMPLE TOPICS

• Your Behavioral Style Tendencies, Strengths, and Struggles
• Your Management Strategies and What Motivates You
• Your Communication Preferences
• About the Four Basic DISC styles
• How to Identify Another Person's Style
• How to Use Adaptability for Greater Success

ASSESSEMENTS SOLD SEPARATELY

Use the Facilitators guide and purchase either of the following from Trainers Warehouse:

• HRD DISCStyles Assessments, 5-pack paper assessment (#RBWHDSC)

Unlock your team’s potential with the Personal Style Inventory (PSI) 5-Pack of paper assessments. This bestselling assessment, grounded in Carl Jung’s personality theory, enhances self-understanding, fosters growth, and improves workplace relationships. For over 25 years, PSI has empowered employees to break free from old behavioral patterns, promoting effective communication and collaboration. Invest in self-awareness and watch your organization thrive! Transform your training and relationships today with PSI.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• 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.

HOW IT WORKS

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.

Order 1 Facilitator Guide (#RBPSIA) per instructor, and 1 Assessment for each participant (sold in packs of 5 assessments)

The paper assessment takes fifteen minutes to complete, and we recommend you allow at least one hour for the interpretation of results, debriefing, and action planning.

The What's My Team Member Style Facilitator Guide includes everything you need to lead a successful training session, from comprehensive background information and activities to detailed instructions for administering the assessment and leading the workshop.

Understanding team members' personality styles can improve interpersonal skills essential for effective collaboration. Including a feedback element gives individuals insights into how others see them. Combining this self-assessment with peer feedback can lead to enhanced relationships, rapport building, and ultimately, a more effective team player.

What's My Team Member Style also includes a feedback component that gives individuals a sense of how others view them. Combining the assessment with peer perceptions enables individuals to better understand their behavior, learn how to adapt it to improve interpersonal relationships, develop rapport, and become more effective team members.

The What's My Team Member Style assessment starts with an 18-item inventory that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Each item is a pair of statements relating to team member behavior. With a limit of five points, assessment-takers distribute points between two statements in each pair, indicating the degree to which they feel each statement describes their behavior.

The What's My Team Style Feedback form is designed to check the accuracy of a coach’s perception of their style by allowing the coach to see how their coaches perceive their style. These are sold in a pack of 5.

TEAM STYLE ASSESSMENT

Understanding team members' personality styles can improve interpersonal skills essential for effective collaboration. Including a feedback element gives individuals insights into how others see them. Combining this self-assessment with peer feedback can lead to enhanced relationships, rapport building, and ultimately, a more effective team player.

What's My Team Member Style also includes a feedback component that gives individuals a sense of how others view them. Combining the assessment with peer perceptions enables individuals to better understand their behavior, learn how to adapt it to improve interpersonal relationships, develop rapport, and become more effective team members.

The What's My Team Member Style assessment starts with an 18-item inventory that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Each item is a pair of statements relating to team member behavior. With a limit of five points, assessment-takers distribute points between two statements in each pair, indicating the degree to which they feel each statement describes their behavior.

What's your Negotiation Style?

Defeating?

Accommodating?

Collaborating?

Withdrawing?

Compromising?

Everybody negotiates. Whether people are striving to hit their monthly sales quota, campaigning for a deadline extension, or pitching ideas to a team, the same principles apply.

There's more to effective negotiating than the outcome alone. In fact, building productive relationships is equally important. Skillful negotiators know this is the key to their success - and its what sets them apart from the rest.

Based on Ury and Fishers collaborative win-win model, and heavily influenced by the highly-respected Thomas-Kilmann conflict resolution model, the offers a simple framework for determining ones negotiating style and the likely effect it has in negotiating situations.

A powerful combination of self-assessment, 180 peer feedback, and classroom training, the Negotiating Style Profile identifies a preference for one of five negotiating styles: Defeating, Accommodating, Collaborating, Withdrawing, or Compromising.

Learning Outcomes

• Learn five styles of negotiating
• Identify personal negotiating style
• Discover why a win-win approach is most effective
• Learn how ones negotiating style is perceived by others
• Develop an action plan to improve negotiating-style strengths

The Negotiating Style Profile is an excellent starting point for anyone in your organization, from front-line employees to management team members and everyone in between.

How it Works

The Negotiating Style Profile self-assessment presents individuals with 30 statements. Their task is to choose one of seven possible responses, ranging from Completely Characteristic to Completely Uncharacteristic. Scores reveal a preference for one of five negotiating styles: Defeating, Accommodating, Collaborating, Withdrawing, or Compromising.

One self-assessment is needed for each particpant. The facilitator kit provides a sample and the self-assessment can be purchased separately (#RBSNSG).

The Negotiating Style Profile also offers a 180 feedback component that enables individuals to see how they are perceived by their peers. Combining the results of the self-assessment and the feedback provides individuals with an in-depth understanding of their natural tendencies as well as a starting point for improvement. Both pieces take approximately 20 minutes to complete. One hour is recommended for the interpretation of results, debrief, and goal setting.

The Negotiating Style Profile Facilitator Set includes tools to lead a 1 -hour classroom training workshop, including comprehensive background information, step-by-step instructions, optional activities, alternative training options, a reproducible article, and a professional Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Trainer certification is not required to administer or facilitate the Negotiating Style Profile.

Uses and Applications

The Negotiating Style Profile can be used as a stand-alone learning instrument or part of a more comprehensive curriculum on topics such as negotiating, selling, communication, and conflict resolution. Its an excellent starting point to help individuals:

• Gain awareness of their current negotiating behavior.
• Prepare for an upcoming negotiation.
• Improve the planning and communication skills needed to be an effective negotiator.
• Practice negotiating with people who have different negotiating styles.
• Improve reasoning skills.

The Negotiating Style Profile is suitable for all individuals, especially supervisors, customer service representatives, managers, sales professionals, negotiators, and consultants.

3rd Edition
by Rollin Glaser, EdD and Christine Glaser, MEd