 What’s My Style is a personality style assessment for management development training. Individuals identify personality style, improve their people skills, learn how personality drives behavior and improve interpersonal interactions. What makes people act the way they do? There’s much debate about what drives human behavior. But one thing is certain – research proves that personality plays a major role in how we act when given complete freedom to do so. Understanding personality style is important because it plays a role in all facets of organizational life, from leadership and teams to communication, selling, and time management. What’s My Style is a quick and accurate training tool for identifying personality styles, and it can be used by all individuals, including employees and managers. Based on the well-known personality theories of Marston and Jung, What’s My Style measures an individual’s preference for one or more four basic behavioral styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate and Systematic. With this knowledge, individuals can better understand their behavior, the behavior of others, improve people skills, and effectively manage interpersonal relationships. Learning Outcomes Pinpoint one of four style preferences
Discover how style affects behavior
Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each style
Learn how to interact with different styles Theory and Development The power behind What’s My Style and the HRDQ Style Series products lies in the simple but effective model for understanding human behavior. Based on the proven personality theories of Marston and Jung, the model identifies two basic dimensions of personal style: Assertiveness and Expressiveness. Assertiveness is the effort a person makes to influence or control the thoughts or actions of others. Expressiveness is the effort that a person makes to control his or her emotions and feelings when relating to others. Combining the two dimensions results in a four-quadrant model with four unique personal styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic. The simplicity of the HRDQ Style Model is easy for trainers to facilitate and memorable for employees and managers to apply. Uses for the Assessment What’s My 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 training program. It makes an effective foundation component for a variety of soft skills training topics, including communication, leadership, team building, and supervisory skills. If you are familiar with the DISC-based assessments, you will find that What’s My Style is a practical and easy-to-use alternative.
How It Works
What’s My Style starts with an 18-item self assessment that takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Individuals assign a total of 5 points between pairs of adjectives, dividing the points according to how much they believe each adjective describes their behavior. Scoring the assessment reveals a “My Style Profile” and a dominant preference for one or more four personal styles: Direct, Spirited, Considerate, and Systematic. If you are planning to use What’s My Style in a classroom training session, we recommend you allow approximately 1 hour for interpretation of scores, topic discussion, debrief, and action planning. The What’s My 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. The Facilitator Guide also offers an easy-to-follow workshop outline that expands What’s My Style into a 2-hour program.
What to Order
What's My Style is available in both Online and Print Versions. The Online Version is an excellent choice for enterprise-wide training or audiences that are geographically dispersed. It offers 24/7 access, streamlined distribution, and instant scoring. Each Online Assessment includes personalized reporting, full-color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. The Print Version is ideal for facilitators who prefer to oversee scoring and administration of the assessment, if you don’t know who the participants will be before the class begins, or if your learners do not have easy access to computers. It includes pressure-sensitive forms for scoring to aid manual tabulation. The accompanying Participant Guide includes interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. Initial Rollout
You will need to order a Facilitator Guide per trainer and either 1 Print Participant Guide or 1 Online Assessment for each individual learner. Additional Participant Guides or Online Assessment credits may be purchased separately. Quantity discounts begin at 50 units per order. If you are new to this product we highly recommend HRDQ QuickStart Training, whether you are a novice trainer or a seasoned facilitator. It’s an excellent way to quickly get up to speed on the product so you can step into your first training class with confidence. Personalized, one-on-one telephone coaching is provided at your convenience. Our subject matter experts will review the program with you, offer ideas for tailoring the program to your specific needs, discuss typical participant questions and reactions, and more.
Ongoing Training
Each time you administer the assessment you will need to order a new Print or Online Assessment for each individual. Quantity discounts begin at 50 units per order. Additional Facilitator Guides are also available for individual purchase if you have additional trainers or require a new copy.
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Type
Assessment
Time Required Scoring: 10 minutes Author
Eileen M. Russo, PhD
Contributor:
Stephanie McBrier Hannett, PhD
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