Personality Styles

Your personality style is your guiding force over the way you think, feel, and behave. Knowing your personality style—and how to put that knowledge to use—will result in a more effective life, both at work and at home. HRDQ offers a selection of personality training development materials that deliver simple, effective ways to introduce the concept of personality style. These materials are useful as an insightful starting point for any training curriculum and do not require you to obtain special certifications. From powerful assessment tools to soft skills training products, these resources are accurate, reliable, easy-to-facilitate, and affordable.

The HRDQ Style Suite

The HRDQ Style Suite is our best-selling collection of easy-to-use personality work style assessment and training tools that shed light on key aspects of organizational life, from communication and leadership to team building, sales, time management, coaching, and more.

Personality Style at Work

Personality Style at Work (PSAW) is HRDQ's most statistically accurate assessment. It's a simple, highly effective tool that measures both the core behaviors that make up an individual's style and the lens through which they navigate their world.

Personal Style Inventory

The Personal Style Inventory (PSI) is an accurate, statistically reliable personality-style assessment. Based on Carl Jung's well-known personality theory, the PSI identifies deep-seated style preferences along four paired dimensions.

What's My Style

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.

The Four Personality Styles

There are four personality styles that everyone encompasses to some degree. Knowing what they mean allows you to use your own style to better communicate with others. They include:

• Direct. Someone who is upfront and realistic
• Considerate. Someone who is thoughtful and compassionate
• Spirited. Someone who is energetic and enthusiastic
• Systematic. Someone who is organized and logical

These four styles guide our actions, decisions, and general life approach. Expressiveness and assertiveness are other personality traits to consider. These are learned behaviors that we use as a means of coping with the demands and expectations placed upon us. These explain how we can appear to have one personality at work, while having another in our personal life.

The Benefits of Knowing your Personality Style

There are four main things that your unique personality reveals, and many benefits that come along with that knowledge:

• Your self-awareness. The more you know about yourself, the more you’re able to determine what you really need in your life. Knowing your personality style helps you become more self-aware.
• Where you get your energy from. When life throws you a curveball, you need to engage your problem-solving skills. An introvert needs downtime in order to recharge, while an extravert needs people time in order to gain their energy.
• Strengths and weaknesses. Reveal aspects of your personality by highlighting your creativity, personality traits, and how you resolve conflict. The more insight you have, the easier it is to determine your strengths and weaknesses.
• Inform your career. Personality tests reveal aspects of your personality that are relevant to your work environment. Knowing your style can help you figure out your work goals and career path.

Utilize HRDQ’s personality style training materials to truly see these benefits in action!