Personal Style Inventory

The recently updated Facilitator Guide features revised and updated sample participant materials, updated graphics, a colorized interior, updated thumbnails, and a new coil binding to make facilitation easier. The Facilitator Guide also includes the sections Optional Activities and Alternative Training Designs as digital downloads to create a more engaging learning experience.

Self-understanding forms the foundation of personal and professional success. Without it, even the best training programs cannot help employees break unproductive patterns. With the right insights, employees can transform.

Personal Style Inventory (PSI) has been a bestseller for over 25 years. The Personal Style Inventory test and training workshop is an accurate, statistically reliable personality style assessment based on Carl Jung's well-known theory of personality.

As one of the most effective personality assessments, the PSI provides reliable insights that help employees recognize their strengths, overcome challenges, and collaborate with others.

Integrate the Personal Style Inventory into your training programs to help employees gain the self-awareness they need to enhance their performance and workplace relationships.

What are the differences between the Personal Style Inventory and other Jungian-based assessments?

Although these instruments use the same theory to measure personality style, other Jungian-based assessments attempt to measure how people usually behave, while the PSI measures how people prefer to behave. This reveals a style closer to the individual's true personality.

The PSI also measures the relative strength of each dimension, which is more helpful to individuals than the either/or results presented by other Jungian-based assessments.

When taking the PSI, individuals respond to a series of 32 statements that relate to four paired dimensions. The result is a personality style profile abbreviated by a combination of four letters, each representing a preference for a dimension (i.e., ISTP = Introversion/Sensing/Thinking/Perceiving).

The four dimensions:

• Extroversion or introversion
• Sensing or intuiting
• Thinking or feeling
• Perceiving or judging

The assessment takes 15 minutes to complete, and we recommend you allow at least 1 hour to interpret the results, debrief, and develop an action plan.

You can also extend the learning into two half-day training programs – one for individuals and one for teams – by using the workshop instructions and PowerPoint presentation in the Facilitator Guide.

Trainer certification is not required to administer or facilitate the PSI.

By the end of the workshop, participants will do the following:

• 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.

The PSI is effective as a standalone learning instrument or part of a more comprehensive training program.

The PSI can be used in the following ways:

• 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

Facilitator Guide

Order one guide per trainer. The Facilitator Guide makes preparation easy 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.

The recently updated Facilitator Guide features revised and updated sample participant materials, updated graphics, a colorized interior, updated thumbnails, and a new coil binding to make facilitation easier. The Facilitator Guide also includes the sections Optional Activities and Alternative Training Designs as digital downloads to create a more engaging learning experience.

Print Assessment 5-Pack

Order one pack for up to five participants. Serving as the foundation for the workshop, the Print Assessment is a comprehensive takeaway that includes critical content, worksheets, forms used during the workshop, and additional tools for on-the-job use.

Our newly redesigned Print Assessment features a colorized interior and updated design to create a more engaging learning experience for your participants.

Online Assessment

Order one per participant. The online assessment is administered to participants through the HRDQ Assessment Center and includes personalized reporting, full-color charts, interpretive information, worksheets, and action planning. A detailed report is delivered electronically to the facilitator/administrator when complete.

QuickStart Train-the-Trainer (QST)

A one-hour virtual coaching session for this product. The QST is a convenient, one-hour virtual coaching session for first-time facilitators of this product. You'll receive personalized, one-on-one coaching with a subject matter expert who will get you up to speed quickly and accurately so you can confidently step into the onsite. We'll answer all your questions about the facilitation of the product. And you can add additional coaching hours as needed. Your coaching session can be provided by telephone or video call at a time of your choosing.

Facilitators will also receive an HRDQ Certificate of Completion for completing the QuickStart session.

Dr. R. Craig Hogan is the founder and president of the Business Writing Center. He has over 35 years of experience in business writing, group dynamics, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships.

Dr. Hogan earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and supervision from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a professor at Illinois State University, theUniversity of Pittsburgh, and Allegheny County College.

In addition to dozens of training materials, he is the author or co-author of several books, including Explicit Business Writing and Interpersonal and Consultant Supervision Skills: A Clinical Model.

Dr. David W. Champagne has more than 30 years of experience as a consultant in the HRD field, working with organizations to implement their organization development and training initiatives.

Dr. Champagne is now an emeritus professor at the University of Pittsburgh and an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University and SUNY-Albany.

His published books include The Intelligent Professor's Guide to Teaching, A Complete Trainers' Guide for Your Usual Needs Levels, and How to Make a Better School.