How Personality Assessments Can Improve Company Operations And Increase Morale

There are ways for staff personality assessments to benefit businesses by offering learning and morale-building opportunities, reports Forbes . Employers should initially provide workers with sufficient time to take the assessment while on the clock, and those managing the process should give participants useful instructions. It is sensible to give workers about two weeks, which provides employees enough time to plan ahead and work around other deadlines. Employees also should be urged to answer assessment questions in the context of the workplace environment. When employees receive their own results and share them with others, facilitators should take the time to explain the assessment, the personality types it reveals, and the common strengths and challenges for each category. Participants also should be reminded that the results are generalizations. Also suggested is breaking participants into smaller groups where similar personalities are encouraged to collaborate on a competitive task. Once this contest is over, participants should be asked to analyze the various ways each team fulfilled the task. Such exercises show the benefits of having a diverse set of personalities on a team. A useful group activity near the end of a session is to have each worker select a trait they would like to develop further and work out a strategy to achieve it. Personality assessments also can be helpful for coaching, with assessments conducted at the start of engagement helping employees better understand their communication style and how others might interpret it.