There are a number of tools to assess your personality. There are no right answers, but these give insight on your style, strengths, and other people’s styles. The key is not to ‘label’ yourself but to appreciate your style and other peoples. The impact of understanding your personality style is that you will be drawn to one set of styles and your friends or advisors may be a different style. It will be very easy for them to expect your ‘solution’ is to become more like them because that’s ‘normal’. An extravert person will feel energised after a party, whereas an introvert person will feel exhausted. When partnered, this can cause conflict. On returning home the introvert will look for space and quiet where the extrovert may be buzzing and need an activity to calm down.
A selection of personality types indicators includes:
Your 5 Main Drivers in Motivation
(based off Transaction Analysis)
- Be Perfect
- Be Good
- Try Hard
- Hurry Up
- Be Strong
The ‘Big 5’ Factor Model
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Holland Codes
- Realistic (Doers)
- Investigative (Thinkers)
- Artistic (Creators)
- Social (Helpers)
- Conventional (Organisers)
- Enterprising
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Myers-Briggs
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Extrovert. perspective and energy from talking it out with people | ![]() |
Introvert.Gets perspective and energy from inward reflection |
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Senses. Takes in information using ears, eyes and so on. Focuses on the fact. May omit feelings as part of data | ![]() |
Intuitive. Takes in information through the ‘big picture’. Focusses on possibilities. May omit facts as part of data |
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Thinker.Makes decisions by considering logical consequences, weighing pros and cons: analysis | ![]() |
Feeler, Makes decisions by considering feeling, person-centred values. Understanding vs Knowledge |
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Jusges. Focusses on the task of coming to a decision; may miss spiritual growth from the process itself | ![]() |
PEeceives. Focuses on the process of decision-making. May have trouble coming to a decision |
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- The 16Personalities site has a view of distribution of these traits and types across different countries.
DISC
- Dominance
- Influence
- Steadiness
- Conscientiousness
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Colour Works
Clifton Strengths (formerly Strengthsfinder)
This includes about 34 strengths, where you identify your top 5 and play to those strengths, and compensate for the weaknesses. It does cost to do the test online
Belbin Team Profile
Neurodiversity
The last area to consider is ‘Neurodiversity’.
Find out where you sit on the spectrum with this online test for autism