Psychometric & Profiling Instruments
Formal assessments that profile personality, type, or traits
29 tools in this category
- 2Interact Communication Intelligence — Profiles how someone communicates so a team can see where styles clash before it becomes conflict.
- 360 Degree — An umbrella term for any multi-rater assessment: manager, peers, reports and self, compared side by side.
- 360 Feedback — The full process for running a validated 360: pick raters, collect ratings, debrief the gaps, build a plan.
- 9 Domains — Rates functioning across nine domains at once to find which one or two are dragging the rest down.
- Barrett Values — Maps personal and organisational values across seven levels, from survival to service, to spot where culture and stated values diverge.
- Behavioural Styles — Plots people on assertiveness and responsiveness into four styles, so teams adapt communication instead of assuming sameness.
- Belbin Team Roles — Nine natural team roles; map what a team over-supplies and what it lacks.
- Benziger — Identifies your natural brain-quadrant lead and the energy cost of working against it.
- Centacs Values Profile — A scored values questionnaire that reveals what actually drives decisions, not just what a client says matters.
- Communication Questionnaire — Scores communication style along assertiveness and responsiveness so clashing styles get named, not personalised.
- Emotional Intelligence — Assess and develop the five EQ competencies - self-awareness, regulation, motivation, empathy, social skill.
- Enneagram — Nine personality types and their core motivations - a map of why people act, for coaching and self-awareness.
- FIRO-B — Score three interpersonal needs - inclusion, control, affection - across what you express and what you want.
- HBDI — Map thinking preferences across four quadrants: analytical, sequential, interpersonal, experimental.
- Leadership Network Diagnostic — Map who you actually rely on, score the network's breadth and connectivity, then close the gaps.
- Learning Styles Inventory — Score the profile against Kolb's four-stage cycle to find the learning stage someone habitually skips.
- MBTI — Four preference dichotomies giving sixteen personality types and a shared language for team differences.
- Multiple Intelligences — Names eight distinct kinds of capability, challenging the idea that one narrow measure of 'smart' covers everyone.
- Principles You (Ray Dalio) — A self-assessment of how you think and decide, turned into explicit, testable principles for how you'll act.
- Professional Styles (Candidate Report) — The self-view slice of a working-style assessment - a baseline to test against how others actually see you.
- Professional Styles (Expert Report) — The same self-report data, read in much greater technical depth by a trained, accredited practitioner - not an independent second opinion.
- Professional Styles (Line Manager Report) — The coachee's own Professional Styles profile, translated into plain language for their line manager to read and use.
- Professional Styles (Work Roles Report) — Maps a working-style profile onto typical team roles, showing natural fit and friction when collaborating - not a verdict on a specific job title.
- Psychometrics (Inspire) — A reference guide for picking the right psychometric instrument for the person and the purpose.
- StrengthsFinder — Sort talent themes into four domains to build teams and roles around what people already do best.
- Strengthscope — Map 24 work strengths across four clusters - Emotional, Relational, Thinking, Execution - to see the operating pattern and where a strength has
- TalentSmart EQ Appraisal — Score four EQ skills - self and social, awareness and management - to find which one gap limits the rest.
- VIA Strengths Profile — A free survey that ranks 24 character strengths, so coaching starts from what's already strong.
- Workplace Big 5 — Five scored personality supertraits give coaching an outside reference point beyond self-perception.