Personality Assessments
Why Manager Engagement Is the Key to Team Performance
Managers are leading in a work environment that looks nothing like it did even five years ago. Distributed teams. Digital overload. Economic pressure. AI transformation. Constant change. Through it all, one truth remains: managers have an outsized influence on employee engagement and team performance. Gallup estimates they influence roughly 70% of the variance in team engagement1, not because they create it alone, but because their daily behaviours inform the environment. Setting expectations, building trust, responding under pressure, and connecting people to purpose all influence how work gets done. Yet many are navigating this complexity without the support or structure required… Read More »Why Manager Engagement Is the Key to Team Performance
How to Support Your Managers at Scale (and Stop the Burnout)
For years, companies have tried to boost employee engagement from the bottom up. They survey workers, invest in wellness programs, and encourage leaders to check in more often. But engagement rarely rises or falls because of initiatives aimed at frontline employees. It rises and falls with managers. Today’s managers are carrying a level of strain that looks very different from even a decade ago. Their role no longer centers on supervising work. They are expected to translate shifting priorities, navigate uncertainty, coach employees through stress, and keep teams aligned even as demands change around them. The problem is not simply… Read More »How to Support Your Managers at Scale (and Stop the Burnout)
What Is We? The Self-Led Development Platform Built on the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®
What if understanding your personality wasn’t just a one-time revelation, but an ongoing resource you could return to throughout your career? That’s where personality insights become powerful—when they’re applied. When people connect what they’ve learned about themselves to how they communicate, collaborate, and lead every day. That belief inspired the creation of We, the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® Experience. Built on the same trusted science, We makes personality development practical, personal, and accessible through a self-led, digital experience that evolves with you. It’s a space where reflection meets real work—an interactive platform people can explore, revisit, and apply as their… Read More »What Is We? The Self-Led Development Platform Built on the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®
Why the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is the Key to Better Conversations at Work
Only 16% of employees say their last conversation with their manager was meaningful (Gallup). Even well-intentioned conversations can miss the mark when there’s no common language to describe how people work. Great conversations build great teams, but to make that possible, managers need a common framework to discuss behavioral differences—one that strengthens understanding, alignment, and performance across the team. Why Conversations About How People Work Are Difficult—Even for Great Managers Most managers can easily describe what needs to be done. The challenge begins when they need to discuss how someone approaches their work. What they may recognize intuitively is often… Read More »Why the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is the Key to Better Conversations at Work
How the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® Unlocks Performance at Every Stage of the Employee Lifecycle
HR teams today are being asked to do the impossible: increase engagement, improve retention, support development, and strengthen culture, all without adding more programs, more people, or more hours in the day. That’s why we created The WorkPlace Big Five Profile®. Built on the gold-standard Five-Factor Model and grounded in over 40 years of behavioral science, the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is a personality-based development tool built specifically for the modern workplace. It reveals how people naturally work best—how they communicate, lead, collaborate, adapt, and grow—and helps align their natural tendencies with the demands of their specific roles. And because… Read More »How the WorkPlace Big Five Profile® Unlocks Performance at Every Stage of the Employee Lifecycle
Why Managers Struggle to Coach—and How Personality Insights Help Fix That
Managers hear it all the time: You need to coach more. You need to coach better. But while many try, their efforts often fall flat. They either default to advice-giving, get stuck in surface-level conversations, or avoid it altogether, saying they don’t have the time, the skill, or the confidence to do it right. The problem isn’t that managers don’t care. It’s that most were never set up to succeed. They were promoted for being strong individual contributors and given tools for performance tracking. But tools for people development? Nothing. And they’re navigating all of this in environments that demand… Read More »Why Managers Struggle to Coach—and How Personality Insights Help Fix That
The WorkPlace Big Five Profile®: What It Is and Why It Works
HR leaders are under growing pressure to reduce turnover, support managers at every level, and drive business impact through people, often with limited headcount or bandwidth. Traditional personality assessments don’t scale, and they rarely deliver actionable insight across the organization. The WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is different. It’s a science-backed, enterprise-ready personality assessment that helps teams hire smarter, onboard faster, and develop more effectively without overloading HR. Let’s dive into what it is and why it works. What Is the WorkPlace Big Five Profile®? WorkPlace Big Five Profile® is a 15-minute personality assessment built around the Five-Factor Model, widely recognized… Read More »The WorkPlace Big Five Profile®: What It Is and Why It Works
Is Personality Nature or Nurture: Understanding the Layers of Personality
“Does nature or nurture determine your personality?” This is one of the most commonly asked questions in the personality assessment industry. To answer that question, let’s talk about cake. If we whisked only eggs and flour together, can we call it cake? No, because there’s still a lot missing—butter, spices, milk, and flavors. These ingredients are mixed together to give us a full representation of the cake, and many of them add to the full cake experience. It’s the same with your personality. Based on experience and research, we believe it’s incredibly helpful, yet incomplete to define personality based on a… Read More »Is Personality Nature or Nurture: Understanding the Layers of Personality
When and How to Use Big Five and MBTI Personality Assessment Tools
If you ask someone how they might improve their sense of happiness and contentment with life – also known as their subjective wellbeing (SWB) –, most would cite tried and true methods such as exercise, creative pursuits, a lifestyle closer to nature. But few would probably note the linkage between happiness and organization or diligence. But research shows that they should. A study of more than 6,000 Americans concluded in 2019 that increased scores on the Big Five personality factor of Conscientiousness were positively correlated with improvements in SWB. While that might be somewhat surprising to some, one explanation for… Read More »When and How to Use Big Five and MBTI Personality Assessment Tools