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Personal Style Inventory
Third Edition
Personality style is an integral part of many training sessions. HRDQ’s Personal Style Inventory
(PSI) makes identifying and understanding personal style easy.
Based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types, the PSI has helped thousands of people
answer the question, “Why do I act the way I do?”
What sets the PSI apart? Other Jungian instruments assess respondents’ behavior, which can be
affected by external factors such as work environment. The PSI captures behavioral preferences,
which we believe more accurately measures a respondent’s personality strengths and
weaknesses.
Learning Outcomes
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Identify preference for 1 of 16 personality styles
Explore the potential strengths and weaknesses of each personality style
Understand how each style is likely to affect other individuals and/or group members
Discover how to capitalize on strengths of others
Theory
The PSI is based on Carl Jung’s theory of personality types. Jung found recognizable and
repeated patterns in behaviors linked to our conscious perceiving of the world, our decision
making about the world, our attitudes toward life, and our relationship to the expectations of the
world. These patterns, for almost all of the people Jung observed or read about, fell into 1 of
several pairs of reactions. We all engage in all of these behaviors, but almost always engage in
only 1 of each pair with any facility.
The pairs of reactions — or personal style preferences — include:
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Extraversion or Introversion
Sensing or Intuiting
Thinking or Feeling
Perceiving or Judging
The PSI vs. the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Both the PSI and the MBTI use Jungian theory to measure personality style. However, each
instrument asks the individual to assume a different frame of reference. The MBTI attempts to
measure how people usually behave. The PSI measures how people would prefer to behave. We
believe this unveils a style closer to the true nature of the individual’s personality style.
How It Works
Individuals respond to a series of 32 statements, each describing a behavior associated with 1 of
the 4 pairs of personal style preferences. The result is a personality style preference profile that
is abbreviated by a combination of four letters (i.e., ISTP =
Introverted/Sensing/Thinking/Perceiving).
A powerful tool for both individuals and teams, the PSI also includes a chart for recording team
member personality types, questions for team discussion, and detailed instructions for developing
a team profile and conducting a complete workshop.
Uses for the PSI
The PSI is effective when used as a stand-alone learning instrument or as part of a more
comprehensive training program. It’s the perfect start to a style-awareness training program or
to programs for:
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Personal Style
Communication
Diversity
Team Building
For a complete training experience and maximum impact, team PSI with Exploring Personal
Styles (EPS), a compelling collection of activities based on the Personal Style Inventory.
What to Order/Product Contents
Order 1 Facilitator Guide per trainer and 1 Participant Guide per participant.
Facilitator Guide includes:
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Administrative guidelines
Theoretical background
Experiential Training Model
Tips on interacting with each personality type
Complete 3-hour individual and team workshop designs
Alternative training designs
Blank training outline
Optional activities
Sample copy of the Participant Guide
CD-ROM containing Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations and reproducible masters
including a Certificate of Achievement, Training Evaluation, and overhead transparency
masters
Binder format
Participant Guide includes:
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32-item inventory
Pressure-sensitive scoring form
Descriptions of the 8 dimensions of personality and the 16 Basic Personal Styles
Interpretive information
Insights on how strengths of different styles supplement each other
The Strength/Weakness Paradox
Charts for scoring individual and team results
Individual action planning
Team discussion questions