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InCourage Assessment Tools

InCourage accesses a variety of personality assessment/relationship awareness tools. The following are some of the tools we have integrated into our learning programs.

Strength Deployment Inventory® – A powerful learning-tool that is both simple to use and to implement. Get the insights into your own individual motivational orientation and see how it relates to your team. InCourage uses this tool as a stand-alone to design a learning program for your organization or integrates a SDI session into an action-based program to enhance the learning.

TeamBuilding
Leadership Development

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® – The MBTI® instrument is the most widely used personality inventory in the world. It offers individuals and groups an opportunity for an in-depth, yet understandable way to become aware of personal preferences that drive behaviour. This instrument provides key insights into how we take in information and give it meaning, how we make decisions, judgments and take action, where we find our source of personal energy and how we prefer to interact with the outer world.

The MBTI® inventory is used:

for personal growth and knowledge
to improve work and personal relationships
to increase personal and organizational productivity
to identify leadership and interpersonal communication preferences

MBTI® and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® are registered trademarks of Consulting Psychological Press Inc.

Insights®

Insights® Into Personal Effectiveness is a full day learning and development experience that is fun, interactive and leaves participants with a language and framework for understanding themselves and others which they can put into practice immediately.

The program explores a simple model:

Insights

Using each participant's Insights Discovery Personal Profile, the program enables everyone to gain a greater awareness of their own personality, strengths and weaknesses; to identify the needs of other types of personalities and their gifts; adapt to meet interpersonal communication needs and develop more effective relationships with members of the team. The use of our four Insights color energies: Fiery Red, Sunshine Yellow, Earth Green and Cool Blue create a memorable common language and framework on which participants can base their interactions with colleagues, clients and customers in the future.

The format of the program will be custom designed to meet your team’s specific learning needs and will appeal to the different Colour Energies on the team. For example: plenty of activities for those with extraverted preferences, and opportunities for those of a more introverted nature to reflect and analyze the events and data that are being presented.

Denison Culture Survey® – learn to put words around the culture of your organization and gain insights to the gap between where it is and what the vision says it should be. The Denison Model is the result of fifteen years of research by Dr. Daniel Denison, formerly of the University of Michigan Business School, and currently Professor of Organizational Development at IMD - International Institute of Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the link between organizational culture and bottom-line performance measures such as return on investment, sales growth, quality, innovation and employee satisfaction. The model is the basis for two diagnostic surveys, the Organizational Culture Survey and the Leadership Development Survey, developed by Daniel R. Denison and William S. Neale which have been used by over 500 organizations worldwide.

The Change Style Indicator – is an assessment instrument designed to measure your preferred style in approaching change and dealing with situations involving change.

Your score on this instrument will place you on a change style continuum ranging from a Conserver style to an Originator style. A third style, the Pragmatist, occupies the middle range of the continuum. The three styles display distinct differences and preferences when approaching change.

Outcomes:

Improve teamwork
Improve interpersonal communication and understanding.
Avoid conflicts and reduce dysfunctional meetings.
Make sure that all perspectives are included when resolving issues.
Enable the group's creativity.
Increase collaboration.
Get to the "win/win" solution more quickly.
Learn about three unique styles for dealing with change.
Discover your personal position on this continuum of change style preferences.
Learn how your preferred style affects how others perceive you and how your style influences your perception of others.
Determine the "traps" in your style that can limit your flexibility and your leadership.
Learn the advantages and strengths that each style offers in a team effort.

Team Management Systems® – a tool that helps describe how well your teams are working together. The TMS approach focuses on identifying and understanding key work elements that prove to be a reliable and valid focus in explaining why some individuals, teams, and organizations perform, work effectively and achieve their objectives, while others fail. At its core, Team Management Systems offers you and your organization research proven assessments that reveal critical dynamics to enable the development of high performance in the work place.

Personality Dimensions™ – is an easy to understand tool based on leading edge research into human personality and behaviour. It is valuable in understanding personal strengths and individual differences to enhance:

Team Performance
Leadership development
Conflict resolution
Change management
Sales

This tool utilizes colour-coded cards to represent the four major personality strengths and preferences. The outcome is an understanding and recognition of personal differences as gifts and strengths, leading to a positive atmosphere of team discovery and emerging human potential.

	InCourage Assessment Tools InCourage accesses a variety of personality assessment/relationship awareness tools. The following are some of the tools we have integrated into our learning programs.
	Strength Deployment Inventory® – A powerful learning-tool that is both simple to use and to implement. Get the insights into your own individual motivational orientation and see how it relates to your team. InCourage uses this tool as a stand-alone to design a learning program for your organization or integrates a SDI session into an action-based program to enhance the learning. TeamBuilding Leadership Development
	The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® – The MBTI® instrument is the most widely used personality inventory in the world. It offers individuals and groups an opportunity for an in-depth, yet understandable way to become aware of personal preferences that drive behaviour. This instrument provides key insights into how we take in information and give it meaning, how we make decisions, judgments and take action, where we find our source of personal energy and how we prefer to interact with the outer world. The MBTI® inventory is used: for personal growth and knowledge to improve work and personal relationships to increase personal and organizational productivity to identify leadership and interpersonal communication preferences MBTI® and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® are registered trademarks of Consulting Psychological Press Inc.
Insights®	Insights® Into Personal Effectiveness is a full day learning and development experience that is fun, interactive and leaves participants with a language and framework for understanding themselves and others which they can put into practice immediately. The program explores a simple model: Using each participant's Insights Discovery Personal Profile, the program enables everyone to gain a greater awareness of their own personality, strengths and weaknesses; to identify the needs of other types of personalities and their gifts; adapt to meet interpersonal communication needs and develop more effective relationships with members of the team. The use of our four Insights color energies: Fiery Red, Sunshine Yellow, Earth Green and Cool Blue create a memorable common language and framework on which participants can base their interactions with colleagues, clients and customers in the future. The format of the program will be custom designed to meet your team’s specific learning needs and will appeal to the different Colour Energies on the team. For example: plenty of activities for those with extraverted preferences, and opportunities for those of a more introverted nature to reflect and analyze the events and data that are being presented.
	Denison Culture Survey® – learn to put words around the culture of your organization and gain insights to the gap between where it is and what the vision says it should be. The Denison Model is the result of fifteen years of research by Dr. Daniel Denison, formerly of the University of Michigan Business School, and currently Professor of Organizational Development at IMD - International Institute of Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the link between organizational culture and bottom-line performance measures such as return on investment, sales growth, quality, innovation and employee satisfaction. The model is the basis for two diagnostic surveys, the Organizational Culture Survey and the Leadership Development Survey, developed by Daniel R. Denison and William S. Neale which have been used by over 500 organizations worldwide.
	The Change Style Indicator – is an assessment instrument designed to measure your preferred style in approaching change and dealing with situations involving change. Your score on this instrument will place you on a change style continuum ranging from a Conserver style to an Originator style. A third style, the Pragmatist, occupies the middle range of the continuum. The three styles display distinct differences and preferences when approaching change. Outcomes: Improve teamwork Improve interpersonal communication and understanding. Avoid conflicts and reduce dysfunctional meetings. Make sure that all perspectives are included when resolving issues. Enable the group's creativity. Increase collaboration. Get to the "win/win" solution more quickly. Learn about three unique styles for dealing with change. Discover your personal position on this continuum of change style preferences. Learn how your preferred style affects how others perceive you and how your style influences your perception of others. Determine the "traps" in your style that can limit your flexibility and your leadership. Learn the advantages and strengths that each style offers in a team effort.
	Team Management Systems® – a tool that helps describe how well your teams are working together. The TMS approach focuses on identifying and understanding key work elements that prove to be a reliable and valid focus in explaining why some individuals, teams, and organizations perform, work effectively and achieve their objectives, while others fail. At its core, Team Management Systems offers you and your organization research proven assessments that reveal critical dynamics to enable the development of high performance in the work place.
	Personality Dimensions™ – is an easy to understand tool based on leading edge research into human personality and behaviour. It is valuable in understanding personal strengths and individual differences to enhance: Team Performance Leadership development Conflict resolution Change management Sales This tool utilizes colour-coded cards to represent the four major personality strengths and preferences. The outcome is an understanding and recognition of personal differences as gifts and strengths, leading to a positive atmosphere of team discovery and emerging human potential.