Character is a manifestation of an individual's internal behavior tendency, which is unique, holistic, structural and stable, and provides a unified internal explanation of external behavior patterns. Since Hippocrates proposed the 'Four Liquid Theory' two thousand years ago, human research on 'personal psychology' has never stopped. To this day, various schools have competed for beauty and each has its own strengths.
The view that 'character determines destiny' has undergone many arguments, criticisms and discussions, but the statement that 'character affects behavior' has been widely recognized today.
Years of work experience and training experience have made me deeply understand the profound impact of personality on a person, whether at work or in life. Character not only affects an individual's career development, working style, leadership behavior and work performance, but also plays a decisive role in the career development path. The manager's personality is particularly important, which directly affects employee satisfaction, thus affects work output, and even greatly affects employee turnover rate.
Because of this, in recent years, many companies have introduced personality assessment as an important tool for employee recruitment and talent development assessment. Today, 'personality assessment' has become one of the important basis for employee selection and recruitment. Enterprises optimize team configuration through this method to maximize team advantages and reduce internal conflicts and interference.
When recruiting, companies tend to choose individuals that match the organization's 'character' or screen people who meet the position requirements as much as possible. For example, sales positions tend to be more introverted candidates, while financial positions tend to be more intricate and rigorous candidates. During the selection process, the 'personality assessment' tool provides great help to human resources workers.
Characteristic research shows that each individual has its own unique pursuits, thoughts and interference, but can be classified into certain specific basic personality types. Individuals with the same personality type usually have relatively consistent values and thinking patterns.
Whether it is a manager or an employee, mastering a certain degree of personality psychology can help career development and make life more enjoyable and relaxed.
Below is a sharing of the currently widely used personality learning tools. (Note: There are many personal psychology tools. This article only shares several categories that companies mainly use. Each introduction is accompanied by a free evaluation website. Interested friends can evaluate it themselves.)
MBTI Career Character Test
MBTI (Miles-Briggs Personality Type Indicator) is one of the earliest personality evaluation tools widely used by enterprises, and was mainly introduced by foreign-funded enterprises in the 1990s. Once upon a time, entering a foreign company was the dream of many people in the workplace, because foreign companies have good salary and benefits, simple and relatively fair environment, and have many training and learning opportunities. Foreign companies in first-tier cities in China applied MBTI assessment to talent development, and then expanded to many local companies.
MBTI is one of the widely used evaluation tools in the world over the past 20 years and is known as the 'mother of personality evaluation'. It is used to examine the individual characteristics and potential of the assessees in the organization, such as leadership style, preferred working environment and potential defects. MBTI is developed based on the 'personal type theory' by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and further improved by psychologist Catherine Bees.
MBTI includes four dimensions and 16 types :
- Extraversion and Introversion - (EI) dimension : Extraverter's attention and energy mainly point to external people and things, while introverter is concentrated in the inner world. Extraverted people tend to engage in the outside world and like to socialize; introverted people are more quiet and silent, and like to be alone or one-on-one interpersonal communication.
- Sensing and Intuition - (SN) dimensions : Sensing people obtain facts and reality through their facial features and pay attention to reality; intuitive people are accustomed to obtaining information through imagination and unconsciousness, paying attention to the symbolic and potential meaning of things.
- Thinking and Feeling - (TF) dimensions : Thinking people make decisions through analysis and logic; emotional people make decisions based on value judgments. The thinking type is more rational, while the emotional type is more dependent on personal values.
- Judging and Perceiving - (JP) dimensions : Judging people prefer a planned and organized lifestyle; perceptual people tend to deal with problems flexibly and openly.
The MBTI score indicates how much an individual prefers a certain attitude or function. A high score means a clear preference, while a low score may not be obvious for some reasons. But scoring does not mean that an individual can use it well or develop a certain preference. Dominant preferences only indicate the individual's most accustomed to behavior, and do not mean that other preferences do not exist. For example, extroverts sometimes like to be alone, while introverts sometimes like to be social.
Summary: The advantage of MBTI lies in its depth of theory. It not only explores personality traits, but also deeply analyzes the dynamics of personality development theory and reveals the theory of personality development. MBTI appears to be very perfect in this theoretical structure. However, MBTI evaluation and calculation are relatively complicated. The editor has used MBTI for evaluation in the training and found that statistics are time-consuming, which makes it difficult for ordinary people in the workplace to learn and it is difficult to remember 16 types of personality traits. Therefore, in recent years, the use of MBTI has gradually faded out of the public eye.
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DISC personality assessment
The DISC Personality Test is composed of 24 groups of adjectives that describe personality traits, each group contains 4 adjectives. These adjectives are selected based on four dimensions: D (dominance), I (influence), S (stability) and C (prudentiality) and the interference dimension. The tester needs to select the adjective that is most suitable for himself and most inconsistent with him from each group of four adjectives based on his first intuition. By summarizing these choices, the basic personality type of the tester can be derived, so as to understand the characteristics of his management, leadership qualities, and emotional stability.
The theoretical basis of DISC is derived from the research results of American psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston in the 1920s. Dr. Marston is a well-known scholar who studies human behavior. His research is different from scholars such as Freud and Jung who focus on 'abnormal' behavior, and DISC studies 'normal' human behavior that can be identified.
4 categories of DISC
- Dominant (D) : People with dominant personalities are often adventurous, competitive, and like to solve problems directly. They are usually bold, decisive, innovative, able to motivate themselves and persevere.
- Influence type (I) : People with influence personality are usually charming, confident and optimistic, and good at convinced others. They are passionate, can inspire and inspire others, and like to interact with others and are popular.
- Robust (S) : People with a steady personality are usually friendly, patient, and good at listening. They are relaxed, stable, team-oriented, understanding and enjoy a peaceful environment.
- Caution type (C) : People with cautious personality pay attention to details and have analytical skills. They are usually accurate and humble, pursue high standards, act rigorously, and have a mature and steady personality.
DISC evaluation is widely used in organizational talent evaluation because of its concise and easy to understand and high effectiveness. Since there is no designated copyright institution in DISC theory, many institutions have developed evaluation systems based on DISC theory. This assessment tool has fewer questions and is easy to learn and operate, so it has been widely used in talent recruitment.
Summary: Because of its simple and easy-to-understand four-dimensional analysis method, the DISC evaluation tool makes learning and application relatively easy, and the statistics of test results are also relatively simple. At present, many companies use DISC evaluation tools in talent recruitment and management training. Many training courses on the market involve knowledge of personality psychology, and DISC is often used as a beginner.
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PDP personality assessment
PDP (Professional Dynamic Programs) is a system that analyzes thinking patterns and behavior patterns. It is developed by the University of Southern California and the University of Colorado based on statistical science and behavioral science, and has a research history of more than 37 years. PDP currently has 8 languages and is widely used in corporate human resources management in 34 countries around the world, especially among the top 500 companies in the world.
PDP is mainly used to measure individual behavioral traits, vitality, kinetic energy, stress, energy and energy changes. According to human innate traits, PDP divides people into five types: dominant, extroverted, patient, precise, and integrated. These five types are visualized as 'tiger', 'peacock', 'koala', 'owl' and 'chameleon'. As a professional talent management system, PDP not only helps people better understand and manage themselves, but also helps organizations fully realize the potential of talents.
Analysis of five types of PDP
- 🐯 Tiger - Dominant type : Focus on authority, substantial reward and goal orientation. People with dominant personalities are usually brave and efficient, good at grasping the general direction, and paying attention to actions and results.
- 🦚 Peacock - communication type : has strong empathy, good at verbal expression, optimistic and positive, and likes to interact with others. People with communication personality are good at motivating others and attach importance to teamwork.
- 🐨 Koala - Patient type : pursues peace, is patient and lasting, and likes to make long-term plans. People with patient personalities are usually friendly, good at teamwork and avoid conflict.
- 🦉 Owl - Precision type : pursues precision and professionalism, and attaches importance to planning and details. People with precise personalities tend to follow rules and have a strong tendency to be principled and perfectionist.
- 🦎 Chameleon - Integrated type : good at coordinating and integrating resources, strong adaptability. People with integrated personalities are usually lubricants in the team, able to be compatible and not go to extremes.
Summary: PDP evaluation has high reliability and validity, and the evaluation accuracy rate can reach 96%. The PDP test contains 60 questions, usually only in 5-10 minutes, and can quickly provide accurate data and help users make decisions quickly.
PDP and DISC have some similarities in assessing and analyzing behavioral styles, but PDP uses animal codes to make it more vivid and interesting and helps students remember and apply it. Currently, many consulting and training companies are agents for PDP assessment and training services.
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Enneagram personality test
The Enneagram Personality Theory is 2500 years old and is a revolutionary theory about personality types that provides people with profound self-awareness and insight into others. The Enneagram originated in ancient times, and the specific origin date is no longer verified, but researchers generally believe that its history is very long, probably dating back to 2500 BC or earlier.
The modern development of the Enneagram personality is thanks to the research of Oscar Itchaso, founder of Erica Academy. During his trip to Afghanistan in the 1950s, he learned the basics of Enneagram from the Sufi sect. Itchaso incorporates nine human desires into the Enneagram’s doctrine and uses them as a textbook for human psychological training. This is the prototype of the Enneagram’s personality.
Enneagrams are not just a subtle personality analysis tool, but their more important role is to provide in-depth insight into personal cultivation, self-improvement and experience. Unlike other personality classification methods, Enneagram reveals people’s inner values and concerns, and is not affected by changes in external behavior.
Basic types of encyclopedia
- Perfect type : emphasizes principles, is clear in black and white, is not easy to compromise, is strict with oneself and others, and pursues perfection.
- Giver : Desire to establish intimate relationships, be people-oriented, have rich emotions and are loving.
- Practical practitioners : strong sense of competition, pursue efficiency, and measure self-worth by achievements.
- Romantic : emotional, pursues unique feelings, and likes to express themselves.
- Observer : Likes to think and analyze, has a strong desire for knowledge, has weak ability to act, and has a low demand for material things.
- Skeptics : act cautiously, do not trust others easily, like group life, be loyal, and have team cohesion.
- Hedonists : optimistic, like freshness, pursue trends, and hate pressure. They are born optimistic.
- Protector : pursue power, pay attention to strength, be independent and protect the weak.
- Mediator : Fear of disputes, difficulty in rejecting others, pursue harmony, and slow decision-making process.
Summary: Although some units use Enneagram Personality to evaluate new employees, not many people can really apply them in depth. The Enneagram Personality Theory focuses on a person's inner world and value orientation because it is not easily affected by external environment, culture, education or family background, and is easy to master and apply.
Compared to the 16 categories of MBTI, the Enneagram is easier to master, and the Enneagram appears more rigorous compared to the DISC and PDP quarter-points. However, to deeply master and flexibly apply the Enneagram personality, you need to have strong logic and learning abilities.
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Character color test
Character colorology is a branch of psychology. The China Character Color Research Center founded by Le Jia summarizes people's personalities into four types: red, blue, yellow and green . This classification method is called 'FPA® (Four-colors Personality Analysis)' and its theoretical basis comes from Hippocrates's Four-liquid theory. As early as ancient Greece, Hippocrates proposed the theory that 'although there are no two identical people, many people have similar characteristics.' Through observation, people found that people who belong to the same personality type usually exhibit consistent behavior patterns, while other types exhibit distinct behavioral characteristics.
Unlike other classification systems, 'FPA® personality color' is based on 'motivation theory' rather than 'behavior theory' or 'type theory'. By accurately interpreting the relationship between 'motivation and behavior' and 'character and personality', people's confusion about 'the coexistence and confusion of the four personalities' and provides a feasible set of personalized practice methods. The core of personality color theory includes four major professional areas: 'insight', 'insight', 'cultivation' and 'influence'.
Basic analysis of personality and color
- 💡Red: 'Zuoqi Clan' : Happy extroverted team promoter. Their motivations are mainly derived from their pursuit of happiness, positive and optimistic, extraordinary charisma, and good at socializing.
- 💡Blue: 'Scheming Snake' : Best Performer. They are serious and meticulous, pay attention to deep-seated interpersonal relationships, are loyal and sincere, and have profound thoughts.
- 💡Yellow: 'King of the Mountains and Forests' : a powerful commander. This type of people are driven by the achievement of goals, are forward-looking and leadership skills, have a strong sense of responsibility, decisive decision-making, and full of self-confidence.
- 💡Green : 'Peacemaker' : a promoter of peace. They pursue harmony and stability, are tolerant and friendly, and are highly adaptable, and are excellent listeners.
The core functions of personality color include 'insight', 'insight', 'cultivation' and 'influence' . The so-called 'insight' refers to discovering the true self and understanding the question of 'who am I?'; 'insight' refers to distinguishing the complex personality traits of others and distinguishing the true personality from superficial illusions; 'cultivation' refers to improving one's own shortcomings, developing one's own lack of abilities, and achieving the balance of the four colors; and 'influence' refers to living in harmony with others through a suitable way to achieve common goals.
In recent years, as Le Jia's influence in the public has continued to increase, the concept of 'character color' has gradually become well-known to more people. Especially in the program 'If You Are the One', Le Jia commented on the guests with personality psychology, and his sharp and unique language style left a deep impression on the audience. Although the classification of 'character color' has certain similarities with the DISC model, it pays more attention to the analysis of motivation and forms a unique theoretical system by accurately interpreting 'motivation and behavior' and 'character and personality'.
In terms of learning and application, 'character color' has been widely welcomed by the public because of its simplicity, image and easy to operate . Just as the editor won the Best Lecturer Competition in the group through 'Personal Color' and successfully applied it to the onboarding training of new employees, it received unanimous praise.
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Summarize
In general, 'character psychology' has been widely recognized in society and the workplace. Improvement of self-awareness not only helps to better manage ourselves, but also helps us interact with others more effectively and become social experts.
In addition to the tests introduced above, there are many other personality psychology tools, such as CPI , 16PF , EPQ , etc. Businesses and individuals can choose the right tools according to their own needs and preferences.
The key to learning and applying the 'character psychology' tool is to first recognize yourself and then understand others. People with different personalities have their own strengths and weaknesses, which is a 'motivating factor' for people of one personality type, but may be 'disturbance' for other types of people. As the ancients said, 'Man's wine is my honey.' When you can go from 'tolerating' to 'enjoying' with people of different personalities, you have already won in your life.
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