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		EVOLVING PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE TO THE NEXT LEVEL The next generation of type instrument, the Majors Personality Type Inventory™ (MajorsPTI™), is a shorter, less expensive and just as accurate alternative to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument (MBTI® instrument). This innovative instrument builds on the 50 years of science behind psychological type and brings it up to date with the new technology of type. By using newer methods of asking and weighting the questions (only 52), the MajorsPTI™ provides slightly more accurate results than other psychological type instruments.

		A BREAKTHROUGH FOR ASSESSING SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND THE EIGHT JUNGIAN FUNCTIONS The Function Skill Development Assessment™ (FSDA™) is a 40-item questionnaire that helps individuals assess their current mental skill level for how they take in information and make decisions (function skill development). After taking the FSDA™, people can finally see how well they currently use each of the eight psychological functions that constitute the foundation of psychological type theory as described by C.G. Jung and Isabel Myers.

		TEMPERAMENT EVOLUTION Temperament theory describes four organizing patterns of personality and is based on descriptions of behavior that go back over 25 centuries. It tells us the “why” of our behavior, our motivators and our sources of deep psychological stress. The Interstrength Temperament Assessment is the only available instrument designed to identify best-fit temperament patterns (Improviser™, Stabilizer™, Theorist™, Catalyst™). This 40-item questionnaire helps individuals understand their core psychological needs and values as well as the talents they are more drawn to develop.

		EASY TO LEARN, SIMPLE TO TEACH, FLEXIBLE TO USE WITH OTHER PERSONALITY MODELS Interaction Styles provides easily recognizable information about how people interact and influence each other and how they function effectively in teams. This model identifies powerful drives and underlying beliefs that help develop rapport and strengthen collaboration. The Interstrength X-Styles Assessment is the only instrument available designed to identify best-fit Interaction Styles patterns (In-Charge™, Get-Things-Going™, Chart-the-Course™, Behind-the-Scenes™). This 60-item questionnaire helps individuals understand the “how” of their behavior. It refers to patterns of interaction that are both highly contextual and yet innate. Knowing interaction styles will help people locate interpersonal conflicts and situational energy drains. It will give them a map for greater flexibility in their interactions with others.

		DEVELOPING POTENTIAL—FROM AWARENESS TO ACTION Jung observed that everyone has potential access to all eight cognitive processes but that we each prefer one as dominant—playing a lead role—with a second process playing a support role. These two preferred cognitive processes are your first two keys to self-leadership. Our two preferred processes allow us to do perceiving and judging, introverting and extraverting. We use one of our processes to sense, imagine and gather information; and we use the other to make decisions, value and organize. Similarly, we tend to use one of our two preferred processes for introverting and the other for extraverting.

		YOU CAN'T CHANGE WHO YOU ARE, BUT YOU CAN CHANGE THE ROLE YOU PLAY Many team and individual development tools focus on the built-in, unchangeable aspects of personality and solely advocate playing to one’s strengths. While this focus can help people find meaning and self-understanding, it is less helpful in empowering people to manage their own behaviors in situations that may not suit their preferences. In some situations, using one’s preferences can be highly dysfunctional if those behaviors are not appropriate to the context. Although the Management Team Role-indicator by Steve Myers® (MTR-i) questionnaire is based on Jungian theory, it does not indicate psychological type; it indicates which behaviors are being used in differing contexts. Whereas psychological type is stable or unchanging, a team role can change from team to team and from situation to situation.

		GET BOTH SIDES OF THE COIN—PREFERENCE AND AVOIDANCE All jobs include a collection of differing tasks and activities that are commonly performed in one or more environmental settings. None of us will find the “perfect” job, free from all tasks and activities that we wish to avoid and seldom do we find ourselves in the “perfect” environmental setting. True satisfaction with career paths and job choices comes when we are able to structure and balance the tasks and activities that are part of our daily work experience based upon our personalities and preferences. Some activities and the environmental settings in which they occur will be attractive to and preferred by some individuals. Other individuals may dislike and tend to avoid those same situations. This does not indicate that any activity in its environment is good or bad, nor does it imply that one group of individuals is right and the other wrong. It merely points to the interaction of human activities and individual differences.

		Career Values The Knowdell™ Career Values Card Sort is a simple tool that allows your clients to prioritize their values in as little as five minutes. Fifty-four variables of work satisfaction—such as time freedom, precision work, power, technical competence, and public contact—are listed and described. This is an effective tool for job seekers, those fine-tuning their present jobs, and career changers at all ages and stages. The report includes an overview of values, the role of values in career decision making, and supplementary activities for further clarification of career values. Motivated Skills The Knowdell™ Motivated Skills Card Sort is a quick and easy way to identify the motivated skills that are central to personal and career satisfaction and success. Based on experience, feedback, and instinct, the client uses the cards to assess his or her proficiency and motivation in fifty-one transferable skills areas. The online client report includes an overview of achievement motivation and its role in career decision making, along with a series of supplementary activities for further clarification of one’s motivated skills and achievement patterns.