This month, our series on assessments examines the Personal Style Indicator (PSI).  This is one of several assessments offered by the Consulting Resource Group International (CRG).  The others cover such areas as entrepreneurial style, job style, sales style, leadership skills, values preferences, etc.  The Personal Style Indicator is the most basic and the beginning point of CRG’s assessments.

This is the sixth in the Insights series on assessments.  For an index of assessments already reviewed and a list of assessments yet to be described, see the end of this article.

Assessment:  Personal Style Indicator (PSI)

Description:  The PSI identifies a person’s personal style preferences on four dimensions—Behavioral, Cognitive, Interpersonal, and Affective.  The PSI bases its scoring on 16 questions each comparing a person’s preferences among four descriptors representing the four dimensions.  Most individuals score highly on two out of four of the dimensions.

On the basis of one’s relative preferences for utilizing the four dimensions, the PSI identifies an individual as having one or two of 21 different personal styles.  If more than one potential style is indicated, the client reads the descriptions to determine their best-fit style.

The PSI describes each style’s strengths, areas of difficulty, reactions to stress, team functioning and compatibility with other styles, leadership implications, and ways to increase effectiveness.

There are short descriptions of each personal style in each printed version of the PSI.  A booklet of In-Depth Interpretations of all the personal styles is also available.

Certification:  Not required.

The Consulting Resource Group also offers an Associates program for which training is not required.

Training is also available in CRG’s 3-day, Train-the-Trainer program.  This program covers all of CRG’s assessments and not just the PSI.  The program occurs in Vancouver, British Columbia, and in other locations around the world.  An organization can schedule the Train-the-Trainer program at their location.  A downloadable brochure describing the training program is available at http://www.crgleader.com/downloads/crg-train-the-trainer.pdf

Cost of Training/Certification:

Three-day, Train-the-Trainer program:  $1997

Cost of Instrument:

A 10% discount is available to ICF members on all prices below.

The Personal Style Indicator:

On-line:  $45

Print-based:  $20

The Personal Style Indicator In-Depth Interpretations (print-based):  $20.

Other Information:

More information is available at http://www.crgleader.com or by telephone at 604-852-0566.

Assessments Previously Reviewed in Insights:

Assessments to Be Reviewed in Future Issues:

Peoplemap, Real Colors, MAPP, OSI Polaris 360, Cerny Smith Adjustment Index, and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument.

Glenn Stevenson. Ph.D., is a life coach and career transition coach who specializes in self-confidence, relationships coaching, and helping people find the work that they love.  He specializes in people’s sense of self and their finding satisfaction in who they are and what they do.  He may be contacted at glenn@myselfsense.com, 714-468-9963, www.myselfsense.com