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These free resources can be an adjunct to your work and are meant to increase self awareness and skills.
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The VIA Survey is the only free, scientific survey of character strengths in the world. Take this simple, 10 minute character test and discover your greatest strengths. Research shows that knowing and using your character strengths can help you:
Increase happiness and well-being
Find meaning and purpose
Boost relationships
Manage stress and health
Accomplish goals
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This free values assessment uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help you identify and explore your core values. The assessment takes approximately 15-minutes and provides a personalized action plan for how to use the information provided to make values informed life decisions.
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This activity provides you with a virtual card deck of values words and definitions. The activity involves “keeping” or “discarding” the values based on what is and is not important to you. It helps you to determine what your current values system is, which will assist in decision making and values-aligned living.
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The Personal Values Tool is a free online tool to help you identify and explore your core values. You’ll receive a personalized PDF report outlining your core values as well as practical advice on how to align your actions and decisions with what you value most.
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Find an alternative version of the Enneagram here.
The Enneagram is a free, app-based personality test based on the nine Enneagram types. It is a tool of self-discovery and personal growth.
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This free assessment can help you improve your self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management. Emotional intelligence describes our ability to understand and manage our own emotions as well as identifying and responding to the emotions of others.
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This free online test will help you to assess your current habits of self compassion. Self compassion involves being supportive when you’re facing a life challenge, feel inadequate, or make a mistake. It requires giving yourself the same compassion that you would give to someone else.
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Find the Work Values Activity here.
Find the Career Interest Assessment here.
Find the Career Interest Profiler here.
Find the Skills Matcher tool here.
These activities involve identifying and sorting career based values and interests to help you identify and explore careers that may be a good match considering your values system and identified areas of interest.
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This test is similar to the Myers-Briggs assessment and offers detailed explanations of each of the personality 16 types to help you gain insight into yourself and your personality traits.
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The Big Five personality test is a comprehensive personality inventory that investigates the five fundamental traits of personality. It is widely used in academia and research.
Use of this tool should be for educational purposes only.
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Carl Jung was Swiss psychiatrist who proposed a theory of psychological types. His theory was taken and extended by Briggs and Myers who studied his work. They developed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) which classified people into 16 different types based on the work of Jung.
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The inventory is a measure of personality based on the idea that behavior is influenced by the dominance of neurotransmitters in the brain. It identifies four chemical subsystems of the brain (dopamine, serotonin, testosterone, estrogen) and measures four scales of behavior believed to be produced by those systems and an overall temperament type.
This test is provided for educational use only.
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SC is a pop-psych personality system based around four personality types. The DISC system is mostly used with an employment or team building focus. The ODAT was created by this website as a free and open-source tool to match users to a DISC type.
This test is provided for educational use only.