WorkPlace Big Five is customized to suit the needs of the workplace, it’s reliable and easy to use

• Versatile tool for profiling people and teams; 360° assessment available as well.
• Based on an extensively studied, reliable personality model.
• The questionnaire is short, focuses on the essentials and is quick to fill in (10–20 minutes).
• Written in clear and concrete language used in the workplace, which makes it extremely easy for the user to understand.
• You will have in-depth and detailed results quickly.
• Several language versions available.
• Several norm groups available.
• Pragmatic—gives clear guidelines on the best ways to work with different personalities.

Big Five: five areas of personality

The Big Five model of personality is a modern, extensively studied and reliable personality model. It has been widely accepted as the “standard” of personality research, and it is also often used as the basis when evaluating the validity of other personality assessment tools. That is why the Big Five Model is sometimes called “the mother of all personality assessment tools”.

The Big Five model divides personality in five areas (Supertraits). Based on these traits, we can describe a person’s behavior. The WorkPlace Big Five Supertraits are:

• Need for stability (N)
• Extraversion (E)
• Originality (O)
• Accommodation (A)
• Consolidation (C)

In addition, WorkPlace Big Five looks at personality through 23 subtraits.

We are a project organization where people work in teams and in several different locations. In this kind of work community, change is continuous and the work requires a great deal of self-management. We want to give our directors and managers a tool that helps them recognize their strengths and areas needing development and helps them understand different personalities. WorkPlace Big Five also provides us a common language for discussing leadership and management work.

Sari Ek-Petroff
Manager, HRD, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

WorkPlace Big Five is by far the best assessment method that I have used thus far. It’s clear and compact, covering aptly the key areas of a person’s work personality. It is an extremely useful tool in various contexts, such as recruitment assessments, management team development and coaching.

Erkki Levä
Lead Psychologist, Arespartners

We started to use WorkPlace Big Five in our management programs because we felt that managers should know themselves to be able to successfully lead others. In order to develop a company, you need to start at the level of personal development. I have investigated several different tools, and because of its solid research basis, WorkPlace Big Five is a reliable tool for gaining self-knowledge.

Anu Henttonen
Head of HRD, Finnair Plc

I utilize the WorkPlace Big Five tool for management team development and individual executive coaching, and I’ve found it extremely useful. The tool helps to find a personal and efficient management style and creates a powerful opportunity to benefit from the differences in various groups. With this tool, it’s easy to make visible the potential and the problems in a group’s way of thinking and working. In conflict situations, WorkPlace Big Five increases the understanding of different parties’ way of working—WPB5 provides the keys to learning new collaboration models.

Jarmo Manner
CEO coach

It is of utmost importance for our customers as well as for us that the tools we use are of top quality and based on studied facts. WorkPlace Big Five provides new information also for managers who’ve seen it all. The results are thorough, they describe people accurately and are easy to understand. It’s easy to utilize the information for leading yourself and others. We recommend WorkPlace Big Five as part of all our management development projects.

Christina Dahlblom
CEO, Miltton Sparks Ltd

At Terveystalo, we aim at measurable effectiveness in all our customer work. We use WorkPlace Big Five as a development tool because of its strong scientific basis and because, based on this method, we can make concrete development plans. Our work psychologists use the WorkPlace Big Five tool to promote health and welfare among individuals and work communities. WorkPlace Big Five profiling is also an integral part of the management training we offer our customers.

Antti Aro
Chief psychologist, occupational health, Terveystalo

WorkPlace Big Five Profile™

• After Workplace Nordic’s two-day certification course, you are authorized to use the profiling tool independently.
• As part of the certification, you will get to know your own Big Five profile and you can deepen your self-knowledge.
• You will also learn interesting and useful facts about human personality.
• The certification includes profiling exercises with the help of the trainers and user support also after the training.
• After the certification, you will be a part of the rapidly growing WorkPlace Big Five user network.
• No license or other fixed fees.
• The certification course is well suited for HR personnel, consultants, coaches, and for all who work within developing people/organizations.

EQ-i 2.0^®

• After Workplace Nordic’s 1,5-day certification course, you are authorized to use the EQ-i 2.0 tool independently.
• In the certification training, you will learn about the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence model, which organizations worldwide have used for nearly 20 years and which is now going to be standardized for Finland too.
• As part of the certification, you will get your own EQ measured and tips for developing your own emotional intelligence.
• The certification includes emotional intelligence measuring exercises with the help of the trainers and user support also after the training.
• After the certification, you will be a part of the rapidly growing EQ-i 2.0 user network.
• No license or other fixed fees.
• The certification course is well suited for HR personnel, consultants, coaches, and for all who work within developing people/organizations.

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