PA 3. Personality Styles Inventory

The Personality Styles Inventory (PSI) is based on the description of personality types originally provided by Carl Jung, this inventory yields scores regarding one’s orientation toward
• Extraversion or Introversion,
• Sensing or Intuition,
• Thinking or Feeling, and
• Perceiving or Judging.
Unlike the widely used Myers-Briggs test, the Personality Style Inventory provides a two-tier assessment. One can not only identify their own orientation, but also discover how other people tend to view their orientation. Rich insights are produced by this second-tier assessment – especially for those who have already completed the Myers Briggs Inventory (or another of the widely-available Jungian-based inventories). Surprises are often found when finding out how other people perceive the way in which we are oriented in our daily life.
As is the case with all of the CPOA personal assessment inventories, PSI is available for administration to an individual as a self-assessment instrument. PSI is also available as a tier-two inventory that is administered to a certain number of the respondent’s acquaintances (usually chosen from a diverse population in respondent’s personal and work life).
The inventory is also available in a booklet, that includes both the self-assessment version and the assessment-by-others version, as well as score keys and an interpretive document. As in the case of IPI and INI, the concepts contained in PSI are incorporated in a third-tier organizational culture inventory.

PA 4. Organization Spectrum Inventory

As noted in descriptions of the IPI, INI and PSI, a third-tier assessment inventory is available that brings together and integrates the concepts of interpersonal preferences, interpersonal needs and personality styles. Three fundamental organizational cultures are identified:
• Red (assertive, action oriented, outcome driven)
• Blue (supportive, service oriented, people driven) and
• Yellow (analytic, reality oriented, data driven)
These three cultures are assessed along with three hybrid cultures: purple, green and orange. This inventory is aligned with and complemented by Human Spectrum theory. The Organizational Spectrum inventory can be taken individually by leaders of an organization. It can also be administered collectively to all members of a department or the entire organizations (in digital form using Survey Monkey).

PA 5. Human Spectrum

This document brings together and integrated concepts incorporated in four of the CPOA assessment instruments: the Interpersonal Preferences Inventory, the Interpersonal Needs Inventory, and the Personality Styles Inventory. The theoretical foundation of these four inventories is to be found in the work of
• Karen Horney,
• Will Schutz, and
• Carl Jung.
The Human Spectrum provides not only summary descriptions of the styles identified by these four scholars, but also an integration of these four theories in a single, rich human spectrum of colors and constellations of diverse perspectives and practices.