INSIGHT Inventory

The INSIGHT Inventory is an easy-to-use, self-scoring personality profile test that helps people gain in-depth knowledge about their personality strengths, understand others better, and improve communication skills.

The INSIGHT Inventory is:

• Easy to use, understand and apply
• Simple to administer and score
• Available on paper and online versions
• Strengths-based, uses positive language
• Practical and behavioral based - presents behaviors at work and at home
• Descriptive rather than labeling – no boxes, codes or colors
• Effortless to integrate with other assessments - expands on what others may have learned using DiSC, MBTI, and Big 5
• Fully validated with comprehensive research and statistical norming

Designed from inception as a training self-discovery instrument to get participants actively involved in leadership and teamwork courses.

The INSIGHT Inventory is so straightforward and easy to understand that it can be completed and scored in just minutes. Facilitators spend less time explaining the tool, and more time training.

Key features:

• 32 descriptive terms using positive language
• Self-scorable design for instant results

Unlike many other style instruments, the INSIGHT Inventory recognizes that people’s behavior may change from one place to another based on role expectations, stress, and job demands. So, to give participants a more accurate, well-rounded assessment of their behavioral styles, it provides two profiles – one of their work style (behavior at work) and another of their personal style (behavior at home).

Participants will see – perhaps for the first time – how their behavior may change from one setting to another. This helps them learn how to "flex" their style to adapt to different situations and communicate with others in a way which solves problems and avoids conflict.

The INSIGHT Inventory measures behavioral preferences on four traits:

A) Getting Your Way (Indirect or Direct)
How you express your thoughts and opinions.
B) Responding to Others (Reserved or Outgoing)
How you approach and respond to others.
C) Pacing Activity (Urgent or Steady)
The speed at which you make decisions and take action.
D) Dealing with Details (Unstructured or Precise)
How you structure time and organize tasks.

The interpretive booklet provides in-depth information about the traits and easy-to-follow guidelines for applying and achieving practical results. By working through the step-by-step instructions in the booklet participants move smoothly through a process of checking items that apply to them, writing responses and answering questions about their profiles. This gets participants involved with the material immediately and allows them to personalize it so that it's relevant to them and the training goals.

Activities include:

• Identifying the positive characteristics of their personalities
• Understanding their reactions to stress
• Learning to flex (temporarily change) their behavior to communicate better with others

The INSIGHT Inventory was developed using a combination of three theories:

• 	INSIGHT Inventory
  Field Theory		Trait Theory
  	Factor Analysis

  The Field Theory of Dr. Kurt Lewin (1935) which maintained that behavior (B) is a function of the interaction between a person's personality (P) and the environment (E), B = ƒ(P, E). This is the underlying theoretical base the INSIGHT Inventory is based on that explains why both work and personal styles are measured.
  
  
• The Trait Theory of Gordon Allport (1937) which first used descriptive adjectives to identify personality characteristics.
  
  
• The Factor Analysis of Raymond Cattell (1943) which maintained that personality traits must first be statistically derived and not named until after validity studies are to ensure unbiased research.

This three axis theoretical framework resulted in the unique style measure that is the INSIGHT Inventory.

Insight is proud of the strong research base of the INSIGHT Inventory. Test-retest reliability in the upper .70s and internal consistency reliability coefficients in the .70s and .80s was obtained.

Construct validity coefficients ranging consistently in mid .80s was obtained when INSIGHT Inventory traits were compared with similar scales on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Sixteen Personality Preferences (16PF), and Holland Code.

All research followed the standards set forth by the American Psychological Association, and all data is publicly available in the Technical Manual.

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