Most of us have been using psychometric tools in some aspect of our organizational and personal lives for many years. The most popular kinds are based on Dr. Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type. The preeminent instrument of this kind is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, developed more than 50 years ago and completed by over two million people every year. There are many others, such as Social Styles, Insights, Colors, DISC, and so on—but they all derive their methodology through the same principles.
In our work, we have often found that,
They are often flawed
They focus on the ego or the personality, and completely miss the soul, and
They lead to the demeaning practice of labeling and pigeon-holing people.
The Secretan Center has been on a long, and until now, fruitless search for something that goes beyond the “old story”, Jungian-based, profiling tools.
A few years ago we met Mike Sturm, the originator of 5Dynamics, which is a suite of online tools that support individual and team development and high performance. 5Dynamics focuses on the cognitive and behavioral processes that determine how individuals learn, create, and collaborate. It then maps them to whatever a person wants to achieve.
It includes a powerful coaching application with unique dyad reports, showing how the leader’s, coach’s or mentor’s dynamics compare to those of the person being developed, and suggesting strategies for an optimal leadership, coaching and mentoring relationship. They represent extraordinarily effective, yet simple, team and leadership development tools.
The 5Dynamics Tool enables leaders to work with their teams to:
Measure how people prefer to work, learn, and collaborate.
Specify the necessary ingredients for success in any job, role, working pair, team, or process.
Map the individuals' energies to the process for optimal results.
Assist people in developing and adapting those energies, insofar as possible.
Energy refers to the ability to sustain high performance over time without stress. This is quite different from competence, which people have known how to measure for many years.
The results of the patent-pending 2-minute assessment focus on process rather than on personality. They are directly applicable to any work situation. Individuals can easily grasp how to approach a role, task, or work assignment. Team members can quickly see how their dynamics influence their collaboration with one another to achieve the dreams or objectives of a team.
When the people fit the process (and vice-versa) the business outcomes are dramatically improved and people feel a high degree of individual satisfaction.
People rapidly learn how to interact with each other on the basis of process.
What is "process?" Everything we all do begins with an idea and ends with implementation. In between, we may need to involve other people and we will likely need a detailed plan.
These steps—ideas, inspiring other people, planning, and execution—describe any process. Each one of them consistently attracts each of us to a greater or lesser degree. Mastering our energy—and knowing the energies of others—is a huge component of success and happiness—in work and life.
As people's understanding of "process" expands, they instinctively make two kinds of discoveries:
When their strengths can best be applied (context)
How the human contribution to processes can be optimized for external success and internal satisfaction or happiness.
5Dynamics provides people and organizations with a systematic way to understand and apply strengths, to grow and adapt to situations, and to enlist other people to help achieve common goals.
The primary goal of the Secretan Center is to help organizations identify, realize and sustain their dreams—but you can only realize a dream if you have the appropriate resources. 5Dynamics is the best instrument of its kind, that we have come across, to determine if the organization has the human assets necessary to achieve their dream.
If you would like to learn more, discuss this breakthrough profiling tool, or take a complimentary profile yourself, please contact us at info@secretan.com
