Learn more about yourself, your strengths, and your abilities through these online assessments.
Personal Growth Assessments
What Are Your Strongest Intelligences?
Developmental psychologist Howard Gardner developed the theory of Multiple Intelligences. According to Gardner, people have different kinds of intelligences (Linguistic; Logical-Mathematical; Musical; Bodily-Kinesthetic; Spatial-Visual; Interpersonal; Intrapersonal; Naturalistic; Existential). The Multiple Intelligences framework is fairer than IQ tests, which only measure one type of aptitude. Knowing your strongest bits of intelligence can help know how you learn best, and good learners make good leaders...and vice versa.
What Work Makes You Feel Alive?
What essential nature of work fills you with meaning and lets you feel fully expressed, alive with purpose, and absorbed in flow ("sparked")? Your Sparketype is one of the single most significant clues in your quest to figure out what to do with what the poet, Mary Oliver, called your "one wild and precious life." Take the Sparketype assessment here.
Fingerprint for Success: AI Coaching TOol
FingerPrint for Success is a professional and personal development platform that features a simple and intuitive user interface with a range of tools for wellbeing, happiness, performance, diversity and inclusion, plus a huge library of AI and human coaching programs. It provides a free AI-based coaching course based on your assessment results. It can measure your talents and blind spots by analyzing 48 different motivations at work—for a result that’s as unique as your fingerprint.
SCARF Assessment: What Are Your Social Motivators?
The NeuroLeadership Institute has identified five domains in humans' social experience: Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness. These domains make up the SCARF model. Take the assessment and discover the social rewards and threats that affect you the most. The assessment will give you a better understanding of your relative sensitivity towards different types of social drivers. Knowing your strongest social drivers can help you:
- Understand how your role and work environment impact your current engagement
- Better regulate your emotions
- Better communicate your needs to others
- Make choices more suited to your own preferences
CliftonStrengths
CliftonStrengths, formerly known as StrengthsFinder and StrengthsQuest, is an online assessment that helps you discover your top strengths. Knowing what they are and how to use them can help you flourish in your work and everywhere else. Being aware of your personal Strengths will also help you understand the value you bring to any context. Sewanee students can request a free CliftonStrengths code to take the assessment- please email careers@sewanee.edu to request a code. The assessment takes about 20-40 minutes. After taking it, you are encouraged to read your unique, personalized Strengths Insight Guide to help understand your specific Strengths; it also includes an Action Planning Guide with tips on how to apply your Strengths in your academics.
The Four Tendencies Quiz: Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel?
Developed by happiness and habit expert Gretchen Rubin, the Four Tendencies personality framework answers the question "How do I get myself--and others--to do what I want?" Knowing our Tendency can help us approach situations in ways that make us more likely to achieve our aims. We can make better decisions, meet deadlines, meet our promises to ourselves, suffer less stress, and engage more deeply with others. Just as important, understanding other people's Tendencies can help us reduce conflict and make significant...and help us to lead better.
Myers & Briggs' (MBTI) Personality Assessment
Self-awareness may be the most meaningful benefit of the MBTI. This personal growth assessment can be a useful way of understanding ourselves and our commonalities/differences with other people. Understanding your type tendencies can also help:
- Avoid and resolve conflicts.
- Create and maintain cohesive relationships.
- Identify and develop strengths and weaknesses.
- Improve communication skills.
What is YOUR purpose?: Personal Mission Statement Builder
You have a purpose in life. Your mission and values are expressed every day, by how you live--you just may not realize it. Good leaders are aware of their values and have a sense of purpose for their lives. Use this step-by-step Personal Mission Statement Builder to help you find the right words to articulate your mission and purpose. Set aside a good 30 minutes to make the most of this!
What are your personal values?
Personal values are what people consider important in life. Although not everyone is aware of their values, they are always present in life and become visible in our attitude to the world around us and behavior in the face of various everyday situations. If you live in accordance with your core values, you feel fulfillment and satisfaction. When you are often forced to act against your personal values, you will feel an internal conflict. This Personal Values assessment will help you to identify your top 10 values.
What is Your Conflict Style?
Your conflict style represents your natural tendency when faced with a situation of conflict. Offered by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Knowing the five main conflict styles can help you understand the choices you have for managing and leading through conflict.
The Big Five Personality Test
Good leaders know themselves. Explore your personality with the highly-respected Five Factor model (AKA the Big Five). You'll see how you stack up on five major dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism. The Big Five model of personality is widely considered to be the most robust way to describe personality differences. It is the basis of most modern personality research. This 60-question inventory is based on questionnaires used in professional research settings and will evaluate your personality on each of the Five Factors.
Enneagram
The Enneagram is a valuable personal and professional growth tool because it answers the question, "Why?" Why would someone do that? What would motivate that behavior? And why does that lead to them thinking and behaving so differently from me? Leaders find profound value in being able to work with someone with the insight of what drives them. Knowing your personality type gives you awareness, and awareness gives you a choice. The Enneagram provides a growth path, not a diagnosis. Knowing your type is a shortcut to enhancing your self-awareness and bringing out the best in yourself.
Intellectual Humility Quiz
Are you willing to concede if you don't know something? Or do you get defensive when someone questions your beliefs? Your answers might say a lot about how much " intellectual humility" you have. According to researchers, intellectual humility centers on recognizing the limitations of your own knowledge and beliefs, and it is linked to many benefits.
Bridging Differences Quiz
We humans have a deeply rooted tendency to organize ourselves into groups: you're either one of Us or part of Them. But research suggests those categories are not fixed. We can expand our sense of Us and see Them in a new light.
How Good Are Your Leadership Skills?
To be successful in your career, regardless of your title or position, focus on developing your leadership skills. Effective leaders can add value simply by being present on teams. They are inspirational and motivating. They know the right things to say to people to help them understand what's needed, and they can convince people to support a cause. Develop these leadership skills in yourself and in your team members -- and you'll see your entire team improve.
How Strong are Your Interpersonal Skills?
Interpersonal skills describe how we interact with others, whether in a social or occupational setting. This interpersonal skills assessment evaluates five of the key personality traits associated with having effective interpersonal attributes (Emotional Intelligence, Team Working, Empathy, Integrity, and Social Boldness), allowing you to gain knowledge of your strengths and an awareness of possible areas of improvement regarding social interactions within the work place.
What is your Positive Intelligence Score?
If you're physically fit, you can climb steep hills without physical stress. Similarly, If you're mentally fit, you can handle life's great challenges without mental stress, frustration, or other negative emotions. Your Positive Intelligence Quotient, or PQ Score, reveals your mental fitness level by measuring the strength of your positive mental muscles versus the negative. Researched with 500,000 participants from 50 countries, this assessment is based on Shirzad Chamine's New York Times bestselling book and Stanford lectures.
How Do YOU Self Sabotage?
A key to mental fitness is to weaken the internal Saboteurs who generate all your “negativity” in the way they respond to challenges. Your Saboteurs cause all your stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, regret, shame, guilt, and unhappiness. Saboteurs include the Judge, Controller, Avoider, Victim, Stickler and 5 others. Take this assessment to learn more about your tendencies to undermine yourself. It is based on Shirzad Chamine's New York Times bestseller and Stanford lectures; research included 500,000 participants, world class athletes, and leaders from every Fortune 100 company.
PrinciplesYou: Self-Knowledge Assessment
This new assessment was built to help people learn what they are really like. Accurate self-knowledge is the key to leading well. PrinciplesYou applies your results to real-life situations, so you can see your tendencies in action and get the right guidance to help you achieve your goals. Learn about your tendencies, talents, and opportunities for growth. Understand deeply how you prefer to think, engage, and apply yourself across the 17 core dimensions of your personality.
Long-term Stress Quiz
People use the word "stress" to describe a wide variety of situations - from your cell phone ringing while you're talking on another phone - to the feelings associated with intense work overload, or the death of a loved-one. The Holmes & Rahe Stress Scale is a well-known tool for measuring the amount of stress you've experienced within the past year. Taking the test can help you see clearly if you're at risk of illness due to stress.
Purpose, Approach, Thinking, & Habits Assessment
Leading well requires that you know yourself and your natural tendencies well. Based on 30 years of data science and real world experience, the PATH test measures how you rely on Purpose, Approach, Thinking and Habits as you go about your work life. The test has 13-16 questions and should take less than 10 minutes to complete.
How Well Do You Rethink and Unlearn? Quiz
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. Adam Grant, organizational psychologist, examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life. Identify your approach to opening other people's minds--and your own.
Purpose in Life Quiz
What's your purpose in life? It's a daunting question. But your answer may say a lot about your well-being. Studies link a sense of purpose to better physical and mental health. But your purpose isn't just about you. According to researchers, a true purpose is one that is both personally meaningful and also makes a positive impact on the lives of other people--your family, friends, neighbors, city, country, or even the whole world. Find out how strong your sense of purpose is and discover steps for strengthening it.
How Well Do You Delegate?
Effective delegation frees you up for important tasks, and empowers your people. So why do so many of us say things like: "I'll do the best job here, so I'll do it myself." "They'll resent me asking them to do it." "It's a boring job, so I'll 'lead by example' and do it myself." When you don't delegate, you risk ending up with too much work to do, not enough time to do it, and lots of unnecessary stress. Take this quiz to explore how well you delegate, and some resources to do it better.
What Is Your Professional Love Language?
Which professional love language speaks most clearly to you? Think about when and how you feel most valued at work, and communicate your style to your manager. Then, more importantly, think about your immediate teammates and try to understand which language they like to hear, too. It's most likely that everyone prefers a different style. Communicating to coworkers in their preferred professional love language may help you collaborate better, leading to a happier and more productive work environment.
Forgiveness Quiz
How forgiving are you? This quiz draws on a scale created by forgiveness research pioneer Michael McCullough and his colleagues, offering insight into how we respond to those who do us wrong.
How Productive Are You? Assessment
Are you feeling overwhelmed by your obligations at work and home? You are in good company. When thinking about your productivity, you need to first understand your priorities, and then you can plan your schedule to focus on your top priorities and downplay your routine functions. This assessment will rate your productivity and offer practical tips on how you can improve further.
Leadership Style Inventory
Understanding your personal leadership style is the first step in developing your leadership skills. Take this inventory to find out what kind of leader are you: Servant, Front-Line, Transformational, Metamodern, or Postmodern.
How Self-Compassionate Are You?
For most of us, it is easier to be kinder to others than we are to ourselves. Unfortunately, we can be harsh on ourselves, producing feelings of inadequacy and stress. The relationship we have with ourselves affects all aspects of our life. The greater compassion we have for ourselves in times of difficulty, the better we can lead others with care and concern. This short self-compassion test is from Kristin Neff, Ph.D., widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion.
Quiz: Are You Focusing on What's Important?
In this assessment, you can compare your priorities with how you actually allocate your time and energy. Once you've answered questions about four key areas -- work, home, community, self -- Wharton professor Stewart Friedman provides practical guidance and a useful exercise for addressing the critical gaps.
Quiz: Which productivity method is right for you?
Organize your life and get more done with custom recommendations based on your unique strengths, challenges, and goals. Take the quiz to find out the proven systems that fits you best to organize your tasks, manage your time, maintain your focus, stop procrastination, and achieve your goals.
How Good Are Your Leadership Skills?
Who do you consider to be a good leader? You can find people in leadership roles almost everywhere you look. However, simply having the responsibilities of a leader doesn't necessarily make a person an effective leader, but with a little study, humility, and hard work, all of us can learn to lead effectively. You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. Take the quiz to identify where you already lead effectively, and to explore where your skills need further development.
Are You a Positive or Negative Thinker?
Becoming more positive is always a good thing. Using this quiz, you can identify where and how much you tend to think negatively. You may not be aware of all of your negative thoughts and the effect they have on your life, however, by taking some time to understand your own thought patterns, you can challenge those irrational, negative thoughts -- and replace them with more positive, optimistic and empowering messages so that you can lead yourself and others better.
Leadership Motivation Assessment
The first and most basic prerequisite for leadership is the desire to lead. After all, it takes hard work to become an effective leader and, if you are not prepared to put this work in or if, deep down, you're not sure whether you really want to lead, you'll struggle to convince people that you are worth following. Leaders create the vision and set the direction for their organizations. But it is their ability to motivate and inspire people that allows them to deliver that vision. So, how much do you want to lead? This quiz will help you find out.
How Good Are Your Communication Skills?
Are you a clear communicator or a confusing one? Communication is one of the most important skills that you need to lead others. If you want to be an expert communicator, you need to be effective at all points in the communication process -- from "sender" through to "receiver" -- and you must be comfortable with the different channels of communication -- face to face, online, written, and so on. Take this short quiz to find out how good your communication skills really are.
Happiness at Work Quiz
This quiz measures how happy you are when you are at your workplace. It's based on research that has identified key factors to satisfaction at work. When you're done, you'll get your happiness-at-work score, along with ideas for cultivating more happiness at work.
Are You a Procrastinator?
Just how bad is your procrastination habit? The fact is that the majority of people procrastinate at some time or another. There are plenty of reasons why we procrastinate, but one of the first steps toward overcoming this often destructive tendency is to evaluate your own behavior.
Resiliency Quiz
Resilience is our ability to bounce back when things don't go as planned. Resilience is important because it keeps us on track until we reach our goals, it allows us to deal with difficult situations, and it helps us to grow by encouraging us to look at the positives and to manage stress. This quiz will help you understand and assess how resilient you are, and it provides advice and guidance that you can use to become even more resilient.
Mindfulness Quiz
Do you savor life or let everyday stresses control you? In other words, how mindful are you? The practice of mindfulness has been linked to happiness, health, and psychological well-being, but many of us may not know exactly what it is, let alone how to cultivate it. When you're done, you'll learn more about what mindfulness is, how much you currently practice it, and how you can promote more of it in your life.
How Good Is Your Feedback?
One of the most important things you do is give feedback to your colleagues. When you let people know how they're doing, you give them the chance to change unhelpful habits, and you reward and cement positive behavior. So, why is it so difficult to give feedback? Take this quiz to improve your feedback skills.
Social Capital Quiz
Our social connections are integral to our health and happiness, but connections come in many different forms. A lifelong friendship usually feels different than a casual acquaintance you make at a networking event or a friend you acquire on Facebook. Yet according to research, we need both weak ties and strong ties in order to build "social capital" which researchers define as the web of relationships in our life and the tangible and intangible benefits we derive from them. So how much social capital do you have? Does your capital come from strong bonds to those closest and most obviously similar to you, or from connections to people spanning different backgrounds and circumstances?
What work do you like to do?
When you are doing tasks you like, you enjoy your work. No matter where you are in your career/job, it is useful to be aware of your preferences for tasks and work environments. This O*NET assessment will help you name which are most interesting to you:
- Realistic: practical, physical, concrete, hands-on, machine, and tool-oriented
- Investigative: analytical, intellectual, scientific, explorative, thinker
- Artistic: creative, original, independent, chaotic, inventive, media, graphics, and text
- Social: cooperative, supporting, helping, healing/nurturing, teaching
- Enterprising: competitive environments, leadership, persuading, status
- Conventional: detail-oriented, organizing, clerical
Daring Leadership Assessment | Dare To Lead
Daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, observable, and measurable: Rumbling with Vulnerability, Living into our Values, Braving Trust, and Learning to Rise. The Daring Leadership Assessment will help you gauge your strengths and your opportunities for growth as a daring leader.
Gratitude Quiz
Practicing gratitude has been shown to improve physical, mental, and psychological wellbeing. Do you actively appreciate the good things in your life? Grateful people are happy people, research shows. But how grateful are you? To find out and to and discover steps for promoting even more gratitude in your life, take this quiz based on a scale developed by psychologists Mitchel Adler and Nancy Fagley.
"What's Your Leadership Style?" Quiz
While we may not all be leaders in the sense that we're managing people or running an organization, we all possess certain habits and instincts when we're presented with an opportunity to lead. Identifying your leadership style will help you lead better.
Stress & Anxiety Quiz
Is there too much stress in your life? To find out, take this quiz from The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. When you're done, you'll get your score, along with resources for combating stress.
