For over 66 years Birkman International has introduced many insights and has refined their tools while providing organisations such as ours with excellent guidance and education.

Thrive Impulse HR Consultancy considers Dr. Birkman’s approach to be one of the best at delivering results for clients. Through the Birkman assessment we can accurately measure various behaviors that will help us to identify the best ways to manage and guide each individual. This will lead to increased productivity behaviors, stress management and reduction, identifying underlying needs and motivations, which will lead to a stronger organization overall.

As an organizational psychologist, Dr. Birkman has a given society the important gifts of personality testing and organizational assessments. The Birkman method has helped numerous individuals and companies realise a more definitive means to evaluate people and guide them to their proper vocations.

The Birkman Method® is a multi-dimensional assessment that integrates behavioral, motivational and occupational data. This sophisticated, scientific instrument was developed by the late Dr. Roger Birkman and his Houston-based team over the past 60 years and it has become the gold standard of assessments globally. The Birkman Method® is available in 13 different languages and has been completed by over 2.5 million people and 5,000 organizations including corporations, not-for-profit organizations, governments and individuals. The Birkman Method® replaces intuition with scientific information that can predict interpersonal and occupational success. The assessment has demonstrated the ability to improve people skills.

Empirically created within organizations for people who work in organizations, The Birkman Method® can be engaged by individuals beyond their employment or during intervals in their career path by providing a complete, reliable and relevant lifecycle of information that enhances decision-making and continually helps to inform and improve personal effectiveness.

The Birkman Method® is delivered to you through a proprietary, secure online platform providing you with access anytime and anywhere in the world. Following a 45-minute online survey, you will receive immediate results through a variety of customized reports. The reports contain comprehensive descriptions of your behavior with a corresponding comparison to others from the expansive Birkman database.

APPLICATIONS

The Birkman Method® provides multi-dimensional insight into the behavior of an individual, group and organization by measuring:

• - Usual Behavior - productive, socialized behavior that is easy to observe by others as adaptable, appropriate and natural.
• - Underlying Needs - rarely seen by others, needs are vital because they identify an individual's preferred environment and expectations. They clarify motivation and highlight inner strengths.
• - Stress Behavior - these less than productive behaviors are easy to observe when Underlying Needs are not met over a prolonged period of time. Others see them as defensive, reactive, uncomfortable and costly.
• - Areas of Interest - interests indicate what an individual prefers to do and how they prefer to direct their energies as measured by 10 scales that correlate highly to over 160 different occupational roles and careers.

Validation and reliability of The Birkman Method® have been received from the National Scientific Foundation and the National Institutes of Health for applications in the following:

• Recruiting, Selection & Retention
• Career Management
• Coaching & Development
• xecutive Coaching
• Team Building
• Leadership Development
• Succession Planning
• Organizational Strategy & Alignment
• Conflict Resolution
• Profile & Competency Development
• Change Management Initiatives

Thrive Impulse HR Consultancy provides The Birkman Method® to individuals as well as organizations of all types and sizes with a customized service offering based on the instrument. Quotes for Executive Coaching, Workshops, etc. can be provided by contacting us through the form below.

The entry level service for individuals is an online debriefing in (3) 45-minute sessions by a certified consultant to unpack and interpret the Birkman Map®, Interests, Components. For more information you may contact us directly.

MBTI Step I is a powerful, versatile personality type assessment that provides the foundations for a deep understanding of personal motivations and group interactions. It can be applied to multiple personal and business issues, and revisited over time as new challenges arise. By providing multiple quality-assured insights with a single questionnaire, the MBTI assessment's scalability and relevance to all organisational levels delivers a high return on investment.

The MBTI questionnaire sorts people into one of 16 different personality types.

The 16 MBTI personality types

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) Step I is based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type. It indicates your personality preferences in four dimensions:

• Where you focus your attention – Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I)
• The way you take in information – Sensing (S) or INtuition (N)
• How you make decisions – Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
• How you deal with the world – Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)

There are four letters that make up your personality type that can help you to understand yourself and your interactions with others. To find out what your MBTI personality type is you need to complete the MBTI questionnaire and take part in a feedback session from a qualified MBTI practitioner.

The Myers-Briggs assessment is far more than just a personality questionnaire. The theoretical framework of the MBTI assessment provides a common language for understanding and describing the interpersonal differences that define us as individuals.

The MBTI conceptual framework offers an easy-to-understand but sophisticated way of understanding personality differences.

It gives a wholly positive view, getting people on board so that they make genuine and lasting changes to their behaviour.

It highlights individual strengths and how to capitalise on them. It is a powerful application and problem-solving over a broad range of issues.

The MTQ48 assessment is a unique 48 item high-quality psychometric measure that measures Mental Toughness which describes the mindset that every person adopts in everything they do. It is closely related to qualities such as character, resilience, grit, etc.

The Birkman Method® provides multi-dimensional insight into the behavior of an individual, group and organization by measuring:

• Performance – explaining up to 25% of the variation in performance in individuals
• Positive Behaviour – more engaged, more positive, more “can do”
• Wellbeing – more contentment, better stress management, less prone to bullying
• Aspirations – more ambitious, prepared to manage more risk

The MTQ48 identifies 4 components within mental toughness namely Control, Commitment, Challenge and Confidence, defined as follows:

CONTROL – YOUR SELF-ESTEEM AND EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT

You believe you shape what happens to you and you can manage your emotions when doing it.

COMMITMENT – YOUR RELIABILITY AND FOCUS

Describes to what extent you will “make promises” in the form of goals, targets and priorities and whether you will keep those promises.

CHALLENGE – YOUR DRIVE AND PERSONAL GROWTH

Describes to what extent you see challenges, change, adversity and variety as opportunities or as threats.

CONFIDENCE – YOUR “SELF-BELIEF”

Describes the extent to which you believe you have the ability to successfully complete tasks and situations and influence others when needed.

The control and commitment scales reflect Resilience while challenge and confidence reflect Confidence, the “survive and thrive traits within Mental Toughness.

Published research and case studies from around the world show that Mental Toughness is a major factor in:

• Performance – explaining up to 25% of the variation in performance in individuals
• Positive Behaviour – more engaged, more positive, more “can do”
• Wellbeing – more contentment, better stress management, less prone to bullying
• Aspirations – more ambitious, prepared to manage more risk