What’s your personality type?
No.. This is not a personality analysis test that I took when I had NOTHING else to do in this world! I am taking a course called Designing of High Performance Organizations, the more fancy term for a course called Organizational Behavior. It’s a very interactive class where, as the name suggests, we talk about organization- types, structure, interpersonal communication, factors that make a successful organization- so on. Just recently we discussed Disney Land and the strong organizational culture that it has. Have you ever noticed how each and every employee at DisneyLand is always smiling and courteous to people around? How all their employees have a neat physical appearance and positive demeanor to the visitors? If you’ve not noticed, make sure you closely observe their behavior next time you visit DisneyLand. It’s all symbolic of their organization and the fantasy world that they are trying to create.
Anyways, I did not intend to digress from the main topic but I couldn’t stop commenting on the case study. So, coming back to the discussion, one of the deliverables for our course is to perform a critical self analysis and identify your traits by a thorough self analysis that includes online personality tests and deep, reflective thinking. We are supposed to identify the traits that make us a strong leader in order to create successful organizations. Lazy me preferred the first option of taking the online test!
The test is called the IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool-NEO) and is based on the Big Five Dimensions of Human Personality. (For the ones interested in psychology, check out more on the Big Five Dimension on this link). The IPIP-NEO is not just another personality test. It throws 300 (yes.. 300) questions at you to come up with the results. The results are categorized into different facets such as
extraversion
agreeableness
conscientiousness
neuroticism
and many more..
With my experience of online personality tests, the IPIP-NEO has, by far, provided the most accurate and comprehensive analysis. For the inquisitive bunch, check the IPIP-NEO test and post in your comments!
