<\/a>multiple X-ray snapshots (better if the person is dead) or using ultrasound technology, but it would still be just the physical aspect of the whole person. Since it would be rather uneconomical for most companies to have their people undergo a barrage of psychometric\/ leadership 360\u00b0 assessments, it makes sense to use whatever assessment is selected and use that as the starting point for people\/ leadership development.<\/p>\nPsychometric assessments, as with all things, are subject to misuse and abuse. I suspect that many companies use them as part of their bureaucratic processes because genuine people development “takes up too much time and effort”. It is easier to say “Your assessment results show that you are not a good fit for this appointment, so your immediate Boss’ application to have you promoted has not been accepted”. The poor candidate for promotion does not even have a chance to talk to somebody about how he\/ she could<\/strong> have done better. Worse, some other less qualified person might be promoted to the position simply because he\/ she is in the “In<\/strong>” group. You know what happens after that!<\/p>\nSo, don’t sweat about which psychometric tools are better, ad nauseum<\/em>. Just go with what’s been chosen, and move on from there! If you use them as part of personnel development or for hiring purposes, remember that they are just one<\/strong> of the tools you should be using anyway. If you don’t know what the other tools are, you had better give me a call. You might be in the wrong job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Times published an article on 13 Apr 2013 titled “Myers-Briggs personality test embraced by employers, not all psychologists“. You can read the article here:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/15ibPXo I am not a certified MBTI administrator, meaning I cannot administer the tool nor interpret the results of the assessment. I am a qualified DISC trainer, but that’s beside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Psychometric Instruments need to be used wisely, meaning use them as conversation starters. You still need the rest of your tools and people development processes.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,11,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-MU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3045,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}