Egogram

The Egogram is a bar graph showing the amount of energy within the ego structure of the person and how he/she re-distributes this energy within the different ego states at a given point in time.

The test demonstrates what aspects of the personality are used in social interaction. It is based on Transactional Analysis and the various ego states such as Controlling Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, Natural Child and Adaptive Child.

This test gives an insight into the behavioural patterns of the individual in terms of the primary ego states that the individual utilizes and his/her movement from one to the other ego state.

Learning Style Inventory (LSI)

This test indicates the pattern an individual adopts while dealing with day-to-day situations. It generally gives insights in the learning and problem-solving pattern of an individual.

Individuals due to their past experiences and patterns of learning show a typical orientation towards one or other style. These are:

• Concrete Experience... individual is oriented to "feeling"
• Reflective Observation... individual is oriented to "watching"
• Abstract Conceptualization... individual is oriented to "thinking"
• Active Experimentation... individual is oriented to "doing"

Motivational Analysis (MAOB)

MAOB analyses predominantly six motivational needs in an individual with focus on his/her approach and avoidance behaviour.

Achievement:
Characterized by concern for excellence, competition with the standards set by others or by oneself, the setting of challenging goals for oneself, awareness of the hurdles in the way of achieving those goals, and persistence in trying alternative paths to reach one's goals.

Affiliation:
Characterized by a concern for making an impact, for establishing and maintaining close, personal relationships, by value on friendship, and a tendency to express one's emotions.

Control:
Characterized by a concern for monitoring matters, orderliness, a desire to remain informed, and an urge to monitor and take corrective action when needed.

Dependence:
Characterized by a desire for learning and seeking guidance or help from others in one's own self-development, checking with significant others (those who are more knowledgeable or have higher status, expert, close associates, etc.), submitting ideas or proposals for approval, having an urge to maintain an "approval" relationship.

Extension:
Characterized by concern for helping and serving others, interest in super-ordinate goals, and an urge to be relevant and useful to large groups, including society.

Influence by Expertise:
Characterized by a concern to make an impact on others, a desire to make people do what one thinks is right, and an urge to change matters and (develop) others.

Your Temperament (YT)

YT overviews the seven emotional blocks and brings out the rigid verses flexible belief system in individuals. Test scores which are extremely high or low indicate extreme rigidity or low creative ability.

Allergy to Ambiguity:
Tendency to avoid unclear tasks and complex brain teasers, it shuns the path of invention, discovery and creation because of feeling of 'messiness'.

Conformity:
Fear of social criticism or punishment, excessive attachment to tradition and a dislike of innovations that are counter to social norms.

Rigidity / Stereotyping:
Tendency to stereotype people; tendency to dogmatism; to old ideas. Inability to assimilate new information and interactions with people.

Fear of Failure:
Tendency to stick to safe options, avoid competitive situations, or to participate in activities where one is sure of winning. Tendency to look for alibis for failure, excessive fright and nervousness in test situations and it can also paralyze the individual due to stress.

Starved Sensibility:
Inability to feel, experience, or imagine richly. It reduces the supply of stimuli that may trigger divergent thinking, reduced curiosity and openness, and a sense of fresh encounter with life.

Resource Myopia:
Tendency to get dependent and become passive, feeling of helplessness, participation in a very narrow range of activities; inhibition of risk taking.

Touchiness (Fear of Humiliation):
Aversion to meeting strangers; tendency to seek flatterers; wanting to stick to the same old group; coldness towards "threatening" persons, excessive shyness. Interpersonal collaboration can be difficult. It may also make a person averse to seeking feedback.

Myers - Brigg's Type Indicators (MBTI)

This inventory, by Myers and Briggs (1962, 1976, 1977), was designed to measure personality preferences or types and was not designed as scale for measurement of traits or behaviour.

This psychometric questionnaire measures psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

The Inventory has 50 items, each of which is a forced choice between two options. All choices reflect the two poles of the same Jungian preferences namely:

• introversion / extroversion,
• sensation / intuition,
• thinking / feeling,
• judging / perceiving aspect of the personal preferences