4 Best Personality Tests To Build Teamwork

Are you looking for creative ways to build teamwork? Want to learn how you can work together better? Utilize strengths, overcome differences, and delegate tasks with ease? Check out these top four personality tests used for self-discovery and improving team dynamics. By learning more about yourself and those on your team, you can effectively improve how you work together.

1. Cliftonstrengths (StrengthsFinder)

Cliftonstrengths, formerly called StrengthsFinder, is an incredible self-development and team building tool. Crafted by Don Clifton, Cliftonstrengths presents 35 attributes or strengths, which are categorized into four domains: strategic thinking, executing, influencing, and relationship building. Taking a timed questionnaire will uncover your top five strengths, or you can see all 35 strengths ranked from strongest to weakest. Knowing your strengths will help you understand where you naturally perform and highlight the blind spots you need to keep in mind.

Why use Cliftonstrengths for teams?

Discovering strengths in team members will help you delegate tasks and know how to utilize everyone most effectively. Finding blind spots on a team brings incredible insight, revealing where everyone needs to work with greater intentionality.

Note: If you want to take the online assessment, make sure you purchase a new book with an unused code.

2. Myers Briggs Personality Test (MBTI)

Myers Briggs breaks down humanity into a combination of four letters to create 16 personalities. With a quick assessment, you can discover your MBTI personality type. Each letter represents:

• How you best recharge (Introvert or Extravert)
• How you intake information (Sensing or Intuition)
• How you make decisions (Thinking or Feeling)
• How you accomplish tasks and manage your life (Judging or Perceiving)

Myers Briggs is a fun and easy icebreaker for teams to start conversations and get to know one another on a more personal level.

Why use Myers Briggs for teams?

By knowing the Myers Briggs personality types of those in your group, you can understand each other better. You’ll learn why individual team members get along while others clash and how you can foster a better community.

You and your teammates can take a free version of the Myers Briggs personality test here.

3. Enneagram

An enneagram is a nine-pointed star, which is a perfect depiction for this model of nine basic personality types. Each person is a number 1-9. The primary purpose of the Enneagram is to help you understand yourself as you really are and to understand others to create harmonious relationships. The Enneagram goes beyond basic personality descriptions, diving deeply into an individual’s soul. It uncovers your healthy and unhealthy self, childhood hurts, greatest fears, tips for self-improvement, and so much more!

Why use Enneagram for teams?

The Enneagram uncovers the habits and motivations of others, which helps you empathize and grasp each others’ dispositions more compassionately. By gaining a greater understanding of each other and gaining a deeper understanding of yourself, teams can work more efficiently.

Although you can find quizzes online, the best way to discover your number is by reading the descriptions of each and finding out for yourself which one resonates with you.

4. The 5 Love Languages

The 5 Love Languages is a short book written by Gary Chapman describing the different love languages: quality time, physical touch, gift giving, acts of service, and words of affirmation. By simply reading the list, you may be able to determine which love language is yours. If you’re not sure, you can take the online quiz for free! People commonly speak one or two love languages. Which one they speak most often is most likely the way they prefer to receive love and appreciation. Although widely applied in romantic relationships, the principles in the 5 Love Languages can work wonders on improving team dynamics.

Why use the 5 Love Languages for teams?

Discovering your love language and the love languages of those on your team can reveal the best way to thank, encourage, and appreciate one another.

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