Work Personality Index®, 2nd Edition Revised (WPI2-R)

The Work Personality Index 2nd Edition Revised (WPI2-R) provides a clear framework for understanding the impact of personality on job performance. It helps to identify key motivators and behaviours – essential for hiring the right people and developing employees, teams, and leaders. Unlike other personality assessments the WPI2-R only measures traits that are directly related to the work environment and on-the-job behaviours. This focus helps professionals make the most efficient and effective match between people and work roles.

Coming soon to the WPI2-R is the Team Dynamics dashboard, which turns individual results into team insights. Team Dynamics is the key to understanding how personality drives team success by empowering both leaders and team members by visualising how their personality impacts performance.  Analyse group data in key areas such as change management, communication style, conflict, problem-solving, and teamwork.  Every manager can instantly understand their team’s unique talents and receive feedback to coach their team to success. 

Assessment Scales

The WPI helps describe an individual’s style in terms of job-related strengths and weaknesses:

• Energy and Drive: Energy, Ambition, Leadership, Social Confidence, Persuasion, Multi-tasking

• Work Style: Dependability, Persistence, Rule-following, Attention to Detail, Planning

• Working with Others: Outgoing, Teamwork, Concern for Others, Democratic

• Problem Solving Style: Innovation, Analytical Thinking

• Dealing with Pressure: Self-control, Stress Tolerance

• Managing Change: Initiative, Flexibility

Applications of the WPI2-R

The WPI2-R is a versatile assessment. With a variety of report options the results can be used in recruitment, individual, team, and leadership development.

• Leadership Development: The WPI2-R allows organisations to assist leaders identify their strengths and common challenges in areas important to leadership development including how they work with others, how they set goals, approach their work, solve problems, deal with stress, and manage change. Using the WPI2-R in leadership development will help an individual increase their effectiveness and identify pivotal issues – including leveraging their strengths and overcoming weaknesses that, when addressed, will significantly enhance their performance and effectiveness.

• Team Building: Team Dynamics makes using the WPI2-R with groups easy and effective. Instantly visualise how individual work styles impact decision-making, conflict, communication, managing change, and team performance.

• Career Development: Career development revolves around helping people gain self-awareness of their skills, preferences, and values, and then identifying occupations that provide a good fit. Results from the WPI2-R are also helpful for examining job satisfaction in a potential career area.

• Employee Selection: Used as a pre-employment assessment, the WPI2-R helps match candidates’ characteristics with job requirements and can increase the effectiveness, accuracy, and objectivity of an organisation’s selection process. Organisations and candidates appreciate the straightforward work-focused language of the reports and questionnaire. 

• Remote Work Insights: Working remotely requires methods and behaviours that are different from working in an office. To help people successfully manage these differences, our reports will provide additional feedback focused on hiring, developing, and leading employees in a virtual or hybrid environment.

Available Reports

The WPI2-R offers a variety of reports to cater to your specific goals:

• NEW! Leadership Potential Report: The report identifies high potentials and develop future leaders by highlighting characteristics that are a natural fit with leadership requirements and can be leveraged straightaway as well as characteristics that are likely to cause difficulty for a new leader, based on their unique style. 

• Select Report: This report provides you with a comprehensive, objective assessment of work behaviour. The report describes a candidate’s approach to tasks, way of interacting with people, and performance at work. The Select Report is a powerful tool to complement ability testing and structured interviews. The report will provide valuable behavioural information before your next hiring decision.

• Developmental Report: This report delves into individual strengths, weaknesses, and behavioural tendencies in the workplace. It equips employees and managers with actionable insights to enhance performance and achieve career goals.

• Leadership Report: This report helps leaders understand their leadership style, strengths, and areas for development. By focusing on pivotal skills, it empowers leaders to create targeted development plans that drive impactful results.

• Career Report: This report provides valuable insights into personality traits, preferred work styles, and how to navigate career transitions. It equips individuals with the knowledge to find fulfilling work that aligns with their natural tendencies.

• Job Match Report: This report streamlines the hiring process by efficiently matching candidate personalities to job requirements. It ensures a strong fit between individual strengths and the demands of the position.