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Free and Low Cost online self assessments

Learn about your personal style & preferences, leadership development, interpersonal communication, stress management and coping skills. Check out these assessments to get a better feel for how personal assessment tools can help you become more self aware.

Compiled by Dr. Paula J. Caproni (pcaproni@umich.edu), author of the book, The Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life (Prentice Hall) and from deep in the Archives of The Coach to Coach Network (www.Coach2Coach.info).


Seeing ourselves clearly does many things:

• It allows us to control impulses and select the most appropriate behaviors.

• It shows us how to avoid reacting in negative and potentially self-limiting ways.

• Knowing our strengths and limitations makes us more understanding of others.

• Gaining an understanding of issues reduces conflict in ourselves and in others

Why not try the Free (36 question sampler- "Free Short Test") or the $10 (144 question complete version - "RHETI Enneagram Test") of the online personality assessment offered by The Enneagram Institute. Once at their site, refer to RHETI [Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator]? To take this online self-assessment, go to www.EnneagramInstitute.com

The Big Five Personality Test

Quality of Life 100

Thomas J. Leonard is sharing his Quality of Life 100. Feel free to print copies of these two pages of 100 questions and answer them when you have some quiet time. If nothing else, it will educate you on the wide range of areas in which you could use a coach. Just double click above to read the PDF using Adobe Acrobat Reader. (copyright 2000 by Thomas J. Leonard. Duplication and attribution permitted and encouraged. www.thomasleonard.com)

The Self Assessment Center

Keirsey Temperament Sorter

This website has a free on-line version of the Keirsey Temperament sorter. It gives the same kinds of profiles as the Myers Briggs does (such as ENTP, INFJ) but it's free and easily accessible on the web.

What is Your Personality Style?

Social Style Assessments

This has the social styles assessments and provides personal feedback as well. The assessment and feedback are free.

Emotional Intelligence Quiz

Communication Skills Inventory

Self-Esteem Inventory

Locus of Control and Attributional Style Inventory

Type A Inventory

Coping Skills Inventory


For more self assessments, please visit the Self Assessment Center at www.SelfAssessmentCenter.com


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