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Behavior Styles Self vs

MBTI

The main difference between the MBTI and the BSS is four-fold:

  1. The MBTI is a “personality inventory”. The BSS is focused on how people behave which can change, sometimes very quickly, based on circumstances. The BSS identifies your behavior style preference.
  2. The MBTI has sixteen different personality types. BSS has four Styles. It’s difficult to remember sixteen different types, but it’s fairly easy to remember the four styles. This makes the BSS a much more accessible, practical and scalable model. Many organizations we work with tell us it is easier to integrate the BSS throughout their organization as actionable tools.
  3. The MBTI does not focus on how others experience you or how to modify your behavior situationally. The BSS is about both how you view yourself and how others experience you. This has to do with your impact on others, which you can change by changing your behavior. The BSS focuses on this skill of modifying your behavior.

The BSS model focuses on two dimensions of behavior — Results and Emotions. These two dimensions are used to build the skill of reading behavior and knowing how to flex or modify your behavior to create a positive impact.

DISC

DiSC and the Behavior Style Self are both four-quadrant models based on the work of Dr. William Marston. They are also widely-used, tested and trusted instruments that create self-awareness. 

 

Effectiveness Institute consultants used the DiSC Profile when the company started in the early 1980’s. The facilitators found that scoring the DiSC assessment was fairly complex (the online version has eliminated this difficulty) and the reports contained a great deal of information about the person taking the assessment. While this was helpful for increasing self-awareness it was difficult to make the information easy-to-remember and practical to apply.

 

Predictive index

The PI Behavioral Assessment is an untimed, free-choice, stimulus-response tool that businesses have used to understand the personality traits that make their employees and candidates tick.

 

The assessment measures:

  • Dominance is the drive to exert influence on people or events.
  • Extraversion is the drive for social interaction with other people.
  • Patience is the drive to have consistency and stability.
  • Formality is the drive to conform to rules and structure.

Objectivity is the degree to which an individual prefers objectivity when processing information and making decisions.

 

Predictive Index is a robust tool with broad applications that relate to someone’s motivations, which are more personality based with behavioral implications. EI’s Behavior Style assessment and model focus primarily on behavior with personality implications.

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