Inscribed over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was the counsel to know thyself.

Similarly, although the passage of time has added to the confusion over the best way to achieve optimum performance, the one thing experts have long agreed on is that the beginning of leadership, team development and personal effectiveness is self-knowledge. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. It is often hard to take an objective look at oneself. Knowing self; strengths and blemishes, habits and beliefs, values and self-image, may be the most challenging task any of us faces but it is also the most important.

Through the use of personal assessment inventories, 360 degree assessment instruments, and methods like video recording and specific behavioral feedback, participants in Tero workshops enjoy the rare opportunity of seeing themselves as others see them..

Assess yourself or your organization by downloading a pdf of these Tero-designed assessment inventories:

To measure the strengths of your organization from a human perspective, download and complete the following inventory

Organizational Strengths Inventory

To measure the negotiation behaviors you most frequently rely on, download and complete the following inventory

Negotiation Behaviors Self Assessment Inventory

Some of the assessment instruments used in Tero workshops include:

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is founded on the work of Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung. Jung suggested that differences in behavior are the result of the way each of us prefers to gather information, make decisions, reenergize, and order our lifestyle. In 1942, Katherine Briggs, and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers, began to design a scientifically rigorous instrument that would reliably explain and classify personality types based on Jung's theories of differences. Their interest in Jung's theories was spurred by World War II and their belief that the war was caused in part by a general misunderstanding of differences. Their hope was that the MBTI would be one way to promote the constructive understanding of differences between people.

By filling out a simple questionnaire, the MBTI reliably sorts people into categories to which they already belong. Participants often comment that hearing the feedback is "like looking in a mirror." The MBTI puts words to what people have often suspected about themselves but lacked the language to describe.

In their excellent book, The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner discuss five practices that are linked to leadership success. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) is a 360 degree assessment instrument designed to provide feedback to individuals on their strengths (and development areas) in each of the five practices. Feedback is collected and sorted by self-assessment, direct reports, managers and others.

The five leadership practices measured in the LPI are: Challenging the Process, Inspiring a Shared Vision, Enabling Others to Act, Modeling the Way and Encouraging the Heart.

Kouzes' and Posner's research spans over 20 years and encompasses a very large international sample of managers and leaders from all types of organizations and levels within organizations. Sound psychometric properties include high internal reliability, test-retest reliability, and both face validity and predictive validity.

The Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI), developed by Dr. Mitchell Hammer and Dr. Milton Bennett, is a 50 item theory based instrument that measures intercultural sensitivity as conceptualized in Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS).