16 PF®
The 16 pf (sixteen personality factors) is a trait based psychometric tool that measures sixteen factors that make up our personality.
The 16 pf provides a comprehensive insight about a whole personality, their potential and capacity to sustain performance in a larger role as well as looking at potential development needs. It is commonly used in talent development, recruitment and assessment.
The 16 pf factors are:
These sixteen personality factors can be further grouped into five 'global factors':
- Relating to others - indicates how much time and energy you focus on interpersonal relationships as opposed to pursuing projects, ideas and tasks.
- Influence and collaboration - identifies different traits that contribute to having a forceful, assertive, independent influence on your environment, or in having a more cooperative, collaborative style of functioning.
- Thinking style - describes different styles of how you experience the world. People at one end tend to have an intuitive, creative approach and those at the other end tend to have a more objective, realistic thinking style.
- Structure and flexibility - identifies different ways of providing self-discipline and self-control, as opposed to adopting a more unrestrained and flexible approach.
- Management of pressure - describes different styles of coping with pressure, disappointments, challenges, setbacks and other stressful circumstances.