I’ve found the following tools helpful for career development, team building, and self-discovery. Take the ones that interest you by purchasing them directly from the resources below. We can use the results in our coaching or facilitation work.

• Keirsey Temperament II (KTS-II) Identify your disposition to be an artisan, guardian, rational or idealist at www.advisorteam.com Online KTS-II is $14.95. Bundle with Campbell Interest Survey for $29.95.
  
  
• Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (C) Learn which careers best match your aptitudes with www.advisorteam.com Online test $19.95. Bundle with KTS-II for $29.95.
  

• Meyers Briggs Career Test Discover your personality type and what professions suit your type. www.discoveryourpersonality.com Online for $60-$65
  

• Astrological Birth Chart Use your sun, rising, and moon signs as learning tools and guides. For charting and interpretation explore Susan Miller’s www.mypersonalhoroscope.com $44.95
  

• Strengthfinders Find your top five themes of talent by taking the Gallup assessment. Buy the book, Now, Discover Your Strengths at www.amazon.com A number in back jacket gives you the code to take the online test. You must buy a NEW copy. For more information check out http://gmj.gallup.com/book_center/strengthsfinder/ $19.80
  
  
• Leadership Circle Learn from others with this360 feedback tool. It looks at behavioral outcomes and impact as well as the underlying beliefs that drive your behavior. Amy Felix-Reese at www.ipspa.com or Dave Schrader at www.leading-work.com Assessment with one-hour feedback session $400. For more information
  explore www.theleadershipcircle.com
  
  
• People Styles at Work Find out if you are Amiable, Driver, Expressive or Analytical and how to work better with ALL styles. Go to www.amazon.com to purchase the book. The self-assessment is in the book. $13.57
  
  
• John Holland Personality Types Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and/or Conventional? To get the SDS interpretative report to learn about your self and your educational and life/career choices go to www.self-directed-search.com. The fee is $9.95.
  
  
• The Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI) Find out if your personality type or nature is a reformer, helper, achiever, individualist, investigator, loyalist, enthusiast, or challenger. Go to www.enneagraminstitute.com to take the RHETI test. Look to the menu on home page and click on Full RHETI sampler $0 or the Full RHETI enneagram test for $10.
  
  
• Team Diagnostic™ Assessment Measure the system that is the team. Define team strengths in BOTH productivity and positivity factors. Shift focus from individual team members to the entity that is the team. Identify specific mindsets, skill sets and being sets for high performing teams. Contact Brainstorming à la Mode, Inc. for more information.