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Birkman Method^®

The Birkman Method® is designed to accurately measure and understand individual performance potential by clarifying strengths and effective behaviors, interests and goals, management styles, thinking styles, underlying needs, and stress behaviors. By integrating both behavioral and motivational aspects, the management information captured opens the door to greater personal, team and organizational productivity.

The Birkman Method® focuses on five major perspectives:

• Usual Behavior –an individual’s effective behavioral style of dealing with relationships and tasks

• Underlying Needs – an individual’s expectations of how relationships and social situations should be governed in context of the relationship or situation

• Stress Behaviors – an individual’s ineffective style of dealing with relationships or tasks; behavior observed when underlying needs are not met

• Interests – an individual’s expressed preference for job titles based on the assumption of equal economic rewards

• Organizational Focus - the perspective in which an individual views problems and solutions relating to organizational goals

The Birkman Method® provides a deep level of both descriptive and prescriptive information that can be formatted in over 40 different reports. Many consider it the premier non-clinical instrument for measuring human behavior and occupational strengths. It is based on more than five decades of research and development, with over 2 million people in over 5,000 organizations having contributed to the depth and strength of this assessment tool.

Business Applications

The Birkman Method® can be used for the business applications listed below. In addition, data from the Birkman Method® can be mapped to the results of the Breckenridge Culture Indicator® to: a) establish the “fit” of key players within an organization’s culture, and b) quantitatively assess the distribution of an organization’s leadership and management bench strength.

Call the Breckenridge Institute today at 1-800-303-2554 to explore ways we can help you use this powerful tool to harness the invisible power of your culture.

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Personality in Context^®