The Employee Assessment

The Berke Employee Assessment measures a number of key personality traits and natural talents that can have a dramatic impact on job performance. In all jobs it takes the right combination of both personality and talent to be successful, and the Berke Assessment allows managers to measure specific candidates against specific jobs. To fully understand the power of the Berke, it’s helpful to understand the difference between personality traits and talents.

Personality Traits describe a person’s habit or preference in interpersonal situations. A strong preference for working with others or a strong preference for order and predictability are examples of personality traits.

Natural Talents are inborn or hardwired abilities. Talents make it easy for some people to think through a complicated problem logically or easy for others to come up with a quick and immediate solution to a problem.

While many commercially available employee assessments measure personality, the Berke Employee Assessment is unique in its analysis of both personality and talent. The resulting report provides a robust and strikingly insightful snapshot of an individual, particularly when compared to the personality traits and talents required by a given position.

What the Berke Employee Assessment Measures

The Berke Assessment measures a number of key personality traits, including:

Assertiveness	A natural tendency to take initiative in order to control or influence a situation versus being careful in assessing situations before moving into action.
Sociability	A natural tendency to gain satisfaction from interacting with other people versus working with things and ideas.
Responsiveness	A natural tendency to react spontaneously and to express oneself outwardly versus being deliberate and patient.
Structure	A natural tendency to seek order, certainty and correctness versus working without an established framework.
Social Adaptability	A natural tendency to adapt to other people’s feelings to avoid unpleasant consequences versus being less concerned about the impact of one’s behavior on others.
Emotional Intensity	A natural tendency to react strongly, immediately and intensely, especially when events do not unfold as planned versus a tendency to keep frustration to oneself.
Optimism	A natural tendency to think positively about the future versus taking a more skeptical view.

The Berke Assessment measures key natural talents, including:

Logical Problem Solving	The ability to think through large, complicated problems in a methodical, step-by-step manner.
Rapid-Fire Problem Solving	The ability to intuitively and quickly solve many problems, one after another.
Idea Productivity	The ability to produce ideas rapidly one after another.
Generalist	The ability to identify with the goals of a group and to connect intuitively with the ideas of others.

The Berke Assessment evaluates a person’s leadership and persuasion styles:

Leadership Style	A combination of personality traits and talents that makes it easy to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute to the effectiveness and success of an organization.
Persuasion Style	A combination of personality traits and talents that makes it easy to guide people toward the adoption of an idea, attitude, or action that is mutually beneficial.