Winslow Assessment

Winslow Research Institute has provided its Behavior Assessment Systems to organizations, professional sports teams, and individuals for over 40 years. John Terhune is one of only a handful of elite licensees in the world for the Winslow Assessment. Personal coaching organizations, including Franklin Covey, Professional Education Institute, and others, leading authors like Robert Kiyosaki, Jack Canfield, Steven Covey, Zig Ziglar, Denis Waitley, Brian Tracy, and hundreds of coaches utilize the Winslow Reports in their programs.

Your Winslow Report is prepared from the results of the Winslow Dynamics Profile, a validated personality assessment instrument that measures personality traits. This comprehensive Profile measures the 24 personality characteristics related to career success and personal contentment. The Profile is Internet based, user-friendly, and enables you to complete the Profile at your location and convenience. The Profile takes less than one hour to complete, and your results are available on the Internet shortly after the Profile is complete. From the results of your Profile, a 45 to 55 page Report will be created that presents objective information on your personality, behavior, and attitudes. With this information you can capitalize on your personality assets, modify your personality, and control your behavior. The results will help you achieve success in your career and contentment in your personal lifestyle. In addition to personal development, your Report can be used for pre-marital preparation, enhance marriage and family relations, and other applications.

The Winslow Applicant Selection Program is an Internet-based system to measure the personality, behavior, and attitudes of applicants for positions and provide feedback to organizations on the applicant’s probability of success in a specific position. The user-friendly system enables organizations to administer their assessment activity and have total control over the process. Winslow Research will train one or preferably two employees of the organization to be the Winslow Reports Administrator. In just a few hours, these individuals will be competent to serve as the Internet Webmaster for the organization. Following are the procedures, features, functions and components of the System.

The scores the applicant receives on the Winslow Traits will provide answers to the following primary questions employers want answered:

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Is this applicant a success orientated individual?
  • Ambition: this trait score tells you if this person is a competitive, goal oriented person who has a strong desire to be successful.
  • Self-confidence: tells you if the applicant has supreme confidence in him or herself and truly believes they have what it takes to be successful.
  • Conscientiousness: tells you if this person places the welfare of management and the organization before their own personal self-interest.
Will this person be a dedicated and cooperative employee?
  • Coachability: will tell you if this person respects authority figures (their managers) and willingly accepts their leadership and direction.
  • Recognition: indicates if this person has an internal motivation to be seen as a desirable person and will act appropriately to receive recognition.
  • Trust: trusting individuals are not suspicious and defensive. They openly communicate and believe others are deserving of their trusting nature.Flexibility: tells you if this applicant will readily adapt to the company’s methods of operation and decisions or be resistant and insist on their own.
  • Contentment: lets you know if this is a happy person with a positive disposition, rather than someone who is disenchanted with their life.Responsibility: will this individual accept responsibility for the consequences of his or her words and actions or blame others instead.
  • Ambition: this trait score tells you if this person is a competitive, goal oriented person who has a strong desire to successful.
What is this individual's interpersonal orientation?
  • Leadership: tells you if this individual believes they are a leader and if they enjoy managing, motivating and being responsible for others.
  • Sociability: discloses whether the applicant is a people-oriented extrovert or an introvert who focuses on “things” and avoids contact with others.Exhibition: reveals if this person enjoys being the center of attention, someone who is entertaining, demonstrative and a pleasure to be with.
  • Exhibition: reveals if this person enjoys being the center of attention, someone who is entertaining, demonstrative and a pleasure to be with.
  • Nurturance: nurturing individuals are keenly aware of and sensitive to the emotional needs of others and readily respond with sympathy and support.
Does this applicant meet the intellectual requirements for an employee?
  • Alertness: measures the applicant’s inherent ability to learn quickly, understand complex situations and successfully solve problems.
  • Structure: indicates how organized their thinking, planning and actions will be. They will be highly mentally structured and disciplined.
  • Order: tells you if they will keep their physical surroundings, neat and orderly. They will have a place for everything and everything in its place.
  • Control: will determine if they are impulsive and talk or act without thinking, or someone who will control their impulsive behavior.
Does this applicant have the required emotional maturity and discipline?
  • Sociability: will determine if they enjoy interacting with others and will be perceived as a warm and friendly person others enjoy being with.
  • Endurance: tells you if they have the inherent physical energy and persistence required to prospect, make presentations and close sales.
  • Assertiveness: enables individuals to persuade others to do what they want and to accept their recommendations; they make things happen.
  • Tough-mindedness: equips those who must sell to accept the rejection, disappointments and setbacks that are inevitable in sales situations.
Does this applicant have an inherent sales personality?
  • Sociability: will determine if they enjoy interacting with others and will be perceived as a warm and friendly person others enjoy being with.
  • Endurance: tells you if they have the inherent physical energy and persistence required to prospect, make presentations and close sales.
  • Assertiveness: enables individuals to persuade others to do what they want and to accept their recommendations; they make things happen.
  • Tough-mindedness: equips those who must sell to accept the rejection, disappointments and setbacks that are inevitable in sales situations.

Employee Development

Improving personnel performance is an ongoing challenge to managers nationwide. Winslow Research Institute developed an innovative Employee Development Program to meet that challenge. The program complements management skill by preparing reports on the behavior and attitudes of employees, based on the results of assessment instruments. The Winslow Reports provide immediate and accurate insight into the characteristics that influence the success of your organization.

ATTITUDE

Of all of the physical and mental traits possessed by a human being that will separate one person from the next, attitude stands alone as the great divide between average performance and peak performance. If you want peak performance then you must be willing to invest in the development, maintenance and protection of a world-class attitude. The first step in improvement is measurement. You improve what you measure. Let’s take a few minutes and let’s assess the incredibly important personal asset that you have called your Attitude.

TEAM BUILDING

Have you worked for teams where everyone pitches in, and you all work together in perfect harmony? Do you always play to your strengths in a team, or are there times when the group you’re in just doesn’t gel? Either way, teamwork is such a vital way of completing projects that it’s worth developing and refining the skills that will help you make a valuable contribution to whichever type of team you’re in.

Teams are created for several reasons. They may need to deliver a one-time project, or work together on an ongoing basis. What does this mean for you? Well, teams are probably an integral part of how things are done in your organization. If you show that you have the ability to work well with others, this could have a major impact on your career. Whatever your strengths, you have something valuable to offer. Find a role within your team that allows you to do what you do well.

PEOPLE SKILLS

Can you think of any skill that transcends more areas of your life beyond peoples kills? Probably not. Whether you are looking to make a career change, develop a friendship, succeed as a spouse or parent, grow a business, deal with a disappointed customer or client, deal with a difficult person, influence others or simply go through life as effectively as possible, people skills touch every area of your life today and tomorrow. Assess your current state regarding this critical life skill set as a beginning point of creating Enhanced People Skills.

LEADERSHIP

Sometimes leadership comes from natural gifts. More often leadership comes from learned skills. Becoming a leader is not about position, it is about a decision and a commitment. The first step in improving in any area in life is to measure. You improve what you measure. Taking this assessment specific to leadership is a great first step in beginning what will hopefully be a lifelong commitment to yourself to become a great leader in your life.