CentACS

At Narrative, our mission is to partner with clients to impact top and bottom line business performance by focusing on organizational transformation through people and culture. To ensure we consistently deliver accessible, real-world solutions, we leverage and apply data from the best research-based tools available. We know that the Big Five is wid... ely relied upon by psychologists and academics. Caryn Lee, Narratives founder and managing partner has over 15 years of experience with the Big Five and, while we also have experience with and deep knowledge of other personality assessments, such as type assessments; they are based on theories and oral history where the Big Five is based on empirical data. As a starting point, prior to developing our proprietary Narrative Big Five Assessment, we evaluated and analyzed numerous existing assessments and found that, while some were very good, many were prohibitively expensive and would not allow us to provide an assessment tool that is accessible for our clients and certified professionals. We also found, through our evaluation process, that a significant number of existing Big Five assessments were missing key sub-traits that we value as important expressions of personality and, many of those assessments use biased language in their scoring and trait explanations. At Narrative, we believe that all traits, sub-traits and scores are good. By understanding each trait, sub-trait and the supporting analysis, we help individuals learn how to leverage and apply their unique personality traits and strengths to grow as professionals, team members and leaders. With our mission in mind, and having exhausted the available market of existing Big Five assessment tools, we set out to create the Narrative Big Five Assessment. To begin the process of developing Narratives proprietary Big Five Personality Assessment, we began by identifying the 4 to 5 sub-traits for each super-trait to include in the assessment. Through an iterative process of question development, expert review, ...Read More