The Core Drivers and Core Values assessment is designed to provide insights into an individual's personality traits, motivations, and behavioral tendencies. Its results are grounded in psychological theory and leverage both self-perception and normed scores to offer a balanced view of identity and reputation.
In psychological terms: identity reflects an individual's self-concept, including intrinsic motivations, values, and goals. The Core Drivers/Values assessment primarily taps into this aspect by uncovering self-reported drivers of behavior.
Reputation, on the other hand, represents how others perceive an individual’s traits and behaviors, often in specific contexts. While the assessment is primarily self-reported, it indirectly provides cues about reputation by showing how certain traits or values might manifest in observable behaviors that others experience.
In essence, the assessments integrate aspects of both identity and reputation.
It is primarily rooted in identity, helping individuals understand their intrinsic values and motivations. However, because identity and reputation are interconnected (e.g., intrinsic traits often influence external perceptions), the assessment also indirectly informs reputation by showing how one’s drivers may present in social or organizational contexts.
To reduce discrepancies found in self-reported (a pure measure of identity) vs multi-rater assessments (a pure measure of a reputation), our assessments normalizes results into percentiles, comparing an individual’s scores to a global database of respondents.
Percentiles bridge identity and reputation by showing how an individual might be perceived relative to a larger population. For example, a low Extraversion percentile score might suggest that others could perceive them as reserved, even if they personally identify as outgoing.