GLS Worldwide’s assessment profile is the future of screening and development tools, and unique from other assessments in many ways. Our Thinking Style assessment asks the respondents not to tell how they think. Instead it asks them to actually think. To make minute decisions by rank-ordering several items, which tracks the actual pattern of their thinking.
This unique format is different from other assessments. Our Thinking Style assessment is not a psychological, intelligence or aptitude test. It is not a self-report instrument. The assessment does not ask respondents to describe themselves. It is impossible to bias one’s answers in the Thinking Style assessment the way it is with other instruments.
The Thinking Style assessment measures how people actually think by having the respondent perform a thinking task, and then, using complex mathematics, produces a detailed picture of the person’s preferred thinking process. It provides objective information regarding such variables as one’s strategic thinking ability, attention to concrete detail, intuitive insight, persistence, consistency, systems orientation, sensitivity to others, confidence, optimism, self-regard, emotional control and drive level. In addition to its validity and reliability, the instrument has been tested according to EEOC criteria and found to be nondiscriminatory toward race, sex, or gender.
The advantages of the Thinking Style assessment include the following:
• Administration takes about 15-20 minutes,
• It is objective and cannot be biased
• It is simple in that it consists of the rank ordering of 18 items and 18 statements
• It is non-obtrusive in that respondents are not asked to describe themselves or their experience
• It is available in multiple languages including pictograph
• It is supported by research, and its users report very high face validity
• It has been very successfully used for talent screening, professional development, teambuilding and succession planning
