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Thomas International

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Thomas International is a psychometric assessment publisher based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, founded in 1981. Its assessments cover behaviour (the Thomas DISC assessment, also known as the Personal Profile Analysis or PPA), aptitude (the General Intelligence Assessment), personality (the High Potential Trait Indicator), emotional intelligence and 360-degree feedback. Organisations use them for recruitment, onboarding, development and team work. All are taken online. The behaviour and personality assessments take under 10 minutes and the aptitude test 30 to 40 minutes. Pricing is per employee per month, with separate plans for managers and teams, HR professionals and accredited practitioners. It has offices in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Australia and South Africa.

Entelechy

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Entelechy is an online people development and assessment platform run by Entelechy Academy Limited of Preston, Lancashire, incorporated in 2020. It is built around its own framework of 54 human qualities in six groups: performance, impact, acumen, nurture, personal and interpersonal. Users complete a short forced-ranking self-assessment, with results in under 10 minutes, and can add optional 180 or 360-degree feedback from peers and managers. Paid users get action plans, coaching cards and a strengths report. Team and enterprise accounts add team dashboards and organisation-wide analytics by team, location and seniority, and executive coaches can follow their own clients through a coach dashboard. It is aimed at individuals, people managers, human resources (HR) leaders, change consultants and coaches, and is delivered online. A free strengths snapshot is available, with full results for £7.99. The Plus individual plan costs £99 a year or £10 a month, while team and enterprise prices are given on request. No accreditations are listed. The site states it has been used by more than 2,500 people, teams and businesses, and lists clients including HSBC and Millwall. The company was incorporated on 19 March 2020 as ICPD Limited and took its current name in June 2020.

Facet5

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Facet5 is a personality questionnaire and set of people assessment tools from Facet5 Global, based near Cambridge and launched in January 1990. It measures five factors of personality, Will, Energy, Affection, Control and Emotionality, split into 13 sub-factors, through a 106-question online questionnaire that takes about 20 minutes. Organisations use it for selection, individual and team development, leadership development and coaching. Results are interpreted and fed back by accredited practitioners. The Practitioner accreditation has six modules over about 1.5 to 2 weeks, runs virtually or in person in some countries, and needs no prior experience. Related products include TeamScape for teams, Audition for selection, the ToRQ cognitive assessment and the Strategic Leadership Review, a 360-degree leadership profile. Prices are not published. Facet5 was created by organisational psychologist Norman Buckley, and its website says it is used in more than 60 countries, offered in 38 languages and supported by over 4,500 accredited practitioners. The UK company, Facet5 Limited, was incorporated in 2013. Logos on its website include Samsung, HSBC and IKEA.

Gallup CliftonStrengths

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CliftonStrengths is an online strengths assessment from Washington DC-based Gallup, first launched in 1999 as Clifton StrengthsFinder. It sorts 34 talent themes into four domains: Strategic Thinking, Relationship Building, Influencing and Executing. The assessment takes about 30 minutes, with people choosing between pairs of statements, and results come as personalised reports and guides. Reports are sold for individuals and for specific roles, including leaders, managers, sales staff and students, and Gallup also sells it for teams, organisations and schools. People who want help with their results can use Gallup's directory of coaches. Gallup trains coaches through its Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach programme, which requires coursework, an exam and six practice sessions. Gallup's products page lists CliftonStrengths Top 5 at $24.99, CliftonStrengths 34 at $59.99 and the reports for leaders, managers and sales at $49.99 each. Gallup states that more than 38 million people have taken the assessment. It was created by the psychologist Don Clifton, whose firm merged with Gallup in 1988.