The HumanGuide Concepts for Companies/Organizations

companyuv The picture is from Sao Paulo, Brazil, which is one of the world's mega towns. It increases with more and more people in the cities, and the world is more and more a global village via internet, which implies that competition and speed of change only increases. Therefore it is crucial for companies and organizations to be alert in their business by e.g. hiring, developing and keeping good employees plus developing and nurturing both their trademark and culture.

A strong argument for HumanGuide is that the underlying personality theory consists of eight basic dimensions. Then you get a more nuanced testresult and sharper analysis. Compare with MBTI, where you only “be” one of 16 types. The popular DISC-model (and similar) has only four basic dimensions. And the Five factor model has only five basic dimensions.

Why some entrepreneurs fail and other are successful?

That is a very relevant question. Every company starts with one or many entrepreneurs (companions). So did Apple Inc, which struggled in many years of the competition from Microsoft, but at last they figured out a winning recipe – so far… No one knows about the future. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, stated: – The first ten you hire for a startup determines, if it will be a failure or a success!

This means that every hiring is crucial – especially the first ones. Every time you make a miss in your hiring, then you get a problem generator!

Jim Collins and a team made research during five years in order to identify companies in USA, which had been best in their line of business at least during 15 years. They found 11 companies. The success was explained mostly from two “recipes”. One was to focus on where they were best – only there! The other was so-called “Level5 Leadership”. This leadership you can learn more about in our learning paper with 12 pages. There you also about different entrepreneurs... Learning paper means an easy-to-read white paper;-)

You can have great support of the HumanGuide concepts in your recruitment and staffing. There are many unique tools in order to

get a good personality demand specification for the job
use a smart method to check references
compare candidates with typical top performers of the job (if such jobs exist)
have a good onboarding of the newly hired employees
start quickly with coaching for the newly hired employees

The company or organization can also use the HumanGuide concepts in order to have a simple way to describe their culture, which gives a practical communication platform for developing and nurturing the culture.

One of our tools for recruitment, onboarding, team development, etc is HumanGuide Cards, i.e. the personality test in deck of cards format combined with a supportive web app cards.humanguide.se. A fact sheet – click here.

Crucial questions to answer in order to have a well-functioning business are...

How can a toolbox based on personality knowledge support development of companies and organisations? In many ways e.g. concerning INDIVIDUALS

How to recruit well including that candidates fit to your trademark and culture including a good way for onboarding hired people?
How to analyse what characterizes people, who are successful in their jobs – especially volume jobs, so you can recruit well?
How to analyse your personnel’s capacity and development need?
How to handle personal development?
How to change your personnel turnover (decrease or increase)?
How to analyse why people quit?

e.g. concerning LEADERS

How to support and develop our leaders?
How to identify potential leaders?
how to figure out what characterizes leaders, who are successful in their jobs – especially volume roles, so you have easier to identify such leaders?

e.g. concerning TEAMS

How to support and develop teams?
How to staff and start new teams?
How to figure out what characterizes team, who are successful in their mission – especially with volume missions, so you have easier to staffing good teams?
How to figure out what type of team are suitable for a specific mission?

e.g. concerning TRADEMARK and CULTURE

How to describe our trademark and culture in a concise and practical way?
How to develop and care our trademark and culture?

A strong argument for HumanGuide is that the underlying personality theory consists of eight dimensions. Then you get a more nuanced testresult and sharper analysis. Compare with MBTI, where you "be" one of 16 types. The popular DISC model (and similar) has only four dimensions. And the Five Factor Model has only five basic dimensions.

Did you get any useful idea? Will you act?

Testimonials

”Rolf Kenmo has adapted Szondi’s theory to everyday life. It is a great idea of conveying the theory to a broad use. That is an essential asset for making the test results immediately accepted and it works in any culture. We use HumanGuide in recruiting and team development for an internationally operating company.”

Thomas Seiler, CEO, U-blox AG, Switzerland (2003)

”The theory is explained very pedagogically in the HumanGuide concepts and it is a good support for my clients (since 2002), in vocational guidance and in coaching. HumanGuide supports well in working life as well as in private life.”

Giselle Welter, psychologist, spec. in vocational guidance, RH99, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2000)

"Personality has always been a debatable topic throughout research and countless psychometric tests available for use. However none of these tests have the HumanGuide approach, which is practical, simple, easy to use and accurate to act upon. Supported by extensive research, HumanGuide takes in consideration eight factors, using the psychology of colours and symbols for meaningful comprehension.

The HumanGuide test does not stand alone, it goes beyond any other test. It provides unique opportunities to measure further person chemistry, passion index, job and culture profiles...It has all what an organisation needs to overcome today's more than ever complex human resources challenges.

HumanGuide has considerably improved my personal and professional life and I always appreciate our collaboration with Rolf Kenmo."

George Ubbelohde, hospitatlity Industry Executive and Educator, Brussels, Belgium (2020)

”The tests are simple and easy to use. The availability via the internet make them excellent. I have had great use of the concepts for recruitment, development of individuals and teams.”

Sven-Erik Ringström; VD WM-data IT Support AB, now CGI AB, Sweden; (2003)

"I've been using the HumanGuide since 2012, with excellent results! It has been an assessment tool much requested by my organizational clients."

Adriana Torres Guedes, Psychologist, Brazil (2020-02-10)

"I hire probably the wrong yellow people". She used DISC's four dimensions. DISC's yellow dimension is represented by three dimensions with the HumanGuide. The colurs in HumanGuide are: Orange, grey, green, violett, blue, yellow, brown and red, i.e. Then the test result will be much more nuanced. Above on this page there is a video with the symbolics for the eight colours.

Manager for a restaurant chain, Sweden (2018-03-02)

"For eight years I had a personal meeting about my PersonProfile á la HumanGuide. I have done many other personality tests cince then, but my opinion about this "method" is that it was fascinating and the most accurate. The PersonProfile is still pinned up at work"

IT manager, Sweden (2018-04-19)

"As a consultant I have done many personality tests. The results made me feel confirmed, but I didn't get any answer: Why I didn't was happy to 100%? This autumn I did the HumanGuide-test, which only took 15 min to do. It explained for me, where I had most motivation and because of then easiest to be my best version. So now I know!"

Nuclear engineer, Sweden (2018-03-27)

The HumanGuide Concepts for Individuals

festivaler 016S The picture gives an example how many people there are on the earth, i.e. it is no drawback to be good at cooperating with other people. Likewise it is smart to find your way in life, where it is to your advantage, e.g. a suitable job.

A strong argument for HumanGuide is that the underlying personality theory consists of eight basic dimensions. Then you get a more nuanced testresult and sharper analysis. Compare with MBTI, where you only “be” one of 16 types. The popular DISC-model (and similar) has only four basic dimensions. And the Five factor model has only five basic dimensions...

Are you happy with your life or can it be improved? Is your PassionIndex high?

Many people agree that they probably can be happy more often, but how to fix that? At first you need to make good decisions concerning these important questions in your life

what job area or job will you like very much?
in what company or organisation plus geographic area will I get a happy life?
what life partner could give me a happy life?

The crucial knowledge here is self-knowledge. If you know your most important drives in your personality, then you know where you have strong motivation to do certain tasks and why you dislike others. By focusing on your strengths, then you can be a talent in that area, because no one isn’t born with talent – except for biological components e.g. being tall and similar. Therefore it is important that you get a clear self-knowledge about your drives (=strengths). As early as possible, so you take good life decisions already when you are young. It is a pity that most young people don’t understand that, so they make instead their choices copying friends, parents, etc or e.g. go for jobs where you get a high wage or status – but they fit them bad. The parents have normally more experience and then better insights, but they have a lack of good tools to help their children to make good life decisions. Sometimes their relation isn’t so good for being a good coach…

I have here many strong own experiences from my job e.g. one teacher used the HumanGuide test to set up good teams, when the students should train to run a business. Before she used the test the students set up “cloned” teams – all team members were similar, so there wasn’t many dynamics in the team. Instead they gain more on security (very few surprises by “copies”) and easy to cooperate, because it was very easy to understand the other members behaviours.

When the teacher gave the students the test results in the classroom, then it became chaotic. The teacher lost the control, so in her opinion it was her worst situation as a teacher... However, the students’ opinion was that this day in school was the best in my life! Why? They could understand themselves much better. Moreover, they also understood their classmates better. They got a clear and easy-to-use “quality language”.

Another similar experience was when I met a user of the HumanGuide concepts in Brazil. She had read my book Let the Personality Bloom. I asked then for feedback...

I love the book, she said.
Why? I wondered.
My son should apply for an MBA education and should write about himself. He said: I can’t do that. Then I gave him the book. After some time he said to me: The book gave me very good insights about myself, so now I have no problems to describe who I am. Very useful insights!

What happens when someone has a lack of self-knowledge? One example was a nuclear engineer. She studied many years to get such a job, but after a while she realised that she disliked the job. After she had done the HumanGuide test, then she said

I have done many personality tests. This test was the first that explained to me, why I disliked my job

The main reason was that she had a high value on the dimension Imagination (being creative) in the test. That strength she couldn’t use so much in her job. Now her life is much better – as an entrepreneur, where her creativity is needed and can flourish.

How can increased self-knowledge improve your life? In many ways e.g.

to choose a job, which gives you a high passionindex between your personality and your job (tasks) or your culture – they fit well together. This also includes to choose a relevant education…
to make it easier to be successful, when you search for a new job
to understand when you exaggerate your strongest strength and how you can handle that
to understand better what methods suit best for your personality and why

or when dealing with other people, then you can

improve your cooperation with them
improve your working in teams
better understand what characterizes people, who is complementary to you
better choose a well suitable coach for you
better figure out what type of company/organisation or country culture, which suits you best

Personal development with support of the HumanGuide concepts can be useful for everyone – both leaders and employees – and students... All concepts start with doing a HumanGuide PersonProfile via the internet, which takes about 15 minutes. To that you can add to fine-tune the test result via an authorized "humanguide”, which takes about 45 min depending on the objective and conditions. Mostly this is done in the start of a coaching program, i.e. it leads to a more effective coaching – more "accurate" and more accomplished in a shorter time. There are many versions of coaching programs depending on the objectives and conditions. If you are interested, then contact an authorized ”humanguide” or us at Humankonsult AB – look in the bottom of this page.

The advantage with doing a PersonProfile is that the coaching will be more efficient. Because, partly the coach gets faster understanding of the development needs and partly the coach can be more "on the spot" in his or her coaching, i.e. one advice doesn't work always for all people, because people are different!

You can buy a PersonProfile in different formats in our eShop – here.

And how do you take care of your personal trademark? Does it become by happening or you built up your personal trademark (“personmark”) in a conscious way? Do you know how to get charisma? Well, you do that by acting consistently based on your core values and core personality. With the HumanGuide concepts can you discover your core personality and partly too your core values – both better and faster compared to other ways.

Another alternative for personal development is that you participate in a program, where the HumanGuide concepts is a module. Our basic module can be done in about two hours. Then you

learn the personality theory Eight boxes, which is the core of the HumanGuide concepts
increase your self-knowledge based on the Eight boxes, which facilitates own personal development
be better to coaching other people and support other to figure out the best life direction
be better to cooperate with other people – especially those who differ mostly from your personality
be better to understand personal conflicts and understand how they can be handled

How can increased personality knowledge support a good personal development? In many ways e.g.

to choose a job, which gives a high passionindex between the personality and the job (tasks) or the culture. This also include to choose relevant education…
to make it easier to be successful, when you go for a new job
to understand when I exaggerate my strongest strength and how to handle that
to understand better what methods suit best for your personality and why

or when dealing with other people, then you can

improve to cooperate with them
improve working in teams
better understand what characterizes people, who is complementary to you
better choose a well suitable coach for you
better figure out what type of company or country culture suits you best

Result

The overall result is that you get an increased self-knowledge and in this way a good personal development. Moreover, you will get a better time both at work and in life.