ProSource Management Consultants Inc. is a licensed distributor of numerous behaviour  and competency based instruments and tests.  While we have access to almost any standardized assessment instrument that measures normal behaviour, personality and intellectual capability, we have come to rely on a number of key instruments that have proven the test of time with respect to validity and reliability.  Applicants can be tested at the client's place of employment or at the centrally located office of ProSource Management Consultants.

A) DISC Personal Style Assessments          B) Emotional Intelligence

C) Watson Glasier Critical Thinking            D) 16 Personality Factor

A)    DISC Personal Style Assessments - Managing for Success (MFS)

The ability to interact effectively with people may be the difference between success or failure in our work and personal life.  The Managing for Success (MFS) report represents a family of comprehensive and personalized web-based DISC behaviour style assessments that meet a variety of need and special application required for increased individual and organizational effectiveness.  Our DISC behaviour style assessments include all of the following options:

MFS Executive Version

Designed for CEO’s and senior managers, this profile provides an accurate analysis of individual strengths, value to the organization, and knowledge that enables decision makers to negotiate a communication system that produces more effective work teams.  To learn more about this profile, please view the sample profile or request your complimentary behaviour style report.

MFS Employee-Manager Version (click here for sample John Doe Report)

This option gives valuable information to the employee, the manager and work team which clarifies individual work styles and shows how these styles can affect job performance.  It also describes how the employee-manager relationship affects productivity and goal achievement.  To learn more about this profile, please view the sample profile or request your complimentary behaviour style report.

MFS Sales Version

Allow sales managers to increase success in hiring the “right” people and motivating the new and existing salespeople to perform at their best.  This profile takes the guesswork out of managing salespeople, and allows companies to develop sound relationships through individual management plans.  To learn more about this profile please examine the sample profile or request your complimentary behaviour style report.

MFS Teambuilding

Through individual profiles, each team member learns how s/he contributes to the organization and gains greater appreciation of how differing styles are required to achieve team goals.  To learn more about this profile please examine the sample profile or register with us to receive additional information.

MFS Customer Service

This profile allows employees having any contact with customers to learn more about themselves and how customers will react to different communication styles.  This information will help the employee build rapport and provide more successful customer service.  To learn more about this profile please examine the sample profile or register with us.

MFS Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values

What activities, careers and conversations inspire a "passion" within an individual causing them to become involved?  The MFS Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment measures the WHY of a person's actions leading to an understanding of what drives our behaviours and the attitudes that move us into action.  Through this web-based self assessment six attitudes are identified: Theoretical, Utilitarian, Aesthetic, Social, Individualistic and Traditional.  Useful for hiring, coaching and mentoring.  To learn more about this profile, please examine this sample profile or register to receive your own complimentary Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Report.

MFS Work Environment ( click here for sample report)

Successful performance many times is directly related to matching a person's natural behaviour with the behaviour demanded by the specific job.  This system allows the user to compare peoples perceptions with reality.  Six unique comparisons aid understanding of the ramifications of job matching and mismatching.  To learn more about this profile, please examine this sample or register with us to receive additional information.

MFS Sales Strategy Index

The Sales Strategy Index, especially designed for outside sales presents 54 different "real life" sales situations.  Each situation offers four possible outcomes.  Respondents are the opportunity to rank the four alternatives from "best" to "worst".  By comparing their responses with those of proven top sales professional, a profile is generated showing strengths, weaknesses, and how well they understood sales strategy in these seven categories: Prospecting, First Impressions, Qualifying, Demonstration, Influence, Closing.  To learn more about this profile, please examine this sample profile or register with us to receive additional information.

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B)    Emotional Intelligence

Based on 19 years of research by Dr. Reuven Bar-On and tested on over 85,000 individuals worldwide, the BarON Eqi is the premier scientific measure of emotional intelligence.  The BarOn EQi measures one's ability to deal with daily environmental demands and pressures and helps predict one's success in life including professional and personal pursuits.

The BarOn EQi consists of 133 items and includes four validity indices and a sophisticated correction factor rendering scores for the following components:

·        Emotional Self - Awareness

·        Assertiveness

·        Self Regard

·        Self Actualization

·        Independence

·        Empathy

·        Interpersonal Relationship

·        Social Responsibility

·        Problem Solving

·        Flexibility

·        Reality Testing

·        Stress Tolerance

·        Impulse Control

·        Optimism

·        Happiness

The BarOn EQi can be used to assist in the recruiting process and when management or employee development initiatives are being considered.  Research indicates that there is a strong correlation between emotional intelligence and job performance, making the BarOn EQi the ideal screening too to aid in selecting potential successful employees.

Since skills associated with emotional intelligence are acquired and can be improved through training, the BarOn EQi is a valuable instrument for identifying potential areas for improvement and for measuring effectiveness of organizational development programs.  It can be administered to anyone 16 years of age and older and it takes only 40 minutes to administer.

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C)    Watson Glasier Critical Thinking

This cognitive ability test evaluates judgment and analytical thinking.  It measures the candidates ability to define a problem, select pertinent information for the solution of a problem, formulate and select relevant and promising hypotheses, draw valid conclusions and judges the validity of inferences as well as recognize stated and unstated assumptions.  The instrument provides a high correlation to a candidates cognitive ability (intelligence).  Approximate testing time is 40 minutes.

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D)    16PF (Personality Factors)

The 16 PF is a personality assessment used extensively for personnel selection, promotion, career development and succession planning.  The 16PF is designed to help you hire the right person the first time and reduce the high costs of turnover.  The 185 item, 16PF takes 35 to 50 minutes to administer and can be administered to individuals 16 years or older.  The 16PF is backed by over 45 years of research and provides accurate, objective, reliable information for the hiring process.

The 16PF measures 5 global factors of personality (extroversion, anxiety, receptivity, independence and self control) as well as the 16 original factors (levels of: warmth, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance, liveliness, rule consciousness, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance, abstractness, privateness, apprehension, openness to change, self reliance, perfectionism and tension).