What Are The Workplace Big Five Personality Traits And Why Use Them?

The Workplace Big Five (WPB5) traits can be remembered using the acronym "OCEAN." They are:

• Openness
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism (sometimes referred to as Emotional Instability)

Taking a WPB5 personality assessment can determine if you score high on certain personality traits that may affect workplace results. What, however, is the official term for scoring low in these areas? Would it be closed-minded? Unreliable? Shy? Argumentative? Emotionally balanced? Taking an assessment and learning more about personal traits and what they reveal is the key to understanding many workplace strengths for oneself and others.

By understanding WPB5 personality traits within the self, it is easier to spot them (or lack thereof) in others and use this information to support team cohesiveness and workplace success. This is where a reliable, highly validated measuring instrument is needed. Dunson & Associates use such an instrument to assess managers. Managerial results can be used for job-matching, leadership development, supervisory effectiveness, hiring-firing decisions, and more. Where would it best lend itself to support you or your team?

For a free consultation on how your company can benefit specifically from Workplace Big Five assessments and training, contact Debi Ford at Dunson & Associates, at (937) 854-5940.

©2023. Debi Ford is an Organizational Development Consultant for Dunson & Associates. She has served as a public speaker internationally, a psychotherapist, a professor of psychology, and a management trainer for Fortune 500 corporations, government organizations, and hospitals.