PREP Personality Profile Reports
Since 1984, we have partnered with our clients … to transform the global workplace by increasing understanding and trust that improves personal communications, motivation, and organizational productivity – one person, one team, one organization at a time.
Our personality profile related products, software and services offer rapid insight, a practical common language for individuals, groups and organizations to communicate, develop understanding, improve relationships and build trust.
At PREP we value quality, team work, simplicity, high economic value, professionalism and fun. We are passionate about understanding people!
The Philosophy that started PREP …
PREP was started by JoAn Mann in Bend, Oregon, US in late Spring, 1984 in response to her desire to create a highly validated, research driven personality profile she could use in work with businesses and career coaching clients that was completely respectful and based on strengths–gently reminding us of to pay attention to our ‘less developed’ areas.
Ms. Mann had worked with the classic personality instruments of the time, but they were either too cumbersome with time, too bothersome with antiquated words or not statistically reliable enough for the cross-culturally sensitive world that was emerging. She was working with clients already around Europe, Canada and the US.
She had moved to Bend, Oregon in 1983. At that time, Bend was an economically hard-hit resort town, with high unemployment, nestled at the threshold of the Central Oregon Cascade Mountains. The functional illiteracy rate there was exceptionally high. Businesses there were unfamiliar with personality tests and team building at the time. While she was flying all around America to work with corporations, she wanted to spend more time at home in her beautiful new community and bring the strength and wider perspective to help these businesses thrive again..
That meant developing a personality assessment she could use in team buildings, business coaching, hiring consulting and career counseling — it had to be quick and painless to take, non-threatening, straightforward, practical and offer remarkable insight to make the inroads she wanted to make.
While not a psychologist, Ms. Mann is a human resources specialist, licensed educator, and foreign cultures enthusiast. Her impetus for PREP combines her undergraduate degrees in teaching and foreign languages; stipends to study and teach in universities overseas; an MBA emphasizing HRM; years of statistical research in job success probability, stress and health in the workplace; with master level behavioral change certification in NLP. And, she had help along the way from medical practitioners, statisticians, psychologists, business experts, clients, angel funding and family. Thanks to all who helped create this PREP Profile System! It has been built with customer needs at its ‘core’.
Twenty five years later, PREP is a full system offering businesses and individuals around the world a unique and practical approach to understanding how personality helps align our individual personal gifts with work missions.
Sample Reports below
PREP’s aligned personality profile report system features:
| Common Needs | What is Measured? | Which Report Series do I order? |
|---|---|---|
| Personal Communication Skills Career Development Leadership Development Team Building Intro/Ice Breaker | Details of the person’s natural personality: strengths and challenges | myCORE Series |
| Interpersonal Communication Skills Getting along with Others Coaching for Success Leadership/Management Skills Team Building | Tips and Suggestions on how to improve communication skills and interpersonal relationships | myCORE and Professional Coaching Series or Custom Report. |
| Leadership Development Executive Coaching Life Change Coaching Career Development Recruitment, Selection Retention and Motivation | Identification of current motivation, energy and assessing change-hardiness and -readiness | PREP Professional Series |
| Hiring: Recruitment, Selection Retention and Motivation Succession planning Outplacement and Job Search | Profile of the person’s first impression on others – how they will interview | Professional Coaching & Job Match Series, or Custom Report. |
| Improving Group Dynamics Team Building Hiring, promotions Succession planning | Group Matching natural personality matching and friction identification | myCORE and Professional Group Match Series, Custom Report. |
| Leadership Development Team Building Hiring Career Development Succession planning | Natural Career Personality Matching | myCORE and Professional Job Match Series, Custom Report. |