The Gift of Self Awareness: Hartman Value Profile Review

New Year's Resolution Idea: Get to know yourself a little better

 

Are you at a loss at what to focus on for a New Year’s Resolution? The Hartman Value Profile, available through Coach HR,  is a tool which illustrates your personal thinking style.  By completing a questionnaire, you are provided with a profile that describes how the different aspects of your thinking compete for your attention, causing you to react to certain things, preventing your from making balanced, objective decisions. The report describes your thinking biases and abilities in each of the following thinking types: empathy, practical thinking, structured thinking, self-esteem, role awareness and self-direction. The completed profile also provides you with a personal action plan worksheet.

The assessment was a quite thought provoking. You were given a long list of situations and had to rank them each on a scale from worst to best scenario or situation.  I have a tendency to overanalyze, so I did not find it easy to assign some of the rankings. It took about 20 minutes for me to complete it and a few days later I received my profile.  The profile contains a bubble graph which helps to give you an illustration for your clarity in each of the thinking types. I found the bubble graph too difficult to follow so I was glad to have a general description of each of the elements. So, what did I learn from the process?

Empathy – My score indicated that I mildly discount the importance of others’ feelings while I have an excellent ability to understand those feelings and distinguish the difference between individuals. I have the ability to read people intuitively but I may miss the importance of addressing feelings first with others.

Practical Thinking -  My score indicates that I have excellent clarity with a strong optimism in my practical, comparative,  real world thinking. I see the world as changing and chaotic and have an ability to adapt, flex and respond at the spur of the moment.  Because of my optimism and clear thinking, I have a hard time with people who raise objections or are looking at the downside of taking actions.

Structured Thinking – My score seemed to  contradict what was stated previously.  Here, it states that I have a natural skepticism regarding the world around me as being defined with fixed, unchanging, absolute terms.   

Self-esteem – The rest of the profiles spoke specifically about my results. This one was so general about the effects of self-esteem issues that I was not even sure what my exact results were.  I think it was saying that I have a tendency to discount my personal importance.

Practical Self – The results indicated that I have a sense that what I am doing is not enough.  In truth, sometimes  I feel this way sometimes I do not.

Self- Direction – According to the profile, I have a clear definition of who I should be and act.  Although my dedication can be positive, I can have difficulty changing directions if I have already committed myself to a certain action.

I think there was a lot of truth to the profile.  Completing the assessment and reviewing the profile does remind me that I need to work on empathizing more with other’s feelings and remind myself of the accomplishments that I have made in my life.This is a really neat assessment tool for someone who needs a little enlightenment into their life and would like some guidance on how to move forward with their goals.

Buy it here: The Hartman Value Profile is available through Coach HR. The regular price is $150, though it is available for $49 through the end of January.

 I was provided with the above mentioned product for the purpose of facilitating this review. No other compensation was received and the views expressed here are my own.