Your People Are Your Strength. Value Their Energy. Enhance Their Teamwork.
Nonprofits & Schools
Investing in your mission means investing in how your people work together. Friction between people who share the same purpose is the most frustrating kind—and it’s avoidable. PREP gives your team a common language, so energy goes toward the mission, not around each other.
5 min
Time to Complete
40+
Years of Validation
5,000+
Client Organizations
.91
Test-Retest Reliability
Your People are Your Strength
You invest in your mission every day. PREP helps you invest in the people who get it done—by showing you what energizes them, what drains them, and where communication styles create unnecessary friction.
Most personality tools describe traits. PREP goes further: Energy Reserve and Stress Level scales show you how your people are doing right now—not just how they prefer to work. Now you can work with a more complete pictue.
When your team understands each other, collaboration gets easier. Conflicts become conversations, and more of everyone’s energy goes where it belongs: toward the work that matters.
Find Your Focus
Every organization is different. What matters most to you right now?
Which Level is Right for You?
COREpro™
Certification Level 2
COREpro™ — Foundation
Trait dynamics, scale positions, and subscales. Perfect for basic team building and foundational coaching.
✓ COREpro Character Profile
✓ Peer Coaching Guide
✓ Trait Description Chart
✓ PairMatch comparisons
PREPpro™
Certification Level 3
PREPpro™ — Resilience & Specialists
Everything in Level 2 plus Change Readiness and Resiliency analytics. This is where PREP’s unique value lives.
✓ Full Strengths and Development Report
✓ Energy Reserve & Stress Level data
✓ Change Readiness Scale
✓ Managerial, Sales & Specialist Coaching Guides
HRpro™
Certification Level 4
HRpro™ — Strategic HR
Full system plus advanced applications for succession planning, workforce analytics, and organizational consulting.
✓ All Level 3 reports
✓ Group analytics and facilitator reports
✓ Job Match tools
✓ White-label options available
What Competitors Can't Tell You
PREP is the only assessment that measures energy reserves alongside personality and communication style. This allows you to catch burnout before resignation.
✓ Energy Reserve — Available capacity
✓ Stress Level — Current load
✓ Change Readiness — Adaptability
Better decisions now. Fewer problems later.
See how PREP fits into your organization with a personalized demo. No pitch, just answers.
Go Deeper:
Board & Leadership Alignment
Board & Leadership Alignment
Different Worlds, Same Table
Your board brings together people from different worlds—corporate, academic, community, faith. That diversity is a strength. But different backgrounds mean different assumptions about how decisions get made, how fast things should move, and what “good communication” looks like.
When those differences are invisible, they create friction. When they’re visible, they become assets.
Make the Differences a Strength
PREP gives everyone a shared framework for working with differences, not avoiding them.
- The CONTROLLING chair stops reading the supportive treasurer as “passive”—and starts seeing thoroughness
- The urgent member stops taking it personally when the RELAXED member pushes back on last-minute votes
- New board members onboard faster with a map of how everyone works
- Meetings get shorter because people stop talking past each other
Reports Used
- CORE Quadrant Map
- Peer PairMatch
- Group Coach Report
- myCORE Intro (for new members)
“PREP opened our eyes to the various personality types and how they fit together to create a high-performing team. Morale has increased, we work much better as a team, we’re more productive and we collaborate better.”
— Tim Casey, Bend Chamber of Commerce
The team rewrote job descriptions along profile lines. No one had to change who they are—they just started working where they fit.
Staff & Faculty
Staff & Faculty
Same Mission, Different Wiring
Your team cares about the work. They’re already trying. What they often lack is a shared vocabulary for how they operate—so small misunderstandings become recurring friction, and people get labeled instead of understood.
PREP gives teams a neutral language for talking about how they work. Instead of “she’s so controlling,” it becomes “she needs clear outcomes and autonomy to execute.” Instead of “he’s too slow,” it becomes “he does his best work when not rushed.” Same people, different understanding.
From Labels to Language
- Pocket Coach shows each person exactly how to communicate with each colleague—what helps, what doesn’t
- PairMatch reports surface friction points between any two people before they become conflicts
- Energy Reserve scale identifies who’s depleted before performance drops
- Teams develop shared language that makes collaboration easier over time
Reports Used
CORE Pocket Coach — A one-page guide to communicating with each person: what helps, what frustrates, what motivates them.
CORE Quadrant Map — Visual snapshot of where everyone on the team sits across the four trait dimensions. See the whole room at a glance.
Personal Strengths Profile — The full picture: personality traits, Energy Reserve, Stress Level, and change readiness. Where someone is strong and where they’re running low.
Peer PairMatch — Side-by-side comparison of any two people showing where they’ll click, where they’ll clash, and how to bridge the gap.
Teacher-teacher, teacher-admin, and staff-faculty dynamics all benefit. The same framework works for department meetings, grade-level teams, and cross-functional committees. Many schools include PREP profiles in faculty onboarding or professional development days.
Volunteers
Volunteers
Set Volunteers Up for Success
Volunteers show up because they believe in your mission. They stay because they feel valued and effective. The difference often comes down to fit—are they doing work that energizes them, or work that drains them?
PREP helps you match volunteers to roles where they’ll thrive. An EXACTING detail-oriented volunteer will love data entry and struggle with greeting visitors. An OUTGOING people-person will thrive at events and struggle with solo administrative work. Match the task to the person, and everyone wins.
What It Looks Like
- Free myCORE Intro gives insight into new volunteers before you assign them—at no cost
- Volunteer coordinators learn how to adapt their communication style to each person
- Career Options Page suggests roles that match each volunteer’s natural strengths
- Volunteers feel seen as individuals, not interchangeable helpers
Reports Used
myCORE Intro — Free overview of a volunteer’s primary trait. Enough to place them well without overwhelming them.
CORE Pocket Coach — Quick reference for coordinators: how to communicate with each volunteer, what motivates them, what doesn’t.
Career Options — Matches natural strengths to role types. Think of it as a placement guide.
Getting Started: The 5-minute assessment is short enough to include in volunteer orientation. Position it as “helping us find the right fit for you”—because that’s exactly what it does.
Executive Support
Executive Support
Wearing Every Hat Can Ware You Down
Your executive director, principal, or department head holds a lot together. They manage up (to boards), down (to staff), and out (to community). They’re expected to be visionary and detail-oriented, warm and decisive, patient and urgent—all at once.
When leaders can see where they’re spending energy adapting versus operating from strength, they make better choices about where to invest themselves—and where to build support systems instead.
Learn How to be Strategic with Your Energy
- Personal Strengths Profile measures current energy and stress—not just personality
- First Impression vs. Natural Style comparison shows where energy is being drained
- Change Readiness Scale helps leaders (and their boards) assess capacity for new initiatives
- Managerial Coaching Guide helps leaders get the best from each team member
Reports Used
Personal Strengths Profile — Full view of personality, Energy Reserve, and Stress Level. Shows how someone is doing, not just how they’re wired.
Self Development Report — Natural strengths to leverage, growth areas worth investing in, and specific coaching language for each.
Managerial Coaching Guide — Role-specific coaching insights for leading, delegating, and developing direct reports.
Change Readiness Set — Measures resilience, adaptability, and capacity for what’s next. Useful for timing new initiatives.
Burnout Prevention & Retention
Burnout Prevention & Retention
The Exit You Didn’t See Coming
By the time someone resigns from burnout, they checked out long ago. Engagement surveys tell you if people are unhappy—but not really why, and not who’s at risk of burnout. Burnout is often invisible until it’s too late.
See It Before It’s Too Late
The Personal Strengths Profile measures Energy Reserve (how much capacity someone has) and Stress Level (how much load they’re carrying). You can see who’s running on empty before they crash. Periodic reassessment creates an early warning system across your organization.
Reports Used
- Personal Strengths Profile — Includes Energy Reserve and Stress Level
- Change Readiness Scale — Overall adaptability right now
- Change Readiness Summary — Personalized coaching opportunities
PREP’s Unique Capabilities
No major competitor measures current psychological state alongside personality traits. DiSC, MBTI, Predictive Index — none of them tell you if someone is burned out. PREP does.
Validation: PREP’s resiliency metrics have been cross-validated with Holmes-Rahe University of Washington studies, Beck Depression Inventory, and Worker’s Compensation recovery cases since 1984.
Athletics & Team Sports
Training & Development
The Difference Isn’t Always Talent
Athletic teams operate under pressure most organizations never face: public performance, compressed timelines, physical stakes. The coaching approach that unlocks one athlete may shut down another. A team that looks great on paper may struggle to perform together. The difference usually isn’t only talent—it’s how people work together under pressure.
Same Message, Delivered Right
- Coaches see how each athlete receives feedback, handles pressure, and relates to teammates
- A CONTROLLING athlete wants direct criticism delivered fast; a supportive athlete needs the relationship established first
- An urgent athlete wants immediate action plans; a RELAXED athlete needs time to process
- Same feedback, different delivery—dramatically different results
Reports Used
CORE Quadrant Map — Visual snapshot of the whole team. See who clusters together and where friction might live.
Team Coaching Guide — Group-level insights for team communication norms, practice structure, and handling conflict.
Personal Strengths Profile — Full view including Energy Reserve and Stress Level. See who’s running hot and who’s depleted.
Coach-Athlete PairMatch — How a specific coach and athlete dynamic works: where it clicks, where it won’t, and how to bridge it.
Beyond the Field:
PREP Works from youth sports to collegiate athletics. Athletic clubs and recreation programs have also used PREP for front desk staff, fitness instructors, and program managers—not just athletes.
Ready to Invest in Your Team?
Schedule a conversation to find the right approach for your organization.
Start with the Free Assessment
The myCORE Intro report is free for anyone who takes our 5-minute assessment. It’s how hundreds of volunteer groups, church teams, and school committees have gotten started with PREP—at no cost and no risk.
PREP coaches work inside organizations and as external consultants. Clients include:
AMD
Boeing
2008 Beijing Olympic Committee
Coaching & Intercultural Courses at Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Leadership Development International
Mt Bachelor Ski Area
Vail Associates
Ottoboc
Portland Trail Blazers
Case Western
Weatherhead School of Business
TEC
Vistage
Kroger
Radio Advertising Bureau
Nike
Willamette College
Durham Transportation
Microsoft
Executive Edge
Westin Hotels
Cognis
Bayer Pharma
United Way
Youth with a Mission
Blue Cross
First American Financial
Bend Chamber of Commerce
Samsung
Clackamas Community College
COCC
Starbucks
Stericycle
Pacific Source Health Plans
US Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management
Redmond Leadership Programs
Dell Computers