PERSONAL RESILIENCY "Oh no! Not 'another' Personality Test...!
JoAn discovered a very unique algorithm that allowed her to identify a root cause for ‘failure to onboard’ when she was asked to work with AT&T during its divestiture (1980’s).
Repeated studies in organizations and through professionals in research, clinical and coaching practices that focused on effectively handling high change resulted in the authentication of PREP’s new algorithm.
For 40 years, PREP has been involved in medical applications, counseling, Worker’s Comp rehabilitation research, Human Resources Recruitment and Retention, Leadership Coaching and Intercultural Behavioral Cases–as outcomes-based studies. These have further validated PREP’s Personal Resiliency statistically. The Result?
A new metric for Understanding People, Everywhere was born! PREP’s ‘secret sauce’ helps Connect Insights for everyday work and life, offering a gateway for greater personal resiliency, communication, leadership approaches, creating a better communications and relationships across and beyond borders.
PREP's Secret Sauce - Personal Resiliency
Today, Resiliency is a term used by Coaches, Therapists, Medical and Fitness practitioners interested in improving health & well-being, developing “positive neural plasticity”. (Tara Brach, PhD).
In regular terms, we refer to this as Change Readiness: ones natural affinity for change and risk, as well incorporating PREP’s unique Personal Resiliency metrics in ones current situation.
These metrics include: Current Personal Alignment, Behavioral Motivation, Personal Internal/External Focus, Energy Reserve, Stress Level, Personal Resilience and Overall Change Readiness.
JoAn’s dream and wish was to design a unique 5-minute Personal Resiliency and CORE style assessment so that individuals, up and down any organization type, students with reading levels as young as 8th grade that was non-threatening, culturally/gender/generation bias-free, accurate to a medical research level and even fun to take, neither confusing nor tedious. Then, quickly receive straightforward, useful insights, reports, charts. These reports, together with a trained (certified) personal mentor/coach, would help everyday people to personally apply the PREP insights for better personal resiliency and improving their healthy work-life balance.
This unique assessment, in use since 1984, highlights JoAn’s multi-faceted background in intercultural research, organizational leadership training and development, human resources job success and retention studies, teaching in universities, corporations, NGO’s, her foreign languages, and statistical research. She partnered with medical practitioners, including Dr Stephen Mann; statisticians; her mentor Dr Samuel Robert Houston; psychologists, business experts, and investors in order to create the PREP assessment and resulting Insights, Charts and Reports.
Ironically, the much acclaimed CORE Natural Profile was an outcome of addressing the Personal Resilience problem, a by-product of a different, but very related issue!
PREP’s survey and certification programs for Coaches, Managers and individuals launched with a mission to build better self, work, family understanding, communications, trust and resilience. It’s as applicable then as now. Not the usual “Personality Profile.” PREP retains its uniqueness for measuring Personal Resiliency even today with social media’s abundance of test options.
Between the stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies your power and freedom. Victor Frankl