When Dr. Roger Birkman created The Birkman Method^® and first opened the doors of Birkman & Associates in 1951, he began a process that would make positive and significant changes in people's lives. The instrument he developed has impacted individuals, teams and organizations around the world.

   The Birkman Method - A Powerful and Proven Business Tool To Measure:

   Internal Needs / Motivations / Occupational Preferences / Strengths

 Application of the Birkman Method enables higher levels of performance for individuals, teams and  organizations and reduces stress behaviors. The Birkman Method is not merely a personality  assessment tool.  It is a powerful means to gain critical answers to how and why you lead, learn,  think, decide and relate to others. As a result, you can maximize the performance of the most important organizational asset – people.

   How Does It Work?

  Through the use of an online questionnaire, results are tabulated and organized by offering:

Empirically Driven Results

Redefining the Respondent's Concept of Self

Measurement of the Respondent's Interests Relating to Various Occupations

A Wealth of Reports In Confidence and Secure

  By integrating both behavioral and motivational aspects, the management information captured opens the door to greater personal, team and organizational productivity.

   The Birkman Method Focuses on Five Major Perspectives:

1. Usual Behavior – an individual’s effective behavioral style of dealing with relationships and tasks.
2. Underlying Needs – an individual’s expectations of how relationships and social situations should be governed in context of the relationship or situation.
3. Stress Behaviors – an individual’s ineffective style of dealing with relationships or tasks; behavior observed when underlying needs are not met.
4. Interests – an individual’s expressed preference for job titles based on the assumption of equal economic rewards.
5. Organizational Focus - the perspective in which an individual views problems and solutions relating to organizational goals.

   A Wide Range of Applications

 As the premier non-clinical instrument for measuring human behavior and occupational strengths,  the Birkman Method provides a wide range of personal and professional applications including:

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