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Self-Assessments & Surveys

The USF Ombuds Office is pleased to offer the following list of self-assessments and surveys designed to help facilitate a self-awareness.

Bulls Workplace Self-Assessment
Your participation is 100% voluntary and all responses remain anonymous. This survey is intended for USF employees only.

USF Ombuds Office Visitor Survey
After your visit, we would appreciate your feedback on your experience with the USF Ombuds Office.

Are You Abrasive?
Self-Assessment excerpted from executive coach Dr. Laura Crawshaw's "Taming the Abrasive Manager" which is an ideal resource for managers, human resource professionals, coaches, and anyone who works for or with an abrasive boss.

Is Your Leadership Abrasive?
This instrument is designed to determine whether the individual under consideration has an abrasive leadership style. The final report also includes recommendations for next steps based upon the results.

Mastering Civility
Provides a quick assessment of your behavior.

Conflict Dynamics Profile
While conflict itself is inevitable, ineffective and harmful responses to conflict can be avoided, and effective and beneficial responses to conflict can be learned. This proposition is at the heart of the Conflict Dynamics Profile (CDP). Contact our office for more information on how you can discover your conflict profile by taking a 20-minute assessment quiz. Once completed, we will set up a private 30-minute meeting with you to discuss the results and answer any questions you may have.

10 Hallmarks of Psychologically Safe Workplaces
Experts in workplace mental health have identified factors that can influence our psychological health and well-being while on the job.

VIA Strengths Assessment - Why Do Character Strengths Matter?
Character strengths are the positive parts of your personality that make you feel authentic and engaged. You possess all 24 character strengths in different degrees, giving you a unique character strengths profile. Discover your greatest qualities and begin using your strengths to build your best life.

Empathy Quiz
Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. Research suggests that people differ in the extent to which they experience empathy. So how empathic are you? This quiz will help you find out.

How Productive Are You? (MindTools.com)
Productivity is a measure of how much you accomplish – not how busy you are. So it's far better to learn how to work intelligently, and to use leverage to achieve more with your time and resources. This 16-question quiz will help you to understand how productive you are. Then, the discussion and resources that follow will help you identify strategies that you can use to increase your productivity, so that you can do more, with less stress.

Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory (ICS)
A critical difficulty we face in our organizations and schools is that communication misunderstandings, conflicts, and problems across cultures are often grounded in very different approaches people take for resolving difficulties with one another. The ability to recognize and effectively respond to cultural differences in communication and conflict styles is critically important. ICS Inventory, LLC provides the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory® (ICS®), developed by Mitchell R. Hammer, Ph.D., for resolving conflicts and solving problems across cultural boundaries.

The Thomas-Kilmann Instrument
The TKI is an assessment that determines how you tend to respond to conflict (your preferred method), and what additional conflict-handling options are available to you. It takes about 20 minutes to complete and there are no right or wrong answers!

2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey
An in-depth review of the results of the seventh annual Deloitte Millennial Survey which delves into the respondents' perception of the evolving threats and opportunities in an increasingly complex world, including data from Generation Z.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator® instrument
The MBTI assessment is administered either online or with paper and pencil, most often through a certified individual who has met certain professional requirements for interpreting the results of the instrument.

How Productive Are You? (Harvard Business Review)
This tool consists of 21 questions, divided into seven categories. The first and second categories probe your habits on establishing daily routines and planning your schedule. The third and fourth ask about your ability to overcome the key personal constraints — like email and procrastination — that keep you from getting things done. The final three categories assess your skills at forging productive relationships within your organization, through effective meetings, communications, and delegation.

Harvard's "Project Implicit"
A non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a "virtual laboratory" for collecting data on the Internet.