Listen to Your Personality Unlocked

It seems like everyone is busier than ever these days, and have less time to spend on doing something for yourself. Audiobooks are great for busy people who really want to enjoy a good book, and have the best intentions to learn new things, but don’t have the time to sit down and read. You can easily listen to an audiobook while still doing your other day-to-day activities like exercising, commuting, or doing household chores. It really is an easy way to get most of your time and fit reading into your daily life.

We are thrilled to announce the release of one of our bestsellers in this format. Your Personality Unlocked, by Anne Bulstrode and Susan Geary will give you an understanding of who you are and the differences between you and other people, in all aspects of your life. Based on the popular Personality Dimensions® assessment, the authors take you through a journey of self-awareness.

Narrated by a professional voice actor, this audiobook is a must-listen for anyone looking to learn more about themselves and the important people in their lives. Whether you are a student, professional, or simply a curious individual, “Your Personality Unlocked” is a valuable addition to your audiobook library.

Available now on Audible, Apple Books, and other major audiobook platforms, Your Personality Unlocked is sure to engage and enlighten listeners. Don’t miss out on this insightful and practical guide to self-awareness.

Personality Dimensions® Statistics

It’s that time of year again… when the PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) pops out of its work cube and sees its shadow, it’s time to see this past year’s Personality Dimensions® statistics.

Many of you undoubtably will recognize the PD Stats Robot (patent still pending), the hardest working, semi-autonomous employee we have ever had! After many years of residing in the suburbs of Toronto, the PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) packed up their cube and headed east. But good news, they are still churning out statistics with us, while working part-time as a lighthouse keeper. I had no idea how many transferable skills there are between the two jobs until we sat down to go over this year’s report.

Once again, the staff at CLSR Inc. would like to thank all the Certified Trainers who took the time to send in their workshop statistics over the past year.  Collecting workshop statistics allows us to do further research on the reliability and validity of Personality Dimensions®.  If you look at the Primary Colour Breakdowns over the past 17 years, you will notice very little change with them over time; In fact, there was a less than 1% variance with two of the Dimensions over the past several years. That’s some pretty good reliability scores!  Full statistics for the Canadian market, including this year’s, are published every year in July and are posted at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/published-statistics 

Remember, every time you conduct an Introductory or Application Session, even if you had your clients take the assessment online, that you keep track of your participants’ Primary Colour Preference, and Introversion/Extraversion preference.  You can find a form on the USB included with your Building Blocks/Manual to do this.  Statistics can then be faxed to 905-760-0113, or emailed to stats@clsr.ca.  You can also submit your statistics through the web at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/submit-your-statistics.

The PD Stats Robot is an amazing piece of computing technology, and a surprisingly good dog groomer, but can only work with the information that it receives. Please remember to submit your statistics, even if you are administering Personality Dimensions® Online.  Remember that the assessment component isn’t the final word on an individual’s primary colour, especially if scores are close; clarification also comes from the Brightening Group exercises in a workshop.

Until next year, on behalf of the PD Stats Robot (patent still pending), stay dimensional, and keep those numbers coming.

Your Personality Unlocked

If you haven’t already read Your Personality Unlocked – Living Life to its Fullest, what are you waiting for Personality Dimensions® Master Trainers, and authors of Colour Savvy, Anne Bulstrode and Susan Geary give us the book everyone has been asking for.

Your Personality Unlocked is a great introduction to using Personality Dimensions® in all aspects of life, and also makes a great leave-behind for clients who have participated in one of your workshops. Print copies are available now on CLSR.ca or get it for Kindle on Amazon.com /.ca/.com.au/.co.uk.

We asked Anne and Susan to share why they wrote this book, and what it will do for the reader. Here’s what they had to say…

Our goal was to write a book about Personality Dimensions® that was easy to read and understand and that everyone would benefit from. We wanted to make sure that even if you knew nothing about Personality Dimensions®, you could pick the book up, grasp the different dimensions and use it as a tool to become more self-aware and gain a greater understanding of others. Equally, our hope was that if you already understand the four dimensions, you could gain some additional insights into others.

To help those that are new to the dimensions, we start off the book with a self-assessment that allows you to figure out the different dimensions that you use. Then we shift our focus to the difference between introversion and extraversion and includes a self-assessment to help you decide what your preference is.
In chapter three, readers will be able to learn about the unique needs and values associated with each dimension.

The next three chapters focus on various aspects of communication. First, we give insights into how to communicate with different dimensions, as well as how you prefer to be communicated with. Then we look at relationships and examine what the relationship needs are for each dimension. And finally, most people find conflict with others stressful and are sometimes lost about how to manage conflict situations. As a starting point, chapter 6 helps us gain insight into what causes the different dimensions conflict, how each dimension causes conflict for others and how they behave when in conflict.

Work offers different joys and challenges, and we go on to discuss how each dimension can thrive at work, both as employees and managers.

People often ask us how to figure out the primary dimension of another person. While this is not an exact science, we offer some visual, verbal and non-verbal clues that can help you make an educated guess about other’s preferred dimensions.

Finally, we tie the whole book together by looking at the similarities between the dimensions, some of the differences and how to bridge these differences.

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Anne and Susan are partners in Up Your Potential. They are international speakers, facilitators, personality experts, and coaches with over 25+ years’ experience, each helping people reach their goals by empowering them to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to perform optimally. They are the co-authors of the bestselling book Colour Savvy: Helping you Achieve Success in Your Work Life, and a number of Personality Dimensions® Online reports.

In their private practices, they have worked extensively with individuals and organizations. Their solutions are relevant, practical and results-oriented. They have been working with a wide range of clients in the area of Personality Theory, Management Development, Team Building, Interpersonal Communications,
Wellness, Resilience and Conflict Resolution. They embraced Personality Dimensions® in 2003, are both Master Level Personality Dimensions® Facilitators and whenever possible, they incorporate it into their work.

Anne and Susan will be presenting (virtually) at the British Association for Psychological Type in April, 2022 on Temperaments at Work in the Post-Pandemic World.

Personality Dimensions® Statistics

It’s that time of year again… time to pull the PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) out of its work cube to report on this past year’s Personality Dimensions® statistics. With so many of us working from home, there has been a significant increase in the number of facilitators making the move to PD-Online. In fact, so many of you are using it now that the PD Stats Robot is on secondment with CLSRassessments.com to help keep things moving along smoothly.

The staff at CLSR Inc. would like to thank all of the Certified Trainers who took the time to send in their workshop statistics over the past year.  Collecting workshop statistics allows us to do further research on the reliability and validity of Personality Dimensions®.  If you look at the Primary Colour Breakdowns over the past 16 years, you will notice very little change with them over time; In fact, there was a less than 1% variance with two of the Dimensions over the past few years. That’s some pretty good reliability scores!  Full statistics for the Canadian market, including this year’s, are published every year in July and are posted at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/published-statistics

Remember, every time you conduct an Introductory or Application Session, even if you had your clients take the assessment online, that you keep track of your participants’ Primary Colour Preference, and Introversion/Extraversion preference.  You can find a form on the USB included with your Building Blocks/Manual to do this.  Statistics can then be faxed to 905-760-0113, or emailed to stats@clsr.ca.  You can also submit your statistics through the web at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/submit-your-statistics.

The PD Stats Robot is an amazing piece of computing technology, and a surprisingly good pastry chef, but can only work with the information that it receives. Please remember to submit your statistics even if you are administering Personality Dimensions® Online.  Remember that the assessment component isn’t the final word on an individual’s primary colour, especially if scores are close; clarification also comes from the Brightening Group exercises in a workshop.

Until next year, on behalf of the PD Stats Robot (patent still pending), stay positive and keep those numbers coming.

Personality Dimensions® Statistics

Like many of us this year, The PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) has been doing his best to work from home. The report is a little late getting published because, according to PD Stats Robot, their “dog ate the statistics.” But better late than never.

Once again The PD Stats Robot and the rest of the staff at CLSR Inc. would like to thank all of the Certified Trainers who took the time to send in their workshop statistics over the past year.  Collecting workshop statistics allows us to do further research on the reliability and validity of Personality Dimensions®.  If you look at the Primary Colour Breakdowns over the past 15 years, you will notice very little change with them over time; In fact, there is no change from last year and the previous two years in the percentage breakdowns. How’s that for reliability?!?! Full statistics for the Canadian market, including this year’s, are published every year in July and are posted at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/published-statistics

Collecting workshop statistics also helps us in creating new products.  For example, the job categories found in Career Dimensions™ were taken directly from the statistics reported to us by Certified Trainers. Your statistics also helped us in developing the upcoming Wellness Report and Personal Report.

We ask that every time you conduct an Introductory or Application Session, even if you had your clients take the assessment online, that you keep track of your participants’ Primary Colour Preference, and Introversion/Extraversion preference.  You can find a form on the USB included with your Building Blocks/Manual to do this.  Statistics can then be faxed to 905-760-0113, or emailed to stats@clsr.ca.  You can also submit your statistics through the web at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/submit-your-statistics.

Once received at our office, our PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) diligently processes and categorizes every number and colour submitted!  Also, remember to submit your statistics even if you are administering Personality Dimensions® Online.  Remember that the assessment component isn’t the final word on an individual’s primary colour, especially if scores are close; clarification also comes from the Brightening Group exercises in a workshop.

Until next time, on behalf of PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) please remember to be kind, and stay safe in these challenging times.

Update – COVID 19 Announcement

The Province of Ontario has mandated the shutdown of non-essential businesses effective immediately. The health and safety of our employees, our customers, and the public at large are of utmost importance, and for this reason we will be ceasing our operations until further notice. Resumption of operations will depend entirely on the communications received from our government and public health officials.

In the meantime, our technical support staff for CLSRassessments.com will be working remotely and will be able to help by email at techsupport@clsr.ca.

These are trying times, and we ask that you continue to support Canadian businesses, but when the timing is right to do so. For now, stay at home and stay safe. We will do the same.

COVID-19 Announcement

Due to the progressing risks of COVID-19 in Ontario, we have made the difficult but important decision to close our office location immediately.  We have made this decision with the well-being of our employees, customers, and communities in mind. We will continue to monitor this situation closely as we look forward to re-opening our office and resuming normal operations.

While our customer service line will not be available, but our staff will be working remotely and will be able to answer your questions via email. Orders can still be placed online at www.clsr.ca and will ship out within 2-3 days.

We encourage you to stay-up-to-date and educated on the situation by regularly visiting the Public Health Agency of Canada website, and we would like to thank all of the healthcare and essential service employees that are working tirelessly to keep our communities safe.

Thank-you for your understanding during these unsettling times.

Personality Dimensions® Statistics

This year we told The PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) that he couldn’t go on his vacation until he published the yearly Personality Dimensions® statistics. Working diligently with his eye on the prize, he churned out this year’s report.

Once again The PD Stats Robot and the rest of the staff at CLSR Inc. would like to thank all of the Certified Trainers who took the time to send in their workshop statistics over the past year.  Collecting workshop statistics allows us to do further research on the reliability and validity of Personality Dimensions®.  If you look at the Primary Colour Breakdowns over the past 14 years, you will notice very little change with them over time; In fact, there is no change from last year and the year before in the percentage breakdowns. How’s that for reliability?!?! Full statistics for the Canadian market, including this year’s, are published every year in July and are posted at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/published-statistics

Collecting workshop statistics also helps us in creating new products.  For example, the job categories found in Career Dimensions™ were taken directly from the statistics reported to us by Certified Trainers. Your statistics also helped us in developing the recently released PD for Youth Online™, and PD Basics Online.

We ask that every time you conduct an Introductory or Application Session, even if you had your clients take the assessment online,  that you keep track of your participants’ Primary Colour Preference, and Introversion/Extraversion preference.  You can find a form on the USB included with your Building Blocks/Manual to do this.  Statistics can then be faxed to 905-760-0113, or emailed to stats@clsr.ca.  You can also submit your statistics through the web at: http://www.personalitydimensions.com/submit-your-statistics.

Once received at our office, our PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) diligently processes and categorizes every number and colour submitted!  Also, remember to submit your statistics even if you are administering Personality Dimensions® Online.  Remember that the assessment component isn’t the final word on an individual’s primary colour, especially if scores are close; clarification also comes from the Brightening Group exercises in a workshop.

Until next time, join us in wishing PD Stats Robot (patent still pending) safe travels and a relaxing vacation.

Personality Dimensions – Remembering Kate Jones

It is a sad day for the CLSR family today; it is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Kate Jones.  Kate was an amazing person that touched the lives of many individuals, and was many things to many people; trainer, author, editor, coach; but most important, she was our friend.

Kate together with her husband Wayne have been continuous supporters of us over the years. Their contributions have been valuable in making Personality Dimensions what it is today.  Kate was always up for a new project and tackling new challenges.

There was no such thing as a quick phone call or visit with Kate, but for good reason. Her upbeat personality and positivity was no short of amazing, and you would just want to keep talking. Conversations that started out as business would turn into conversations about family adventures, until she would eventually say “we should probably get back to business.”  While we’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Kate and Wayne’s children and grandchildren, we feel like we already know them. Kate was also their greatest cheerleader and so proud of their accomplishments.

In honour of Kate, go out today and do something positive; be someone’s cheerleader and don’t be afraid to take on a new challenge.

Kate’s family is planning a celebration of life in the near future.

Personality Dimensions® – Meet the Master Trainers

Over the last few years it has become increasingly clear to me that we needed to do more to support Personality Dimensions® facilitators who were working with youth. To that end we have developed an online report as well as Youth Participant Packs. But it wasn’t enough. Having a facilitator’s guide, which took into consideration age and experience levels appropriate for youth, was the next logical step. I turned to Emil Boychuk for help. I have known Emil for many years and was well aware of the work that he and a core group of Personality Dimensions® facilitators within the Toronto District School Board had already done, including mapping out a lot of activities and workshops that would be extremely valuable for working with youth in either school or employment centre settings. Graciously, he agreed and the result is the new PD for Youth Foundations Facilitators Guide. It is my privilege to introduce you to Emil Boychuk, Personality Dimensions® III Master Trainer.

Emil has been fascinated by personality theories and personal and career development his whole life. He was introduced to David Keirsey’s temperament theory and another temperament theory model while working at the Toronto Centre for Career Action, Toronto Board of Education, in 1992. Along with getting certified as a facilitator and delivering many workshops for students and school staff, Emil was involved in training other teachers and counsellors to become facilitators. With the advent of Personality Dimensions® he upgraded his training to become a Personality Dimensions® facilitator and Level II trainer. In collaboration with Lynn Dennis, Emil ran Level I training workshops for teachers and counsellors for over 10 years.

Now retired from full employment with the TDSB, however, Emil continues to be involved in helping youth with career planning through individual counselling and a work skills simulation program called “WonderTech”. He is a long-standing member, and current co-chair, of the Association of Career Educators (ACE), formerly, Association of Career Centres in Educational Settings (ACCES). ACE has been focusing on delivering workshops for parents on guiding and supporting the educational and career development of their youth (www.aceofontario.ca). He continues to facilitate Personality Dimensions® awareness workshops for youth and adults and it continues to be a great delight for him to witness people discovering great things about themselves and others.

Emil reports that Personality Dimensions® is an integral part of his life and it has enabled him to be a better husband, parent, friend, teacher, counsellor and leader counsellor and leader and to maximize his strengths as an Inquiring Green and allow his Authentic Blue to shine. He is deeply grateful for all the people in the Personality Dimensions® fold who have influenced him through their writings, conferences, workshops and collaboration.

Degrees: Degrees: B.A. (Philosophy and Literature); B. Theology (and graduate work in Ethics); graduate work in Educational Psychology; Ontario Teaching Certificate with Guidance Specialist; Masters Certificate in Constructivist Counselling. Certificate in Narrative Counselling (CareerCycles).

 

Denise Hughes is the Director and owner of CLSR Inc. and general editor of Personality Dimensions® materials and products. She just noticed the calendar and realized it is just past the 44th anniversary of her introduction to career and type and temperament materials. Those experiences and the expertise she gained through her years with the Guidance Centre, University of Toronto, and now with CLSR, continue to shape the direction that both Career/LifeSkills Resources and Personality Dimensions® take.