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Workplace Nordic
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Anyone can register for our certification and user training sessions. They are best suited for HR personnel, consultants, coaches and anyone who works with organizational or personnel development. Please note that the advanced training sessions for certified users are only for consultants who are certified users of our tools.
WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ Certification
- After Workplace Nordic’s two-day certification course, you are authorized to use the profiling tool independently.
- As part of the certification, you will get to know your own Big Five profile and you can deepen your self-knowledge.
- You will also learn interesting and useful facts about human personality.
- The certification includes profiling exercises with the help of the trainers and user support also after the training.
- After the certification, you will be a part of the rapidly growing WorkPlace Big Five user network.
- No license or other fixed fees.
- The certification course is well suited for HR personnel, consultants, coaches, and for all who work within developing people/organizations.
EQ-i 2.0® Certification
- After Workplace Nordic’s certification course, you are authorized to use the EQ-i 2.0 tool independently.
- In the certification training, you will learn about the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence model, which organizations worldwide have used for nearly 20 years.
- As part of the certification, you will get your own EQ measured and tips for developing your own emotional intelligence.
- The certification includes emotional intelligence measuring user support also after the training.
- After the certification, you will be a part of the rapidly growing EQ-i 2.0 user network.
No license or other fixed fees. - The certification course is well suited for HR personnel, consultants, coaches, and for all who work within developing people/organizations.
Super Certification
WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ + EQ-i 2.0®
Why settle with just one tool when you can get both to complement each other? To gain the most comprehensive understanding, we warmly recommend a cost-effective super certification (including both the WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ and the EQ-i 2.0® certification).
Maslach Burnout Toolkit™ user training
- The Maslach Burnout Toolkit™ user training supports the use of the toolkit.
- The user training lasts 2–3 hours and costs EUR 250 + VAT / person, including your own Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Areas of Worklife (AWS) reports.
- It is, however, also possible to order the toolkit from us and use it without user training.
- No license or other fixed fees.
- The certification course is well suited for HR personnel, consultants, coaches, psychotherapists and for all who work within developing people/organizations.
Utilize the powerful trio!
WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ + EQ-i 2.0® + Maslach Burnout Toolkit™
You can use our tools either separately or together to support your work. We recommend this powerful trio when you need a comprehensive view of work well-being, its risk factors and an individual’s natural tendencies, and you want to find the most suitable concrete actions for improving well-being and performance at work. The trio is effective for planning your own activities or coaching your team or clients, for example.
An in-depth view on development
The Maslach Burnout Toolkit™ scale on well-being at work, the WorkPlace Big Five personality profile and the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence assessment each provides added value when you need to focus actions on developing the well-being and performance of an individual, team or organization. Our choice of these three tools is not by chance. Each of them is strongly based on science and research and internationally recognized and valued. Together, they provide an in-depth approach to both individual and group circumstances, which is why we can truly call them a powerful development trio:
- We recommend starting with the combined MBI and AWS toolkit; if individuals feel stretched to the limit, development actions will not be fruitful, or if the workplace has workload issues, they need to be addressed first to ensure that development actions are effective.
- The WorkPlace Big Five personality profile enables planning development actions with consideration for the energy and stress factors stemming from personality.
- The EQ-i 2.0 gives a snapshot of emotional intelligence, and this helps in focusing development actions to get the most effective and measurable results.
Emergy Emotional Climate Audit® Certification
- After Workplace Nordic’s certification course, you are authorized to use the Emergy Emotional Climate Audit® independently.
- You will learn about the key concepts of workplace emotional climate.
- You will learn how to measure the emotional climate and find the core strengths and areas of improvement as well as blindspots of a team or an organization.
- You can carry out one complimentary Emergy® Emotional Climate Audit with one group of your choice as a part of the certification
- You’ll get practical tips for developing your clients emotional climate
- Also includes a follow-up session where you can ask questions and share your experiences.
Advanced training session for WorkPlace Big Five Profile™ certified users
We offer our clients changing advanced training sessions, for example:
- Team simulation tool: Conflict situations and emotional temperament
- WorkPlace Big Five blends
- Workplace Nordic 360º user training
We also offer tailored training sessions/certification courses in English.
What our customers are saying?
We are a project organization where people work in teams and in several different locations. In this kind of work community, change is continuous and the work requires a great deal of self-management. We want to give our directors and managers a tool that helps them recognize their strengths and areas needing development and helps them understand different personalities. WorkPlace Big Five also provides us a common language for discussing leadership and management work.
WorkPlace Big Five is by far the best assessment method that I have used thus far. It’s clear and compact, covering aptly the key areas of a person’s work personality. It is an extremely useful tool in various contexts, such as recruitment assessments, management team development and coaching.
I utilize the WorkPlace Big Five tool for management team development and individual executive coaching, and I’ve found it extremely useful. The tool helps to find a personal and efficient management style and creates a powerful opportunity to benefit from the differences in various groups. With this tool, it’s easy to make visible the potential and the problems in a group’s way of thinking and working. In conflict situations, WorkPlace Big Five increases the understanding of different parties’ way of working—WPB5 provides the keys to learning new collaboration models.
At Terveystalo, we aim at measurable effectiveness in all our customer work. We use WorkPlace Big Five as a development tool because of its strong scientific basis and because, based on this method, we can make concrete development plans. Our work psychologists use the WorkPlace Big Five tool to promote health and welfare among individuals and work communities. WorkPlace Big Five profiling is also an integral part of the management training we offer our customers.
I use the MBI + AWS scales in my work as a coach for leaders and managers. This method has proved a useful tool in measuring clients’ coping at work. In leadership coaching, sustained well-being at work is one of the most common goals, and the person’s own experience is always the starting point in the process. It’s also essential that a person’s feelings about their coping are seen from a wider perspective. I’ve found it very useful when the measurement indicates that “only 12% of the comparison group is coping worse than you are”. It’s an eye-opener; it provides a perspective on how you feel about how you’re coping and strips the last intentions of bravely soldiering on at work. This paves the way for effectively dealing with the situation and looking for keys to change. The Areas of Worklife questionnaire included in the measurement is also a useful tool in tracking the factors that have an effect on coping.
The EQ-i 2.0 course was well organized. The online course provided sufficient basic knowledge on the subject, and the interactional training sessions gave an opportunity to deepen our knowledge. We felt the course was suitably demanding, truly enabling us to use the method; the final exam also backed this up. It’s good that the trainers make sure the users of the method really know how to use it.
Good leaders have emotional intelligence. They can lead and engage personnel and get better results. They can interpret their own feelings, and they believe in themselves; they are also skilled in expressing their opinions and feelings. They are optimistic, flexible and stress resistant. Good leaders apply their self-knowledge and objectivity to decision-making. In selection processes, it’s important to pay attention to a leader’s emotional skills. In emotional skill assessments, we use the scientifically validated EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence scale to help our clients find emotionally intelligent key personnel. Emotional skills can also be developed, so everyone can improve in this.
My clients have felt that it’s particularly useful to see how the various components of emotional intelligence are balanced. Some of the insights on this balancing have resulted in big changes in ways to lead and interact, with very good results.
WorkPlace Big Five Profile brings practical benefits for: Experienced leaders in that it deepens the insight they may have gained from previous personality / performance assessments and gives them the opportunity to focus on specific areas for development. New managers and leaders in that it gives them an easy to understand frame to plan and execute their personal / professional development. Trainers in that it is an easy to administer, credible tool, that brings a practical approach to assist others in developing important skills and mindsets.
Personality is the bedrock of who a person is, but their EQ is the capstone that forms the whole person. Understanding emotion skills and knowing your own skills is a great basis for self-knowledge and personal development. The EQ-i 2.0 is a comprehensive and concrete method for assessing emotional intelligence, and the best part is that it centers on personal well-being. And for many of us, that’s what matters the most. I combine these two tools, the WorkPlace Big Five personality profile and the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence scale, to provide the client with a useful combination that supports the coaching process regardless of the theme of the coaching.
We use the WorkPlace Big Five Profile to develop the competence and leadership of our personnel. We use the personality profiles in management work, individual supervision, recruitment and for developing cooperation in teams. Here at Aktia, managers use the WorkPlace Big Five Profile for personal and team development. It’s like a mirror that shows what kind of people work here and what kind of personality profiles we have. The WorkPlace Big Five Profile helps us understand how to lead different personalities. For example, when the management group knows what kind of profile is common in our company, they can adapt their actions and communication accordingly.
Here at The WeLaB, we have used the Maslach Burnout Toolkit in management and team coaching. The MBI works well in eliciting discussion on burnout, and even if someone is not suffering from burnout, the six areas of worklife (AWS) have provided useful information on their fit with their workplace culture. We’ve had many interesting and insightful discussions on values and fairness for example.