World   View   Assessment

Objectives:

• Provide a concrete representation of self, in terms of those four dimensions outlined below. When assessments on them are combined, the result provides a ‘picture’ of one’s ‘World View’ and how it impacts solving unstructured problems and making decisions under conditions of high uncertainty.

• Feedback from and consultation with a trained counselor about the results of this assessment are designed to be constructively-developmental, i.e., to promote development of greater self-insight, identify areas where developing greater awareness would be beneficial, and to craft a Development Plan designed to improve creative problem solving performance.

Assessment Dimensions:

• Inner-World – Outer-World, in our interpretation of Jung’s Personality Theory, defines the degree to which the individual is predisposed and interacts with, becomes involved, and otherwise embraces other persons & events, and provides his or her primary source(s) of obtaining information for problem solving & decision making purposes.

• Holistic-World – Serialistic-World determines how the individual uses the knowledge bases they have already built, how they go about processing incoming information streams, how they relate prior knowledge to developing (new) knowledge, and how they bring both to bear upon the problem solving & decision making processes. The holist is concerned with understanding the Subject of their perception in the relief provided by its milieu, while the serialist is concerned with dissecting the Subject into parts in order to better understand, in a more microscopic sense, what it is they ‘see’ or perceive.

• Logic-World – Values-World also defines a continuum, which determines how much ‘Values’ on the one hand and ‘Logic’ on the other are used to solve unstructured problems productively and define issues. For example, establishing policy in organizations can be based upon operational considerations alone, implying depersonalization, or on values, reflecting a concern for the benefit and welfare of others, or on some degree of both.

• Planning-World – Exploring-World defines how willing one is to be spontaneous, remain tentative, non-evaluative, and noncommittal versus ‘Planning’ or having a need for and actively seeks closure, structure, and practicality. Interactively, these processes can be complimentary, alternating between unbridled generation of thoughts and evaluating their possible implementation (practicality), which together form the basis for designing alternative, workable solutions for unstructured problems and rapidly developing contingencies.

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