California Psycholoical Inventory
CPI 260®

HISTORY: The CPI 260 is built on 50-plus years of exceptional history, validity, and reliability, the California Psychological Inventory™ (CPI™) assessments are powerful leadership development and selection tools that help individuals and leaders improve their performance. This means that both the CPI 260® and CPI™ 434 assessments provide valuable insights that support your leadership and coaching, performance improvement, and selection initiatives.

USE & APPLICATIONS: By describing individuals in the way others see them, the CPI assessments illustrate a range of personal and work-related characteristics, motivations, and thinking styles—as well as different ways people manage themselves and deal with others.

OBJECTIVE: The CPI 260® assessment, which is derived from the full 434-item California Psychological InventoryTM (CPI™) instrument, is to give a true-to-life description of the respondent in clear, everyday language (Gough & Bradley, 2005). The CPI 260 assessment measures 29 distinct psychological constructs grouped into 6 scale categories:

• 7 Dealing with Others scales, focusing on the manner in which social participation is expressed
• 7 Self-management scales, assessing self-discipline and acceptance of societal rules
• 3 Motivations and Thinking Style scales
• 3 Personal Characteristics scales
• 6 Work-Related Measures scales, assessing disposition at work
• 3 High-Order Measures scales, assessing personal orientations

SAMPLE REPORTS:

CPI 260 Feedback Report PDF - CPI 260 Coaching Report PDF

How To Take The CPI 260®

FIRST: You have to be a client or on the staff of a client and have received a letter, email, or phone call with instructions from us on which assessment instruments to complete. If you are not a client and interested in taking the CPI 260, we will be happy to work with you; however, we need to be contacted with a phone call to review your unique situation in order to prepare for you an engagement letter for you to sign and return.

SECOND: You must not be under any stress or feel like you have to take the CPI. You should have a “Shoes Off Mind-Set" and try not to answer questions in a work vs. private life mode - Answer the questions being true to who you are. Let yourself be pulled to the answer that is most preferable to your personality.

THIRD: Take the CPI Instrument by clicking on the SkillsOne Logo below, which will take you to the Strategic Path Group SkillsOne.com page. Take the CPI 260 per your facilitator's instructions. Log into the site using the following information in lower case type:

LOGIN: strategic

PASSWORD: path

USER ID: Will be assigned to you if you do not finish the instrument. To pick up where you left off, access the SkillsOne.com just as you did before, with your User ID, and you will be taken back to where you left off.