Blog — Assessments
September 23, 2026
The Enneagram for Physician Leaders: Understanding Your Motivations
How the Enneagram helps physician leaders in academic medicine understand core motivations, not just behaviors, and lead with greater self-awareness.
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September 2, 2026
The Values in Action (VIA) Character Strengths Survey: Know Thyself
An overview of the VIA Character Strengths Survey — what it measures, how it differs from performance-based assessments, and how knowing your signature strengths can help you lead with more authenticity in academic medicine.
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August 5, 2026
The DISC Assessment: Understanding Your Communication Style in Academic Medicine
A practical overview of the DISC behavioral assessment — what the four styles mean, how they show up in academic medicine settings like faculty meetings and clinical teams, and how understanding your style improves collaboration.
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July 1, 2026
The 360-Degree Feedback Assessment: What It Reveals and What It Doesn't
A practical guide to the 360-degree feedback process — what to expect, how to interpret the results without becoming defensive, and how to turn feedback into a development plan.
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June 20, 2026
The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal: A Tool for Physician Self-Awareness
An overview of the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal and EQ-i 2.0 — what these assessments measure, how they apply to physician leadership, and why self-awareness is the foundation for everything else.
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June 13, 2026
The CliftonStrengths Assessment: Playing to Your Strengths in Academic Medicine
How the CliftonStrengths assessment helps physician leaders in academic medicine identify their natural talents and build a more intentional career.
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May 27, 2026
The MBTI and Academic Medicine: Useful or Overrated?
A balanced look at the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator — what it can and can't tell you about your work style, communication preferences, and leadership approach in academic medicine.
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April 1, 2026
The Time Audit: Where Your Hours Actually Go
Track your time for one week and you'll find the gap between where you think your hours go and where they actually go — and that gap is where coaching starts.
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February 21, 2026
The Johari Window: What You Don't Know About Yourself Is Hurting Your Career
A classic self-awareness framework that reveals your blind spots — and why physicians have more of them than they think.
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February 19, 2026
The Predictive Index: Using Behavioral Data to Build Better Teams
Learn how the Predictive Index helps physician leaders use behavioral data to strengthen hiring, communication, and team dynamics in academic medicine.
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February 10, 2026
The Conflict Dynamics Profile: Understanding Your Conflict Triggers
The Conflict Dynamics Profile helps physician leaders identify their hot buttons and default conflict responses to transform how they handle disagreements.
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February 7, 2026
What's Your Leadership Style? And Does It Matter?
A tour of the major leadership style frameworks — situational, transformational, servant — and how to figure out yours without taking another quiz.
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February 2, 2026
The Leadership Circle Profile: Seeing Your Leadership Blind Spots
Learn how the Leadership Circle Profile 360 assessment reveals leadership blind spots physicians miss and why closing the gap transforms teams.
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January 26, 2026
The Hogan Assessment: Understanding Your Dark Side as a Physician Leader
Learn how the Hogan assessment helps physician leaders identify leadership derailers that emerge under stress and sabotage effectiveness.
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January 18, 2026
The VIA Character Strengths Survey: Finding Your Leadership Foundation
How the VIA character strengths survey helps physician leaders build an authentic leadership style grounded in who they actually are.
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January 11, 2026
The Emotional Intelligence Appraisal: Measuring What Matters for Physician Leaders
How the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal helps physician leaders measure EQ, identify blind spots, and build the interpersonal skills that matter most.
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January 7, 2026
The Energy Audit: Finding What Drains You and What Fuels You
A simple tracking exercise that reveals which parts of your work give you energy and which ones are quietly burning you out.
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January 5, 2026
The DISC Profile for Physician Communication Styles
How the DISC profile helps physicians identify their default communication style and adapt it for patients, peers, and leadership conversations.
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December 28, 2025
The TKI and Conflict Agility: Why Physician Leaders Need More Than One Mode
The TKI helps physician leaders move beyond a single conflict style and develop the agility to match their approach to the situation.
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December 21, 2025
The Gallup CliftonStrengths for Academic Physicians Stepping Into Leadership
How CliftonStrengths helps academic physicians lead from their natural talents when stepping into division chief and program director roles.
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December 15, 2025
The Enneagram's Nine Types and Why They Matter for Physician Team Dynamics
Explore how the Enneagram's nine types help physicians build self-awareness and improve team dynamics in academic medicine.
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December 10, 2025
The Personal SWOT Analysis: A Career Tool You Already Know
How to adapt the classic business framework for your own academic medicine career planning.
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December 8, 2025
The Leadership Circle Profile for Physician Leaders
How the Leadership Circle Profile gives physician leaders in academic medicine a 360 leadership assessment that reveals what competency models miss.
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December 1, 2025
Career Anchors: Understanding What Drives Your Physician Identity
How Edgar Schein's career anchors assessment helps physicians in academic medicine uncover the core motivations shaping their professional identity.
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November 26, 2025
Finding Your Ikigai in Academic Medicine
The Japanese concept of ikigai — the intersection of what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for — applied to physician careers.
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November 24, 2025
Resilience Assessments and Physician Burnout Prevention
How resilience assessments help physicians prevent burnout before it takes hold. Tools, practical applications, and why individual data beats guesswork.
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November 17, 2025
Understanding Your Conflict Style as a Physician Leader
A conflict style assessment helps physician leaders see how their default patterns shape team dynamics, negotiations, and department culture.
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November 9, 2025
The Values Card Sort: Aligning Your Career with What Matters
How a values card sort helps physicians in academic medicine align their career decisions with what actually matters most to them.
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November 2, 2025
The Time Audit: An Essential Assessment for Academic Physicians
A time audit for academic physicians reveals whether your daily hours align with your career priorities — and where productivity gains are hiding.
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October 27, 2025
Emotional Intelligence Assessments for Physician Leaders
How emotional intelligence assessments help physician leaders identify the interpersonal gaps that derail leadership transitions in academic medicine.
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October 25, 2025
The Wheel of Life Exercise for Physicians
A simple visual tool that reveals where your career is thriving and where it's starving — and why physicians are often surprised by the results.
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October 20, 2025
CliftonStrengths for Physician Teams
How the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment helps physician teams understand complementary strengths, reduce friction, and assign work based on what people do best rather than what they've always done.
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October 12, 2025
Emotional Intelligence Assessments for Physicians
A guide to EQ assessments for physician leaders — EQ-i 2.0, MSCEIT, and 360-feedback tools. What they measure, how they compare, and why EQ data is often the most actionable coaching data you'll get.
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October 5, 2025
The Saboteur Assessment — Understanding Your Inner Critic
How the Positive Intelligence Saboteur Assessment helps physicians identify mental patterns that sabotage effectiveness and wellbeing.
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October 4, 2025
The Values Card Sort: A Simple Exercise That Changes Everything
How a 15-minute card sort can clarify your priorities and reshape career decisions.
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September 29, 2025
The Wheel of Life Exercise for Physician Balance
How the Wheel of Life coaching exercise gives physicians a visual snapshot of balance — and why it's a powerful starting point for coaching.
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September 23, 2025
The MBTI in Academic Medicine — Helpful or Overhyped?
A balanced take on the MBTI for physicians — what it does well as a conversation starter and where its scientific validity falls short.
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September 20, 2025
Measuring Your Emotional Intelligence: Which Assessment to Use
Comparing EQ-i 2.0, MSCEIT, and other EI assessments — which ones are worth your time.
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September 16, 2025
The Values Card Sort for Career Clarity
How the values card sort exercise helps physicians cut through expectations and prestige to find genuine career clarity.
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September 9, 2025
The Enneagram for Physician Self-Awareness
How the Enneagram personality framework helps physicians understand stress reactions, communication patterns, and leadership blind spots.
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August 30, 2025
The Leadership Circle Profile: Seeing Your Leadership Blind Spots
An overview of the Leadership Circle Profile — a 360-degree assessment that maps both creative and reactive leadership tendencies. Why it's particularly powerful for physician leaders who don't realize how their stress responses affect their teams.
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August 30, 2025
A Physician Leader's Guide to 360-Degree Feedback
What a 360 review actually measures, how to prepare for one, and how to use the results without spiraling.
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August 23, 2025
The Energy Audit: Where Is Your Time Actually Going?
A simple self-assessment exercise to track where your energy goes in a typical week — distinguishing between activities that energize you and those that drain you, and using the data to make better career decisions.
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August 15, 2025
The Work Values Inventory: Aligning Your Career with What Matters
How a work values inventory can help physicians clarify what they actually want from their career — beyond prestige and salary — and make better decisions about roles, institutions, and priorities.
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August 13, 2025
Should You Take the Myers-Briggs? A Physician's Guide
An honest look at the MBTI — what it's useful for, where it falls short, and how physicians can use it thoughtfully.
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August 11, 2025
The Hogan Assessment: Understanding Your Derailment Risks
An overview of the Hogan Assessment suite — particularly the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) which measures 'dark side' personality traits that emerge under stress. Why understanding your derailers is critical for physician leaders.
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August 4, 2025
The VIA Character Strengths Survey: Finding What Energizes You
An overview of the VIA Character Strengths assessment — how identifying your signature strengths can help you align your career with what energizes you rather than what drains you.
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July 29, 2025
The EQ-i 2.0: Measuring Emotional Intelligence for Physician Leaders
An overview of the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence assessment — what it measures, how it differs from personality tests, and why it's particularly useful for physicians moving into leadership roles.
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July 26, 2025
Understanding Your DISC Profile as a Physician Leader
How the DISC behavioral assessment helps physician leaders understand their communication style and adapt to their teams.
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July 23, 2025
Understanding Your Conflict Style — The Thomas-Kilmann Instrument
How knowing your default conflict style (competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding, accommodating) can improve your professional relationships.
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July 16, 2025
The Immunity to Change Assessment: Why Knowing Better Isn't Enough
An overview of Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey's Immunity to Change framework — how hidden competing commitments keep physicians stuck even when they know exactly what they should be doing differently.
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July 9, 2025
Using CliftonStrengths to Navigate Your Academic Medicine Career
How CliftonStrengths helps physicians in academic medicine identify natural talents and find their best-fit roles.
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July 8, 2025
The Energy Leadership Index: Mapping How You Show Up Under Stress
An overview of the Energy Leadership Index — the seven levels of energy, how stress shifts your default level, and how physician leaders can choose more intentional responses.
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July 1, 2025
The Hogan Leadership Assessment: Understanding Your Derailers
An in-depth look at the Hogan Leadership Assessment — what it measures, why physicians are susceptible to certain derailers, and how self-awareness prevents career-limiting behaviors.
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