Facet5 is a 'Big 5' factor personality model, which allows managers to understand how people differ in their behaviour, motivation, attitudes and aspirations.

Five factors are now widely accepted as the fundamental building blocks of personality. These 'Big 5' have consistently emerged from research around the world as the irreducible minimum needed to give a comprehensive description of a person's personality.

Facet5 measures these five factors precisely and quickly to give the most accurate and easily applied portrait of individual differences in behaviour. Facet5 also allows a detailed breakdown of these five factors into 13 sub-factors (facets) to explore subtleties of behaviour at an individual level.

Facet5 was designed in response to requests from many organisations for an instrument, which combined: modern design, construction and appearance, ease and flexibility of use, reasonable cost and integration with human resource management systems. It's based on recent developments in personality theory and management development and yet is simple and practical to use. Facet5's theoretical and psychometric integrity is comparable with or superior to other mainstream, but now dated personality questionn aires.

Facet5 works at all levels from individual assessment through selection, recruitment and team integration. Facet5 can even be extended to understand culture and values at a team or corporate level.

Facet5 uses a web-based questionnaire to capture information; people respond to an e-mailed invitation and are taken directly to the Facet5 website. Most people can complete a Facet5 questionnaire in around 17 minutes. Facet5 data is processed instantly and is immediately available for review by authorised users, with reports shown on screen or produced as a fully formatted pdf for printing or emailing.

Facet5 also comprises of a number of modules that can be used in the following application areas:

Selection
Searchlight
Audition
Integration
TeamScape
Management
Leading Edge
Development
Work Preferences

To maintain its professional credibility and to ensure that it continues to develop in line with practical experience and current theory, Facet5 is available only to accredited people. A full accreditation programme is available on an in-house basis or through our open programmes which are held at regular intervals. For details on upcoming courses click on the links under 'additional info'.