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WELCOME to the PRISM Brain Mapping page.

PRISM is the ultimate 21st Century human behaviour instrument, specifically designed to assist individuals and organisations meet the kind of people-related challenges they face in today's fast-changing world.

Having studied human behaviour and personality at length, we rate PRISM very highly. Here are three unique reasons:

1. PRISM is based on cutting edge neuroscience (brain mapping) not solely on observations and classifications of behaviour. As such, it is not considered a psychometric assessment tool.
2. PRISM is holistic, profiling the whole person in terms of the personality related aspects of behaviour. PRISM realistically portrays the repertoire and inherent flexibility of your underlying behavioural 'traits', rather than falsely 'typing', labelling and boxing people in. Instead PRISM encourages you to broaden your behaviour and develop aspects of your personality, using more areas of your brain.
3. PRISM does not fall into the trap that many psychometric tools, including the well known ones, make - which is to confuse aspects of behaviour which are heavily influenced by emotional state (such as neuroticism and introversion) with underlying personality traits.

PRISM provides a holistic view of personality and behaviour, highlighting:

• Eight fundamental dimensions of behaviour
• Scopes your preferences and potential for being rational and analytical, structured and organised, empathic and social, vs imaginative and intuitive.
• Natural talents that may be over or under-utilised
• Reasons for potential boredom or stress
• Your degree of alignment to your core and level of authenticity in a role.

The colours refer to the four quadrants of your brain; your behaviour will reflect a preference and tendency to use particular neural pathways in the different parts of the brain, each of which is responsible for different aspects of behaviour. At the highest level: Red and Gold preferences reflect how you behave when engaged in a task and/or under pressure. Green and Blue reflect your behaviour in social settings and in establishing rapport with others.

Research from Gallop has demonstrated that 80% of employees 'falsify type' i.e. try to be something they are not naturally in order to be recruited, promoted or retained. No business can be truly effective with this going on. PRISM answers the question

"Why isn't the person that we interviewed, the person we employed?”

Note: A leading super-market chain once used a head hunter to appoint a new CEO, who lasted only 72 hours!

Through Job Requ-irement Inventory and Organisational Cultural Benchmark-ing, PRISM clearly demonstrates how well an individual is suited to (i) a role and (ii) the organ-isational culture, or sub-culture of a team. It can then be used to create individual guidelines for staff to follow which maximise their natural abilities and mitigate any weaknesses in a new role.

The importance of individual traits will vary according to the job role and context/ organ-isational culture. Some traits may undermine or be counter-productive to certain roles e.g. someone who likes evaluation and detail may not be a good completer-finisher of simple tasks; someone with a high degree of innovation and creativity could get bored easily; someone with low coordinating and support traits would not make a good supervisor. PRISM clearly shows the degree to which a person is detail oriented, people oriented, needs variety, agreeable, open to new experience vs. cautious, fast-paced or slow-paced etc.

NEUROSCIENCE

The task of neuroscience is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain – how it marshals its billions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how these cells are influenced by the environment.

For decades scient-ists maintained that once its physical connections were completed during childhood, the brain had become hard-wired and remained like that for life.

Now, thanks to modern imaging technology, we have proof that the brain is remarkably elastic in terms of its capacity for change, and we can explore what is actually occurring in our brain as we go about our daily lives.

Neuroscience provides us with insights into the human mind that only a few decades ago would have been considered the stuff of  science fiction.

“Although the human brain is immensely complicated, we have known for some time that it carries out four basic functions:

getting information, making meaning of information, creating ideas from these meanings, and acting on those ideas”

Professor Marian Diamond, University of California, Berkeley

Learn How Your Brain Works

PRISM is an amazing and insightful tool to help you to understand yourself better. It is based on whole brain technology, that is our ability and preference to use different parts for our brain in order to behave very differently.

If you have ever wondered about left brained vs right brained preferences, male vs female, analytical/detailed/structured vs imaginative/intuitive/empathic - then wonder no more.

Traditional assess-ment of skill and ability is seriously lacking if it only focuses on IQ, practical skills and drive.

Emotional intelli-gence, interpersonal skills, conscientious-ness, cooperation and creativity make up the softer skills which usually make all the difference in terms of perform-ance, teamwork and retention.

If you would like to try out PRISM Brain mapping - you have three options. You can click on the buttons to the right, below, to select any of these.

1. A free PRISM Introductory report.
   This provides you with a single page report showing how you prefer to use the four main quadrants of your brain and what this means in terms of your behavioural preferences, that make you who you are. You can download a sample Intro report here. This report comes direct from the PRISM website.
2. Purchase an online PRISM Pro-Select report. This Personal Brain Map report show you your underlying behavioural preferences (the red line on the chart above) and provides a detailed 20 page report. You can also compare your brain map profile with that of a typical job benchmark (green line above). You can download a sample Pro-Select report here. This report comes direct from the PRISM website.
3. Purchase a complete PRISM Professional report. This gives you a comparison of your underlying (red) vs adapted behaviour (purple), together with the option to compare yourself against multiple job benchmarks (green), or even the job you are in right now. This 26 page  professional report comes with coaching session to discuss its implications and any personal or job development related goals, personality clashes, team dynamics etc. This professional report and coaching is only available direct from me (Andy) as a Certified PRISM practitioner. You can download a sample Intro report here.

FREE!

£23.50

£97

A Key To Understanding Your Behaviour and Unlocking Your Potential

The PRISM Professional Assessment is simple to complete online, taking 15-20 minutes after which a comprehensive 26 page report is produced (as a PDF) that includes:

• A unique map of 8 fundamental dimensions of behaviour (innovating, initiating, supporting, coordinating, focusing, delivering, finishing, evaluating), broken out into 26 underlying work preferences
• A description of your profile - your most comfortable and least comfortable traits, strengths, pitfalls to watch out for, performance improvement suggestions
• Underlying map - natural, inherent 'relaxed' behaviour also the default reverted to under pressure
• Adapted map - an indication of how you believe you need to adapt your underlying behaviour to achieve success in specific situations e.g. at work
• Your Introversion - Extroversion range
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) report with benchmarking against control population
• Interpretation of results along the 'big 5' personality traits

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