What are Core Factors YOU Custom Reports?

YOU Custom Reports are research-based personality type reports with over 20 pages of insights. They help individuals understand strengths, growth areas, and effectiveness patterns without requiring an additional assessment.

Who can benefit from YOU Custom Reports?

They are designed for talent development professionals, career counselors, organizational consultants, HR teams, professional coaches, and life coaches who support personal growth and workplace effectiveness.

Do I need to take an assessment to use the reports?

No additional assessment is needed. Practitioners simply enter the participant’s type information to generate the customized report.

How long are the reports?

Each report is more than 20 pages and includes research-based insights tailored to the participant’s personality type.

What kind of information is included?

The reports provide personality-based effectiveness patterns, strengths, potential challenges, and strategies to improve leadership, communication, and self-awareness.

How do I get access to YOU Custom Reports?

Professionals can apply for a free Pro Account, complete required onboarding, and gain access to Core Factors tools including YOU Custom Reports.

Development Guidance Built Around Personality Type

Most type resources describe who your participant is. YOU Type Effectiveness Reports address what your participant can do about it. Each of the 16 reports translates a personality type into six targeted development areas, with specific behavioral strategies, a guide to overusing type tendencies, and a curated reading list organized by competency. The content draws on research data from the Center for Creative Leadership and co-authorship by Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger, two of the most cited researchers in leadership development.

No assessment required. You select the type from your Pro Account, either after a participant has completed a Core Factors type assessment or by entering the type directly. The report generates immediately.

WHAT YOU GET

A 22-Page Report Covering Eight Foundational Sections and Six Development Competencies

Each YOU Type Effectiveness Report is specific to one personality type and covers the full arc from self-understanding to applied behavior change. The report opens with population and manager representation data, typical strengths, and a type-representative quote, then moves through eight sections that build a complete picture of how this type operates.The eight foundational sections cover Basic Habits of Mind, Typical Communication Patterns, General Learning Strategy, Interpersonal Qualities Related to Motivation, Blind Spots, Stress Related Behavior, Potential Barriers to Effectiveness, and Overusing Type Tendencies. Each section is written specifically for the type, not adapted from generic content.The report then delivers six competency-based development areas: Approachability, Taking Charge, Dealing With Conflict, Technical Focus, Drive for Results, and Informing. Each competency opens with a type-specific framing of why that area matters for this type, followed by five to seven behavioral strategies with concrete guidance on what to practice and how. The report closes with a reading list organized by competency for participants who want to go deeper on a specific area.

Being More Effective In Your Personality Type

Effectiveness Data Built Into Every Type

The competency content in YOU Type Effectiveness Reports is grounded in research on what high performers actually do differently. The data comes from the Center for Creative Leadership, one of the most extensive sources of leadership effectiveness research in the world. The reports were developed by Roger Pearman in collaboration with Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger, whose work on leadership competencies has shaped how organizations develop talent for decades.

The research premise is straightforward: successful and effective people know themselves better than most. The YOU framework maps that effectiveness data onto personality type, so the behavioral strategies in each report reflect not just what someone of that type tends to do, but what research shows moves performance in the specific areas where that type most often struggles.

This is what separates a development report from a description report. The competency strategies are not derived from type theory. They are derived from effectiveness research and then translated through the lens of type, so that the guidance fits how a person of that type actually processes and applies it.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Practitioners Who Need More Than a Type Description

Executive Coaches and Leadership Coaches use YOU Type Effectiveness Reports to extend type-based coaching conversations into specific leadership competencies. The report gives coaches and clients a concrete development agenda built around type, not a generic competency framework applied on top of it.

OD Consultants and Team Development Facilitators use the reports when teams need to move from type awareness to behavior change. The six competency areas and the overusing tendencies sections give facilitators structured content for follow-up sessions after an initial type workshop.

Talent Development and L&D Professionals use the reports to build individualized development plans anchored in personality type. The research base from the Center for Creative Leadership connects type to effectiveness data that holds up in organizational contexts.

Career Coaches and Career Development Practitioners use the reports when clients need to understand how their type shows up professionally, particularly the blind spots, stress behavior, and barriers to effectiveness sections, which surface patterns that generic career assessments do not address.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

What Type Descriptions Leave Out

Practitioners who work with type regularly encounter a consistent limitation: participants recognize themselves in their type description and then have no clear path from recognition to change. Knowing that INFPs tend toward harmony or that ENTJs lead with decisiveness does not tell anyone what to practice or what to stop doing.The research behind YOU Type Effectiveness Reports was built on the premise that effectiveness is observable and learnable. The competency content is drawn from data on what high performers actually do differently, then mapped to personality type to show how those behaviors look and feel from inside a particular type’s experience. A behavioral strategy for Dealing With Conflict means something different for an INFP than it does for an ESTJ. The reports do not flatten those differences. They work from them.The result is a report that practitioners can use not just in the debrief session, but in every coaching conversation that follows. Participants return to it when a specific challenge surfaces at work, because the guidance is specific enough to apply rather than general enough to ignore.

Key Features of YOU Type Effectiveness Reports

16 Type-Specific Reports

One report for each of the 16 Jungian personality types. Each report is written for that type specifically, not adapted from a generic template. The behavioral dynamics, blind spots, stress patterns, and development strategies reflect that type’s actual cognitive and behavioral tendencies.

Six Development Competency Areas

Each competency area opens with a type-specific framing and includes five to seven concrete behavioral strategies. Strategies are written at the level of specific action, not general principle, and include guidance on what to practice, what to watch for, and how to build the behavior over time.

Research Foundation From the Center for Creative Leadership

The effectiveness data underlying the competency content draws from Center for Creative Leadership research. This grounds the development guidance in evidence about what actually drives performance, not just type theory.

Overusing Tendencies With Corrective Strategies

A dedicated section for each type addresses what happens when natural strengths become liabilities. This is where most type tools stop at observation. YOU Type Effectiveness Reports include specific corrective strategies for each overuse pattern, not just identification of the problem.

Competency-Organized Reading List

Each report closes with a curated reading list organized by development competency. Participants who want to go deeper on a specific area have a research-grounded starting point rather than a generic bibliography.

No Assessment Required

Reports are generated by type selection, not by completing an additional assessment. You can generate a report for any type from any prior determination, whether from a Core Factors type assessment, another instrument, or a facilitated best-fit process.

Immediate Generation

Reports generate in real time from your Pro Account. Select the type, access the report. No processing delay, no manual steps between selection and delivery.

Developed by Roger Pearman, Ed.D.

Roger is the Managing Partner of the innovative and dynamic talent development firm TalentTelligent, LLC, developer of the Pearman Personality Integrator, Type 360 and Leader Agility 360, author or co-author of YOU: Being More Effective in Your Personality Type, I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You, People Skills Handbook: Action Tips to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence, HardWired Leadership, Introduction to Type and Emotional Intelligence, and many other publications.

Roger has extensively consulted with executives and leaders in government, business, and education across the world through programs that focus on leadership development, change and transition management, executive team development and team performance, succession planning and talent retention, and leading through company lifecycles and culture development for financial returns. He has trained and certified more than 15,000 professionals on assessments like the MBTI, FIROB, CPI, Strong, EQ-i 2.0, and others.

GET STARTED

Two Steps to Start Using YOU Type Effectiveness Reports

Step 1

Apply for a Free Pro Account

Access to YOU Type Effectiveness Reports starts with a Pro Account. The application is free and gives you access to the full practitioner platform. No accreditation or training is required specifically for YOU Type Effectiveness Reports. They are available immediately upon Pro Account approval.

Step 2

Purchase Credits and Generate Reports

Each YOU Type Effectiveness Report costs one inventory credit. Reports are generated two ways: select the best-fit type directly from a completed Type Discovery, Type Elements, or Type Dynamics project, or create a new project and enter the type manually. The report generates immediately. Credits never expire, and volume pricing applies automatically.

Pricing

Volume	Price per Report
1 to 24 reports	$11.95
25 to 99 reports	$10.95 (8% off)
100 to 299 reports	$10.15 (15% off)
300 or more reports	$8.95 (25% off)

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