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LINC Personality Profiler

Effective personality development with LINC's Big Five personality test, implemented according to the latest psychological standards.

LINC Personality Profiler (LPP)

A holistic view of personality

The LPP is a personality assessment from LINC that captures personality in a holistic way, covering character, motives and competencies. It is based on the psychological gold standard of personality models: the Big Five.

The LPP creates a highly differentiated profile of character traits, motives and competencies, presented in a detailed results report. It provides participants with constructive and appreciative feedback to support their personal development.

The individual results offer a completely new perspective on your own personality. Combined with training or coaching, they become the starting point for real and sustainable development.

The Big Five dimensions: extraversion vs introversion, conscientiousness vs flexibility, openness vs consistency, cooperation vs competition, emotional stability vs sensitivity
The Foundation

The Big Five model

The Big Five model is the standard model of modern personality psychology. Thousands of high-quality scientific studies repeatedly confirm the high quality of the Big Five model and its superiority over other approaches.

The LPP measures personality across five dimensions: extraversion vs. introversion, conscientiousness vs. flexibility, openness vs. consistency, cooperation vs. competition, and emotional stability vs. sensitivity.

How the LPP Works & Where It's Used

One assessment, the right report for the situation

The LPP is one assessment with several reports built on top of it. Depending on what you need, the same profile becomes the right report for the situation, so you start from your question rather than from the tool.

Leadership Coaching & Development

A detailed individual profile as the starting point for coaching, with in-depth views available on areas such as leadership and handling stress.

Team Coaching

A team report showing how personalities are distributed across the team, giving everyone a shared language for how you work together.

Focused Development

Optional add-on depth profiles that look at the same profile through one theme in depth, such as leadership, agility, conflict resolution, entrepreneurship, resilience, positive thinking and digital competence. A custom version can be built around the competencies that matter most in your organisation.

Recruitment & Selection

Comparing a candidate's profile against what the role requires, in a report built for selection decisions.

Partner Collaboration

Putting two colleagues' profiles side by side to strengthen a working relationship, prepare a close collaboration or work through friction between two people.

Working Across Cultures

Preparing someone to work with colleagues, customers or partners in another country, comparing their preferences with what is typical there and showing where to adapt, from communication style to how meetings and negotiations are run.

Further reports cover situations such as sales roles and entrepreneurship. Tell us the situation and we will point you to the right one.

Who Is the LPP For?

One assessment, three audiences

Organisations & HR

Take your personnel development and selection to a new level with the Personality Profiler. Have your HR staff certified, or benefit from our wide network of LPP trainers and coaches.

Coaches, Trainers & Consultants

Become part of the LPP network and expand your portfolio. The LPP's scientific foundation and innovative way of communicating results give you a clear competitive advantage.

Individuals

Interested in modern personality psychology and your own development? Complete the Personality Profiler and receive professional coaching on request.

Sample pages from a LINC Personality Profiler results report
Why Use the LPP?

Science-based personality diagnostics

The LINC Personality Profiler is built on the Big Five, one of the most widely established models in modern personality psychology and supported by decades of empirical research. LINC was founded as a spin-off from Leuphana University Lüneburg, so scientific rigour is embedded in the tool from the outset. The LPP provides a differentiated view of personality by bringing together character traits, motives and competencies. The results are presented in clear, accessible language that supports meaningful development conversations.

We have also sat on your side of the table. Achieve CTC co-founder Camilla Arntsen is an organisational psychologist with a Cand.Psychol. degree and spent years selecting, using and governing assessment tools inside global organisations. Co-founder Cathrin Westerwelle is a certified executive coach with extensive experience in leadership development, team coaching and facilitation. Between us, we understand both the scrutiny HR teams apply before putting an assessment in front of leaders and what is needed to turn assessment insight into useful development conversations. The LPP is a tool we chose because it stood up to both.

Our LINC Personality Profiler certification is accredited for International Coaching Federation Continuing Coach Education (CCE). ICF-certified coaches can earn CCE units through the certification while building their capability to use the LPP in coaching, leadership development and team work.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about the LPP?

For what purposes is the LINC Personality Profiler suitable?

The LINC Personality Profiler is ideal for personnel development, personnel selection and for coaching purposes. In addition, it can be easily integrated into special topics, for example in team workshops or sales seminars.

My colleagues aren't into "scientific" tools. Wouldn't something simpler work?

A strong scientific foundation doesn't mean a tool has to feel complicated. In practice the LINC Personality Profiler is widely valued, and the science brings three big benefits: it measures the traits that matter most; it is reliable and consistent, unlike poorly designed assessments that can give very different results each time; and it allows meaningful, evidence-based insights into topics like leadership style and ways of working.

What are the requirements to work with the LINC Personality Profiler?

There are two ways to use the Personality Profiler. You can obtain certification by attending a two-day workshop in which you learn how to use the tool professionally, and then use it yourself with your employees or clients. Alternatively, you can gain access through us to a broad network of certified trainers and coaches who deliver training, development and coaching in your company based on the LPP.

How does the LPP differ from other instruments on the market?

It differs in two significant ways: unlike many other tools, the LINC Personality Profiler has a real scientific basis, and it impresses with a very appealing, easily understandable and modern presentation of results.

What are the Big Five?

The Big Five model is by far the most recognised and best researched personality model. It has been the dominant paradigm in modern personality psychology for over 20 years, replacing older models such as the outdated typological approaches based on C.G. Jung.

What reports are available with the LPP?

In addition to the basic version, there is the LPP Team Check, which makes the distribution of personalities in a team transparent; the LPP Partner Check, presenting two people's results at a glance in a business or couple version; the LPP Sports Profiler; the LPP External Review, a systematic comparison of self- and external assessment in the form of 360-degree feedback; and the LPP Candidate Check, designed for personnel selection with a target-actual comparison of personality profiles.

Do you offer more than just the tools?

Yes, we offer a wide range of workshops, training, development and coaching. Please contact us and we will be happy to advise you.

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