Years ago I asked all my employees if they would (voluntarily) take an online survey/evaluation from a company called Performance Learning Systems. Their survey/evaluation included Myers Briggs, from which I did not gain much perspective, but it also included an approach usually called GASC. GASC evaluates one's perceptual and organizational styles.
GASC is an acronym for Global, Abstract, Sequential and Concrete. An individual's evaluation results are expressed as pairs of styles -- concrete sequential, abstract sequential, abstract random/global, and concrete random/global. Unlike Myer's Briggs, the four basic types (from all my companies employees -- about 40 at the time) matched up really well with the kinds of positions they held. The correlation that most caught my attention was that all of my interaction designers came out of the evaluation as concrete random/global. Other people on my staff matched up well with their evaluation, but none of the other correlations was a striking as that of my interaction designers. I don't administer a formal evaluation to prospective interaction designers, but I have learned to ask questions that reveal their perceptual and organization styles that allows me to make a rough assessment. Joseph Selbie Founder, CEO Tristream Web Application Design http://www.tristream.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
