Personality & Behavior


Core Drivers

Personality that Predicts Workplace Behaviour

Core Drivers is a quick, scientific personality assessment that is built to cultivate self-awareness and unlock performance. It reveals the traits behind how people think, decide, and work best – surfacing natural strengths and untapped potential, alongside the Core Risks that can derail performance under pressure. Use it to understand the talent, potential, and opportunities of every employee, team, or leader.

Scientific Assessment, Human Experience

  • Deep insights into how leaders & employees think and behave at work
  • Built upon the Five Factor model, robust science and machine-learning algorithms
  • Takes less than 9 minutes to complete
  • Intuitive and easy-to-understand feedback reports

Personalized Reports

Turn assessment results into insight people can actually use. Conversational feedback reports translate each person’s strengths and growth areas into clear, actionable language – while DynaMo, a digital development tool, tailors goals and coaching tips to those Core Drivers results, delivering personalized coaching at scale. Grounded in cutting-edge personality science, these evidence-based resources turn talent awareness into real workplace impact.

Built to the Highest Standards

  • Built upon personality frameworks that are trusted by the scientific community
  • Fair, unbiased, and predictive insights that you can trust
  • Modern experience that integrates over 50 years of scientific research

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Values & Motivation


Core Values

Drive Performance with Values-driven Insights

Understand what tasks, environments, and goals motivate your employees with the Core Values assessment. Learn about their values to drive long-term engagement and ensure culture fit. Whether you’re building a high-performance culture or strengthening team engagement, Core Values reveals what motivates people, helping organizations foster collaboration, alignment, and long-term success.

Scientific assessment, human experience

  • Decode what cultures and roles will engage your people
  • Built upon robust science and psychometric standards
  • Takes less than 5 minutes to complete
  • Intuitive and easy-to-understand feedback reports

Built to the Highest Standards

  • Grounded in motivational science (Self-Determination Theory & Schwartz’ Values) trusted by the scientific community
  • Fair and unbiased by design
  • A modern take on decades of motivational and behavioral research

Dive more into the science & research behind the Core Values here

Cognitive Ability


Core Reasoning Assessments

Identify Talent with the Ability to Learn, Adapt, and Perform

The Core Reasoning assessments evaluate an individual’s ability to analyze patterns, interpret information, and think critically – essential for navigating today’s dynamic workplace.

Scientific assessment, human experience

  • Engaging and adaptive assessments of reasoning ability
  • Measure logical, numerical, and verbal reasoning skills
  • Built upon robust science and psychometric standards
  • Empirically demonstrated to be free of adverse impact

Cognitive insights that Predict Performance

The Core Reasoning Assessments measure overall problem-solving ability and learning agility, providing specific insight into logical, numerical, and verbal reasoning skills. The adaptive assessment adjusts question difficulty based on each response, delivering fast, fair, and scientifically robust insights that help organisations predict job performance and make smarter talent decisions.

Fair, Adaptive, and Scientifically Robust

The adaptive assessment adjusts question difficulty based on each response, delivering precise results in a shorter testing experience. Its non-verbal design promotes fairness by minimising language and cultural bias, while helpful hints create a more engaging, low-stress experience that enables participants to demonstrate their true potential.

Total Talent Insights

Combined with Deeper Signals’ Personality and Core Values assessments, the Core Reasoning Assessments provides a holistic view of talent by integrating cognitive ability, personality, and motivation—empowering organisations to hire, develop, and retain high-performing people with confidence.

Fair and Fast Assessment

The Core Reasoning Suite is an adaptive tool that tailors question difficulty based on responses, ensuring a shorter, more precise experience. Every item is screened for bias across age, gender, and ethnicity, and is written in neutral language so wording never skews the result. Testing confirms no adverse impact.

Stress-free Experience

Unlike traditional cognitive tests, the Core Reasoning Suite provides helpful hints to reduce anxiety and boost confidence. This approach ensures everyone can demonstrate their true potential without the pressure of a high-stakes environment.

Total Talent Insights

When combined with Deeper Signals’ personality and values assessments, The Core Reasoning Suite offers a holistic view of potential. By triangulating cognitive ability, personality traits, and motivations, you gain deeper insights for smarter talent decisions.

Built to the Highest Standards

  • Based on extensive cognitive research that predicts job performance
  • Fair and unbiased insights that you can trust
  • Modern experience that integrates over 80 years of scientific research

Dive more into the science & research behind the Core Reasoning Assessments here

Competencies & Soft Skills

Soft Skills that Drive Hard Results

Get a deeper understanding of your organization’s talent landscape with the Deeper Signals Capability model. Learn about the soft skills that help employees learn, communicate and excel in the workplace.

Scientific assessment, human experience

  • Competencies assessed through Core Drivers and Core Values, powered by bespoke algorithms
  • Fair, unbiased, and accurate soft skills insights, grounded in over 50 years of psychometric competency research
  • Intuitive, easy-to-understand feedback reports that turn robust science into a modern, human experience
  • Real-time competency insights through interactive dashboards, with custom benchmarks to visualize team strengths and gaps and compare employees, teams, and candidates

Turn Soft Capabilities into Hard Assets

Competencies reveal the social and emotional skills essential for workplace success — giving you precise insights to develop talent, strengthen leadership, and build high-performing teams.

Fair and Fast Assessment

Powered by the Core Drivers and Core Values for a fast, precise assessment of soft skills — with bespoke scoring algorithms that surface each employee’s strengths and development areas.

Customized Competencies

Fully customizable to your organization’s competency framework. Possible to map capabilities and build tailored scoring algorithms for precise, data-driven insights.

Discover the Deeper Signals Competencies

The Deeper Signals Capability Model is built on scientifically validated frameworks, including the Big Five personality model and leading competency research. It measures 28 key social and emotional skills across six capability domains, providing a structured assessment of how individuals lead themselves, others, and projects.

Leading Self

Assesses an individual’s ability to self-regulate, stay resilient, and adapt to change in dynamic work environments. These competencies ensure individuals can manage their emotions, maintain focus, and sustain high performance.

Leading Others

Focuses on how individuals influence, collaborate, and build relationships with others. Competencies, such as persuasion, teamwork and communication help leaders foster trust, motivate teams, and create positive workplace cultures.

Leading Projects

Measures the ability to plan, organize, and drive business success through structured thinking and decision-making. Competencies, such as goal setting, problem-solving, strategic thinking, enable individuals to anticipate challenges, execute efficiently, and innovate for long-term impact.