The full personality picture

Mosaic combines the self-reflection of a questionnaire approach with the fresh insights of fake-resistant behavioural tasks to provide you with the full personality picture.

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Personality has traditionally been assessed using self-report questionnaires. This self-report approach offers an insight into how the participant views themselves. However, research has shown that participants can and do ‘fake’ questionnaire responses, particularly in high-stakes situations. Additionally, their accuracy relies on the participant “knowing” themselves well.

On the other hand, Objective Personality Tests (OPT) offer a fake-resistant and objective measure, which is based on how the participant “behaves” while completing tasks. Participants do not know what is being measured so they do not know how to improve their scores.  However, until now these tests have not measured the full range of Big-5 personality traits and related sub-traits.

Mosaic Personality Tasks offer the best of both worlds.

High-Stakes Assessment

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Safety Leadership

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KCA Deutag utilises MOSAIC’s personality tests, especially the ‘Expert Report – Leadership’ feature, during the senior recruitment process. These tests provide a comprehensive personality overview, covering the big five personality traits and underlying facets, which can be incredibly valuable during the hiring process.

Emma Honeyman, Business Partner – Recruitment & Early Careers

HIGH-STAKES RECRUITMENT: Uncovering hidden gems (and bad apples)

Built for high-stakes recruitment - when you need to know exactly who you are hiring

One of the biggest issues with personality questionnaires is that it is easy for candidates to exaggerate their strengths (and cover up their weaknesses).  Mosaic Tasks was specifically developed for high-stakes recruitment where the cost of “getting it wrong” is significant. Our tasks offer the following unique benefits:

  • Extremely difficult for candidates to ‘fake’ task behaviour as they do not know what is being measured.
  • Our ‘Self-Perception’ scale picks up routine exaggerated scoring.
  • Highlights the task and the self-report score on the reports, so any discrepancies can be discussed with the candidate.

Uncover deep and robust personality insights, without the exaggerated scores

Mosaic Personality Tasks is a deep and insightful assessment built around the big-5 personality traits. The carefully designed tasks provide a behavioural measure of 25 personality traits and 12 key professional work competencies. Key benefits include:

  • Highlights blind-spots unknown to candidates.
  • Identifies unrealised strengths.
  • Provides an objective score of potentially problematic Leadership Derailers (Extended version only).
  • Measures the candidates Capacity for Complexity (Extended version only).

Objective Personality Testing, without the smoke and mirrors

A potential issue with task-based measures are that the algorithms behind them are shrouded in secrecy. Our personality assessment is validated, transparent and reliable. It has been honed over several years of research and shared regularly with our psychology peers as testament to its accuracy. For those that like the details we are very happy to share our technical manual and discuss how the behaviours are measured during the tasks (just ask!). In 2021 our thorough approach was rewarded when we won an ‘Excellence in Psychometrics’ award.

The Mosaic Tasks

There are two versions of the tasks: an EXPRESS version (with 4 tasks) or an EXTENDED version (with 7 tasks). Both versions map the objective task score against a self-report score.

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Why is having both an objective and self-report score beneficial?

Here is an example:

Imagine you are recruiting for a role where being composed is a key requirement of the job. If all of your candidates scored 8 on this facet, how do you know who has or has not exaggerated their scores?

COMPOSED

Both task and self-report scores are mapped on our scales (as above) so you can explore any differences with the candidate. If there is no split displayed, this gives reassurance that this is the real candidate score. In this case, the tasks suggest that the candidate may be less composed than they have self-rated.

Our Express (4 task version) Assessment reports include tailored questions, 12 Leadership competencies and Situational Leadership Styles.

Our Extended (7 task) version reports include additional sections on Leadership Derailers and Capacity for Complexity.

Go to the Report Types page to view samples and find out more.

As a Business Psychology team, we are always looking out for ways to enhance our service offering to clients and introducing an award winning new psychometric like Mosaic Tasks help us do that. Moreover, we were also seeking an instrument that was suited to roles with a stronger technical/practical slant who were less receptive to traditional personality questionnaires as well as roles where the candidate pools were potentially less self-aware or at a greater risk of socially desirable responding. The availability of a distinct safety leadership report was also attractive.

Robert Miller, Director, MK Business Psychology

DEVELOPING TALENT: A personality tool offering unparalleled insight for leadership and personal development.

Feedback that sparks reflection and insight

The tasks provide a behavioural measure of 25 personality measures and 12 professional work competencies. They are absorbing to complete and are deliberately ‘task-like’, thus providing a measure of ‘personality at work’.

Any differences between Task and Self scores are displayed in the reports and help to challenge an individual’s perception of themselves. They can be used to prompt developmental reflection such as “do I behave differently from the way I think I do”, “is my perception of myself out of date?” or “am I different at work?”. In other words, Mosaic provides more insight than those assessments that rely solely on self-assessment.

Our approach offers the following benefits:

  • A high degree of transparency and robustness with differences between self and task measures displayed on the reports.
  • Identifies unrealised strengths, which participants can then utilise in order to boost their performance
  • Highlights unknown blind-spots which participants can reflect on and put in place strategies to manage.

Comprehensive reporting designed for self-discovery

Our leadership and personal development reports have the following features:

  • A breakdown on the big-5 personality traits and 20 sub-traits; with any task/questionnaire splits highlighted and fully interpreted.
  • A full Strengths profile
  • Preferences highlighted on 12 professional work competencies; from Leading Others to Decision Making.
  • Comprehensive development tips for competencies and overplayed/underplayed personality traits.
  • Our Leadership report identifies personal Situational Leadership style (from 25 styles) and related strengths/concerns (our extended version also highlights Leadership derailers).
  • Go to the Report Types page to view samples and find out more about our DEVELOPMENT reports.

We are delighted to announce that Mosaic Personality Tasks was awarded the prestigious ‘Excellence in Psychometrics 2021‘ award from the Psychometrics Forum.

Psychometrics Forum chair, Tameron Chappell commented:   “It was a pleasure to have MOSAIC back to update us on your long and dedicated journey to creating a tool that is truly about the next evolution. Well deserved award.”

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DEVELOPING SAFETY LEADERS: Actionable feedback designed to improve your leadership team’s safety performance.

Safety Leadership Competencies that make a real difference

Our approach is based on our Safety Leadership competency model which combines three core areas: Effective collaboration; Psychological Safety and the Proactive Management of Risks.

Our approach

Leadership plays a pivotal role in achieving safe results. However, traditional interventions miss an essential layer of information that help leaders reach their full potential – targeted feedback on their personality and performance. Our approach offers the following benefits:

  • Feedback built around nine carefully crafted Safety Leadership competencies. Read more about these here.
  • Quantitative and qualitative insights gathered using a workforce survey, workshops and a personality assessment.
  • Objective feedback on personality preferences helps leaders identify strengths and potential gaps as individuals, and as a team.
  • Expert support in understanding feedback and creating plans for the future.

Targeted feedback on Safety Leadership performance

The workforce survey is designed to measure how effectively the senior team is currently leading on safety. This feedback is then mapped against the leadership team’s personality data in order to identify gaps and strengths.  There are three questions for each of the 9 safety leadership competencies. The questions are aimed at understanding the workforce’s opinions on leadership behaviour, as well as feedback on the systems and processes in place.

Insights into safety leadership competencies preferences, potential and gaps

Through combining a self-report questionnaire with an objective (fake-resistant) task measure, our award winning* personality assement provides a deeper insight into competency preferences, blind spots and undiscovered strengths – all of which are clearly outlined in our comprehensive reports.

Each of the nine safety leadership competencies is scored based on the leader’s natural personality preferences.  For each competency, areas of potential and concern are highlighted, creating an extremely rich picture for each leader. Carefully designed development tips help guide leaders toward next steps. Leaders are encouraged to reflect on their own performance, as well as that of the team.

The data is collated and the leadership team will have a final collaborative workshop to discuss what they’ve discovered. Through a series of engaging exercises, the team can identify where improvements are needed and opportunities for growth exist – giving them valuable insight to build on in the future.

Go to the Report Types page to view and find out more about our SAFETY LEADERSHIP report.

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