What is PRISM?
PRISM – Factor Structure and Internal Consistency
Cognitive Neuroscience, with its concern about perception, action, memory, language and selective attention, will increasingly come to represent the central focus of all Neurosciences in the 21st Century
Dr Eric Kandel
Director of Columbia University’s Centre for Neurobiology and Behaviour
Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine 2000
PRISM® is a very powerful online tool that uses the most up-to-date discoveries of neuroscience to provide users with a ‘map’ that is a metaphor for how the human brain works. For users, the map is a powerful, jargon-free picture of their personal behaviour preferences.
The core of PRISM® is
a personal preference inventory which enables users to describe the ways
in which they prefer to respond to the world around them to achieve their
goals and in keeping with their motivational values. This insight
helps them understand their true potential as well as where they may be
going wrong and what is stopping them from achieving even higher performance.
Now used by many of the world’s leading companies, PRISM® is the ultimate 21st Century behaviour instrument, specifically designed to assist individuals with the kind of people-related challenges they meet each day in today’s fast-changing world.
PRISM® is about the way people see each other’s behaviour. Many people find it uncomfortable to talk about behaviour and, as a result, choose their words inappropriately. Behaviour is also about perception. What is perceived as ‘good’ behaviour by one person can be seen as ‘bad’ behaviour by another.
For example, there are occasions when we may need to modulate our behaviour: turn it up, turn it down, or balance one behaviour preference with another. Bearing in mind the complexity of human behaviour and inter-personal relationships, this simply cannot be done effectively without a reliable, efficient, easy to understand guide to all behaviour options and possibilities.
PRISM® helps users to understand the impact of their behaviour on their day-to-day work by highlighting the extent to which they adapt the preferred behaviour to meet what they perceive to be the demands of their job.
PRISM® is an ideal tool to help individuals or work teams cope with the complexity of human behaviour issues that they face in their day-to-day lives, or when they feel confused by their own diversity and differences.
PRISM’s® easy-to-use, online inventory highlights each person’s values driven behaviour – that is their preferred way of doing things, both in normal circumstances and when adapting to the world around them. Its effectiveness is due to a number of unique factors:
PRISM® is not a psychometric test. It does not have ‘scores’, and there are no right or wrong answers. It just provides you with an explanation for why you approach specific situations and individuals in different ways.
Your personal, easy to understand, PRISM® ‘map’ is
a picture of you as an individual. It does not compare you to a ‘statistically
average person’.
Your ‘map’ is authentic because the inventory that you complete asks you to identify what you actually prefer to do, not what you think others want you to do, or what you think you should do.
The feedback issues that arise from your ‘map’ are relevant and practical, and form a reliable foundation for your personal development.
Your ‘map’ also identifies where you may be in danger of overdoing your preferences or where you may not be making full use of them.
PRISM® is a dynamic and situational instrument. This means that it can be used time and again to check on personal development.
PRISM® is also a ‘language’ that enables people to communicate with each other more effectively and helps them to understand the benefits of diversity.
