Information on The Birkman Method

What Is The Birkman Method®?

The Birkman Method is a behavioral and motivational assessment that helps people understand themselves better and understand those around them better to create an environment for improved relationships and enhanced performance.

What Does All that Mean to Me and My Organization?

Would it be beneficial to you and your leaders to know what makes your people most effective, and thus your organization most effective? (The answer should be "yes".)

The Birkman Method can help you. It can help you by showing you a person's effective and productive behaviors, the underlying needs a person has to meet to maintain those effective and productive behaviors, the ineffective and nonproductive behavior that results when those needs are not met, and the occupational and outside interests the person is most suited for.

Therefore, by knowing a person's underlying needs those around them will be more aware of meeting them, which keeps the person out of ineffective and nonproductive behavior and in effective and productive behavior. Also, by knowing interests you can be more sure that the person is in the right position.

Further, if others are aware of each other's needs they all, as a collective group, become more aware of meeting one another's needs, which keeps everyone in effective and productive behavior.

• How does The Birkman Method do that?
  
  With over 50 years of empirical research with individuals and organizations Birkman uses four major scales to measure a person's
  
  • Behaviors and Motivations
    
    Behaviors
    (1) Usual behaviors or positive/effective behavior
    
    (2) Stress behaviors or negative/ineffective behavior
    
  • Motivations
    
    (3) Underlying Needs, meaning how a person wants others to relate to you and what behaviors you want to be able to express over extended periods of time.
    
    (4) Interests or the hobbies and job occupations that interest a person most.   
    
    Underlying Needs and Interests are motivations because they move a person towards something. For example, if an underlying need is not fulfilled the person will move towards stress behavior and become less productive. The same goes for interests. A person will move towards their interests and, therefore, be in an area they will be more productive.
    
    The information is both descriptive and prescriptive, meaning you not only have the information, but there are recommendations for putting that information into action.

• Don't other assessments do the same thing?
  
  No. There is no other assessment combined into one that can measure behaviors and motivations. There are assessments that measure behavior and there are assessments that measure motivation but not both. Only The Birkman Method combines the two into one assessment.
  
  Additionally, most assessments describe behavior, giving only descriptive information. Few assessments provide prescriptive information that gives action to the descriptive information.

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