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The Brain-based Behavioral Interview Guide blends personality type, brain specialization and psychological needs with behavioral interview questions. It helps you select questions that are relevant to a candidate based on how their brain is organized to function. By targeting the emotional needs of the candidate, it helps get to whether or not the job and work environment will provide them with enough need satisfiers for them to do their best work. Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® or the Striving StylesTM Personality System to determine how the candidate's brain is organized allows you to select specific questions that will help you hone in on the more challenging areas for the candidate's personality type. It also provides insight into the type of work environment the candidate functions optimally in, and allows you to ask questions regarding how they are using the unique strengths and the lesser-developed areas of their personality style. Brain-based behavioral interviewing lets you know in advance the need satisfiers and dissatisfiers of the candidate so you can compare the position and your work environment to the needs of the candidate and make sure you have a good fit. The BBBI Guide includes: • Introduction to Brain-based Behavioral Interviewing • How to use the Guide • General Information about the 16 Personality Types • Conditions for Success • Work Style • 25 Behavioral Interview Questions for each of the 16 Types The Brain-based Behavioral Interview Guide also has a directory of 43 competencies for people who are not using a personality assessment with during the behavioral interview process. There is a comprehensive list of questions for each of the 8 competency sections.

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Brain-based Behavioral Interviewing An evolution of behavioral interviewing that incorporates personality

style and emotional intelligence.

By Anne Dranitsaris, Ph.D.

Behavioral Interviewing has become a common practice in candidate selection, as it has proven more effective in determining how a candidate will perform in a role than traditional interview questions alone. An approach developed in the 1970's by industrial psychologists, Behavioral Interviewing examines both experience‐based and patterned behavior. Questions are designed to get candidates to relate what they have done in past jobs or in life situations that may demonstrate what they are likely to do should they be hired into the role.  

Currently, Behavioral Interviewing does not take into account the unique differences in personality and how the brain is hard‐wired to function. Integrating a brain‐based approach allows greater insight into the mechanics of the candidate's behavioral motivators and their intrinsic need satisfiers and dissatisfiers. For employers, this provides an opportunity to drill deeper into a candidate's motivation and emotional needs. This provides an enhanced picture of the person and flags the reasons for how they may or may not align with the job and cultural norms.   Using a brain‐based approach to behavioral interviewing gives us insight into the mechanics of the mind and the drivers of behavior. Employee performance is governed by how they want to feel, how they do feel, and what they do so they are able to feel satisfied. Understanding how the brain is organized helps us to understand our employees’ unique motivations and the needs that drive their behavior.   

Brain-based Behavioral Interviewing goes beyond what a candidate can do, to the needs, beliefs, values and emotions that drive their behavior.  Each of us is born with our brains organized to prefer certain needs, experiences, and behaviors. The unconscious motivation that moves us towards our potential also resides in our brain. Self‐gratification, approval, and recognition, curiosity, self‐determination, self‐efficacy and individual ambition are a few of the elements of motivation needed to achieve our potential. The motivation to take action and to self‐actualize can be interfered with when a person is consistently in an environment where they do not get their needs met, or where they are not allowed to contribute in the way that is natural for them. 

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Brain‐based behavior interviewing helps you align your questions to the personality style of each of your candidates. Behavioral Interview questions that incorporate how the candidate's brain is wired to perform go beyond cognitive interview questions and get to the real drivers of the candidate's behavior.  This evolution of behavioral interviewing incorporates the personality of the candidate. It gives you insight into the needs that must be met for the candidate to do their best work, stay motivated and work toward their potential. Brain‐based behavioral interviewing lets you know in advance the need satisfiers and dissatisfiers of the candidate. This allows you to compare the position and your work environment to the needs of the candidate to make sure you have a good fit.    Using the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator® or the Striving Styles™ Personality System to determine how the candidate's brain is wired allows you to select specific questions that will help you hone in on the more challenging areas for the candidate's personality type. It also gives you insight into the type of work environment the candidate functions optimally in, and allows you to ask questions regarding how they are using the unique strengths and the lesser‐developed areas of their personality style. 

Brain-based Behavioral Interview Guide Using the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator® and Striving Styles™ Personality System  

The Brain‐based Behavioral Interview Guide blends personality type, brain specialization and psychological needs with behavioral interview questions. It helps you select questions that are relevant to a candidate based on how their brain is organized to function. By targeting the emotional needs of the candidate, it helps get to whether or not the job and work environment will provide them with enough need satisfiers for them to do their best work.     Using the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator® or the Striving Styles™ Personality System to determine how the candidate's brain is organized allows you to select specific questions that will help you hone in on the more challenging areas for the candidate's personality type. It also provides insight into the type of work environment the candidate functions optimally in, and allows you to ask questions regarding how they are using the unique strengths and the lesser‐developed areas of their personality style. Brain‐based behavioral interviewing lets you know in advance the need satisfiers and dissatisfiers of the candidate so you can compare the position and your work environment to the needs of the candidate and make sure you have a good fit.  

Introduction to Brain‐based Behavioral Interviewing  How to use the Guide  General Information about the 16 Personality Types 

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Conditions for Success  Work Style  25 Behavioral Interview Questions for each of the 16 Types 

Directory of Competencies  The Brain‐based Behavioral Interview Guide also has a directory of 43 competencies for people who are not using a personality assessment with during the behavioral interview process. There is a comprehensive list of questions for each of the following competency sections: 

Change Management  Communication  Conflict Management  Emotional Management  Self‐Awareness  Self‐Management  Teamwork  Work Management 

The four‐letter code for the 16 MBTI types is used in the BBBI Guide rather than the names of the 8 Striving Styles. This is because most people are familiar with the MBTI and the sixteen personality types. The content of the descriptions for each of the types was developed for the Striving Styles Personality System. Blending the two approaches means that the preferred mental functions, the predominant emotional need, need satisfiers, and dissatisfiers are integrated. The Striving Styles icons that relate to each of Jung’s 8 functions include the 4‐letter code used with the MBTI to help users understand the connection between the two systems. The BBBI Guide includes a chart that explains the connections between the MBTI and SSPS as well as the link to Jung’s typology.  

The Brain-based Behavioral Interview Guide is available on Amazon.com.

For more information about the Brain‐based Behavioral Interview Guide or our services, visit CaliberLeadership.com. You can email adranitsaris@caliberleadership or call 416.406.3939 x2.