What is ADEPT-15 ?
Aon’s Adaptive Employee Personality Test (ADEPT-15) is an adaptive personality test that currently evaluates 15 distinct personality traits necessary for performance success in various organizational tasks. These traits are broken down into six personality types.
ADEPT-15 blends Aon’s leadership research with the Five Factor Model to assess 15 key traits. Its adaptive testing ensures accuracy and reduces bias—making it a powerful tool for hiring, talent development, and succession planning.
COMPONENTS
Styles of performance :
The first three styles speak to internal motivations and one’s efforts. These cover preferences, attitudes, and approaches to work within an individual’s agency to control.
Task
- Drive assesses reliability and task focus.
- The structure reflects the extent to which someone is planful, detail-oriented, and rule-conscious
Adaptation
- Conceptual is about being intellectually curious and imaginative.
- Flexibility assesses adaptability and open-mindedness.
- Mastery measures the extent to which someone is learning-oriented and improvement-focused.
Achievement
- Ambition reflects the extent to which someone is career-oriented and focused on achieving ambitious goals.
- Power is the degree to which someone is controlling, directive, and motivated to lead.
Communal Styles :
The second set of three styles focused on how people approach their feelings and manage their connections with others. These styles are communal in nature and cover preferences, attitudes, and approaches to dealing with people and emotions.
Interaction
- Assertiveness is the extent to which someone is outspoken, dominant, and socially confident.
- Liveliness measures how outgoing and energetic someone seems.
Emotional
- Composure is the degree to which someone is calm and even-tempered.
- Positivity reflects the extent to which someone is happy, optimistic, and resilient.
- Positivity reflects the extent to which someone is happy, optimistic, and resilient.
Teamwork
- Cooperativeness reflects on whether people are cooperative and trusting.
- Sensitivity is the extent to which someone is sympathetic, caring, and understanding.
ADAPTATION STYLE
TASK STYLE
Drive
Relaxed vs. Focused
Structure
Big Picture vs. Detailed Focus
Conceptual
Practical vs. Abstract
Flexibility
Predictable vs. Flexible
Mastery
Doing vs. Improving
Ambition
Content vs. Striving
Power
Contributor vs. Leader
ACHIEVEMENT STYLE
STYLES OF PERFORMANCE
COMMUNAL STYLES
INTERACTION STYLE
Assertiveness
Cautious vs. Socially bold
Liveliness
Reserved vs. Outgoing
Humility
Proud vs. Humble
Sensitivity
Stoic vs. Compassionate
Cooperativeness
Independent vs. Team oriented
Composure
Passionate vs. Calm
Awareness
Insulated vs. Self aware
Positivity
Realistic vs. hopeful
EMOTIONAL STYLE
TEAMWORK STYLE
ADAPTATION STYLE
ACHIEVEMENT STYLE
TASK STYLE
- Drive
Relaxed vs. Focused
- Structure
Big Picture vs. Detailed Focus
- Conceptual
Practical vs. Abstract
- Flexibility
Predictable vs. Flexible
- Mastery
Doing vs. Improving
- Ambition
Content vs. Striving
- Power
Contributor vs. Leader
- Assertiveness
Cautious vs. Socially bold
- Liveliness
Reserved vs. Outgoing
- Humility
Proud vs. Humble
- Sensitivity
Stoic vs. Compassionate
- Cooperativeness
Independent vs. Team oriented
- Composure
Passionate vs. Calm
- Awareness
Insulated vs. Self aware
- Positivity
Realistic vs. hopeful
EMOTIONAL STYLE
INTERACTION STYLE
TEAMWORK STYLE
Why do you need an ADEPT 15 ?
Onboarding :
a. Early Insights
Understand employees’ performance and interaction styles early to inform retention strategies.
b. Team Fit & Effectiveness
Match individual work styles with team needs to boost collaboration and assess team fit.
Talent Acquisition :
ADEPT-15 helps recruiters understand a candidate’s personal and team-oriented work styles, making it easier to assess fit for the role. By comparing with traits of high performers in similar roles, it supports faster, more accurate hiring decisions.
Developing :
a. Based on what work styles are required as per the changes in the working environment in the organization or any role change, the knowledge of the styles of working that would be required at the same time will be crucial to engage in targeted learning and development.
Succession Planning and Promoting :
a. High Potentials identification: With the consistent performance measurement, there needs to be ways to incorporate the potential measurement as well. With this tool, we can diagnose if an individual has the drive, openness to change, and team-building capabilities or not.
OUR Methodology
Most advanced
and secure
personality test
available
4,000,000 Administrations
in 2014
OUR Methodology
4,000,000 Administrations
in 2014
Most advanced
and secure
personality test
available
SERVICE OFFERINGS
Overview
To understand how ADEPT would benefit you post the awareness of your work style and patterns; this stage would involve clearing your doubts about the ADEPT-15TM.
Assessment
You will be given access to the portal to take the test based on the five-factor model of personality and years of leadership research to generate the report.
De-brief
The interpretation and personalized discussion happens with one of our ADEPT-15TM certified experts
SAMPLE REPORT SECTION
