The Forté Profile Report
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What is included in the Forté profile report?
The Forté Profile Report consists of several insightful, integrated sections. Many people think of their Forté profile report as their interpersonal communication action plan.
Individual Profile Overview
Note: the first six pages of the Forté Profile Report identify and share an individual’s primary, or lifespan, communication strengths and style. The primary profile undergoes very little change throughout one’s lifetime.
- A brief description of an individual’s Forté interpersonal communication preferences or profile. This paragraph represents both behavioral and communication style preferences.
- Forté communication style profile graphs that show an individual’s primary profile, current adapting profile, and current perceiver profile. Current logic style, stamina level and goals index are also included.
Primary Communication Strengths
A full description of the respondent’s primary strengths. The Forté communication style profile identifies each person’s primary strength, secondary strength, and two sub-strengths. The primary strength can be as much as 60% of an individual’s communication style preference.
Leadership Style: Forté identifies an individual’s leadership style and their preferred way of accomplishing goals, either alone or with others.
Sensitive areas: Forté helps us recognize signs of frustration and ways to help diffuse them proactively.
Potential reactions: By understanding - in advance - our potential reactions to sensitivities, we help ourselves and others avoid non-productive reactions.
Communication Style Composite
- Description of secondary and sub-strengths. This is a composite of all the communication style strengths used in identifying individual preferences, citing key vocabulary words for job descriptions or job position ads/postings/bids, and creating a tangible image of the respondent’s overall personal and environmental preferences.
- In addition to single-word descriptions, there are four paragraphs that bring together an understanding of all the strength preferences. It describes how the secondary and sub-strengths react with the primary strength. Also within the descriptive paragraphs are statements of how the individual preferences of the primary strength join with those of the secondary strength and two sub-strengths.
Self-Motivational Data
- Self-motivators: This is one of Forté’s most powerful tools. Growth, success, and even job security are the result of our competencies, flexibility, and interpersonal communication skills. These three key elements are ultimately driven by how we are self-motivated. Sharing the top five self-motivators from the Forté profile provides real-world insights for the respondent and those with whom they communicate.
- De-motivators: Elements in our environment that de-motivate us can be shared with whom we work and communicate. A conscious effort can be made to avoid de-motivators, which frequently hinder productive, effective interpersonal communication.
Forté profile pages 9-13 represent how the individual is currently (most recent 30 days) adapting to their environment. This information can be updated as often as every 30 days.
Logic/Stamina
- Current logic style: There are times when facts are extremely important to us; while at other times, we are comfortable making decisions on simple feelings. This is situational and can be cyclical. Through a comparison of the Forté Primary and Adapting Surveys, the Forté system is able to share with the respondent their current logic style - an important element of the ongoing decision making process. For example, if one respondent is currently comfortable making decisions based on their feelings, but knows or feels they may be missing something, they can consult with another person whose logic style is currently fact-oriented and ask for their input prior to making a final decision.
- Current stamina level: Again, a comparison between the Forté Primary and Adapting Surveys. One’s stamina level definitely cycles over their lifespan. There are times when late in the day or evening we are full speed ahead, getting things done. Other times, it may be mid-afternoon and we’re ready to call it quits. Stamina is a key factor in the development and maintenance of high levels of productivity. Additionally, stamina tends to drop as one is de-motivated and increases as they are self-motivated. Forté’s long-term, ongoing measurement of stamina is an excellent indicator of burn-out, rust-out, or high performance.
Adapting Profile/Goals
- Current adapting profile analysis: There may be as many as four paragraphs in this section of the report, describing how the respondent is adapting to the demands of their current environment. This section of the Forté profile provides a written, actionable analysis one can immediately put to use.
- Current goals index: How one feels about achievement of current goals, or their level of satisfaction toward accomplishment in their current environment, is measured by the Forté Goals Index. Again, this is cyclical and can be updated as often as every 30 days. When combined with the current stamina level, if the stamina level and the goals index are both dropping, that can indicate an individual or team headed for burn-out. If the stamina level is increasing but the goals index is dropping, that is an individual or team rusting out. If we see stamina level and goals index at their higher levels, that is an indicator of top performance for both the individual and team. Spotting these trends… particularly burn-out or rust-out… allows leadership to move quickly to reverse the trends of burn-out and rust-out. High performance individuals and teams use this information to accomplish 13 months productivity in a 12-month time frame.
Communication Action Plan
- Current perceiver profile: Forté technology has developed the Forté Perceiver Profile, which lets the respondent know how they are “most likely” coming across to others now and, typically, for the next 30 days. Basically, by looking at one’s primary profile and their current adapting profile, Forté is able to share this perceiver information with the respondent. While the respondent may be in touch with their current internalized feelings, many times these feelings are not accurately coming across to others.
- The Forté communication strategy prescriptive: This crisp, to-the-point
perspective coaches the respondent on how to best communicate the
internalized feelings that may not be coming across to others as intended.
There can be as many as four prescriptives on the page. (Most respondents
actually remove this page from the report and post it in their work area as
a reminder of the best communication strategies for the next 30 days.) These prescriptives are updated as often as every 30 days as part of the Forté
adapting update process. This is one of the key information points within
the Forté system.
The Forté Adapting Update Process
Once a Forté Adapting Survey is completed (typically 30 days after the initial survey), trends can be tracked and used as coaching tools:
Adapting Perceiver Trends
- Adapting profile trending graphs: There are four longitudinal graphs on this page that share with the responded how their strengths have been adapting (by date, intensity, and pattern). The study of these trends… particularly as they compared to Forté Performance Coaching and/or high-performance models… coaches successful adapting strategies over the long term. It is through the study of this information that the individual sees, understands and learns to adapt toward high performance.
- Perceiver profile trending graphs: Shares how the person has been most likely coming across to others. The goal is to ultimately see the current perceiver trends paralleling the adapting trends as a convergence indicates the high likelihood the individual is effectively communicating their ideas and feelings with others.
Communication Trending Graphs
- Logic style trending graph: One of three communication trending graphs, the logic style trending graph shares with the respondent (and teammates) the typical logic style used in specific environments. This is particularly important to team leadership in deciding the best strategy to communicate both with the individual and the team as projects or assignments are introduced and managed.
- Stamina level trending graph: As mentioned previously, the ideal trend is one which favors or moves toward the higher levels of stamina. The long-term study of stamina is important.
- Goals index trending graph: Also mentioned earlier, the ideal is a move towards a higher level of the goals index. If stamina is dropping, and the goals index is dropping, the individual or team is heading toward burn-out. If this stamina is increasing and the goals index is dropping, the individual or team is headed toward rust-out. When both stamina and goals index are at their higher levels, productivity and interpersonal communication effectiveness are typically high.