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Executive profiling instrument
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KYKO - Know yourself · Know others
KYKO, an acronym for know yourself, know others, is a psychometric personality assessment tool designed from the
incorporation of existing personality theories to discover yourself and a significant other. The five dimensional model of
personality analysis is built based on the following premises:
1. Human behaviour is motivated by need, satisfaction and deprivation.
2. Human behaviour is a function of our genes, experiences, cognition and the environment.
3. Human personality lies on a continuum from the static areas to the dynamic areas.
4. Human personality lies on a continuum from the normal areas to the abnormal areas.
5. Human personality is not static. It is dynamic and alive. It actualizes and de-actualizes with current and future
experiences.
No two human beings are alike even if they are identical twins growing up in the same environment, due to genetic
differences. The five dimensions of a KYKO personality profile are as follows:
1. Self actualization (SA)
A need or desire for achievement, growth, fulfilment and to find meaning in life.
2. Security (SE)
A need or desire for safety, order, certainties, structure, system and protection.
3. Manipulative (M)
A need or desire for information, influence, adaptation, change, and to utilize others for survival and to satisfy and
perpetuate dominant needs.
4. Socio-centric (SO)
A need or desire or need for love, care, companionship, belonging, affiliation, social interaction and acceptance.
5. Egocentric (E)
A need or desire for power, status, fame, style, image, recognition, respect, dominance and to control the
environment.
The five dimensions are organized into a superimposed pentagon known as the spider web. The spider web is to interpret
patterns of human behaviour based on the scores of the high and low of each dimension varying in intensities. The
average of the high and low of each dimension determines typology of infinite personality types. The relationship(s)
between the five dimensions and the personality types provides information of the behavioural pattern to interpret traits,
characteristics and behaviour. KYKO report is drawn from the respondent's KYKO personality formula and is free from
human bias.
Introduction
Executives play a key role in implementing the operating strategies of the company. They are a vital link between the
management and the workers under them. The KYKO Executive profiling instrument encompasses the following vital
information:
Personality profile.
Traits.
Characteristics.
Strengths.
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Improvement needs.
Job preferences.
Training needs.
Business acumen.
Decision making and problem solving profile.
Interpersonal relationship profile.
Motivation profile.
Teamwork profile.
This report can be used for:
Human resource personnel to:
Select and hire the best calibre executives from the market.
Match the right job for the right person.
Place the right executives to the right department.
Recruiting agency to recruit executives.
Training organizations specialized in training executives.
Personality profile
Fairly dynamic type
You have a fairly high need for survival and to satisfy your dominant needs. You are quite curious and inquisitive.
You always gather and absorb information from your environment and are quite alert and aware of what is
happening around you. You may have the uncanny ability to size up people and situations. You are quite skilful in
mobilizing resources to make things happen. You are quite good at influencing others to get support. Your fairly
high need for survival and growth makes you quite flexible and adaptable to your environment. You are quite
complicated and difficult to predict as your behavioral pattern varies as you interact with different types of
personalities. You are reasonably insightful, persuasive and convincing. You are quite clever in adapting to the
others' idiosyncrasies and often have the ability to win them over to pursue your goals. You are quite strategic and
know several ways of making things happen. You have a good chance of wrangling yourself out of a difficult
situation. You are quite smart and are fairly good at maneuvering others to achieve a specific purpose
Normal type
You have a high need for achievement. You focus your time and effort to achieve your success. You believe that
success can only be achieved through hard work. You have boundless energy and will not mind spending your time
and effort towards achieving your life goals. You are tireless in your efforts on the job. You are motivated and
enthusiastic and get great satisfaction in doing a great job. You do not mind working long hours to finish what you
have started. You are responsible and committed to your work. You are accountable for your mistakes and see
them as an opportunity for you to learn and grow to become more competent and effective in carrying out your
duties and responsibilities. You see learning and growing as a continuous life process. You are continually updating
your knowledge and skills. You believe in becoming a professional expert to progress in your career and improve
your quality of life. You are fair, honest, trustworthy and is reliable in getting things done. You want to live a
meaningful life.
Assertive type
You have a high need for power, image prestige and control. You are ambitious and are determine to achieve what
you set out to do. You want to take charge of people and things and lead them to your vision and mission.. You are
a demanding driver. You set high standards for others and will push others forward to achieve your expectation.
You have a high self image. You believe in yourself and are confident and determine to accomplish what you set
out to do. You set high expectations for yourself and have a tremendous amount of self-confidence to achieve your
goals. You believe that nothing is impossible if you have the will power to accomplish what you want. You place
great value on your prestige, reputation, status, glory and dignity. You want recognition, appreciation and take
credit for a job well done. You are vocal and expressive in asserting your ideas. You talk more than you listen and
would defend yourself in a conflict. You will defend your ideas aggressively when you are challenged. You make
decisions quickly. You have a natural tendency to control and shape your environment. If things are not going the
way you want to be, you have the ability to use your power to put things back your way. You have a tremendous
amount of personal power and presence which will work for you as a force towards achieving your purpose.
Pragmatic - adventurous type
You have a moderate need for order, systems and safety. You are satisfactory in your ability to plan and organize
your life activities. You have a rough mental map of your path to achieve your life goals. You seldom put your plan
in writing what you are going to do next. You take a neutral stance in your values for security and social order.
You may have a small saving in the bank for the rainy day. You are neither an idealist nor a pragmatist. You are
somewhere in between these two personalities. You do not have preferences either with working with data,
process, machines and operations nor with abstract and theoretical concepts. You take moderate risk in whatever
you do. You may give some attention to details when it is needed for the job. You tend make decision based on
partial information. You are capable of making decision with insufficient details and information. Your decision
making skills is fair. You are no preference for structured and unstructured environments. You also have no
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preference for formality. You can work well both in the formal or informal setting. You are not very conservative.
Though you may like to do things in the established way, you can still be comfortable venturing into new territory.
You take a moderate stand in traditions and laws. You do not take laws or traditions too seriously and strictly. You
are a moderate risk taker.
Sociable type
You have a high need for love, care, belongingness and affiliation. You are an affectionate and caring person. You
are kind, passionate and romantic. You are friendly, gregarious, outgoing and warm. You have a deep well for
feelings. Your life is cantered on love and affection. You need love and can give love to others. You can be very
emotional, compassionate and sensitive in your approach to life. You can burst to tears in time of sharing your
joys and sorrows. You are kind and humane at heart. You treat people with kindness. You listen compassionately
to understand their problems. You can place yourself in their shoes. When they are in need you will be there to
offer your assistance and support. You are interested in people and care for their well being. You are likely to give
others your help and support in time of needs. You like company and are attracted to crowds and social functions.
You enjoy social interactions with your friends. You share your interests with them. You enjoy the fun of being
together with them sharing hobbies, cracking jokes or having a serious discussion on some current issues. You
enjoy working in groups and believe in cooperation, synergy and symbiosis to accomplish common goals. You
have a high need for belongingness. You want to be a part of an organization. You need to be liked. You want
people to accept you. You believe that alone you cannot do much but with friends you can do much more things
together to meet your needs. You enjoy doing things together resolving life problem and working towards your
dream. You believe that more heads is better than one. You like to collaborate with each other cooperating,
supporting and helping each other in harmony to satisfy mutual needs. You are a great team player. You believe
that the joy of life is to share the fruits of success together with your team.
Traits
Assertive. Confident. Vocal. Expressive.
Result-oriented. Effective. Efficient. Responsible. Committed. Initiative.
Caring. Helpful. Sensitive. Friendly. Warm. Amiable. People-oriented. Approachable. Supportive. Empathetic.
Collaborative.
Quite adaptable. Reasonably flexible. Fairly intuitive. Quite insightful. Fairly perceptive. Quite strategic. Quite
tactical. Fairly opportunistic. Quite persuasive. Reasonably influential.
Average in precision. Neither organized nor disorganized. Moderately systematic. Inconsistent in scheduling.
Erratic in planning. Neither a realist nor an idealist.
Characteristics
You tend to be dominant and aggressive and you tend to push yourself as well as others to achieve specific goals.
You like challenges and competitions. You are a driver who prefers to take the lead rather than to follow. You are
comfortable with power, position and status and you show self-confidence in difficult situations. You are ambitious
and determined in seeking life goals. You have high self-esteem and you are motivated by praises and self image.
You like to take charge and take control and you are vocal and expressive in your expressions.
You are empathetic, sympathetic and supportive, as well as friendly, warm, and gregarious. You enjoy
companionship and you treasure friendship. You show care and concern for others. You are a team player and you
enjoy working in groups. You are always willing to cooperate, collaborate and give support. You are emotional and
sensitive to your own feelings and the feelings of others. You prefer to use the heart more than the mind and you
have a high sense of belonging. You show great feelings for people.
You are willing to learn from mistakes and you are hardworking and committed to your work. You are always
willing to take more responsibilities and you demonstrate initiatives and enthusiasm at work. You always
appreciate the assistance and support given by others. You show enthusiasm in acquiring new knowledge and
skills. You are honest and reliable. You show maturity and you are reasonable in dealing with others. You are
always motivated to do the best and you derive satisfaction from seeing the fruits of your endeavors. You are
focused on results and the bottom line.
You seem neither organized nor disorganized but you are oderately systematic in ways of doing things. You have
average levels of respect for rules and regulations. You are able to strike a balance between liking for ideas and
liking for practices. You have average ability in doing paperwork.
You are able to see most parts of the big and small pictures of a scenario or a situation. You are quite adaptable to
changes. You are quite strategic and tactical in dealings and you are able to persuade and convince others. May
know many ways of handling a situation. You are fairly good at sizing people's intentions and you are quite good at
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wrangling out of a difficult situation. You are also fairly good at using opportunities and turn them into reality.
Strengths
Responsible and committed to produce results. Highly energetic. Willing to work long hours. Take initiative in
seeking competencies. Highly ethical and high moral code of conduct. Want to do things meaningfully to make
things better.
Able to take charge, control and lead. High self-concept, image and esteem. Determined and persistent in
achieving goals. Firm and decisive in making up one's mind. Push self and others to get things done.
People-oriented. Caring, affectionate and compassionate. Kind, helpful and supportive. A great team player. Enjoy
social interactions. Sensitive to others' well being.
Quite good at influencing, persuading and convincing people. Know reasonably well how to adapt and wrangle out
of difficult situations. Fairly alert and well-informed of things in the environment. Quite opportunistic and strategic.
Knows numerous ways of making use of opportunities and making things happen. Knows quite well on how to
please their bosses. Quite smart in doing things.
Amiable, caring, affectionate and compassionate. Show care for others. Cooperative and helpful. Like to make
friends. Work well in groups. Kind, helpful and supportive. A great team player. Sensitive to others' well being.
Able to size and adapt to people and situation. Able to make others feel important or good about themselves. Able
to persuade and convince others. Calm under provocation Good at analyzing a situation. Have a high level of
tolerance with difficult people. Highly intuitive and perceptive about others' needs. Know how to deal with others
tactfully. Know how to manage own and others' feelings. Smart in their ways of handling a situation. Tolerance of
bluntness. Fairly high IQ and EQ with excellent logical and fairly good analytical skills. Know how to go around
obstacles to get results. Skilful in making strategic decision for problem-solving.
Knows when to assert and give in to others. Pushes others on the need to basis. Knows when to talk and listen.
Understands when to assume leadership and followership position
Improvement needs
Do not be impatient to get things done fast. Try not to get upset with people who are slow.
Try not to get upset with marginal performers. Make an effort not to feel bored with simple and routine jobs.
Do not be sensitive when your feelings are hurt by others and do not get upset with uncooperative people.
Job preferences
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Enjoys working with ideas and concepts. Prefers work using intellectual skills and work that requires logical
analysis.
Likes work dealing with people and enjoys working in teams. Also likes work which requires social interactions and
the provision of social services. Enjoys work that requires the showing of affection and care. Enjoys community
services.
Likes work that gives authority to be taking charge. and work that requires them to lead. Enjoys work that requires
them to take control and work that gives power over others. Enjoys challenging and important work.
Prefers jobs that may require analysis and tasks that are quite complicated. Likes jobs that require influencing,
persuading others and mobilizing support.
Training needs
Listening skills. Managing disagreement.
Business acumen
Fairly good in the following:
Has a satellite vision of the business environment. Cascades vision into goals, objectives and action plan for
profitable growth. Understands important company communications and data, including financial statements. Uses
knowledge to make good decisions. Understands how own actions and decisions impact key company measures
and the objectives of company's leadership.
Decision making and problem solving profile
Fairly good analytical skills. somewhat strategic problem solving and decision making processes. Able to see quite
a comprehensive picture of a problematic situation. Quite skilful in identifying and analyzing the root causes of a
problem. Know quite well how to analyze and interpret information to develop strategies. Fairly good at generating,
analyzing and selecting solutions. Quite capable of anticipating the consequences of each alternative for decision-
making. Fairly good in doing a success and failure analysis in developing new strategies. Quite proactive in their
effort to prevent problems from recurring. Quite capable of mobilizing and using the right people in addressing
problems. Reasonably good at maneuvering and influencing others in making decision and resolving problems.
Fairly good at influencing and convincing others to accept their decision.
Good intellectual skills. likely to address and select the best solution to resolve problems. Make sound decisions
based on logical and rational thinking. Encourage ideas generation to solve problems. Appreciate and accept good
ideas. Focus on the bottom line in the decision making process. Always go for a win-win situation. Responsible.
willing to take accountability for their decision. Perceive problem as an opportunity for learning and growing.
Wants to take charge of the problem-solving and decision-making process. Defend aggressively their decision
making strategies. Dominant, firm and decisive in making decision. Drive and push people to solve problems.
Engage others in discussing problem issues. Take into consideration the needs and sensitivity of others in selecting
a solution. Make decision by consensus. Take collective accountability for the outcomes of decision making
process.
Moderately practical. Neither idealistic nor pragmatic. Pay some attention to details in the decision making process.
Satisfied with some information to make decision.
Interpersonal relationship profile
You have fairly high emotional intelligence and are able to manage the feelings of self and others. You are quite
capable of working towards a total quality culture you often describe your feelings. You are reasonably skilful at
winning others over to your side and you are fairly good at exciting others to work. You are quite good at relating
with difficult people and are able to build trust, convince, and influence them. You work quite tactically towards a
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harmonious relationship and you are quite skilful in developing the potentials of others to make them members of
high performance teams. You often assist, support, cooperate and collaborate strategically with others to get
things done and you are quite capable of developing mutual trust among team members.
You enjoy being in the spotlight and you always wants to take charge of things. You are vocal and expressive
when addressing issues and you always wants to take control of situations. You are firm, tough, domineering and
hot-tempered and you are capable of bulldozing your way.
You tend to work towards a harmonious and cordial relationship with others. You are outgoing, diplomatic, friendly,
and warm and you enjoy social interactions. you work well in teams and you are always concerned about the
feelings and needs of others. You have the abilit to put yourself in the shoes of others and you have interpersonal
sensitivity.
You are neither conservative nor unconventional and are at an average level in the respect for rules and
regulations. You are moderately systematic in your ways of doing things. You have the tendency to strike a
balance between having ideas and putting them into practice.
Motivation profile
You have the ability to motivate others to produce results. You become energized when rewards are tied to your
performance. You are skillful in identifying and satisfying the needs of others. You find every opportunity to use
analytical and logical skills.
You seek opportunities for growth and self development as well as job enrichment and you find great fulfillment
when you have done a good job. You are intrinsically motivated to contribute meaningfully to others and you are
also motivated by growth needs. In fact you are very much self-motivated in carrying out duties and
responsibilities. You have task identity, being ble to see the fruits of efforts.
You seek recognition and reward for your goal accomplishments and you seek opportunities for career
advancement. You are motivated by important and challenging tasks and you get energized by praises and
strokes. You desires positive feedback of a job well done. You like playing the role of a leader and you tend to
take charge and control of others.
You are excited about working in teams and building teams. You enjoy working towards a harmonious working
relationship. You love raising funds to help the less fortunate. You enjoy public relations and customer relations
jobs and get enthusiastic about doing jobs dealing with people.
Teamwork profile
You have a fairly high emotional quotient and at the same time you have good intellectual skills with fairly good
analytical skills. You know quite well when and how to put aside differences for the common good. You are quite
inquisitive and curious of what is happening around you and you are therefore fairly alert and aware of the
environment. You are able to see most parts of the big and small pictures of a situation and you are quite strategic
and tactical in addressing issues. You are reasonably good at inspiring, motivating and influencing others and you
are fairly adaptable to people's idiosyncrasies. You are open to hearing the points of view of others. You show
enthusiasm for the organization and have commitment for its cause and would stand up for the organization's
ideals, vision and mission. Your actions reflect your high level of commitment to the organization. You align your
actions with your values and therefore have a high level of fulfillment and integrity. You walk your talk and you are
able to deliver quality work. You have a good sense of humor. You keep promises that you make.
You put in effort to work towards building a cordial and harmonious relationship and you have the ability to
approach and engage others. You are able to work well with others to ensure the success of key operational
deliverables and you would collaborate and cooperate with peers to achieve company targets. You are sensitive to
your own feelings and to the feelings of others. You are able to put yourself in the shoes of others and you are
compassionate, sympathetic and supportive of others, enjoying the companionship and treasuring the friendship.
You are friendly, warm and gregarious, enjoyig working in groups, and you would likely work together with others
to solve problems. You are able to create a conducive atmosphere for work and you show care and concern for
others, always willing to help them in times of need. You show a keen interest in knowing and understanding
people. You have a high sense of belonging.
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You are vocal and expressive in addressing issues and you would defend your ideas aggressively. You enjoy being
in the spotlight and you tend to talk more than you listen. You are critical in addressing important issues and you
would present your ideas forcefully and expect others to accept them. You get upset when others shoot down your
ideas. You stand up for your convictions.
You are moderately systematic in your ways of doing things and you are neither organized nor disorganized. You
have an average level of respect for rules and regulations. You would strike a balance between ideas and practices
and you take moderate calculated risks. You have an average skill at doing paperwork.
You have an average level of respect for rules and regulations. You are moderately systematic in your ways of
doing things and you are neither organized nor disorganized. You are able to strike a balance between ideas and
practices. Average doing paperwork.
Personality formula
HSO + HSA + HE + FM + ESE
Personality spider web
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Dimension scores
Overall assessment
Score (Benchmark)
Business acumen
Business acumen and problem solving skills.
78.1 (60) Good
Personal organization
Personal organization, meticulous, planning and organizing.
71.05 (60) Fairly good
Initiative
Initiative, continuous learning and chase after goals.
81.5 (65) Good
Teamwork
Communication, teamwork and interpersonal savvy.
79.67 (60) Good
Leadership
Leadership, self esteem and decisiveness.
77.69 (60) Good
