Personality Test for Team Building: Help Teams Work Better Together

That depends on how it’s introduced – and we help you with that. HIGH5 is framed around what people are good at, not what they need to fix. In our experience, that makes a significant difference in how teams receive it. Most team members find the results genuinely surprising and useful. We provide a ready-made team introduction guide so you don’t have to figure out the rollout yourself.

Most team tools give you a snapshot and leave you to figure out what to do with it. HIGH5 is built for ongoing use – the insights are embedded into how your team communicates, gives feedback, and runs meetings. While there are reports, it is a whole platform that goes beyond them to help your team use their strengths day to day. 

The assessment takes 20 minutes per person. The Team Strengths Report is ready as soon as everyone has completed the assessment. You don’t need to run a workshop or dedicate a full day. Most managers introduce it in a regular team meeting using our conversation guide – it takes about 45 minutes and teams consistently say it’s one of the most useful meetings they’ve had.

You still get value – partial team data is better than no data. But we’ve found that completion rates are high when the manager takes the test first and shares their own results with the team. It signals that this is something you’re doing with them, not to them. 

Not at all – HIGH5 is fully async by design. Each person takes the assessment independently, on their own time, from any device. The team results are available as soon as everyone has completed the test, and the insights are just as actionable for a distributed team as for one that sits together. Many of our most active teams are fully remote.

Start with the free version – take the test yourself and invite a few team members at no cost. That gives you real results to show, not just a vendor deck. If you need to build a more formal business case, our client success team can help you put one together on the setup call. We’ve helped plenty of managers get internal sign-off.

1. Take the test – Each team member completes a quick, research-backed assessment.
2. Discover your top 5 strengths – Receive a personalized report revealing what makes you tick.
3. Explore team insights – Visualize your team’s collective strengths, styles, and gaps.
4. Apply results to real projects – Use data-driven insights to improve meetings, collaboration, and results.

While traditional models like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or DISC assessment (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness) classify people into 16 personality types, HIGH5 takes a strengths-based approach.

Instead of labeling people, the HIGH5 Test focuses on what individuals naturally do best, helping teams move from personality awareness to practical performance improvement.

• HIGH5 complements well-known frameworks such as:
• DISC assessment – Understand dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness
• Big Five personality traits – Explore openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism
• MBTI types – Recognize core preferences for thinking and working

But unlike these models, HIGH5 turns insight into action – helping you apply personality results to daily teamwork and communication.

With these steps, HIGH5 transforms simple personality awareness into measurable team-building outcomes.