The TDF personality assessment

Understand what you notice first.

Facts, choices, connections. We all notice them, but they do not always come into focus in the same order. The TDF Pattern Inventory helps you explore your pattern and understand differences with the people around you.

160 statements
About 20–25 minutes

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Waking Soul, Inc., doing business as TDF People, is responsible for the personal information collected through this assessment.

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TDF People collects your Test Code, associated Organization and Event information, first and last name, email address, assessment answers, calculated TDF pattern, completion information, and report activity.

We use this information to:

  • Deliver and score your assessment
  • Create your personalized report
  • Save your progress and distinguish separate assessment attempts
  • Recover or reproduce reports
  • Support participants
  • Maintain the security and reliability of the assessment service

We do not sell your personal information or use your assessment email address for marketing unless you separately choose to receive marketing communications.

We do not provide Test Code purchasers or facilitators with your individual item-by-item assessment answers. Depending on how the Test Code is configured, we may provide the purchaser with your name, email address, assessment status, and start and completion times.

For a Standard assessment, you choose whether your TDF pattern result and report are shared with the purchaser. For a Workshop or Workshop Reveal assessment, your pattern result and report will be shared with the facilitator as part of that workshop after you receive notice and acknowledge the arrangement.

With Workshop Reveal, the facilitator may access your completed pattern result and report while your access to the result, report, Participant Portal, and Participant Learning remains unavailable until the facilitator releases it.

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This assessment is not intended for children under 13.

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A different way to understand each other

What comes into focus for you?

TDF explores three perceptual lenses: facts, choices and connections. Everyone uses all three. Their relative prominence shapes what you notice and what you may need to look at more deliberately.

Facts

The details, evidence and order that help you make sense of a situation.

What do we know?

Choices

The options, contrasts and priorities that bring a direction into focus.

What matters most?

Connections

The relationships and wider context that show how things fit together.

How is this connected?

Your assessment result

A pattern to explore. A report to return to.

Your result identifies a TDF pattern and provides a personalized report to help you explore it. Compare the descriptions with your experience, consider what others notice, and find questions to bring into everyday life.

A pattern describes perception, not your intelligence, ability or worth. For a Workshop Reveal assessment, your facilitator decides when your result and report become available.

Three lenses, six patterns

Find a perspective worth exploring

Each pattern uses all three lenses in a different order. The lowercase letter marks the small lens. Begin with your result or compare two patterns that interest you.

Explore all six patterns
  • TDfFacts, choices, connections
  • TFdFacts, connections, choices
  • DTfChoices, facts, connections
  • DFtChoices, connections, facts
  • FDtConnections, choices, facts
  • FTdConnections, facts, choices

Read, reflect, try it

Put a new perspective to work

Prepare for a team conversation, work through a disagreement, or compare personality assessments. The resources include examples, exercises and questions you can use with others.

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