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Saville Wave Professional Styles.

Wave Professional Styles

What it measures
Workplace behavioural styles, work motives and competency potential in a single model: 4 Clusters (Thought, Influence, Adaptability, Delivery) -> 12 Sections -> 36 Dimensions -> 108 Facets; also yields competency-potential and motive scores.
Length and format
~216 (Professional Styles). dynamic 'rate and rank' - blends normative rating with ipsative ranking of statement blocks (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
30+ languages incl. ES, FR, DE, NL, ZH, JP, PT, IT, PL, SV, AR; strong international/normative coverage.
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Saville, P., MacIver, R., Kurz, R., & Hopton, T. (2008). Saville Consulting Wave Professional Styles Handbook. Saville Consulting. https://www.savilleassessment.com/wave-professional-and-focus-styles/

https://www.savilleassessment.com/wave-professional-and-focus-styles/

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