Insights, research, and practical applications of the Core Values Index. Explore articles about personality assessment, team building, and leadership development.
Discover the Intuitive Contributor—the powerful Builder/Merchant combination that creates an irresistible force of action aligned with vision, doing aligned with teaching, and results aligned with relationships.
Read More →Discover the Creative Contributor—the Merchant/Innovator combination with an inexhaustible well of good ideas. Learn how vision combined with problem-solving creates excellent team builders who can sell anything.
Read More →Discover the Cognitive Contributor—the Innovator/Banker combination guided entirely by reason. Learn how wisdom combined with knowledge creates breakthrough innovations that actually work.
Read More →Discover how your primary and secondary core values combine to create your unique Contributor Type. Learn about all six types: Intuitive, Independent, Practical, Creative, Community, and Cognitive.
Read More →Discover the Community Contributor—the Merchant/Banker combination with unmatched staying power. Learn how love balanced with knowledge creates sustainable organizations and handles high-risk situations with care.
Read More →Learn to recognize when you've shifted from positive contribution to negative conflict strategy—and how to shift back. Transform your reactive patterns into powerful contributions.
Read More →Discover how each core value type builds self-respect differently. Learn what Builders, Merchants, Innovators, and Bankers need to feel worthy and how to strengthen your foundation of self-worth.
Read More →Explore the profound truth that self-knowledge is the foundation of personal freedom. Discover how the Core Values Index reveals blind spots that may be controlling your decisions, relationships, and career.
Read More →Each core value type has a distinct learning style. Discover the Decide and Do, Talk and Listen, Observe and Solve, and Read and Analyze approaches to maximize learning effectiveness.
Read More →Discover how the Core Values Index reveals your unique contribution potential and helps you find work that causes you to get into the flow of things.
Read More →Discover what maturity looks like for each core value type and the growth paths that lead to your highest potential. Learn how mature Builders, Merchants, Innovators, and Bankers transform challenges into contributions.
Read More →Learn how each core value type responds to stress differently and discover healthy coping strategies tailored to your innate nature. Transform stress from a destructive force into an opportunity for growth.
Read More →Explore the catalytic values of Faith, Truth, Compassion, and Justice that activate each core value type. Discover how these spiritual dimensions shape your deepest motivations and highest expressions.
Read More →Why does training fail for some learners? Each core value type has methods that guarantee disengagement. Learn what to avoid for Builders, Merchants, Innovators, and Bankers.
Read More →Learn what happens when Bankers feel their expertise is dismissed or when fairness is abandoned, how the aloof superiority cycle develops, and what mature Bankers do differently to maintain their knowledge without becoming rigid.
Read More →Learn what happens when Innovators feel controlled or pushed to settle too rapidly, how the interrogation cycle develops, and what mature Innovators do differently to maintain their wisdom without resorting to mercilessness.
Read More →Learn what happens when Builders lose their sense of faith, how the intimidation cycle develops, and what mature Builders do differently to maintain their power without resorting to negative strategies.
Read More →Discover how Innovators see the way things are and discern what to do about it. Learn how compassion serves as the catalytic value that enables Innovators to solve problems and contribute meaningful insights to their teams.
Read More →Learn what happens when Merchants feel unappreciated or deceived, how the exaggeration and manipulation cycle develops, and what mature Merchants do differently to maintain their influence without sacrificing truth.
Read More →Discover how Merchants nurture core values in themselves and others. Learn how truth serves as the catalytic value that enables Merchants to build meaningful relationships and inspire teams.
Read More →Discover how Bankers know the facts through research, measurement, proof, and records. Learn how justice serves as the catalytic value that enables Bankers to make fair decisions and contribute reliable expertise to their teams.
Read More →Discover how Builders harness personal power to achieve results. Learn how faith serves as the catalytic value that enables Builders to act decisively and inspire others to follow.
Read More →Discover why workplace conflicts occur between different core value types and learn proven resolution strategies. Now that you know why you struggle working with certain people, what do you do about it?
Read More →Learn the musical chairs approach to organizational alignment. Discover how matching innate nature with tasks creates engaged employees, higher productivity, and extraordinary business results.
Read More →Discover how the Core Values Index explains common dysfunctional workplace patterns. Learn why we all struggle for control and how understanding your core values can break destructive cycles.
Read More →Learn how Employment Pre-Selection Science puts objective screening at the front of the hiring process, dramatically reducing costs while improving hiring accuracy.
Read More →Discover how the Human Capital Audit identifies misalignment between people and positions, enabling strategic repositioning that dramatically improves performance and profitability.
Read More →Learn how developing people aligned with their core values nature drives business success. Discover why putting the right person in the right seat is the most powerful business optimization available.
Read More →Discover how organizations develop their own core values profiles and learn to align new hires with your company's unique culture for optimal performance.
Read More →Discover how the Top Performer Profile methodology creates a scientific benchmark for hiring success by aligning candidate CVI profiles with role requirements.
Read More →Discover the complete suite of Taylor Protocols that transform the Core Values Index into actionable business optimization strategies for hiring, team building, and conflict resolution.
Read More →Discover how each core value type approaches leadership differently—from action-oriented Builders to systematic Bankers—and how to leverage your natural leadership style.
Read More →Discover how educators can adapt their teaching methods to reach students with different core values, creating truly inclusive and effective learning environments.
Read More →How couples therapists use the Core Values Index to help partners understand each other's natural wiring, reframe recurring conflicts, and build relationship agreements that honor how each person is built.
Read More →How counselors use the Core Values Index to help clients understand their natural patterns, surface interpersonal dynamics, and frame strengths and limits in context — without diagnosing or labeling.
Read More →How executive coaches use the Core Values Index to help leaders understand their natural decision-making style, leadership wiring, and team dynamics — without overhauling who they are.
Read More →Explore how understanding core values improves patient care, helps match practitioners to patients, and builds more effective healthcare teams.
Read More →Learn how different core value profiles excel at prospecting, closing, and account management—and how to build a balanced, high-performing sales team.
Read More →Every strength has a shadow side. Learn how each core value type can create challenges for teams and discover strategies to recognize and mitigate these patterns.
Read More →Discover the unique strengths each core value type brings to team dynamics. From Builder decisiveness to Banker organization, learn how to leverage every team member's natural contributions.
Read More →Understand why the CVI succeeds where Myers-Briggs, DiSC, and other behavioral assessments fall short. Discover the crucial difference between measuring personality and measuring innate nature.
Read More →Understand the visual framework of how the four core values—Builder, Merchant, Innovator, and Banker—interact and combine to create your unique Human Operating System.
Read More →Explore the deep drivers of human behavior and discover why we instinctively respond to situations the way we do. Learn how core values shape our decisions, conflicts, and contributions.
Read More →Discover the foundational truths behind the Core Values Index: all business problems are people problems, self-knowledge controls success, and understanding others determines team performance.
Read More →Explore Abraham Maslow's concept of the 'unchanging real self' and discover how the Core Values Index measures what remains constant throughout your entire life—your innate nature.
Read More →Explore how the Core Values Index and DiSC take different approaches to understanding people. Learn why measuring your innate nature differs from measuring behavioral styles.
Read More →Explore how the Core Values Index and Myers-Briggs take different approaches to understanding people. Learn why the CVI's focus on four core values offers a simpler, more actionable path to self-knowledge.
Read More →Discover how Lynn Ellsworth Taylor developed the revolutionary Core Values Index through business turn-around projects, and learn the fascinating origin of the four core value types: Builder, Merchant, Innovator, and Banker.
Read More →Understand the science behind the CVI's extraordinary reliability and what makes it possible to achieve such consistent results.
Read More →Discover the only human assessment that characterizes and measures your innate unchanging nature. Learn how the CVI differs from personality tests and why it has 97.7% repeat reliability.
Read More →The CVI reveals insights that personality tests simply cannot measure
Take the CVI™