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The Harrison Assessment:​​

Do you know how stress appears within your behavioral preferences?

The Harrison Assessment of Behavioral Preferences is a research-based tool that provides a highly accurate profile of individual patterns of behavior and insights into how those behaviors might be impacting individual or organizational success.  The impact of behavior can be further explored in reading the discussion on Behaviors as Choices.


Unlike many similar profiles, The Harrison Assessment does not evaluate personality or attempt to categorize people into groups based on personality types.  Rather, the Harrison Assessment looks at Behavioral Preferences.  The importance of this distinction is that personality is the general framework of who we are.  Understanding someone's personality is valuable in understanding how to effectively interact with them.  But if someone is struggling with another person on a personal level an approach that starts with changing who they are - changing personality - is going to be an exercise in frustration.  Behaviors on the other hand are products of the choices that we make within the construct of or personality.  In other words - behaviors are a choice and choices can be changed.


The power of the Harrison Assessment is that it acts as a mirror and allows for some insight into the behavioral preferences (choices) that are being made and how those preferences are both impacting their interactions and shaping how they are perceived.  Once this is seen and understood and a case is made for how alternative choices would better support personal goals, it becomes possible to create space for different behavioral choices.


Another mirror that the Harrison Assessment provides is a look at how we might act or react under stress.  Often these responses are outside of the norm of our typical behavior and are usually not considered to be a productive action.  You might call it a look into the potential dark side within all of us.  Unfortunately when these alter ego behaviors come into play they are in such contrast to our typical patterns that people will remember them and refer back to them as signature events in their relationship with you.  These dark side behaviors are also the products of our choices and preferences.  And once again, in seeing and understanding them we can create space of different choices and better management of our selves.


There are multiple applications where the Harrison Assessment may be of value and as a Certified Administrator of the Harrison Assessment, D2 Alchemy can support you using the power of this tool to launch transformation in any of the following areas:


Coaching Foundation

Cultural of Leadership & Teams  

Team Building

Retention & Engagement

Career Transitions


How Does It Work?

The Harrison Assessment is available to individuals, teams, or organizations for personal or professional use.  It starts with contacting D2 Alchemy.  We will discuss what your motivation and intention is for the Harrison Assessment and whether it is for you personally or for a team or corporation.  Once we have determined the purpose and who will be participating D2 Alchemy will send out a personalized invitation to each person, providing them with their personal link to the Harrison Assessment site.  The Assessment takes about 20-40 minutes and after submitted the results are compiled and returned to D2 Alchemy.  Our Harrison Certified coach will review the results and schedule a time for a 90 minute personal debrief of the results.  If the results are also to be used for team, culture, or engagement purposes the next steps will be scheduled based upon what is agreed upon within the scope of engagement.






Measuring behavior choices as a construct of personality is more valuable than measuring personality itself given that personality  does not fundamentally change but behavioral choices can change.