16Personalities vs Truity

A web-based personality questionnaire in the Myers-Briggs family, dressed up in language ordinary people enjoy reading. Clients get a long, flattering write-up of their type for free.

A library of personality assessments — Big Five, DISC-style behavioural profiles, career and strengths inventories — with a paid tier aimed at practitioners who need to send tests to clients and keep the results.

Breaking the ice in a first session. Asking a new client to take it before you meet gives you fifteen minutes of easy conversation about how they like to be held accountable, how they respond to structure, and what kind of feedback lands.

Coaches who want something a step more defensible than a free internet quiz, especially in corporate or leadership work where a client may ask what the instrument is based on.

It is entertainment-grade, not clinical. Treat the result as something the client believes about themselves — which is genuinely useful — rather than as a fact about them. Do not let a four-letter code decide a programme.

The free previews are deliberately partial. Budget for the full report if you plan to build a session around the results, and check which specific instrument you are buying — the catalogue is large and the quality varies by test.