Three lenses. One clearer picture of you.

Every person has a natural way of working, thinking and connecting with others. A personality and strengths profile reveals yours, giving you language for what makes you effective and insight into what holds you back.

A single assessment gives you one view of yourself. Useful, but rarely the whole picture.

Three Lenses is different. Instead of one test, you complete three, and each looks at you from a different angle. Then I look for the common thread running through all of them: the patterns that show up again and again, the places where they pull in different directions, and what it all means for how you lead, decide and work with other people.

It is not a verdict, and it is not a box. It is a clearer, kinder mirror, and a practical conversation about what to do with what you see.

What drives you.

A short assessment, used in workplaces for over 70 years, that shows how you are naturally driven to behave: how you take charge, connect with people, pace your work and handle rules and detail. It also shows the gap between how you naturally behave and how you see yourself, which is often the most revealing part. (About 6 minutes.)

What you do best.

Gallup’s assessment ranks 34 natural talents, from the ones you use without thinking to the ones that take effort. Your strongest themes show where your energy and ability come most easily, and where those same strengths can trip you up. (About 45 minutes.)

How you see the world.

A popular, readable model of how people take in information, make decisions and relate to others. It adds the colour and the language that make the other two easy to talk about. I use it as a tool for self-reflection, not a prediction. (About 10 to 15 minutes.)

No single lens tells the whole story. Where all three agree, you can trust the pattern. Where they differ, that is usually where the most useful conversation begins.

A profile is only the starting point. What matters is how you use it, so every session is tailored to where you are right now.

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See a sample read-out (PDF)

Started with the Read-Out and want to talk it through? You can add a one-hour session any time for £150, so you never pay more for starting small.

Not sure which option fits? Get in touch and I’ll talk it through with you.

Make a confident start. Understand how you work best, how you come across, and how to build strong relationships with your new manager and team.

Learn your natural leadership style, its blind spots and how to adapt it to the people you lead.

When you’re unsure of your next move, clarity about who you are makes the decision easier. Use your strengths as a compass for what comes next.

Hiring someone new, or building the right team? Predictive Index and Team Dynamics are designed for that.

Book.

Choose the Read-Out or Three Lenses with coaching.

Complete three short assessments.

I send you the links. They take about an hour in total, and you can do them in your own time.

I build your read-out.

I read all three together and look for the common thread: the patterns that run through every lens, and the places where they differ.

Your results.

With the Read-Out, you receive it in writing, ready to reflect on. With coaching, we go through it together in your one-hour session, and you receive the written read-out afterwards.

Each of the three assessments looks at you from a different angle, and each has its own history.

Predictive Index has been used in workplaces for over 70 years. Its publisher reports hundreds of validation studies, and results that stay reasonably stable over many years. It shows what drives your behaviour at work.

CliftonStrengths grew out of decades of research at Gallup into what people do best. Gallup’s own research reports consistent results over time, with a test-retest correlation of .73 over six months. It shows where your natural talents lie.

16Personalities is a popular, accessible model of how people see the world and relate to others. I use it as a tool for self-reflection, the way its creators intend, and not as a test or a prediction.

No single assessment tells the whole story, and none of them is a verdict on who you are. Where all three point the same way, you can trust the pattern. Where they differ, that is usually where the most useful conversation begins.

I am Melanie Kirkpatrick, Director of KCL, a Predictive Index practitioner, strengths coach and leadership and team dynamics coach, based between Mallorca and Cambridge. I spent over thirty years in sales before turning to consulting, so I care about what works in the real world, not just what looks good in a report. I am also co-author of Shining a Light on Leadership in Mallorca.

I use three lenses because people are too interesting for one. I love the moment someone sees a pattern they had never quite named, and then decides what to do about it.