by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 11, 2016 | About KYKO | 1 Comment
KYKO is an acronym for “know yourself, know others.” Adapted from Sun Tzu Art of War. It is an integrated five dimensional model of personality to map out the patterns of behavior and to find solutions to problems caused by human differences. KYKO use the...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 11, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
KYKO was established to address the pitfalls of contemporary psychometric personality profilers. The contemporary, existing psychometric personality profilers available in the market use one or two theories to predict human differences. Using one or two theories is...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 11, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
Self-actualization dimension is defined as the motivation, attitude and aptitude for achievement, growth, fulfillment and moral values. Achievement factor is defined as the attitude and driving force for goal accomplishment Growth factor is defined as the driving...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 11, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
Personality disorder is a class of mental disorders characterized by a deeply ingrained and maladaptive pattern of behaviour causing long-term difficulties in personal relationships or in functioning in society. A person with a personality disorder has an unhealthy...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 11, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
Rationale One of the premises of developing KYKO is human beings lie in the continuum of relatively simple and relatively complex. In other words human personality lies in the continuum of relatively low complexity to relatively high complexity as shown below: Low...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 11, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
An organization is as good as the quality of her employees. The success of an organization rests on hiring the right people. Good hires ensure a pool of quality and talented employees. They will take the organization to greater heights of achievement and success. Bad...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 14, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
A good counselor must score high in the sociocentric dimension to be able to communicate genuinely care, concern, empathy, support and positive regards to her clients. The client will talk about her predicament only when she trusts the counselor completely and...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 14, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
KYKO detects a creative person by the scores of the three dimensions. Complexity dimension is defined as the need for information, influence, and change, adapt, persuade and use others for survival and to satisfy dominant needs. A high complexity person has a...
by Dr. Bernard A.T. Tan | Mar 14, 2016 | About KYKO | 0 Comments
KYKO detects an extrovert by the scores of three dimensions. Sociocentric dimension defined as the need, want or desire for love, care, companionship, social acceptance and interactions. A high sociocentric individual is friendly, gregarious and enjoys mixing...
