===== hexaco_team_profiling =====

==== Purpose ====
To build a high-trust, self-aware, and complementary team by using the HEXACO personality assessment as a reflective and structural tool. This protocol supports ethical, voluntary psychological profiling to improve team design, delegation, and culture shaping.

==== What Is HEXACO? ====
HEXACO is a six-factor personality model with the following traits:

  - **Honesty–Humility (H)**: Sincerity, fairness, greed avoidance, modesty
  - **Emotionality (E)**: Emotional reactivity, anxiety, sentimentality, dependence
  - **eXtraversion (X)**: Sociability, assertiveness, energy, liveliness
  - **Agreeableness (A)**: Patience, forgiveness, cooperation, gentleness
  - **Conscientiousness (C)**: Diligence, organization, prudence, reliability
  - **Openness to Experience (O)**: Creativity, curiosity, aesthetic appreciation, unconventionality

==== Use Cases ====
  * Map team complementarities and tensions
  * Improve delegation based on working styles
  * Identify leadership potential and growth edges
  * Normalize trait diversity and reduce interpersonal friction
  * Support reflection and autonomy in professional development

==== Implementation Protocol ====

=== 1. Framing ===
  * Participation is voluntary and non-evaluative
  * Purpose: insight, not control or labeling
  * Team leader shares own scores and reflections first

=== 2. Test Administration ===
  * Tool: [https://hexaco.org/hexaco-online](https://hexaco.org/hexaco-online)
  * Format: Quiet time (20–30 minutes)
  * Deadline: Set a clear day/time for completion
  * Optional: Anonymous sheet with only trait scores and reflection line

=== 3. Post-Test Reflection (Optional Group Debrief) ===
  * Participants opt in to a team session
  * Start with leadership modeling (share own results)
  * Invite each person to reflect aloud on:
    - Surprises in their results
    - Trait they want to better understand
    - How they work best (strengths/needs)
  * Use trait maps or trait heatmaps to show complementarity

=== 4. Integration ===
  * Use profiles to inform:
    - Role assignment
    - Delegation design
    - Conflict mediation styles
    - Mentorship / growth support
  * Build internal rituals:
    - “Trait check-in” during retros
    - “Growth edge” round in 1-on-1s
    - Anonymous trait shifts over time to track team evolution

==== Guidelines ====
  * Never force public disclosure of scores
  * Never use test results punitively or evaluatively
  * Avoid stereotyping based on trait levels
  * Encourage self-definition and nuance
  * Embed insights in systems—not just conversation

==== Optional Add-ons ====
  * Enneagram (motivational wiring)
  * Cognitive Functions (information processing)
  * Working Genius or StrengthsFinder (task flow)