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Company Culture 6:28 4 November 2025

Why Personality Tests Won't Fix Your Company Culture

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Personality tests are EVERYWHERE. But are they really helping your company culture, or are they doing more harm than good?

As a company culture coach, I’ve seen a growing demand from businesses wanting to administer personality tests to their teams in the hope that this will cure their culture problems, transform fractured relationships, and enable them to source the best-performing talent.

In this video, I break down the hidden truths behind personality tests and why relying on them as a “culture quick fix” is dangerous.

You’ll learn:

💰 The booming industry of personality tests

👀 The dark side of personality tests

🤨 Why personality tests are no cure for culture challenges

Have you ever taken a personality test at work? Did it help or hurt your team? Drop your experience in the comments below!

⌚️TIME STAMPS ⌚️

0:00 Intro

0:57 The personality test boom

2:13 A cure for culture challenges?

4:22 The dark side of personality tests

4:52 Fun self-exploration

📝 I wrote a detailed blog post about personality tests here;

https://libertymind.co.uk/stop-using-personality-tests-in-your-company-culture/

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WHO AM I? 🤓

Hi! - If you're new here, I'm Lizzie, a culture coach based in the UK. I help teams, start-ups and businesses create great places to work through alternative ways of working. Through my videos, my podcast and my blog I share practical ideas about how we can make work better. And share my experience as a founder, business owner and personal-development junkie.

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Lizzie Benton

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A curious explorer for new ways of working

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