The Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation™ (FIRO®) approach helps people understand their interpersonal needs and how those needs influence their communication styles, problem solving, decision making and behaviour – thereby improving their personal relationships and professional performance.
Please take a moment to view this short video to learn about the FIRO® instrument.
After taking the assessment, the user receives scores indicating low, medium or high wanted and expressed needs for each of the six elements within the below FIRO® table.
William Schutz introduced the 54-item Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™ (FIRO-B®) instrument over seventy years ago. The FIRO-B® instrument gives individuals objective insight into how they behave toward others and how they want others to behave toward them – and why. It creates awareness of what they want from their relationships with others and how they express their wants. This awareness enables them to communicate more clearly, collaborate more effectively and create a more productive, harmonious group environment.
The instrument measures interpersonal needs on three scales:
Use this instrument to cultivate highly effective teams by helping team members discover how their needs for participation, influence and closeness form their team’s success
The FIRO Business® instrument developed by The Myers-Briggs Company, focuses on leadership and organisational performance. It is particularly valuable to businesses because it quickly gathers key insights for relating to direct reports, superiors and peers, influencing and negotiating, making decisions and setting priorities.
The instrument measures interpersonal needs using more business-focused language – Involvement, Influence, and Connection. It has only 30 items for an even shorter administration time and is ideal for global use, with scoring based on sample norms in 10 languages.
As the FIRO® approach links directly to behaviour, it makes it easier for your clients to accept the results and facilitate behavioural change.
The FIRO Certification Program qualifies you to administer the FIRO® instruments in a professional and ethical manner. Upon successful completion of the program, you will gain a certificate of qualification to purchase and use both the instruments and their reports.
To know more, download the program brochure, click here.
Anahat is the official Indian representative for The Myers-Briggs Company’s range of psychometric instruments like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator – MBTI®, the FIRO-B®, Strong Interest Inventory® and the CPI260™. Anahat is Saville Consulting’s India distributor, providing Saville Wave and Saville Aptitude assessments. Anahat has partnered with Diamond Leadership to offer the Diamond Power Index in India. Anahat is the authorised distributor of PSI’s tools including The Resilience Questionnaire, VirtualAC™, The Dilemmas Series™, The Smart Aptitude® Series, LIVED 360™, and 360 Propel™. In addition to certification programs on some of these instruments, Anahat offers coaching, OD interventions and training in the areas of leadership, collaboration, and change management.
