Achieve results with the right motivation
Understand what tasks, environments and goals motivate your employees with Core Values Diagnostic. Learn about their values to drive long-term engagement and ensure culture fit.

Scientific assessment, human experience
- Decode what cultures and roles will engage your people
- Takes less than 7 minutes to complete
- Built upon robust science and psychometric standards
- Intuitive and easy-to-understand feedback reports


Drive performance with values-driven insights
Whether you’re building a high-performance culture or strengthening team engagement, the Core Values Diagnostic reveals what motivates people, helping organizations foster collaboration, alignment, and long-term success.

The Core Values diagnostic reveals what truly motivates individuals, helping organizations align talent with roles, guide career choices, and foster engagement while building a thriving, values-driven culture.

Identify an individual’s Challenger Values—alternative perspectives that emerge when core values are overused or misaligned. This insight helps HR leaders spot blind spots, drive balanced decisions, and build healthier, more collaborative teams.

Sola AI helps understand how values show up in practice, gives leaders actionable guidance, and empowers every person to contribute with clarity and confidence.
Discover The 12 Core Values
The Core Values Diagnostic is based on the robust frameworks of human motivation, such as Schwartz’s Basic Human Values model, Holland’s Vocational Interests and Self-Determination Theory. The Core Values model is comprised of six factors that can be aggregated to explain one’s need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
Individuals who have Tradition as their Core Value can be described as traditional, conforming, and upholding of social conventions and norms.
Individuals who have Change as their Core Value can be described as risk-taking, constantly seeking and trying new things, and critical of the status quo.
Individuals who have Humility as their Core Value can be described as being humble, egalitarian, and cooperative.
Individuals who have Power as their Core Value can be described as being drawn to positions of leadership and influence, ambitious, and hungry for recognition.
Individuals who have Achievement as their Core Value can be described as being highly focused on their personal and professional development, having a strong need to be competent in their domain, and goal oriented.
Individuals who have Leisure as their Core Value can be described as being motivated to live a relaxed life and are unlikely to challenge themselves unless it is necessary.
Individuals who have Intuition as their Core Value can be described as practical and pragmatic, and preferring to stick to the familiar.
Individuals who have Learning as their Core Value can be described as having a hungry mind, is curious about the world, and welcoming towards different approaches.
Individuals who have Expedience as their Core Value can be described as having a flexible moral compass, likely to put themselves before others, and preferring to do what is easy over what is right.
Individuals who have Principles as their Core Value can be described as being
principled, of high integrity, and altruistic.
Individuals who have Independence as their Core Value can be described as being independent, uninterested in building and maintaining relationships, and likely to be candid towards others.
Individuals who have Relationships as their Core Value can be described as someone who is sociable, strongly prioritizes relationships in their lives, and derives a lot of joy from social connection.
Built to the highest standards
- Built upon personality frameworks that are trusted by the scientific community
- Fair, unbiased, and predictive insights that you can trust
- Modern experience that integrates over 50 years of scientific research
- Affordable pricing allows to scale assessments across the organization

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“The feedback I get from clients is always genuinely positive about the accuracy of the outcomes and usefulness of the reports generated from the Core Values assessment. In a time-short world, it is very satisfying to present with a high degree of certainty an assessment that can be completed in a short time frame whilst also guaranteeing a comprehensive personalised report at the end.”
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