4-color personality test
The 4-color personality test categorizes individuals as Red, Blue, Green, or Yellow based on their behavior and communication styles. Organizations widely use the Bridge Personality 4-color test to develop employees and teams. It’s user-friendly, requires no training, and includes a detailed report to promote collaboration. Ideal for HR professionals, consultants, and coaches, it can be purchased for individual use or administered through TestGroup’s assessment platform.
What is a 4-color personality test?
The 4-color personality test classifies individuals into four categories—Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow—based on their distinct behavior and communication styles. This model simplifies understanding of oneself and others, thereby enhancing relationships and teamwork. The 4-color test provides valuable tools for personal growth, team development, improving sales effectiveness, and leadership development.
The world’s most widely used 4-color test
The Bridge Personality is a popular 4-color test that helps people understand personality traits. It uses a simple color model to improve communication and teamwork. This test is recognized worldwide and offers reliable results that support personal growth, enhance team dynamics, and aid in recruitment.
Easy to order
The Bridge Personality 4-color test is quick and easy to use. No training or license is needed. Order the 4-color personality test from our order page and get instant access. The test is user-friendly, and you'll receive clear results right away.
Features of this test:
The famous 4-color model
The well-known 4-color model (red, blue, yellow and green) provides insight into personal preferences. It is precisely this simplicity that makes the model so popular: just tell me what your first color is, and I will know the best way to interact or communicate with you.
How does this 4-color test work?
This 4-color test is a reliable tool for measuring the personality traits of your employees and job applicants. It uses algorithms to check if the test-taker answered honestly, ensuring you receive an accurate assessment of your candidate or employee. A team report is also available for groups.
How to order
Available only to businesses, government agencies, and freelancers; private individuals are not eligible. No mandatory training is required.
Sample report: 4-color personality test
In addition to scores on the 34 competencies, the 4-color personality test report provides insight into behavioral preferences using the easy and accessible 4-color model (blue, green, red, and yellow) and offers concrete tools for the development of work performance on individual, team, and organizational levels.
For use in teams: the 4-color team report
The Bridge Personality can also be used for teams, for which a 4-color team report is available.
Why this model works so well for team development
High-performing teams are vital for organizational success. These teams typically possess a key element: strong collaboration and effective communication. The 4-color model offers a practical solution for teams struggling with communication.
This model uses four easy-to-remember, non-judgmental colors to represent behavior preferences. There is no right or wrong—only different styles. By understanding and recognizing your team members' preferences, you can improve collaboration quickly and effectively.
Learn more about how the 4-color model can benefit your organization: A detailed guide for using a 4-color personality test in organizations.
Team workshop: do-it-yourself kit
Do you want to organize a team workshop to use the 4-color test and team report within your team? We have a team workshop: do-it-yourself kit available. With this kit, you get all the tools to conduct your own 4-color team workshop.
Features of the 4-color test
Bridge Assessment account: unlimited use
Do you want unlimited access to the 4-color personality test? With a Bridge Assessment account for unlimited use, you can run online assessments for 12 months without worrying about credits or additional costs. This subscription offers the lowest price per test and is perfect for organizations that conduct a high volume of assessments regularly.
What are the 4 colors?
In summary, The Bridge Personality's 4-color model provides a simple and intuitive way to understand behavioral preferences and personality types. Through these insights, teams and individuals can collaborate and communicate more effectively, leading to improved work performance and team dynamics.
The 4-color personality test wheel: A guide
The 4-color personality test wheel provides an in-depth and nuanced insight into personality types based on color dynamics. With 72 unique personality types, this model offers a detailed understanding of individual preferences and behaviors. The 4-color wheel is displayed in the Bridge Personality 4-color report.
Foundation of the wheel:
The wheel and color dynamics:
An individual's position on the wheel is determined by the combination and intensity of colors:
Each of these positions offers specific insights into behavioral preferences, communication styles, and ways of interacting. With this deep knowledge, teams and individuals can collaborate, communicate, and resolve conflicts more effectively.
What are the 8 types of the 4-color personality test?
No one is defined by a single color; we are all a mix of traits that shift depending on our environment and mood. This idea leads to eight personality types: four core types based on the colors, and four blended types combining two colors.
These types align with Jung's personality model, which includes four dimensions—sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling—alongside the axis of extroversion and introversion.
Our eight core types are: Auditor, Planner, Connector, Mediator, Visionary, Entrepreneur, Director, and Change Agent. These types, rooted in the color framework, are clear, practical, and easy to apply.
Example test report
The report of the 4-color personality test provides scores on 34 competences, determines the color preference (blue, green, red, and yellow) of the candidate, and gives scores on eight general competences. This way, you will have the most complete overview of the personality of your candidate or employee. It is also possible to include the 16 Jung Types in the personality report.
Team Workshop: do-it-yourself kit
The team report produced by the 4-color personality test gives you a clear overview of the different color preferences in your team and is the perfect basis for a team workshop. With the do-it-yourself team workshop package, you can now organize your very own Bridge Personality team workshop. Once you’re equipped with the right tools, you’ll be ready to start working with your team yourself, at the time and place you choose - no external trainer required.
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What is the difference between this 4-Color Personality Test and Insights Discovery?
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The Bridge Personality 4-color personality test is much more comprehensive than Insights Discovery. Because the test is scientifically developed, the candidate's color preference will also be more reliable and valid.
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How do I use this 4-color test for my team?
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It’s very simple. Each team member completes the test, and then a team report is produced by the system.
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Does every personality have a color?
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Yes. Every person has a dominant color. As with the DISC model, for example, The Bridge Personality distinguishes 4 colors: red, green, blue, and yellow.
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What is the theory behind the 4-color model?
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As with tests such as the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Insights Discovery, the theory behind the 4-color model is based on the ideas of Carl Jung.
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What does this 4-color test cost per participant?
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If you subscribe to The Bridge Assessment Platform (via credits or unlimited use), this test is available starting at 15 euros per candidate. You can also order the test separately (per candidate), at a cost of 175 euros. You can find all prices on our prices page.
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What kind of supporting materials are available for the 4-color personality questionnaire?
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TestGroup offers various materials for the use of The Bridge Personality 4-color test. These can be ordered separately, but you will also receive them individually if you opt for an introduction package. For example, there is a handy explanation booklet (The Bridge Personality: the booklet for candidates), a package containing cards of each color and, of course, the 4-color presentation (sheets) that you can use during your own training or workshop.
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What is the 4-color test team workshop DIY package?
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In the team workshop: do-it-yourself package you get the tools to organize a team workshop yourself. This package includes the workshop sheets, a 4-color personality test for each participant, a team report, and a handy booklet for each participant with an explanation of the 4-color test and the team report.
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What do the colors red, blue, green, and yellow mean?
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Each color describes a preference for certain behaviors. Do you want to know what your color is? Then complete The Bridge Personality 4-color personality test.
People with a red preference respond quickly, and are often quite straightforward in their responses. The color blue is characterized by a preference for organizing, reacting more slowly and cautiously, and a preference for analysis and details. People with a preference for green often respond calmly, seek connection, and tend to avoid conflict. The color yellow stands for creativity, no preference for routine, and a focus on the future.
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Why does the 4-color model work so well in teams?
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If you understand the preferences and communication style of your colleagues, you can better estimate how team members will react in certain situations. This knowledge helps a team to communicate better with one another. Achieving an improved level of understanding between each other ensures better cooperation. By finding out the color preference of the team members, you also know which color is still missing in the team. For example, you could supplement a team full of red people with a team member with a green preference. In this way, you can put together the optimal team.
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What is the language of color?
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The 4-color model offers a fun and straightforward way to gain insight into your own reactions and to better understand the behavior of others, such as colleagues or team members. The four colors are easy to remember and do not imply that any particular behavior is right or wrong; rather, they represent preferences for certain behaviors and are value-neutral. Everyone has their own preferences, and the 4-color model makes these preferences clear without making any judgments. For instance, saying, "This marketing meeting full of blue personalities could benefit from some yellow" sounds much friendlier than stating, "This team lacks creativity."
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How does the 4-color wheel work?
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There are 3 rings in the 4-color wheel of The Bridge Personality. The 4 colors, 8 major types, and 24 subtypes yield 72 positions in the color wheel. Each position in the wheel has a unique order of colors on which the preferred behavior of that type is based. The distribution per ring has to do with the relative focus or spread for the first three preferred colors. Inner ring: three colors above the centerline. Middle ring: two colors above the centerline. Outer ring: one color above the centerline. It is also possible to be in more than one position in the wheel; your conscious (normative) and less conscious (ipsative) preferences are then different. It is not possible to have a preference for all four colors. There is always at least one color that is (relatively) more difficult for you. But it is also accessible, although its use depends on the circumstances and may require a little more effort.