Want to Bring Big Five Personality Assessment (OCEAN) to Teams?
Learn to Design and Facilitate Your Own Big Five Workshop
A typical inquiry captures a growing need among trainers, coaches, and organizational development leaders:
“I’ve done DISC, StrengthsFinder, and Myers Briggs, but would really like to be trained in Big Five and be able to lead that personality assessment and model with a group.”
That is exactly the kind of need this program is designed to support.
If you want to go beyond understanding the Big Five personality model for yourself and instead learn how to use it in a workshop, leadership session, or team development experience, our innovative workshop design and facilitation coaching can include a specialization in the Big Five and OCEAN.
This is not just about learning another assessment. It is about learning how to design and facilitate a meaningful experience where people interpret their results, reflect on how they work, and apply those insights to communication, collaboration, leadership, and team effectiveness.
Why more facilitators are interested in OCEAN
Many professionals in learning and development, HR, leadership development, coaching, and organizational development already have experience with tools like Myers-Briggs, DISC, or StrengthsFinder. But many are also looking for a personality framework that feels grounded, practical, and useful in team and leadership settings.
That is one reason there is growing interest in Big Five personality workshop training programs. The model gives facilitators a way to help people better understand themselves, understand differences on a team, and build more intentional ways of working together.
At the same time, knowing the model is only part of the equation.
The real question is whether you can lead others through it well.
Can you take assessment results and turn them into a strong session design, thoughtful dialogue, reflection, and action? That is where facilitation matters. And that is where this coaching program becomes especially valuable.
A coaching-based way to learn OCEAN more deeply
Our innovative workshop design and facilitation coaching is designed to help professionals build workshops, trainings, retreats, and learning experiences that are more engaging, practical, and participant-centered.
Within that larger coaching structure, we can create a specialization focused on the Big Five personality model and OCEAN.
That specialization can help you:
- deepen your understanding of the Big Five dimensions
- explore how OCEAN insights can support leadership and team development
- learn how to use assessments in a workshop setting
- design an experience that helps participants interpret and apply their results
- facilitate stronger discussion around communication, work style, self-awareness, and collaboration
- create a session, workshop, or learning module you can take to other teams
In other words, this is not just a knowledge program. It is a facilitator development experience.
What this program can include
The broader coaching program includes coaching sessions, online learning, and support for building a practical capstone workshop or learning experience.
For this specialization, the experience can include:
- deeper learning on the Big Five personality model and OCEAN
- guidance on how to interpret and apply assessment results
- coaching support as you design your own workshop or session
- access to Big Five and Prism Ocean assessments to use with participants
- feedback on how to structure the flow, reflection, and facilitation of your session
- practical support as you move from theory to real delivery
The goal is not simply to understand personality theory. The goal is to build a workshop or session you can actually use.
Why assessments need facilitation, not just administration
One of the biggest mistakes organizations make with assessments is assuming the value is in the report alone.
It is not.
The value comes from what people do with the insight.
That is why using assessments for team building and leadership development is such an important part of the conversation. Assessments become more useful when they are paired with reflection, dialogue, and practical application.
The same principle shows up in the team assessment workshop toolkit. Facilitators need more than a framework. They need a way to help a group discuss differences, make meaning from results, and identify new ways of working together.
A Big Five assessment can be useful on its own. But a well-designed workshop can help participants make sense of their results, compare styles, build trust, and turn insight into action.
Who this is for
This specialization is a good fit for people who want to take OCEAN to other teams, not just take the assessment themselves.
That may include:
- organizational development practitioners
- leadership development professionals
- learning and development leaders
- internal trainers
- external facilitators
- coaches and consultants
- HR professionals
- managers responsible for team effectiveness or leadership development
It is especially relevant for people who already know other assessment tools and want to broaden their capability with a Big Five-based approach.
It also connects naturally with the broader work of building innovation facilitation training and workshop leadership skills. For many professionals, learning OCEAN well is part of a larger goal: becoming a more confident designer and facilitator of meaningful group experiences.
About John and Sean Nelson of Prism-Ocean
This specialization is delivered with partners John and Sean Nelson, founders of Prism Ocean.
Their work helps make the Big Five personality model more practical and usable for learning, coaching, leadership, and team development. John Nelson is also the coauthor of What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, and Sean Nelson has helped develop a simpler Big Five assessment experience that has already been used by thousands of people across universities and organizations.
Together, their work supports a more applied, workshop-friendly approach to helping people understand personality, communication, motivation, and team dynamics. Best of all, you’ll be able to access their expertise in coaching sessions and get some Prism-Ocean Big Five personality assessments (and individual reports) to use with your group.
What makes this different from a standard certification
Some programs teach an assessment.
This one helps you build an experience around it.
That distinction matters.
If your goal is to take OCEAN to other teams, you need more than model familiarity. You need to know how to:
- introduce the framework credibly
- create psychological safety around results
- ask useful reflection questions
- facilitate discussion among different styles
- connect self-awareness to collaboration and performance
- design a session that feels relevant to the audience in front of you
That is why this is best understood as a Big Five facilitation training pathway inside your broader coaching program.
It helps bridge the gap between knowing the assessment and leading a strong workshop with it.
What participants can walk away with
By the end of this specialization, the goal is not simply to understand OCEAN better.
The goal is to leave with a workshop, session, or learning design you can actually use.
That might be:
- a team development workshop
- a leadership session
- a communication workshop
- a self-awareness experience for managers
- an offsite session focused on working styles
- a coaching-based group learning experience
The outcome is practical. You deepen your understanding of the Big Five and build your ability to facilitate personality-based learning in a way that creates insight and action.
Interested in learning OCEAN so you can bring it to other teams?
If you are looking for a way to deepen your understanding of the Big Five personality model and also design your own workshop or learning session around it, this specialization may be a strong fit.
The combination of coaching, online learning, workshop design support, partner expertise, and access to assessments can help you move from interest to implementation.
Contact us if this kind of program is interesting to you or if you would like support creating a Big Five or OCEAN-based experience you can facilitate with confidence.