Janson's Workplace Insights
Test Date: Apr 29, 2025
Janson's Work Personality
Work Habits
Attitudes & Outlook
Interaction Style
Temperament
Notable Traits
You can be described as:
Goal-Oriented
Values achievement, sets goals, and prioritizes achieving them
Cooperative
Values social harmony, inclined to seek common ground
Extroverted
Socially outgoing, gregarious, often initiates social interactions
Competitive
Innate drive to win, measures performance in comparison to others
Work, Communication & Interaction Style
Very Goal-Oriented.
As someone who tends to be driven by exceeding expectations, you are likely to be seen as a high achiever. As a result, you are likely to have excellent follow-through on tasks when appropriately engaged.
Very Motivated.
You are likely to have a very strong inner drive, which should see you viewed as driven and committed. Team members will generally describe you as motivated to achieve your goals.
Cooperative.
You have an agreeable and cooperative personality, indicative of a willingness to work closely with others in work situations. Preferring an accommodative style to a more forceful one, you will instinctively incline towards preserving harmonious relations with co-workers over a more confrontational style. Colleagues and teammates would likely describe you as friendly and considerate. Cooperativeness is a trait well suited to service-oriented roles.
Extroverted.
You are more extroverted than most and can be characterized as sociable and outgoing in group settings. Extroverts tend to be energetic, enthusiastic, and active, and you may prefer roles and activities that involve frequent socialization. You should feel comfortable talking to a wide variety of people.
Temperament, Attitudes & Outlook
Competitive.
You are competitive by nature, valuing competition, and are inclined to place a high value on winning or surpassing standards of achievement set by others. In work settings, competitive individuals often excel in fields such as sales.
Strengths & Potential Challenges
Strengths
- You are likely to possess a very strong drive to achieve. As a result, you are likely to have excellent follow-through.
- You are a highly motivated person with a strong inner drive.
- Your competitive nature and will to win are well suited to roles (e.g., sales) where clear, measurable, and transparent performance metrics are valued.
- Neither consistently assertive nor overly deferential, you will be assertive in some situations and not in others.
- You tend to be manageable and coachable, with a profile suitable for service-oriented roles. You will be agreeable and accommodating in most situations.
- Sociable and energetic, you are comfortable initiating social interactions and likely enjoy working with others.
- You are likely to display an effective balance of patience and impatience in pursuing opportunities or navigating frustrations with work-related tasks or projects.
Potential Challenges
- While your high drive for achievement may have led to many successes, you may be particularly uncomfortable with potential failure. This discomfort may drive you to overwork yourself or be overly perfectionistic at times, leaving you vulnerable to burnout.
- In team settings, competitiveness has the potential to create conflict if it is not channeled or managed effectively.
- Cooperative individuals like you can be a bit too accommodating at times. This can create challenges, especially if you are in a leadership role where you need to make tough decisions.
Development Suggestions
Work Habits
Highly achievement-oriented by nature, you will likely benefit from taking on particularly challenging tasks to further optimize your effectiveness in a role. Taking on these challenges may also further refine your strengths and enable you to apply them for even greater impact.
Your strong inner motivation and drive are likely to see you do well in a variety of tasks, even in tasks that you do not find intrinsically enjoyable. This strong inner drive can be best utilized in high impact activities where your motivation should see you achieving strong outcomes.
Temperament
Competitive by nature, you should look for win-win relationships. The most successful people are often those who are effective at building relationships of mutual value. Be aware and considerate of others' needs when interacting with them and focus on helping others achieve their objectives.
Persisting is an important characteristic in the accomplishment of tasks and deliverables. However, there may be times when trying a different approach is more beneficial than just trying harder in the same direction. Knowing when to step back and assess the effectiveness of one's approach, and being open to persisting in a new direction, can meaningfully contribute to accomplishing your objectives.
Interaction Style
Some interactions call for a more direct approach, whereas others may require a gentler touch. When engaging with others, you should make sure to consider the situation, the people involved, and the context to help you determine the level of directness that is warranted.
Usually not prone to "rock the boat", you will need to learn to be willing to go it alone sometimes. Teamwork and collaboration are important, but if deference to others is reducing efficiency, the best way forward may necessitate making unpopular decisions. The most effective people tend to find a balance between independence and collaboration.
As an extrovert, you may benefit from the realization that the most effective way to complete a task is to work hard and avoid distractions. Interacting with others is important for building relationships at work and being part of a successful team. But some tasks need to be accomplished alone. Speaking up in meetings and sharing ideas is valuable, but other people need that chance to be heard and understood. Extroverts who find themselves doing most of the talking may need to make an effort to listen more instead.
Attitudes & Outlook
Knowing when to take a creative approach is important to accomplishing goals. However, there are also times when using tried and true methods are best for getting things done. The balance is in understanding the situation at hand, quickly learning the relevant history of what has already been attempted, and capitalizing on the more effective strategy.
Workplace Stressors & Motivators
The following section relates common workplace situations to your behavioral preferences, to better understand how your potential may be best realized. Situations that may be comfortable or motivating for some people may be stressful or de-motivating for others. Below is a list of common workplace situations together with an indication of how each may impact you.
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Having to work alone |
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Open discussions |
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Change in workplace expectations or job duties |
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A narrowly defined role |
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Having clear and well articulated goals |
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Being exposed to frequent conflict |
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Taking the lead in group settings |
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Having to work alone
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Open discussions
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Rigid enforcement of rules
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Change in workplace expectations or job duties
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A narrowly defined role
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Having clear and well articulated goals
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Being exposed to frequent conflict
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Taking the lead in group settings
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