Criteria Corp. On Demand Assessment
Welcome to your Workplace Insights report. You were asked to take assessments powered by Criteria Corp, and this report provides an overview of your personalized results. All of your responses were combined to create a unique profile for you. Within the report, it's important to know that there are no "good" or "bad" qualities. The results are designed to help you heighten your self-awareness and to understand how to relate better to others in the workplace.

Vinayak's Work Personality

Work Habits

Attitudes & Outlook

Interaction Style

Temperament



 
General Population
 
Vinayak
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

Competitive

Innate drive to win, measures performance in comparison to others

Patient

Accepting and tolerant of delays or challenges




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 Conscientious.

You are likely to be self-disciplined, careful, and dependable in work settings. You are highly persistent, hard-working, and tend to be organized and structured in your work style. You are likely attentive to detail and inclined to follow the rules. Across a wide range of job roles, high conscientiousness scores are linked to good performance in the workplace.

Motivated.

Possessing an inner drive, you are likely committed to achieving certain goals that are of personal importance. Team members will generally perceive you as being motivated and driven to succeed, provided that the goals are clear.

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.




Temperament, Attitudes & Outlook

Very Competitive.

Compared to most people, you have a very strong drive to win. You are likely to be highly motivated by competition and will strive to meet and exceed external targets. In work settings, highly competitive individuals often excel in fields such as sales but are sometimes less well suited to roles like customer service.

Very Patient.

You are likely to be extremely tolerant of obstacles, setbacks, and others. Others may describe you as being calm and level-headed when under pressure, and unruffled by challenges and setbacks. You tend to have a relaxed outlook on life and come across as easy-going, but this may mean that others perceive you as not acting with urgency.




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.
  • Highly conscientious individuals like you tend to excel in a wide variety of roles, situations, and industries.
  • You are likely a "self-starter" who will not be difficult to motivate, provided the job expectations are clear.
  • You are highly competitive by nature, with an innate desire to win, which will serve you well in roles where performance measurement is valued. You are comfortable taking risks when required.
  • 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.
  • Ambiverts like you tend to be flexible enough to have potential suitability for a variety of roles, including those that emphasize social interactions and those that do not.
  • Highly tolerant of frustrations and easy-going by nature, you are likely to bring a sense of calm and stability to collaborative tasks. You are likely to be more accepting of setbacks than most, and tend to be unruffled by the presence of stress or pressure.
  • A high level of self-confidence suggests you will generally be free from self-doubt.

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.
  • Your highly competitive nature may, at times, be seen by others as unfriendly. You should find ways to ensure you are competing as a team towards shared goals, as opposed to competing against your team mates.
  • 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.
  • Given your highly tolerant and relaxed nature, you may find it uncomfortable if required to act with a great sense of urgency when the situation calls for it.
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 exacting, precise, and organized approach to work will be beneficial in many tasks, but you do run the risk of being perceived as inflexible at times. Allowing for some flexibility and uncertainty in your projects, plans and approaches may be beneficial. It's possible that you may be so focused on the details, or on having everything perfect, that you lose sight of the bigger picture. Your style also runs the risk of being perceived as micromanaging people or processes, so allowing others additional flexibility and freedom from time to time may also be beneficial.

Your motivation and drive are best harnessed by prioritizing activities in a way that optimizes your ability to achieve results. You should look for places where you can add the greatest value and use your natural drive to deliver in areas of impact.

Temperament

While there is a time and a place for healthy competition, there is also a risk that being highly competitive may have a negative impact on developing good relationships with others. It may be beneficial for you to consider using your energy and enthusiasm for success to help others in their attainment of goals. This may help you foster valuable working relationships. You may also benefit from understanding that it's OK to lose and to fail - doing so can encourage growth, build resilience, and help shape future goals.

Given your highly tolerant and patient nature, you are likely to feel uncomfortable being rushed or pressured by others into taking immediate action. Your prioritization of stable and calm relationships can mean you are unlikely to tell others when they have disappointed you. Understanding that your time, effort, and opinions are valuable may help increase your comfort with voicing your opinions when others don't meet your expectations.

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.

Effective performance is often a combination of getting things done and interacting well with others. There are times when remaining focused on getting work done is the best approach and times when spending more time engaging with others is beneficial. It may benefit you to take a moment to consider the right balance for a particular job and where you may need to rebalance.

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.

When approaching a new task you may feel more confidence than is warranted. It's important to ensure that your confidence and self-assurance do not inhibit your willingness to prepare in advance. Often, success is the result of planning and effort.




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

Open discussions

Rigid enforcement of rules

Change in workplace expectations or job duties

A narrowly defined role

Having clear and well articulated goals

Being exposed to frequent conflict

Taking the lead in group settings

Having to work alone

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comfortable
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comfortable

Open discussions

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comfortable
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Rigid enforcement of rules

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comfortable
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comfortable

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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comfortable

Being exposed to frequent conflict

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Taking the lead in group settings

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