Test Date: Feb 24, 2021
You can be described as:
Values achievement, sets goals, and prioritizes achieving them
Values social harmony, inclined to seek common ground
Innate drive to win, measures performance in comparison to others
Accepting and tolerant of delays or challenges
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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