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Time management & organization - High Profile
You are a good time and organization manager because you know how to plan and organize your time between specific activities. Good time management enables you to work smarter – not harder – so that you get more done in less time, even when time is tight and pressures are high.
Time management & organization - Medium Profile
Your approach to time and organisation management is a little "hit-and-miss." Sometimes your solutions work really well and other times they don't. Good time management requires an important shift in focus from activities to results: being busy isn´t the same as being effective.
Time management & organization - Low Profile
Spending your day in a frenzy of activity often achieves less, because you´re dividing your attention between so many different tasks. Time and organisation management is the process of organizing and planning how much time you spend on specific activities. Invest some time in several comprehensive collections of time management articles to learn about managing your own time more efficiently, and save yourself time in the future.
Flexibility & adaptability - High Profile
You are highly adaptable and it may be, more highly valued at work than those who are highly skilled but less willing to adapt, flex, and change. You serve specific needs of the people you manage, this demonstrates that you care for others – trying more to cope with them than expecting them to conform to your preferred way of doing things.
Flexibility & adaptability - Medium Profile
Having the technical skills and knowledge to successfully execute your job duties is only one part of being the best you can be in the workplace. Flexibility and Adaptability are more about the ability to change according to the needs of a situation. Change can be scary, but learning to adapt and flex as needed is an investment worth making.
Flexibility & adaptability - Low Profile
“But that’s how we´ve always done it.” Do you find yourself saying that often? This can pose a serious obstacle to your ability to adapt to change. Ask yourself if things were really as good as you remember.
DECISION-MAKING - High Profile
Excellent! You're well on your way to becoming a good “collector”! You put a lot of effort in searching and applying information. When you have to take a decision or make a choice you usually integrate, synthesize, and apply information from multiple sources. In order to collect only valid and sound information you determine procedures for maintaining and evaluating information. You make an effort to think in terms of generalized models rather than concrete details to have an idea of the big picture. To do that you move beyond concrete analysis of factual information to develop abstract, conceptual understanding of the meaning of an array of information. To further improve your style you could try to integrate diverse themes and lines of reasoning to create new insights, levels of understanding or knowledge.
DECISION-MAKING - Medium Profile
Your decision-making process is OK. You have a good understanding of the basics, but now you need to improve your process and be more proactive. Concentrate on finding lots of facts and options and discovering as many risks and consequences as you can. The better your analysis is, the better your decision will be in the long term. Do not let other people to influence your decision making process, collect opinions but decide autonomously! Focus specifically on the areas where you lost points, and develop a system that will work for you across a wide variety of situations.
DECISION-MAKING - Low Profile
You have an excellent approach to decision-making! You know how to set up the process and formulate lots of alternative solutions. From there, you analyze the options carefully, and you identify the best decisions possible based on what you know. You also run a responsible assessment of potential risks and available resources to take in account your decision. As you gain more and more experience, use that information to evaluate your decisions, and continue to build on your decision-making success. Think about the areas where you lost points, and decide how you can include those areas in your process.
INFORMATION COLLECTION & PROCESSING - High Profile
Excellent! You're well on your way to becoming a good “collector”! You put a lot of effort in searching and applying information. When you have to take a decision or make a choice you usually integrate, synthesize, and apply information from multiple sources. In order to collect only valid and sound information you determine procedures for maintaining and evaluating information. You make an effort to think in terms of generalized models rather than concrete details to have an idea of the big picture. To do that you move beyond concrete analysis of factual information to develop abstract, conceptual understanding of the meaning of an array of information. To further improve your style you could try to integrate diverse themes and lines of reasoning to create new insights, levels of understanding or knowledge.
INFORMATION COLLECTION & PROCESSING - Medium Profile
Your use of information style is a "work in progress." You've some strengths but you also have space for improvements. You use multiple systems to gather information and various processes to organize and evaluate data for relevance. Even if you collect information from different sources you could start using more sophisticated systems and processes to reach better results. However thanks to your skill you are able to identify key facts in an array of data; recognize when pertinent facts are incorrect, missing, or require supplementation or verification and also distinguish information that is not pertinent to a decision or solution. In generally you form accurate conclusions regarding actions to be taken. In the absence of clear guidelines or information, you choose to use judgment and critical thinking to infer appropriate meaning and form conclusions necessary to resolving the problem or issue.
INFORMATION COLLECTION & PROCESSING - Low Profile
You have some work to do to improve your process to collect and analyze information. Sometimes you accumulate information in unorganized or haphazard manner because probably you overlook need for valid information.
You could be more effective if you preferred to not collect simple information from a limited number of easily accessed sources and maintain information using simple procedures (e.g., in personal lists or folders). You should start choosing more sophisticated sources and analysis processes to go beyond just the general understanding of the connection between data.<br>
TEAMWORK ORIENTATION - High Profile
You are willing to work with other people and you encourage them to undertake team efforts. You feel responsible for the results of your collaboration. You communicate your ideas to other team members and you are willing to receive feedback on your work from other team members and provide feedback to them on their work, but you avoid blaming or accusing them. You seek to find a common understanding of problems.
TEAMWORK ORIENTATION - Medium Profile
You are willing to work with other people. You communicate your ideas and try to convince other team members to these ideas. You have no problems with giving feedback to other people but you have problems with coping with negative feedback. You should try to listen more carefully to what others have to say about your ideas because maybe your solutions are not always the best and together you can create something really good.
TEAMWORK ORIENTATION - Low Profile
You feel comfortable when you can work alone on your own ideas, because you are the one who knows best how to implement them. In your opinion convincing others to your ideas is just a waste of time. If you want to upgrade on your teamworking skills, you should try to present your ideas to other people and listen to their feedback and also to the ideas they have. Maybe together you can create something really good.
NGOTIATION SKILLS - High Profile
You are a very good negotiator. You are able to separate people from the problem and use various techniques to solve the problem by reaching an agreement. You are assertive but open to options suggested by other people, which enables you to seek for a solution that satisfies the interests of you and the other party. You are able to present your interests. You listen actively to your counterparts and ask them questions helping you to find shared interests. You are creative and persistent in finding a solution that satisfies those interests.
NEGOTIATION SKILLS - Medium Profile
Whenever you have to reach an agreement, you seek to find a compromise but you concentrate on the position expressed by your counterpart and not on his/her interests underlying this position. This allows you to find a solution that can look acceptable at first sight but it may not satisfy the real interests of both sides. Asking questions would help you a lot to identify the other party’s interests and find a solution securing interests of both of you. You should also spend more time preparing to the negotiations to be able to explain interests which are behind your position.
NEGOTIATION SKILLS - Low Profile
You believe that negotiations are successful when your proposition is accepted. You accept the fact that if you win the other party loses. In order to have your proposition accepted you sometimes use arguments pertaining to the person you are negotiating with. Asking questions would help you a lot to identify the other party’s interests which are behind his/her position and find a solution securing interests of both of you. You should also spend more time preparing to the negotiations to be able to explain interests behind your position. You should also pay attention to your counterpart’s body language that suggests he/she feels uncomfortable.
EMPATHY - High Profile
You are a highly empathetic person! Not only are you able to identify another's emotional state and good in perspective-taking by giving the other time and room for sharing their experience, but you go a step further: you think out thoroughly so much your as well as another’s emotional state alongside all interfering factors; you assess them and find out the shared perspective; you are flexible enough to adapt your attitude accordingly and decide on the ideally suited -to the circumstances- reaction, even if it’s off the beaten track. Just take care not to get hyper-involved and end up battered about by the feelings and emotions of others as this might make you high on personal distress, something that can also work in negative ways.
EMPATHY - Medium Profile
You are open and ready to put yourself into another’s shoes. Trying to delve into another’s viewpoint, you focus more on asking questions rather than immediately reacting or providing solutions. You give them time and room unfold their experience and feelings. During this process, you are able to pin down your own feelings emerging from this interplay and show “empathic concern”, ie. the ability to recognize another's emotional state, feel in tune with that and show appropriate concern. However, you don’t go the extra mile: you find it difficult to adjust and differentiate your attitude according to the shared perspective. This can be good, as you can stay calmer and be of more help, but you might also lose the point or disregard some factors that can prove to be crucial when trying to really show empathy.
EMPATHY - Low Profile
Your empathy levels are lower. You seem to be more self-absorbed and less flexible to change your priorities and targets according to another’s emotional state or projected feelings. It might, of course, sometimes be the case that you really feel this is how you need to go about it or that this is the right thing to do. However, although you might seem to be able to see things from another's point of view, that does not necessarily make you high on empathy. Empathy is more about being prone to understanding your and another's emotional state but also assessing all factors and adapt your attitude. You might not have all the answers but you just need to listen others carefully, find out the shared perspective and react accordingly.
LEADERSHIP - High Profile
You are a real leader! A natural in inspiring, engaging and motivating others, you are an active listener and highly involved in pursuing and sharing your vision and goals. Expert in goal-setting and strategic planning, you open the way, value teamwork, allow room and empower others. People tend to trust, respect and follow you. They admire your proactiveness and commitment to reaching the set objectives. You are certainly a mediator, a mentor and a fighter, mobilising, promoting and uniting.
LEADERSHIP - Medium Profile
You do take up challenges and initiative. You make efforts to bring people on board, motivate and make them commit. You know how to delegate tasks and achieve the goals you set. But being a leader is not restricted to good and active management. You need to be more open and listen to the team, invest and involve, make them part of your vision, inspire them to be dedicated. Try to be more engaging and empowering with the team to improve your leadership.
LEADERSHIP - Low Profile
You are a problem-solver, often at the expense of teamwork. You think strategically and set goals but in the process you do not always have the team needs and powers at heart. You think it’s easier, faster and safer to do it yourself. This way, it is harder to build trust and credibility and even more to have people follow you and see you as a leader. You need to invest more in a higher cause, allowing people to shine and inspiring them to serve a vision, rather than a task.
CRITICAL, STRATEGIC & INNOVATIVE THINKING - High Profile
Congratulations, you are a critical, innovative and strategic thinker since you take time to understand the problem you are facing, understand the criteria for a good decision, and generate some good options.
You have “established good habits of thought which are ‘paying off’.” You actively analyse, assess, and critique your own thinking in the significant areas of your life, and you also have insight and understanding of problems at deeper levels of thought. You have a well-developed sense of your own egocentric nature, and you strive to be fair-minded. You have a developed understanding of the relationships among thoughts, desires, emotional needs, and feelings. Though you understand that egocentrism will always play a role in your thinking, you are able to control the extent of your egocentrism through careful monitoring of your thoughts.
CRITICAL, STRATEGIC & INNOVATIVE THINKING - Medium Profile
You have an awareness of how your thinking tends to be flawed, have an understanding of the basic elements of reasoning and standards for assessing reasoning, know that your thinking needs to be monitored and corrected, and understand that you are basically egocentric if you do not challenge your own assumptions. You actively analyse your thinking across many areas of your life, but are only beginning to assess your thinking in a systematic way. You understand that the human mind tends to be self-deceptive, and you attempt to assess and critique your own conclusions, beliefs, and opinions. However, you still have “limited insight into deeper levels of thought, and thus into deeper levels of the problems embedded in thinking.
CRITICAL, STRATEGIC & INNOVATIVE THINKING - Low Profile
You have to improve your critical thinking ability by devoting time and concentrating on analysing more in depth the consequences of your decisions. You seem to be not really aware of the role of thinking in your life and of the potential problems with your own reasoning since you still lack the ability to be metacognitive. You have to realize which are the concepts or assumptions behind ideas, and take time to assess the logic of your own opinions or conclusions. You may have developed some skills in thinking (compare and contrast, analyse, conclude, etc.), but these skills need to be applied in a more consistent way, trying to identify and avoid biases and prejudices. And probably you tend to be unable to “fix” problems in thinking or adopt new strategies to solve problems.
PROBLEM SOLVING - High Profile
You are a confident problem solver since you take time to understand the problem, understand the criteria for a good decision, and generate some good options.
You approach problems systematically, cover the essentials each time and your decisions are well though out, well planned, and well executed. You can continue to perfect your problem-solving skills and use them for continuous improvement initiatives.
PROBLEM SOLVING - Medium Profile
Your approach to problem solving is a little "hit-and-miss." Sometimes your solutions work really well, and other times they don't. You understand what you should do, and you recognize that having a structured problem-solving process is important. However, you don't always follow that process. By working on your consistency and committing to the process, you'll see significant improvements.
PROBLEM SOLVING - Low Profile
You probably tend to view problems as something negative, instead of seeing them as opportunities to make exciting and necessary changes. Your approach to problem solving is more intuitive than systematic, and this may have led to some poor experiences in the past. With more practice, and by following a more structured approach, you'll be able to develop this important skill and start solving problems more effectively right away.
INTERCULTURAL SKILLS & GLOBAL AWARENESS - High Profile
Congratulations, you scored a very high level of intercultural skills and global awareness! As an intercultural effective person, you have: the ability to communicate with people in a way that earns their respect and trust, thereby encouraging a cooperative and productive workplace that is conducive to the achievements of professional or assignment goals; the capacity to adapt your professional skills (both technical and managerial) to fit local conditions and constraints; and the capacity to adjust personally so that you are content and generally at ease in the host culture.
INTERCULTURAL SKILLS & GLOBAL AWARENESS - Medium Profile
Your intercultural communication and global understanding can be improved! You show good level of understanding, but you are still not too confident in moving in different cultural and linguistic settings. You give importance to the study of foreign languages, but you hesitate when it comes to use them in life and working experiences. You show respect to people from different backgrounds, anyway your behavior towards foreigners is still skeptical. At the same time, you do not feel secure in the role of “being foreign”.
INTERCULTURAL SKILLS & GLOBAL AWARENESS - Low Profile
Considering the extreme importance of intercultural skills in this global and interconnected society, you need to increase your level of intercultural skills and global awareness. Your communication skills towards people with different backgrounds is weak. You are not fluent in speaking foreign languages and maybe you do not understand the added value of being multilingual. Remember that nowadays, most of the time, working environments are made by people coming from different countries, cultures and traditions.
LEARNING ORIENTATION - High Profile
You are very careful on your learning development and you are committed in taking all the feasible solutions to increase your skills when needed, even if it will require private investments in money and time. You strongly believe in lifelong learning whatever your age is.
LEARNING ORIENTATION - Medium Profile
You admit you should increase your competencies. However, you do not know how to do it and/or you do not want to invest too many energies in that.
LEARNING ORIENTATION - Low Profile
There is a time for study and a time for work. Once your school period is over, you do not think you have time to make extra efforts to increase your skills.