Productivity-Driven, Detail-Focused Team Player

You appreciate commitment to established

operations and respect the value of institutional

knowledge. Productive and focused, you excel

when the priority is simply getting the job done.

Big 5 Personality:

Defender

Personality Tips

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• Proven methods are a good match for your style. Seek out opportunities to support long-standing approaches.

• Proven methods are a good match for your style. Seek out opportunities to support long-standing approaches.

• You don’t mind letting others be in the spotlight, so take the time to recognize others’ efforts and share rewards.

• You have high standards for yourself and others. Offer to support quality control, fact checking, or performance audits.

Room for Growth and Change

• Can be seen as too rigid at times

• Can be taken for granted because you complete tasks without objections

• Have difficulty with unexpected changes

• May underreact to urgent situations

• Not pushy and so can be overlooked

• Tend to find socially stimulating environments draining Settings That Work For You

• Allows for extended periods of independent or small group work

• Allows individuals to deal with their own setbacks

• De-emphasizes competition among colleagues

• Encourages peer support in pursuit of goals

• Fueled by a sense of duty

• Permits telecommuting on a full or partial basis

• Prioritizes work quality

• Requires people to respond to challenges

• Structured and routine

• Supports implementing existing methods

Personality Breakdown

The dimension score is calculated from your responses to items that together measure the underlying components of each dimension. Overall, an individual has either a High, Moderate, or Low level of each. The dimension score is a standardized score that ranges between 1 and 10. Scores of 1-3 are Low, 4-6 Moderate, and 7 and up are High.

Solving Problems

Openness

Delivering Results

Conscientiousness

Engaging with People

Extraversion

Influencing People

Agreeableness

Managing Pressure

Emotional Stability

Solving Problems Openness

You appear to take a balanced approach to solving problems. thinking of new and original ways of approaching situations, but not at the expense of ignoring well-established solutions, already known to work. Most likely, you will have an eye on whether something will be effective both now and in the future, juggling the facts and making changes that will stand the test of time.

Benefits

• Brings experience to strategy

• Flexible problem solver

• Pragmatic thinker

• Sees detail and bigger picture

• Tends to be cautious

• Works to maintain the system

Delivering Results Conscientiousness

You seem to be the sort of person who likes a clear structure organizing what you do, a strong sense of self- discipline and the ability to work towards longer term goals. Your dedication to how things should be done purposefully and methodically is likely to be reinforced by your confidence in your own abilities and a wish to do your best for yourself and for other people.

Benefits

• Focuses on task at hand

• Identifies key goals

• Sense of commitment

• Structured work style

• Tolerant of tedious details

• Wants to achieve

Engaging with People Extraversion

You come across as someone who is comfortable in social situations, but who also knows when to withdraw for periods of quiet reflection. You are just as likely to be found lost in thought as you are lost in conversation! Generally, you're the kind of person who has a good idea of the amount of excitement you would like - however, you can find too much 'down-time' de-motivating. Benefits

• Energetic

• Enthusiastic

• Fun oriented

• Quick to connect

• Socially skilled

• Thinks and acts

Influencing People Agreeableness

You describe yourself as someone who has a mature and streetwise view of other people and their views. Your first instinct is likely to be to trust other people, but you do know that others can let you down. Thus, you are probably able to be direct, but are also able to temper your approach with sensitivity for what will keep relationships healthy and intact.

Benefits

• Forgiving style

• Looks for win-win outcome

• Negotiates with sensitivity

• Realistic view of others

• Recognises imperfection

• Relational style

Managing Pressure Emotional Stability

You look as if you respond to pressure by taking everything in your stride. Perhaps you are best described as being a relaxed and easy-going person, and not one who feels discouraged by the comments of others. Your results indicate that when it comes to managing your feelings you are likely to have them under control, and to react to situations in a supremely calm manner.

Benefits

• Copes with everything

• Keeps feelings in check

• Low level of tension

• Quickly lets go of criticism

• Understated about emotions

• Very calm style

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