Career satisfaction comes from a balance of using your talents as well as sufficient challenge to make the work interesting. Doing work that comes easily to you and that you really enjoy doing will take less energy and leave you freer to enjoy other aspects of your life as well as be more efficient and productive on the job.

This assessment looks at four skill sets to help you identify your talent and the best environments in which to use those talents. Remember that here we are looking at the kinds of work environments that fit who you are at your core. They most likely draw on your talents rather than learned skills.

Talent is different from skill. Our talents are those activities that come easily to us and that we are most likely to excel at. We can have talent and yet, not have developed that talent so we don’t have skill. We can have skill in areas that are not our talents. As you explore your results on this section, remember that your first choice might reflect what you have skill in or it may reflect your talent area. We tend to remember those things we learned latest so skill is often what we report on rather than talent. Explore the top two skills sets to see which one fits you the best in terms of how you’ve always been, not just what you’ve just learned.

THE FOUR SKILL SETS*
*Adapted from Linda V. Berens, Understanding Yourself and Others®: An Introduction to Temperament-4.0 (Telos Publications, 2010)

Diplomatic Skill Set:

Logistical Skill Set:

Strategic Skill Set:

Tactical Skill Set:

Your career and work life will always involve learning and growing. Knowing how you prefer to learn will be helpful as you enter a new job, change careers, or seek new growth opportunities. When you know how you like to learn, you can more easily seek learning opportunities that will work for you.

As you go forward in your career you will have to learn new skills and may need to find ways to motivate yourself to learn things you are not excited about. Explore your results while thinking about times you’ve learned things easily as well as what has motivated you to learn something.

In thinking about your results remember that you may have responded in terms of how you’ve learned to learn rather than how you learn naturally. Think in terms of what really appeals to you and makes learning easy.

THE FOUR LEARNING STYLES*
*Adapted from Linda V. Berens, Understanding Yourself and Others®: An Introduction to Temperament-4.0 (Telos Publications, 2010)

Relationship Centered:

Authority Centered:

Knowledge Centered:

Impact Centered:

To be successful, everyone needs to be a leader at some point in his or her career. This requires self-leadership and at times leading others. You need to take charge of your career development and you may need to take the lead with others on the job, even if your role is not a traditional one of leadership.

Approach your results on this section keeping in mind that you may have easily responded in terms of a current leadership/non-leadership role or in terms of how you’ve adapted and developed to various roles. Be sure to review the various statements and see how well they fit you. Seek feedback from others who know you well.

THE FOUR SELF-LEADERSHIP STYLES*
*Adapted from Linda V. Berens, Understanding Yourself and Others®: An Introduction to Temperament-4.0 (Telos Publications, 2010)

Authenticity Oriented:

Stability Oriented:

Expertise Oriented:

Opportunity Oriented:

How the three keys to Careerstrength relate to the four temperament patterns can be seen in the following matrix.

Catalyst Temperament - (aka: Idealist, NF, Blue)
   Diplomatic Talent
   Relationship Centered Learning Style
   Authenticity Oriented Self-Leadership Style

Stabilizer Temperament - (aka: Guardian, SJ, Gold)
   Logistical Talent
   Authority Centered Learning Style
   Stability Oriented Self-Leadership Style

Theorist Temperament - (aka: Rational, NT, Green)
   Strategic Talent
   Knowledge Centered Learning Style
   Expertise Oriented Self-Leadership Style

Improviser Temperament - (aka: Artisan, SP, Orange)
   Tactical Talent
   Impact Centered Learning Style
   Opportunity Oriented Self-Leadership Stylet

When your responses on the three assessments are considered together we may have a good indication of your core temperament. However, you are quite likely to find that the results on the assessments do not neatly fit into the four temperament categories. This is likely because of a response pattern that is indicative of your Developed Self or Contextual Self in one or more instances. It merely reflects your uniqueness.

Your Core Temperament and Developed Self
Based on your responses, two temperament snapshots are presented below. Your temperament is your core needs, values and related talents. When temperament needs are met, and when you get to use your favorite talents, then you experience high energy, top performance, and satisfaction. Temperament also describes how we tend to adapt to situations such as our work environment. Sometimes adapting requires we draw on the talents and values of other temperaments in order to get things done and work well with others. Thus, there is your core self - the needs and values you've always had and cannot live without - and there is also your developed self, which may suggest a second temperament. Often times because of the strong influence of environment we rate our developed self first and core self second. Keep this in mind as you sort which temperament pattern below is the best-fit for you. All temperaments bring unique gifts to all career areas, and knowing your best-fit temperament - your core self - is key to locating the job role and kind of work that is right for you.

tactical skill-set (15)
logistical skill-set (1)
strategic skill-set (24)
diplomatic skill-set (5)

impact centered (16)
authority centered (1)
knowledge centered (18)
relationship centered (8 )

opportunity oriented (12)
stability oriented (8 )
expertise oriented (21)
authenticity oriented (10)

The temperament pattern you rated highest:
Theorist: Want knowledge and to be competent, to achieve. Seek to understand how the world and things in it work. Are theory oriented. See everything as conditional and relative. Are oriented to the infinite. Trust logic and reason. Want to have a rationale for everything. Are skeptical. Think in terms of differences, delineating categories, definitions, structures, and functions. Hunger for precision, especially in thought and language. Are skilled at long-range planning, inventing, designing, and defining. Generally are calm. Foster individualism. Frequently gravitate toward technology and the sciences. Well suited for engineering and devising strategy, whether in the social or physical sciences.


The temperament pattern you rated second:
Improviser: Want the freedom to choose the next act. Seek to have impact,to get results. Want to be graceful, bold, and impressive.Generally are excited and optimistic. Are absorbed in the actionof the moment. Are oriented toward the present. Seek adventureand stimulation. Hunger for spontaneity. Trust impulses, luck,and their ability to solve any problem they run into. Think in terms of variation. Have the ability to notice and describerich detail, constantly seeking relevant information. Like freedom to move, festivities, and games. Are natural negotiators. Seize opportunities. Are gifted tacticians, deciding the best move to make in the moment, the expedient action to take. Are frequently drawn to all kinds of work that requires variation on a theme.