What Is Your Business Personality?

1. On a day-to-day basis, you like to spend the majority of your time:

Thinking of new ideas

Managing deliverables and people

Strengthening communication between teams

Troubleshooting and overseeing processes

2. Select the image that you're most drawn to.

3. A new piece of work is allocated to your team, what do you do?

Find out what needs to be delivered so you can create a timeline of deliverables.

Assess how the activity fits into team priorities.

Work out how the business will measure the team's success.

Think about the structure of the team and how to play everyone's skill strengths.

4. A colleague approaches your desk with a 'favour' to ask. What do you do?

Listen to their request and then ask if they could share a re-cap with you on an email.

Suggest they sit down so you can discuss together.

Immediately ask what they need and when they need it by.

Listen to their favour, and then suggest two or three alternative or additional ways to help them.

5. Select a statement that best describes how you approach new ideas in the workplace:

Creativity should be organised, so that each team member's contributions are noted down for future reference.

Ideas generation works well when an individual leads a team session and we all work together.

I'm always open to new ideas and love sharing my own ideas with the team.

I often keep my ideas and thoughts to myself until I assess a situation and other people's reactions

6. How do you think most people at work perceive you?

As the person who the team uses as a sounding board.

As the person who is always looking ahead.

As the person who makes things happen.

As the person who knows the finer details.

7. When faced with a difficult situation, my immediate reaction is to:

Take charge and resolve the situation as quickly as possible.

Assess the situation before reacting.

Consider the knock-on effect if it is not resolved properly.

Find a solution that keeps as many people as happy as possible.