Understanding your personality is key to understanding what you can do to achieve your goals. You will need to keep an open mind while going through the results of the tests.
What do personality tests do?
Personality tests are tools that will help you understand yourself and others better.
Depending on the tests you complete, you will be able to identify one or a mix of the following :
- Your strengths
- Your preferences
- Your interests
- Your motivations
- Your emotional make-up
- Your style of interacting with people and situations
- Your areas for improvement
During your coaching sessions, you will get to do a few types of personality tests in order to cover as many of the areas listed above. Remember to save your results as a PDF and add it to your coaching folder on the Gdrive.
· ✨ The personality test is only one page of your book!
How can the personality assessment be useful?
Your current circumstances are powerful forces that often pull us away from your true wants and best selves, personality assessments can reground you in what is most important.
The assessment tools are effective in shifting your focus from what you have been doing to what you like to do and want to do.
✨ The personality test provides you the opportunity to think of a new page in your book!
What to bear in mind?
1. Your current situation and most recent experience are more likely to skew your results. Your own biases and beliefs about yourself may skew the results too. For instance, you may over-focus on qualities that are “helpful” to others and downplay qualities that do not, or you may over estimate your own competence.
Your environment may also lead to you suppressing the talents that set you apart.
You want to find out who you are at your best most-authentic self, not who you think you are supposed to be.
✨ Remember: you want results that show how you like to work, especially if different from how you are currently working.
2. The results are only a starting point, it is important to remember not to get stuck in them.
If part of a result is valuable, do not hang on it. Likewise, if part of a result is less pleasing to you, do not dismiss it.
✨Once you get the results, get curious!
Limitations of personality assessment tools
Personality tests are limited to highlighting the areas identified earlier, they give you clues. However, they do not give you directions on what to do next, they are not the ultimate answer.
That is where I, your coach, will come in, I will work with you to use the results from your personality tests to achieve your personal and professional goals.
It is critical to understand how personality assessments can help and hinder you when it comes to your next career move.
The interests, tendencies and preferences identified are NOT the sum total of your abilities nor are they a measure of what you can achieve.
✨You are not your personality tests. Remember you can operate in different ways.
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