Ana Wolsztajn

1. Targeted (81)

You are always in the pursuit of achieving or accomplishing goals. You work hard and get things done. Your talent explains your drive, and it pushes you to do more and to achieve more. By being targeted, you focus on the goal and what is essential to achieve. Once you meet your goal, you quickly set up the next objective to pursue.

Strength: Your talent fills you with the energy needed for working long hours without burning out. It is the trait you always can rely on to get you started with new tasks, objectives, and challenges. It is your power supply that sets the pace and defines the level of productivity for you individually and in your workgroup.

Challenge: You need to achieve something every day, or you will start feeling a sense of dissatisfaction or discontent. No matter how restless you feel, you sometimes deserve a day off. Others may feel pushed aside or even stepped on with your relentlessness to reach your goals.

Insight: Be sure to align objectives with your manager, partner, or team to ensure you accomplish priority goals and do not diverge towards other tasks due to your restlessness for achieving something. Accept your restlessness by understanding your targeted talent and remember to celebrate your victories before moving onto the next goal.

2. Communicating (79)

The communicating talent makes you driven by capturing people's attention by speaking, hosting, explaining, and/or writing. You are most likely very good at it, and your language is filled with images, examples, and metaphors that can capture attention. You have an urge to bring stories or ideas to life by making them exciting and giving them energy.

Strength: You can turn complicated matters into comprehensible messages and capture people's attention by finding the essence in things, putting it into context, and delivering it with dramatic and powerful words and sentences.

Challenge: You are challenged by silence, and you are not good at being quiet when nobody is saying anything. You hunt for others' attention, making it difficult to accept that you are not being heard.

Insight: Identify whether your communicating strength lies with speaking or writing, and then leverage it. Your passion for conversation can be overwhelming for some individuals - Try to stop and listen to the other person; this could help you with how you should be communicating.

3. Organising (77)

You are an expert in coordinating people and information. Be able to manage complex assignments and finding perfect configurations motivate you. You are driven by responsibility and being allowed to lead and delegate tasks between team members. You work efficiently, flexibly, and can adjust to solve the assignment in the most effective way.

Strength: Your talent makes you good at managing projects. It lets you focus and take action on many tasks at once, and that ensures you always have an overview. It gives you the ability to resolve the confusion by devising new options and finding new paths.

Challenge: You are challenged by not being the leader, and you will try to control things that you are not responsible for managing. You are not easy to lead because you are sure that the solutions you see are better and will, therefore, be mods essential to implement or take action on.

Insight: You have the overview, so be sure to use it. If you are not in charge, offer your insights as a gesture instead of forcing it through - the person in charge may have some information that you do not have.

4. Strategic (76)

You have a distinct way of thinking, and you always look at things from a strategic point of view. This perspective allows you to see patterns, play out scenarios, predict potential obstacles, and draw out the best plan to get to your destination.

Strength: You are very good at making contingency plans, playing out multiple scenarios in your head, and asking yourself "what if.." and "then we could.." to find the best alternative. This also makes you a good advisor. You are good at the political "game" because you see the different paths and how they lead to different outcomes.

Challenge: Your biggest challenge is becoming so political that you end up undermining others and forgetting the objective. You desire to think scenarios through and build plans can stop you from acting, so you become the ever drawing-board.

Insight: You will see repercussions more clearly than others, so be sure not to belittle other people's suggestions because you see something they do not see. Contribute with advice, and instead of only pointing out the obstacles, match them with solutions.

5. Controlling (70)

You are driven by being right, taking charge, and having others follow you. Once you have formed an opinion or goal, you are compelled to get people to agree with it and to start pushing them in your direction. You are not hesitant in regards to confrontations as they are mostly in your advantage. After all, the confrontation is the first step towards a resolution.

Strength: You know what you want and are not afraid to put yourself out there to get it. You can be a strong leader as you are good at influencing others, make them follow you, and help them to make quick and effective decisions. People are drawn towards your confidence and persistence.

Challenge: You can be perceived as intimidating and manipulative by always engaging in confrontations and forcing your opinion on people. This direct part of your personality can lead you to persuade others to make poor and unconsidered decisions. You can tend to manage people you shouldn't, and you have a hard time being reluctant.

Insight: Remember that not everyone is as direct as you are. When dealing with more sensitive or less direct people, remind them that your relationship remains the same even though you disagree. Consult and get feedback from others outside your group/team to ensure your conclusions are correct and that you are leading in the right direction.

6. Innovative (69)

Your mind is made to create ideas, to look for connections, and to view the world from different angles and perspectives. You are driven by finding a fresh perspective, discovering a new opportunity, or finding a different solution. You are generally perceived as creative or original thinking.

Strength: Ideas come to you with ease, which gives you the ability to feed your team with ideas or solutions to problems continually. You will often be the focal point of the team because it is likely built around your idea.

Challenge: You will be challenged by limiting your focus to one objective as your mind keep feeding you with new ideas to pursue. You may have to partner up with a person who can talk through your ideas and sort the best ideas out.

Insight: Find a system that stores all your good ideas so they can be used when it is time. The best result comes from you taking responsibility for the ideas you get. You will quickly get bored, so make some small changes to your work.

7. Charming (69)

You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people, getting them to like you, and winning them over. You thrive in a social setting and derive energy from making new connections. In your world, strangers don't exist; only friends you have not encountered yet.

Strength: You are good at creating new connections and charming them to like you. You have the ability to meet people at their eye level and establish a good dialogue. These attributes also make you very convincing and incline you to build a great network.

Challenge: Your eagerness to quickly get to know people and win them over can seem superficial or manipulative to many people.

Insight: Put yourself in a position where you can build an extensive network. Maintain your network and use it well; this will bring you much energy. Give yourself a small moment to think your arguments through before starting a conversation to win somebody over.

8. Analysing (64)

Your talent makes you value knowledge, information, and sufficient data before making a decision. It is your basis for thoroughness and precision. It also makes you critical, challenging, and demanding of evidence towards other people's decisions. You are driven by things that are or can be thoroughly analyzed and well worked out.

Strength: You discover patterns and how things connect. You get energy from understanding how these affect each other. You are good at familiarizing yourself with figures and enjoy doing preliminary analysis. This desire to analyse also makes you likely to discover areas that have not been validated yet.

Challenge: You are slow at getting started and taking action because you want the analysis and data to be in place. You may be too rigorous and tend to overanalyze decisions. Your tendency to challenge decisions can stop progress for you and your team.

Insight: Consult others about when your analysis is thorough enough to ensure you also take action. Remember that other people don't necessarily think as analytical as you and can form conclusions through other methods.

9. Learning (63)

You love to learn, and the process of obtaining new knowledge, practising what you have learned, growing it into competences, and gaining the confidence in your skill excites you. The outcome or the subject is not necessarily important, but the process is.

Strength: You are a natural learner and always strive to educate yourself or develop new skills. You have an intense curiosity and are always willing to try something new. You build a broad knowledge base that your colleagues can leverage and gain value from utilising.

Challenge: You can be too focused on the learning process, thus not focusing on the goal you want to achieve with the knowledge. You need time to learn and may expect that learning is always the highest priority.

Insight: Understand that your restlessness and drive comes from your need to acquire knowledge and skills. Remember, always keep the objective in mind to ensure you are learning the right things and do not go too deep into a particular subject. Take responsibility for satisfying your talent and don't expect others to do it.

10. Individualising (59)

You are fascinated by the differences in people and can notice the unique qualities of each individual. You can instinctively observe how each person is motivated, builds relationships, and thinks, thus their potential and opportunities for development.

Strength: You have the ability to identify each individual's strengths and potential. This ability makes you able to accommodate your behaviour to each person and excellent at spotting talent and uncovering potential. You can select and organize teams so everyone can contribute the most.

Challenge: You are not good at working in rigid and controlled environments where rules dictate people's behaviour. Your ability to vary your behaviour to each individual may be perceived as negative and untrustworthy.

Insight: Remember, many people expect fairness among individuals, so if you choose to treat everyone uniquely, you should be explicit about it. Another way for you to derive energy is to help write desired actions or goals down for others, as it will help you hold them accountable.

11. Competitive (58)

You are driven by winning. You enjoy competing and comparing your performance to others, as it is the only way to determine if you are ahead. The effort you put in, your intentions, and reaching the goal doesn't matter unless you outperform your peers.

Strength: Most of the time, you will be a high performer because you are determined, working hard, and are willing to invest much energy to win. This ruthless drive results in you setting high standards, having the perseverance to overcome challenges, and always pushing the bar for yourself and your team.

Challenge: You are challenged in an environment where everybody has to be equal because, in that situation, you're not able to stand out. Furthermore, your urge to compete may be damaging in a team setting, as you can have a tendency to view teammates as opponents, and belittling their results or criticize their ideas to ensure you look like the winner.

Insight: Be sure that you don't enforce unhealthy competition within the team, as it will be damaging for the organization. Utilize your competitive talent by reinforcing positive competition, where the focus is pushing each other to go further instead of focusing on who is the loser.

12. Developing (55)

All you see is potential in people and progress. You are drawn to growth and are driven by helping others experience success. While interacting with people, you are on the lookout for signs of growth, as it is your fuel.

Strength: You are good at spotting unused potential, making you have great belief in others' abilities. You love helping people become better, which over time, will make many seek you out for advice and encouragement.

Challenge: You are challenged when others stand still. This need for growth in others will incline you to try to develop people who do not necessarily want your help. You can also end up focusing on development when it is not enough time for it or when you are not the right person to develop.

Insight: Always focus on how you propose your help to others and listen to the individual you want to help. It is important that the other person is open to your support and that it is the right time to do it.