Nushara Abeydeera

1. Innovative (80)

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.

2. Inclusive (77)

You include and welcome people to whatever you are doing and make them feel welcome. This way, everybody feels like part of the group, and the group benefits from all their support. You are sure that deep down, we are all alike, and therefore it doesn't make sense to judge or exclude other people.

Strength: You have the ability to make everyone feel welcome, and as they belong. You don't give anybody a special treatment and are good at keeping a positive team spirit.

Challenge: You have a difficult time (de)selecting people, and it can affect you if a person leaves the group - especially due to cut downs. You can lose focus on the objective due to valuing team spirit and relationships higher than the goal, and you most likely won't enjoy working in competitive environments.

Insight: Remind yourself who is relevant to include at what times throughout the process. It can quickly kill the effectiveness by bringing in too many opinions to the table too early. Don't take it personally, if somebody forgets to include you - Often it wasn't due to bad intentions.

3. Researching (77)

You are very curious and love the process of collecting information and knowledge - and you are good at it. You are driven to understand things, and the more diverse the topics are, the better.

Strength: You are good at finding knowledge, collecting the right information, and storing it. Your curiosity for knowledge makes learning new facts or skills so interesting and motivating.

Challenge: You expect to have the time to do your research and are often challenged if you don’t get to the bottom. Your curiosity might make you keep researching because you feel like you are missing some information.

Insight: Give yourself a time limit for how long you should research and learn to accept that not all knowledge regarding a subject is necessary to act.

4. Communicating (75)

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.

5. Learning (72)

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.

6. Contextual (63)

You go to the past to look for answers or connections that can explain the present or the future. You need to understand the history behind how things or situations emerged to have confidence in your decisions.

Strength: You can find underlying structures and patterns. When you get the time to study and assess what has happened before, you can not only make educated and logical decisions but also communicate and explain the connections and coherence to others that would not have noticed it otherwise.

Challenge: If you don't get the time to understand the context and history, you get very cautious. You are challenged in new situations and will resist illogical change. You have a hard time working together with visionary and future-oriented people because of a misalignment in what time dimension you look for answers - While you will always to searching the past, visionary people tend to go to the future for answers.

Insight: Be aware that you need to understand the context before you can act and be explicit about it. If you are moving too fast, let your team know that you need a more thorough understanding before you can take responsibility. But also remember that it is your responsibility to deal with this need.

7. Charming (61)

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. Targeted (55)

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.

9. Adaptable (53)

You live in the present and always go 100% into what is happening here and now. Your future is not planned but is to be discovered. Unexpected events and sudden requests don't trouble you. You are instead fascinated by the change and are driven by trying new things. You will often excel in a position as a fire extinguisher because you receive energy from jumping from task to task.

Strength: Your talent gives you the ability to thrive in chaotic environments and quickly change direction if needed. You are difficult to surprise because you expect unforeseen events to arise and enjoy adapting fast.

Challenge: You may experience having too many tasks at hand, and therefore not completing the first before moving on to the next. Your attention will typically be directed towards what is most interesting or exciting, while you will lose focus if you stay at one task for too long. This desire for change could result in a lot of half-finished tasks.

Insight: Create a plan of what you need to achieve each day; this will help keep you on track. Evaluate by the end of the day what you completed, to see if you changed direction to something that was not on your list, and find out the reason for it if you did so.

10. Strategic (53)

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.

11. Individualising (51)

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.

12. Positive (51)

You are optimistic as you can always see the positive side of things and expect the best. You enjoy making other people smile through humour, praise, or whatever is needed.

Strength: You have the ability to create a pleasant and positive atmosphere around you. You are seldom held back by limiting beliefs and are good at making challenges seem easy to overcome. Your positivity is contagious, and it draws people to you.

Challenge: Your ever positive attitude can make you a bit naive and not take important issues seriously enough. You might clash with critical people as you find them draining of energy, and they will find you somewhat superficial and airy-fairy.

Insight: Find the way you can bring the most positivity and energy into your team, as this will bring you much energy. Don't pretend that difficulties don't concern you or downplay issues; other people can get a sense of your optimism being naivety.