Candelaria Martinez

1. 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.

2. Connecting (71)

The connecting talent describes your attitude towards relationships. You prefer having close friends and like to get to know people on a deeper level as everything else seems superficial to you. You dare to give from your inner self to build your connection and make it easier for them to open up.

Strength: You are great at creating friendships with almost everyone and are comfortable getting close and understanding them. You are easy to trust, and others feel comfortable in your presence.

Challenge: You can have a difficult time “cutting through” and being hard on others as you fear it may damage your relationship. Your willingness to open yourself up to others makes it easy to exploit. Your desire to connect with people could end up being exhausting as you tend to run from one social gathering to the next.

Insight: Prioritize your social relationships to keep an overview of which you should please and which you should consider cutting out. This allows you to gather your energy again.

3. Inclusive (71)

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.

4. Confident (70)

You have great faith in your abilities, judgments, and decisions. You know that you are good and you know what is best for you. Others may guide and suggest, but you alone have the authority to form conclusions and act.

Strength: Your confidence makes you very self-reliant and gives you self-belief. You are sure your decision is right and that you can solve these problems. This confidence makes you comfortable with taking risks, because when you are convinced you don't see the risk.

Challenge: You are not open to opinions or interpretations, and you can be difficult to convince of other truths than your own. You can have a hard time aligning with others' decisions and accepting that your opinion is unimportant.

Insight: Consult others for feedback and force yourself to think of their feedback through. Learn to understand that others' talents can contribute just as much as your own and bring to exciting perspectives to the table.

5. Learning (69)

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. Principled (67)

You possess a set of core and consistent values, which affect your behaviour and determines your direction in life. These values give your life meaning and dictates what is right or wrong. Since you are value-driven, your work has to be meaningful to you. It is widespread for principled people to be family-oriented, spiritual, and value high ethics, in themselves and others.

Strength: Your consistent values and high ethics make you very credible, dependable, and easy to trust - People know that you will deliver what you have promised. You are very confident and passionate about the things you do, and you work hard for what you believe in. Once you have accepted a set of values or a mission, you will do anything to enforce it.

Challenge: You will become resistant if you don't agree with the value set that a person or company possesses. Likewise, you will also find people superficial if they value money or power.

Insight: Learn to accept other peoples’ or companies’ values even though you don’t agree with them. Accept that there exist numerous perspectives on the world and try not to take the disagreement personal.

7. Problem Solver (67)

You love solving problems. You retrieve your energy from getting the opportunity to fix breakdowns or issues because you find them fun and challenging. In which domain you are able to solve problems, depend on your other talents.

Strength: You quickly gain an overview of how things work and, therefore, always seem to find a solution. You have a tremendous operational mind that can make things work and succeed.

Challenge: You depend on other talents to ensure an optimal solution, or you may need a quality controller to stop you from making quick fixes you need to solve again later. You quickly get mixed into others' problems, wanting to resolve them.

Insight: Before jumping straight to a solution, assess two things: 1) is now the right time to solve this problem, and 2) is my solution an optimal solution that solves the problem long term. This process forces you to solve the most critical issues first and to find a sustaining solution.

8. Empathic (65)

You can sense the emotions of the people around you and are driven by understanding those people you interact with. You can see the world through their eyes, and without necessarily condoning their choices, you can understand them.

Strength: You have the instinctive ability to understand and anticipate others' needs, feelings, and desires. This ability makes you good at addressing sensitive and critical matters and help people find the right words and sentences to express their feelings.

Challenge: Your empathic talent makes you sometimes get too close to people. Because you have the ability to understand others, it may be difficult for you not to take responsibility for how they feel or not to act on their emotions.

Insight: Assess if you have the mental capacity to take responsibility for other people's emotions. It is okay to put yourself first and prioritize your well being. Be aware that your focus on others' feelings is not an escape path from your own.

9. Developing (63)

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.

10. Positive (63)

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.

11. Adaptable (59)

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.

12. Charming (59)

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.