What is Your Work Personality?

Taking a workstyle quiz can be incredibly valuable both for individuals and teams. As we do at Mavens 101, we start with the benefit to self and move out to the greater good of the team. Understand your work style to enhance your career development and level up your ways of working.

1. Self-Awareness

• Understand your strengths and challenges: A workstyle quiz helps you reflect on how you typically approach tasks, solve problems, and interact with others. By understanding your natural tendencies, you can work more effectively and improve areas where you may struggle.

• Identify hidden skills: It may uncover strengths you didn’t realize you had, such as problem-solving skills or leadership potential, which can influence career development or growth.

2. Improved Communication

• Tailor your communication style: Knowing how you and others prefer to communicate can help reduce misunderstandings, improve collaboration, and ensure that messages are delivered most effectively.

• Encourage empathy: By understanding different work styles, you can approach colleagues with more compassion, adjusting your communication to suit their preferences.

Team Dynamics

• Optimize collaboration: When teams understand each other’s work styles, they can collaborate more effectively by leveraging each member’s strengths and avoiding conflicts or frustration that stem from misaligned working styles.

• Fill gaps: Teams can identify what’s missing (e.g., someone who thrives in high-pressure situations or someone who is more strategic and thoughtful) and fill those gaps, leading to better-balanced teams.

Career Development

• Make informed career decisions: By understanding your work style, you can identify roles, work environments, and industries that align with your natural tendencies, enabling you to make more informed career decisions.

• Identify areas for improvement: It can also highlight areas for development, such as flexibility, leadership, or strategic thinking, helping you focus on growth opportunities.

Leadership Cultivation

• Adapt your leadership style: For managers, understanding each team member’s work style enables more personalized leadership. You can motivate and guide team members based on their individual preferences, increasing engagement and productivity.

• Boost employee satisfaction: When employees feel that their unique workstyles are understood and valued, it can lead to higher job satisfaction, better retention, and a more positive workplace culture.

Conflict Resolution

• Prevent conflict: By recognizing potential sources of conflict in work styles (e.g., a highly structured person working with someone more flexible), teams can proactively address and resolve issues before they escalate.

• Foster collaboration: Understanding differences in approach allows team members to work harmoniously, blending various strengths rather than clashing over opposing work styles.

Increased Productivity

• Leverage your natural tendencies: Once you know your workstyle, you can optimize how you organize your tasks, set goals, and approach challenges, leading to greater efficiency and satisfaction in your work.

• Focus on what works for you: When you understand your optimal working conditions (e.g., whether you work alone or in groups, and whether you need structure or flexibility), you can make choices that enhance your productivity.

Career Planning Tool

• Find roles that fit your style: For job seekers or those looking to shift careers, taking a workstyle quiz can provide insights into the type of job that would be most fulfilling, based on personal preferences and working habits.

Complete your Mavens 101 Career Compass Profile to understand the strengths of your workstyle and the areas of improvement that your workstyle may present.

After discovering your work personality, continue to learn and grow. How does your work style benefit your career? How does your work style affect those around you? Anything you want to change? Are there examples of when your work personality did not benefit you? What can you do to change? Over the next month, we will publish weekly installments that delve deeper into various work personas, exploring their strengths and opportunities for growth.