What are you like at work?
45 situations from your working week. About ten minutes. And a portrait that sits alongside your recommendations.
Take the testThe 16 team pillars
16 personalities that make a team work. Which one are you?
- The StrategistINTJThinks several moves ahead, and gives the team a direction that doesn't buckle under the next crisis.
- The ClarifierINTPCuts through the muddle, and spots the flaw in an argument before it proves costly.
- The PilotENTJSets a clear course and makes the calls that get the team there.
- The TrailblazerENTPOpens up new avenues, so the team always has more than one way forward.
- The VisionaryINFJPicks up early on what's happening between people, and sees where it will lead the team.
- The AnchorINFPKeeps sight of why the work matters, so every decision stays true to the original aim.
- The UnifierENFJRallies very different people around a shared goal, and helps each of them grow along the way.
- The ConnectorENFPBrings together people and ideas that had never met, and gets everyone keen to dive in.
- The BuilderISTJBuilds things that last, keeps every promise and hits every deadline: the team knows what it can count on.
- The GuardianISFJLooks after people and details alike, and notices what everyone else misses.
- The OrganiserESTJMakes it clear who's doing what by when, then sees every commitment through.
- The FacilitatorESFJKeeps the team close-knit, and makes sure everyone feels they belong.
- The FixerISTPStays calm when nothing's working, and finds the practical way out that gets things moving again.
- The PeacemakerISFPTakes the heat out of tense moments without raising a voice, and quickly notices when someone's having a hard time.
- The SparkESTPGets stalled work moving again, and tries things out as soon as an option looks workable.
- The EnergiserESFPPuts a spring in the team's step, and the work follows.
Other tests take your word for it.
Elsewhere, you get a portrait that nobody ever checks against reality. Here, your result sits right next to what your colleagues say about you in their recommendations.
No statements to agree with. Just real choices to make.
“Do you tend to agree that…” doesn't tell anyone apart: everyone ticks the answer that sounds best. Here, you get an everyday scene at work and two reactions that both make sense. You pick the one that's more like you.
In a meeting, someone asks the group a question. You know part of the answer.
A
You give your answer straight away.
B
You let the others answer first, then add yours.
No sitting on the fence: you have to pick a side.
Five dimensions, no right answer
Each dimension weighs two strengths against each other, never a strength against a weakness. Your result shows where you fall between them, as a percentage.
Energy
Extraversion or Introversion
Information
Sensing or Intuition
Decision-making
Logic or Values
Organisation
Structure or Flexibility
Temperament
Assured or Intense
The test is just the start
Shown on your profile, your result really comes into its own, right next to what your colleagues write about you.
Your profile's no longer empty
As soon as you finish, your page shows your personality at work, even before you've had a single recommendation.
Your colleagues fill in the rest
Recommendations are written by people who've worked with you. They capture what no test can measure.
You see theirs
People in your network who've taken the test show up with their pillar. It gives you a shared language for how you each like to work.
Frequently asked questions
How long does the workplace personality test take?
About ten minutes. You make a call on 45 everyday work situations, with no right or wrong answers, and your result appears as soon as you've finished.
Who can see my result?
At the end of the test, you decide whether to show it on your Take Your Skills profile, just like your recommendations. You can make it private or delete it whenever you like, from your profile or your result page.
How is this test different from other personality tests?
You don't rate statements about yourself: you choose what you'd actually do in real work situations. And on Take Your Skills, your result sits alongside the recommendations written by people who've worked with you.
What are the 16 team pillars?
Each pillar describes a different way of contributing to a team. It's based on four dimensions (energy, information, decisions and organisation), with a fifth, temperament, adding nuance. No pillar is better than another, and each dimension is shown as a percentage between two opposite qualities.
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This test draws on the 16-type framework popularised by Myers and Briggs, whose four pairs of opposites go back to Jung's work. The 45 situations, the type names and all the text are written by Take Your Skills. Take Your Skills isn't affiliated with The Myers-Briggs Company, which owns the MBTI® trade mark.