What is your personality at work?
45 situations from your own working week. About ten minutes. And a portrait that completes your recommendations.
16 pillars of a team
16 personalities, one team like no other. Which one are you?
The StrategistINTJ
Thinks several moves ahead, and gives the team a route that survives the next emergency.
The ClarifierINTP
Untangles what is confused, and spots the flaw in an argument before it gets expensive.
The PilotENTJ
Sets a clear course and makes the decisions that get the team there.
The TrailblazerENTP
Opens up new paths, so the team has more than one way forward.
The VisionaryINFJ
Senses early what is going on between people, and where it will take the team.
The AnchorINFP
Keeps reminding everyone what the work is for, so each choice stays true to the point of it.
The UnifierENFJ
Draws very different people around a shared goal, and grows each of them along the way.
The ConnectorENFP
Links people and ideas that had been ignoring each other, and makes everyone want to start.
The BuilderISTJ
Builds things that hold, and keeps to commitments and dates alike: the team knows what it can lean on.
The GuardianISFJ
Looks after people and details alike, and notices what everyone else has missed.
The OrganiserESTJ
Makes it clear who does what and by when, then sees every commitment through.
The FacilitatorESFJ
Holds the team together and makes sure everyone has a place in it.
The FixerISTP
Stays calm when nothing works any more, and finds the practical answer that unblocks it.
The PeacemakerISFP
Takes the heat out of a room without raising a voice, and notices quickly when someone is struggling.
The SparkESTP
Gets a stalled thing moving again, and tries an option as soon as it looks sound.
The EnergiserESFP
Brings life to the team, and the work follows.
Other tests take your word for it.
Elsewhere, you are handed a portrait that nobody ever holds up against reality. Here, your result completes what your colleagues say about you in their recommendations.
No statements to rate. Situations to settle.
“Do you tend to agree that…” separates nobody: everyone ticks the answer that sounds defensible. Here you get an ordinary scene at work and two reactions that are equally defensible. You pick the one that sounds like you.
In a meeting, a question is put to the group. You have part of the answer.
A
You give your answer straight away.
B
You let the others answer, then you give yours.
No middle option: you have to pick a side.
Five dimensions, no right answer
Each dimension sets two qualities against each other, not a quality against a flaw. Your result shows where you sit between them, as a percentage.
Energy
Extraversion or Introversion
Information
Sensing or Intuition
Decisions
Logic or Values
Organisation
Structure or Flexibility
Temperament
Assured or Intense
The test is only the beginning
Shown on your profile, your result comes into its own: right next to what your colleagues write about you.
Your profile stops being empty
The moment you finish, your page shows your personality at work, before you have received a single recommendation.
Your colleagues fill in the rest
A recommendation is written by someone who has worked with you. It tells what no test can measure.
You discover theirs
People in your network who have taken the test appear with their pillar. A way to put a word on how each of you works.
Common questions
How long does the personality test at work take?
About ten minutes. You settle 45 situations drawn from ordinary working life, with no right or wrong answer, and your result appears as soon as you finish the last one.
Who can see my result?
At the end of the test you choose whether to show it on your Take Your Skills profile, like your recommendations. You can make it private or delete it at any time afterwards, from your profile or from your result page.
How is this test different from other personality tests?
You do not rate statements about yourself: you choose what you would do in concrete situations at work. And on Take Your Skills, your personality at work completes the recommendations written by the people who have worked with you.
What do the 16 pillars of a team mean?
Each pillar describes a way of contributing to a team. It reads across four dimensions (energy, information, decisions and organisation), with a fifth, temperament, to qualify it. None is better than another, and each dimension is measured as a percentage between two poles.
Which pillar are you
in your team?
Work through 45 real situations to pin down your personality at work.
Take the testThis test draws on the 16-type framework popularised by Myers and Briggs, whose four dichotomies descend from Jung's work. The 45 situations, the type names and all the wording are written entirely by Take Your Skills. Take Your Skills is not affiliated with The Myers-Briggs Company, which owns the MBTI® trade mark.