This article applies to users of Business DNA wanting to use workplace insights with clients or a team.
Common Questions:
How do I use workplace insights with clients?
What do workplace insights mean?
Details:
Workplace insights are derived from proprietary combinations of scores in natural behavior discovery. These insights can be used to describe how team members tend to behave in workplace situations and their approach to certain activities. There are no good and bad scores here, these traits just describe natural preferences for behavior and do not account for learned behavior that team members may have adopted to be successful in a certain role or environment.
The insights are described more in the table below:
Insight |
Lower Scores tend to be |
Higher scores tend to be |
Desire to Make Decisions |
Accepting, Agreeable, Takes Direction, Underestimates Self, Relaxed |
Influencing, Sets the Direction, Confident |
Patiently Builds Long-Term Relationships |
Maybe Abrupt, Insensitive, Poor listener |
Patient, Caring, Inclusive, Harmonious |
Focus on Bottom Line Results |
Over Commits, Loses Focus, Needs boundaries |
Outcomes Focused, Price Sensitive, Task |
Sets Goals for Ambitious Plans |
Balanced Life, Cooperates, Steady |
Opportunistic, Ambitious Goals, Drive to Succeed |
Pursues Goals to Stay Focused on the Plan |
Changes Plans, Flexible, Wavers |
Committed, Stays to Plan, Focused |
Prepared to Focus on and Support Innovation |
Track Record, Existing Solutions, Realistic |
Comfortable with New Products and Solutions, New Ideas Focus |
Need for Information, Research and Analysis |
Fact sheets, Bullet points, High Level, Unprepared |
Investigative, Research, Analytical, Structured |
Ease to Communicate Directly and Candidly |
Diplomatic, Sensitive, Vague, Avoids Conflict |
Clear, Blunt, Confronting, Candid |
Confronts Difficult Issues in Conversations |
Finds Stressful, Becomes Emotional, Seeks to Avoid |
Unemotional, Cool, Tough |
Ability to Empathetically Listen |
Focused on Own Agenda, Misinterprets What is Said, Does not Understand the Problem |
Shows They Care, Demonstrates Understanding, Hears the Issues Clearly |
Quickly Makes Decisions With Confidence |
Procrastinates, Considered, Hesitates |
Fast Paced, Bold, Self-assured |
Independently Makes Decisions |
Collaborative, Team Approach, Delegates |
Operates Alone, Independent Thinker, Guarded |
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