It is crucial to build a deep organizational understanding into the nature of how people’s minds actually work and encourage them to focus on different specialist areas based on their most distinctive and differentiated contribution. Whether it is precision thinking, lateral thinking, or an aptitude for emotional intelligence, this is about getting people into the right swim lanes and, in doing so, enabling them to thrive. Understanding innate strengths and weaknesses can also assist when creating learning pathways for employees.

How to use the tool: answer each of the questions, adjusting the sliders to the degree to which you agree or disagree with each of the statements. Once you have completed this, you will see the six different innate strengths ranked in order with the one that correlates most with your answers at the top. Do not interpret the results as definitive— use your own judgement and make a more rounded decision on your likely innate strengths. Also, do not assume that you only have one innate strength. This may well be indicated in the result, with a close second or third strength appearing on the ranking.

Background to the tool: Ceri Ellis— a specialist learning expert - helped PHD develop a categorization of the different innate strengths and the types of roles they are most suited to in anyorganizational. In addition, Ceri facilitated the creation of an online tool to enable people to identify the innate strengths they are more likely to have.