Productivity Style AssessmentTM
Optimize your performance and productivity. Take the assessment to discover your unique Productivity Style.
Productivity Styles:
Prioritizer
A Prioritizer prefers logical, analytical, fact-based, critical, and realistic thinking. He or she tends to use time effectively and efficiently, focusing on the highest-value task and on achieving project outcomes. A Prioritizer is generally able to accurately complete significant amounts of work and effectively prioritize tasks.
Strengths
01
Analyzing data
02
Prioritization of tasks
03
Critical analysis and logical problem solving
Planner
A Planner prefers organized, sequential, planned, and detailed thinking. He or she budgets the time required to complete tasks, sequentially organizes tasks, and prepares accurate, detailed project plans. A Planner maintains detailed lists and frequently completes work in advance of deadlines.
Strengths
01
Action orientation and practicality
02
Finding overlooked flaws in plans or processes
03
Organizing and maintaining data and project plans
Arranger
An Arranger prefers supportive, expressive, and emotional thinking. He or she encourages teamwork to maximize work output and makes decisions intuitively, in real time, as events unfold, blocking out time to complete work. An Arranger likes to maintain visual lists, often using color, and intuitively knows what tasks must be completed.
Strengths
01
Anticipating how others will feel and understanding their underlying emotions
02
Facilitating team interaction
03
Persuading and communicating ideas
Visualizer
A Visualizer prefers holistic, intuitive, integrating, and synthesizing thinking. He or she sees the big picture and has the ability to work very quickly. A Visualizer adroitly manages and juggles multiple tasks and projects. He or she maintains visual lists, often using color.
Strengths
01
Innovation; serving as a catalyst for change
02
Creative problem solving
03
Ability to envision the future, recognize new opportunities and integrate ideas and concepts
“We need to personalize productivity—to employ work strategies that align with our own cognitive styles and to plan and allocate effort in a way that suits our strengths and preferences.”
— Carson Tate, Harvard Business Review