In reviewing my assessment results I am more creative in my thinking then I am analytical. These results identify with my personality well. When I’m making decisions it seems as though I tend to use the investment approach the most. I have to agree with the skill assessments findings in that I do tend to be a very competitive person meeting challenges head on. If I am not challenged either mentally or personally I do not feel the drive to achieve my goal in solving a problem. I scored the second highest in the imagination approach. I am a risk taker and feel that I am pretty creative when presented with any situation. I like to push the envelope and try to experiment with different options that might not have been considered. Thirdly I scored in the improvement approach. I do like to look things and begin to question how they could be improved. For example if something catches my eye such as the layout of a store I will begin to imagine how they could better sell their merchandise with a couple tweaks in their floor plans. I will identify problematic areas and think about how I would do things differently and how they might be more efficient. The final approach I scored the least amount in was the incubation approach. I can see how this approach would be my lowest as this encourages teamwork and I tend to be more competitive. I feel as though I do enjoy working on a team, however I find as I am working with others I use this opportunities to provide many alternatives or solutions from my point of view. Although I am competitive I really do enjoy working with others because it gives me an opportunity to see things from other’s points of views. All of these approaches are very useful and depending on the situation depends on the one I will use.
I chose the following words when completing the assessment survey: good-natured, helpful, determined, sociable, understanding, observant, open-minded, curious, impulsive and energetic. Some opposite words would be bad-natured, helpless, undetermined, antisocial, incomprehensive, oblivious, close-minded, cautious and lazy.
I usually use the investment approach and the opposite of this is the improvement approach. If I tried to approach problems more from the improvement approach I can see some benefits such as more time to brainstorm and review alternatives in order to develop improvements to a problem. However I do not see enough benefits from using this approach to drastically change my thinking processes unless the problem calls for improvements. The improvement approach encourages oneself to be better where the investment approach encourages to be first. Being first is not always the desired outcome so somewhere in between the two is probably the best approach depending on the situation at hand. I also usually approach problems with the imagination approach and the opposite of this is the incubation approach. I believe the imagination is the better approach overall because I feel it can be used in any circumstance. However incubation can be very valuable in any situation as well because it encompasses outlooks from others which could be more successful in the long run. Again if addressing issues somewhere in the middle I believe is the best alternatives will arise, in that the imagination approach encourages new ideas where as the incubation encourages sustainability.
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