My Assessment - Who Am I Pt 2

Ok, I'd like to complete my MAPP assessment.com results walk through today.

Section 5 deals with how I relate to THINGS and whether or not I have mechanical savvy and/or enjoy working with my hands. Here's what I learned from this section:

• I have a mind for engineering - I naturally understand "what makes things tick"


• I don't like activities that require close attention to precise standards, exact measurements, or detecting minor defects.


• Basically a job where I'm operating machinery or working with my hands as the majority of my job would frustrate me.
  

The 6th section deals with how I relate with DATA. This measures motivations and priorities for mental activities. Here's what this section taught me:

• Is so motivated to see things in "Big Picture" context that I typically look at all parts within the big picture and then see each part as it relates to each other yet still within the big picture.


• Sees things in holistic and conceptual forms.


• Loves to Synthesize: "putting two or more things together to form a whole; the combination of separate elements of thought into a whole; the operation by which divided parts are united" (Webster).


• Strongly motivated to coordinate: to take actions, to manipulate that which is at hand in order to "get the show on the road.

Section 7 is labeled REASONING and deals with how I choose apply my talents and motivations listed in Section6, DATA. Here's what I learned from this section:

• First priority when looking at data is to see how it fits within the big picture.


• Uses scientific/technical/logical thinking to solve problems.


• Is motivated and perhaps even mentally equipped for troubleshooting: to recognize or otherwise identify problems or developing problems in familiar areas; to tackle problems with intent to solve the problems and restore function to former levels or better.


• Change, variety, options, challenge, and opportunity to move up based on merit represent more preferred activities.

Section 8 is the MATHEMATICAL CAPACITY piece which shows the your motivation level for using math in a job or in day to day activities. Here are my top results:

• Is motivated to work with a wide variety of theoretical math concepts; make original application of those concepts; apply knowledge of advanced mathematical or statistical techniques to new areas of challenge, interest, or opportunity.


• Motivation is derived from conceptual, analytical, curious, and exploratory thinking.


• Research and theoretical logic probably appeal greatly.
  

Finally, section 9 deals with LANGUAGE CAPACITY and reveals your motivation levels for engaging in different forms of communication (oral, written, etc...). Here are my results:

• Highly motivated to consider creative writing and communicating at professional levels.


• Preferences are holistic, conceptual, imaginative, and creative.


• Preferences that probably include writing fiction, poetry, scripts for movies or television, advertising copy, marketing copy, teaching creative writing.


• Motivated to describe, explain, teach, illustrate, and interpret.


• Journalistic trait dedicated to inform people.

Ok, so we've looked at all of this cool data and have sifted it down to the point that we are left with only the "meat", or the main points/lessons we learned from each section. Now, let's take one more step and process all of this data into organized information that we can actually use to answer the question, "Who Am I?"

The first step is to put all of these main points into one of our two Circles: Talents or Motivations. Here is the result of this process:

Talents Circle:

• Seeing things as they relate to each other within the Big Picture.


• Leading and directing people.


• Working hard on a project until it is completed and then moving on to a new project.


• Independent and self directed.


• Persuasive communicator.


• Perception and mentally seeing concepts and ideas and communicating them.


• Talent for understanding or even 'experiencing' abstract ideas, concepts, theory, assessments, etc...


• Strong research skills.


• Engineering mind which easily and naturally understands how things work.


• Gifted in bringing things/people together to form a united whole/team for accomplishing a task or completing an objective.


• Gifted troubleshooter.


• Natural teacher that can take difficult ideas and present them in simple, easy to understand ways.


• Leads people with emphasis on performance and creating measurable results.

Motivation Circle:

• Leading, managing, supervising, communication with people.


• Highly motivated by the cause of good, growth, and gain in the lives of others.


• Influential communication.


• Recognition by others.


• Need change & variety - change is motivating, stimulating, energizing.


• Change, variety, options, challenge, and opportunity to move up based on merit represent more preferred activities.


• Giving of myself for the benefit of others.


• Organizationally active with others.


• Assume responsibility for the good, growth, and gain in the lives of other people.


• Loves new ideas.


• Direct access to a listener.


• Communication with goal of causing the listener to understand, accept, and act on what is being said.


• Enjoys taking ideas of others, filtering through own experiences, and then communicating them to others for their entertainment/pleasure/benefit.


• Motivation and drive to educate, train, or influence others.


• Persuasion is the primary preferred trait with intent to convince people toward a particular idea, viewpoint, direction, objective, or product.


• Self-satisfaction comes almost exclusively from the subjective realization that the information, voluntarily given, has been helpful to other persons.


• Feels prime responsibility as developing the will to work with employees and motivating them to higher levels of attainment and performance.


• Strongly motivated to coordinate: to take actions, to manipulate that which is at hand in order to "get the show on the road.


• Motivation is derived from conceptual, analytical, curious, and exploratory thinking.


• Highly motivated to consider creative writing and communicating at professional levels.


• Motivated to describe, explain, teach, illustrate, and interpret.

Now that we have organized all this information into ether our Talents or Motivations circle, our next step is to find where these talents overlap. The goal of this is to find our "Sweet Spot", which is the place where we are 'good at' (or gifted in) something that we 'enjoy doing' (or are motivated/energized by).

So there you have it, a quick down and dirty on my MAPP test from Assessment.com. My next post will look at how to compile this info into discovering your "Sweet Spot"!

Thanks for reading!