Participating in a workstyle assessment

Your organization has asked you to participate in a workstyle assessment.

We have made this as simple and easy as possible, but some aspects may not be clear to you. You will find most answers in this document.

None of the answer options match your opinion.

When no answer option fits exactly, feel free to choose the "None of the above" answer option that is often available. If this is not available, select one of the items that best match your situation. Sometimes the assessment relies on trade-offs to see which items resonate most within your organization. In that case, you must choose at least one item. Choose the item that means most to you, or which sentence matches your view. The assessment often presents things in a positive light, but this does not imply that everything is perfect in your work environment. You can provide the needed nuance by stating how you feel about it in a follow-up question, or by increasing a slider that matches how you think it should be better.

Slider questions

Some questions present themselves as sliders. Such questions always involve giving percentages to one or more options, ensuring the total reaches 100%.

Because the answer is an estimate, it doesn't need to be extremely precise; what matters is the gist, not the exact individual values. Therefore, when the total of your answers is above 100% we 'normalize' the answers. We ensure that the ratio of the values remains intact, while the total remains 100%. The normalized answers will be stored.

Activities

One of the modules allows you to select your key activities and requires you to provide more detailed information about those activities. We understand that you may be doing most of these activities, but we would like you to focus on the five most important ones. We chose to use the five most important ones because they allow us to capture the nuances of everybody's job reasonably well.

The question about the relative importance of your chosen activities allows you to indicate which activity provides the most value for the things you are trying to get done, and which activity the least.

We want to ask you about the number of hours you spend on these activities in a typical week. We don't assume that the five activities you selected form your entire week, so don't worry if the total of these numbers does not match a whole working week.