Improve your ability to develop your staff

The ability to see the bigger picture and identify opportunities, as well as to understand the interrelationships between different elements. This relates to general learning ability, which can be developed.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Business development, abstract mathematics, IT, research, and tradesman/building constructor.

The ability to understand causal relationships and their consequences. This also includes an understanding of how information is applied in everyday life, as well as systematic thinking. This area is more difficult to develop.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Computer programming, research, preparing analyses, project management, sales, procurement and logistics.

The ability to visualise logical processes, as well as the ability to organise the information gathered through visual thinking. Spatial thinking is often associated with creative subjects.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Illustrators, hairdressers, artists, photographers, designers, graphic designers and architects.

The ability to understand contexts and other people. A high score indicates a high degree of empathy; some people can quickly and intuitively sense if a colleague is not happy. It is this understanding of the social context that comes into play.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Managers, teachers, politicians, salespeople, physiotherapists and doctors.

The ability to recognise patterns in numerical information. We’re all familiar with number sequences where you have to work out what comes next. Some people spot it straight away, whilst others need more time to see the pattern.

Selected relevant areas of work:

General subjects including numerical reasoning, retail, management, accounting, logistics, economics and sales.

The ability to understand the logical application of mathematics, evaluate arguments and identify flawed reasoning. The ability to apply mathematics, logic and/or statistics in the decision-making process.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Data analysis, research, analysts, procurement officers, logistics and managers.

The ability to understand the connections between different concepts and to categorise information. It is the ability to combine data that is related. Typically, the ability to come up with solutions to familiar problems.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Journalism, planning, marketing, politics, negotiation and project management.

The ability to store a large number of visual objects. The test result reflects how quickly a person can identify small differences in relatively similar images. It indicates the size of a person’s working memory capacity. A person with a small working memory will benefit from short, repeated messages, whereas a person with a large working memory will not.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Detailed planning, architectural design, graphic design – all jobs that require a good memory.

The ability to understand written information, conceptualise it and identify causal relationships. The result reflects the ability to identify key information and filter out irrelevant details in relation to the problem to be solved.

Selected relevant areas of work:

Journalism, data collection and analysis, problem identification and resolution, and the ability to identify a key message – these skills can be applied in any professional context.