Can’t spell team without me, apparently

If you read this newsletter, you’re probably interested in adding to company culture and contributing to team dynamics.

Lately I’ve been thinking about what makes a team actually work beyond the project plans, the processes, and the straight up execution.

Like: What makes collaboration feel easy?

Let’s talk about ittttttt 💅

The phrase “personality hire” generally has the implication that only those people bring energy to a team, and everyone else is just…normal.

But the truth is: even if you don’t identify as a personality hire (or you’re not the loudest or most visible person in the room), you’re shaping team inner workings + culture more than you realize.

By doing things you naturally do…but how do we find out what we naturally bring?

There has to be more to me than my witty one liner Tweets weekly Instagram Reels with a mini mic!

So I turned to the ultimate source of truth: A workplace personality quiz 😌

I took the CliftonStrengths assessment. It’s a test by Gallup designed to help you understand your natural talents, and the ways you think, feel, behave, and show up at work.

The test ranks 34 themes of talent, and highlights your Top 5.

These aren’t “skills” you’ve learned necessarily, but they’re natural patterns in the way your brain works.

The idea is: when you know your strengths, you can do more of what actually energizes you and be more effective in work and life.

A snapshot from my results:

And tbh, I thought my results made so much sense.

My top 5 if anyone’s curious about what you could learn about yourself 👇

1. Positivity - upbeat and get others excited about what they’re going to do

2. Futuristic - inspired by the future and what could be

3. Empathy - can sense other people’s feelings by putting yourself in other people’s situations

4. Relator - enjoy close relationships with others & find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

5. Developer - recognize and cultivate the potential in others & derive satisfaction from evidence of progress

Makes sense that positivity is my #1 because I literally got this Slack this week:

Each of your strengths falls into one of four general buckets the assessment uses to explain how you naturally show up at work:

Strategic Thinking – how you take in info and dream up ideas

Relationship Building – how you connect with people and make the team stronger

Executing – how you actually get stuff done

Influencing – how you speak up, pitch ideas, and get people on board

Most people don’t score evenly across all four, and that’s kinda the point.

Some people are big-picture thinkers, naturally great at building trust, some are visionaries, some are absolute freaks in the spreadsheets 😏, etc.

Every team needs a mix!! Who doesn’t love a good personality test?

See you next week!!

Xoxo,

Bella Rose