Your best working hours are:

In the room with people — you think out loud and feed off the group

Head down, door shut, no interruptions

You trust a plan more when it:

Comes with numbers, precedents and a process that has been tested

Has a clear story about where all of this is heading

Giving someone hard feedback, you lead with:

The gap, stated plainly, then how to close it

What they did well, then the gap, carefully

Your ideal week looks like:

Planned on Monday and mostly held to

Loose enough to chase whatever matters most that day

A brainstorm gets going. You:

Need to read the notes afterwards to work out what you actually think

Are already talking — the ideas arrive as you say them

You are at your best when the work is:

Undefined — you get to invent the shape of it

Well specified — you get to execute it properly

Two strong candidates, one seat. You pick:

Whoever the team will actually thrive alongside

Whoever raises the bar for the whole team

The scope changes mid-project. You find it:

Energising — this is the interesting part

Costly — you had already sequenced everything

New job, first week. You:

Do the rounds and introduce yourself to everyone

Watch, read the room, and pick your moments

Handed a strategy deck, you go straight to:

The timeline, the numbers and who owns what

The assumptions and the second-order effects

A decision is going to upset someone. You:

Make it anyway and explain the reasoning

Look hard for a version that costs less to people

A promise — you finish with room to spare

A forcing function — your best work lands near the wire

After a day of back-to-back meetings you feel:

Wrung out — you need an hour alone before you are useful again

Wired — you would happily go for dinner with the team

A colleague's idea sounds risky. You ask:

What would have to be true for this to work?

Has anyone actually done this before?

In a heated meeting, what you are tracking is:

Which argument actually holds up

You would rather your calendar be:

Mostly open, with room to react

Mostly blocked, with everything in its slot

You would rather resolve a tricky issue by:

Getting everyone in a room and hashing it out

Writing it up properly and sending it round

The part of a project you enjoy most:

The last mile, when it finally ships clean

The blank page at the very start

The manager you would work hardest for is:

One who is sharp, fair and tells you the truth

One who has your back and knows what is going on with you

A decision is about 80% clear. You:

Hold it open a little longer — more will surface

MBTI Work Style Test: How Your Type Works Best

The same four Myers-Briggs dimensions, pointed at your working life. Find out how your type actually operates at work: where your edge is, where you stall, and the conditions that get the best out of you.

Energy — Extraversion (E) vs Introversion (I): how you think, decide and recharge around other people
Information — Sensing (S) vs Intuition (N): what you trust when you assess a plan
Decisions — Thinking (T) vs Feeling (F): how you weigh trade-offs and deliver hard news
Structure — Judging (J) vs Perceiving (P): how you handle plans, deadlines and change

20 quick questions, about 3 minutes. Answer as you actually work, not as your performance review says you do — you'll get your work archetype, your stall point, your best-fit environment and the types you pair well with. 📈