Your imagination score is your tendency to form new ideas, images, and concepts from your imagination rather than external objects that are present.
What does a higher score mean?
You have a rich inner life and prefer innovative, creative, and intellectual work. You strive to create solutions to problems and think of new ideas.
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Strive to integrate more creativity into your work, you are able to introduce novel ideas and concepts, and integrate blue sky thinking to solve problems. Such work could provide more intellectual stimulation for you, making your role more engaging and enjoyable. Explore their curiosities, even if they are dead ends, as the new innovative idea you end up with may positively impact the organisation.
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- Are you able to ideate at work?
- Does your role involve problem-solving?
- Do you have the opportunity to think outside the box?
What does a balanced score mean?
You are open to and will often entertain abstract ideas or concepts, however, you have a tendency to do so with the practicality of putting ideas in a realistic perspective.
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Strive to integrate more creativity into your work, introducing novel ideas and concepts. Explore the ideas with your practical lens and apply them in a more realistic and attainable manner. You need to explore your curiosities and be encouraged to implement innovative ideas, even whilst balancing them with a practical mindset.
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- Do you take the opportunity to ideate?
- Do you apply your practical approach to problems?
- Are you able to balance both practical and creative approaches to problems?
What does a lower score mean?
You are more pragmatic and prefer to live in the here and now. You prefer to follow structures and rules in the workplace.
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Too many structures and rules can reduce imagination and innovation the workplace, try to be open to new ideas and consider how they can improve current structures and rules. Find a compromise by setting check-ins, sub-deadlines, and discussing overall expectations. Others may appreciate the sense of control and progress it can bring to problem-solving endeavors. Share with your manager that you require a more customized routine (in terms of hours, types of projects, expectations surround remote work) to clear up ambiguity you experience.
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- Do you give due consideration to new ideas?
- Do you look for compromise when it comes to problem-solving?
- Is there an opportunity to create structures around innovative activities?
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