Work Preferences
Your behavioural style across thinking, relating, energy, and structure.
This is not a personality test. It is a map of how you naturally prefer to work. Five dimensions: thinking style, relating style, feeling and motivation, energy and drive, and structure and flexibility. Understanding your preferences helps you stop fighting your own wiring and start designing work that fits. Useful for individuals, powerful for teams.
What are work preferences?
Work preferences are the ways a person likes to work, such as how much structure they want, whether they think in detail or in big picture, whether they work best with others or on their own, how they handle pace and pressure, and what motivates them. Two people with the same skills and the same job can have opposite preferences, and that gap is a common source of friction on a team.
Your personalised report
Multi-page PDF + interactive web report
5
dimensions
Self
assessment mode
11+
report pages
90-day
action plan
What It Measures
5 dimensions, each with behavioural anchors
Every dimension is scored, benchmarked, and accompanied by specific coaching recommendations.
Thinking Style
Analytical versus intuitive. Detail versus big picture. How you process information and solve problems.
Relating Style
Collaborative versus independent. How you prefer to work with others and where you draw energy from.
Feeling & Motivation
What drives you. Purpose, mastery, autonomy, recognition, or security. The fuel for sustained effort.
Energy & Drive
Pace, intensity, and recovery. How you manage your energy across demands and whether your current rhythm is sustainable.
Structure & Flexibility
Planned versus spontaneous. How much structure you need to perform and how you respond when plans change.
What You Receive
A genuine coaching document, not a score sheet
Five-dimension preference profile with behavioural descriptions
Strengths of your style and where it can create friction with others
Team compatibility insights when used with colleagues
Work design recommendations: how to structure your day around your preferences
One-page summary you can share with your manager or team
Interactive report, PDF, and Aiden AI voice debrief
Sample Report Insight
Your thinking style is strongly analytical but your energy style demands variety. This creates a recurring tension: you want to go deep but get restless staying there. The solution is not balance. It is rhythm. Short bursts of deep work followed by variety.
Who Is It For
Built for leaders who want signal, not noise
Anyone who wants to work in a way that actually fits how they are wired
Teams wanting to understand why collaboration friction exists
Leaders designing roles, workflows, or hybrid work arrangements
People in career transition who want clarity on what environment suits them
Research Basis
Informed by the MBTI underlying theory (Jung's psychological types), DISC behavioural model, and Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, synthesised into a practical leadership context.
Developed by JBL High Performance
2,800+ leaders assessed worldwide
Get Started
Ready to take the Work Preferences assessment?
From $99 you get the interactive web report, multi-page PDF, pattern signatures, micro-experiments, and three months of Aiden AI coaching.
Add 360 multi-rater feedback on other instruments for perception gap analysis. Premium includes a 1:1 debrief with Jimmy and a personalised development plan.
Questions
Work Preferences assessment FAQs
What does the Work Preferences assessment measure?
It measures 5 dimensions: Thinking Style, Relating Style, Feeling & Motivation, Energy & Drive, Structure & Flexibility. Your behavioural style across thinking, relating, energy, and structure.
Who is the Work Preferences assessment for?
Anyone who wants to work in a way that actually fits how they are wired. Teams wanting to understand why collaboration friction exists. Leaders designing roles, workflows, or hybrid work arrangements. People in career transition who want clarity on what environment suits them.
What do I get when I take it?
Five-dimension preference profile with behavioural descriptions. Strengths of your style and where it can create friction with others. Team compatibility insights when used with colleagues. Work design recommendations: how to structure your day around your preferences. One-page summary you can share with your manager or team. Interactive report, PDF, and Aiden AI voice debrief.
Is the Work Preferences assessment free?
No, it is a paid assessment. Plans start at $99 and include the interactive web report, a multi-page PDF, pattern signatures, micro-experiments and three months of Aiden AI coaching. If you want a free starting point first, the Leadership Friction Finder shows where friction is costing your team in about 8 minutes.
Can other people rate me as well?
This one is a self-assessment, so it reflects how you see your own patterns. If you want other people's view too, pair it with a 360-enabled instrument such as Leadership Capability.
What is it based on?
Informed by the MBTI underlying theory (Jung's psychological types), DISC behavioural model, and Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, synthesised into a practical leadership context.
Not sure this is the right instrument? Start with the free Leadership Friction Finder or read what leadership friction is.