Educational Universe
Read more about and deep dive in all the talents and dimensions in FirstMind. The educational universe is designed to help you gain a better understanding of the report and to enable improved insights and decision-making with it.
Talents
A talent is a reoccurring pattern of thought, feelings, and behavior. By using our talents, we tap into our natural strength: the behavior, the thoughts, the feelings that naturally occur inside of us. This fills us with energy, success, and motivation.
Intellectual Talents
Analysing
The analysing talent looks for the reason behind the claim.
Just
The just talent needs everyone to be treated the same.
Assessing
The assessing talent is vigilance.
Organizing
The organizing talent is conductor-like.
Contextual
The contextual talent understands the present by looking at how it came about.
Futurist
The futurist talent sees a vivid picture of what could be, and is energised by it.
Innovating
The innovating talent is fascinated by ideas and by the connections between things that appear unrelated.
Researching
The researching talent collects.
Learning
The learning talent is energised by the process of getting better at something.
Strategic
The strategic talent sees the routes.
Holistic
The holistic talent perceives that things are connected.
Thinking
The thinking talent is a consistent humming in the back of the mind.
Executing Talents
Targeted
The targeted talent is a constant internal pressure to accomplish something.
Focused
The focused talent runs everything through a single filter: does this take me towards the goal?
Disciplined
The disciplined talent needs the world to be ordered, and will order it.
Responsible
The responsible talent takes psychological ownership of anything it commits to, and treats that commitment as binding…
Principled
The principled talent is anchored to a set of core values that do not change with circumstance.
Problem Solver
The problem solver talent is drawn to what is broken.
Initiating
The initiating talent converts intention into action, immediately.
Confident
The confident talent is an internal compass and a deep trust in one’s own judgement.
Significant
The significant talent wants to matter, and wants that to be recognised by people whose opinion it respects.
Adaptable
The adaptable talent lives in the present.
Relating Talents
Empathic
The empathic talent senses what other people are feeling, immediately and without being told.
Mediating
The mediating talent looks for agreement and steers away from friction.
Inclusive
The inclusive talent notices who is outside the circle and wants them in it.
Individualizing
The individualizing talent sees what makes each person distinct.
Connecting
The connecting talent goes deep with a small number of people.
Communicating
The communicating talent turns ideas into words that land.
Influencing Talents
Improving
The improving talent is drawn to what is already strong and wants to make it exceptional.
Charming
The charming talent wins people over.
Positive
The positive talent generates energy and finds the good in situations.
Competitive
The competitive talent measures everything against someone else.
Controlling
The controlling talent is presence and the willingness to take charge.
Developing
The developing talent sees potential in people.
Dimensions
A dimension puts a framework on top of the talents and interprets the talent combination through a specific lens that helps you analyze the person in specific situations.
Dimensions
The Archetypes
The archetypes group the 34 talents by their fundamental behaviour and collective strengths.
Time Focus
Time Focus indicates whether a person tends to focus on the past, the present, or the future, where they instinctively go to…
Other Peoples' Perception of You
This dimension indicates how other people perceive your talents in your behaviour and personality.
Discussion Behaviour
Discussion Behaviour maps how a person instinctively behaves when two or more people exchange views, opinions or knowledge, a…
Stress Behaviour
Stress Behaviour does not measure whether someone is stressed.
Motivating Drivers
Motivating Drivers explain why a person gets motivated, what makes them tick and drives them forward.
Motivating Behaviour
Motivating Behaviour describes how a person is driven to act in an organisational and team context, the type of activity that…
Work Behaviour
Work Behaviour is the talent profile translated into everyday language, specifically, into the vocabulary of job postings and…
Team Behaviour
Team Behaviour indicates which roles a person can play in a team.
Knowledge Dimension
The Knowledge dimension is based on the process by which knowledge moves through an organisation, and indicates where in that…