How do you make your mind up? Do you decide things based on open-ended reasoning, or are some things a matter of faith? The Transactions assessment gets up close and interpersonal, looking at the ways we decide and communicate with each other.
Choose this assessment if you're looking for insights into the what and the how of decisions and interpersonal approaches - and, how effective they are.
This assessment uses six of its twelve factors to sample and display the processes we follow to reach conclusions. These range from open-ended reasoning to blind faith. These factors are all alternatives, any one of which might be used alone or combined with others.
A further five factors reveal the likely structure and tone of transactions when communicating with other people. These five are all concurrent and interlace with one another during transactions.
The final factor rates perception of our own decision making and the effectiveness of our communication.
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Reasoning Displays the degree to which someone prefers to consciously weigh and combine facts, assumptions and insights before deciding |
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Logic Shows where people prefer structured, conscious, step-by-step decision processes that deal in facts |
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Intuition Indicates how decisions might emerge through unconscious processing of thoughts, insights, hunches and guesses |
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Assertion Indicates when people believe they know why things happen as they do, and what to do about them |
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Fate Displays to what degree there may be passive acceptance that situations and issues will manage and resolve themselves |
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Magic Shows preference for simply accepting things happen "somehow" - believing the how and why to be beyond reach |
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Judgemental Shows where there's a preference for keeping firm control, preventing mistakes, sticking to rules and staying within limits |
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Supportive This factor covers a spectrum of behaviour ranging from care and concern for others, to overprotective and controlling |
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Objective Depicts where people think things through, preferring to work with sound information that supports rational solutions |
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Natural Reveals when people might freely express things as they see them, showing how they genuinely feel about them |
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Adaptive Indicates where people tend to fit in with others' ideas, wanting to know where they stand and follow a lead |
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Effective Show preference to leave room to maneuver, look for simple solutions, decide at the right time and act on a decision |
