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16 Octagon™ behavioral questionnaire
My best / Better than you
Score Characteristics Tips
0 - 30 You are very competitive and have Do not put others down. If you
a strong desire to win and be seen are part of a team, take time to
as a winner. It is likely that you see involve others and to celebrate
your own success as more important their successes. When others
than team success. You may also come up with ideas, acknowledge
create wins for yourself, to achieve their good thinking. Even if you
your targets, that create problems disagree with an idea, acknowledge
for others. You also have a tendency something good in it before putting
to show-off, even to the point of forward your own ideas. Resist the
competing with colleagues and temptation to self-promote.
buyers.
31 - 60 You’re driven to succeed and work Be careful not to “compete” with
hard. You may have a tendency to others in terms of pushing your
showcase your ideas and experience ideas as the best. Real buy-in
that others perceive as showing comes through allowing others to
off. Other likely behaviors include voluntarily take some ownership of
talking too much about yourself, ideas or courses of action.
dropping names and, when telling
stories, relating them to how well
you performed.
61 - 80 You work hard to succeed and you When you’re about to criticize, ask
want your ideas to be accepted. yourself if you’re doing this just to
You like picking holes in the ideas make yourself look good; or if your
of others critique will really help move things
forward in a better way. As an
alternative to promoting your own
ideas, ask others how they think
they could take your ideas and
make them even better.
81 - 100 You have a healthy desire to win, Monitor your behavior and adjust
coupled with a desire to improve. as necessary when dealing with
You’re able to work with a team and more competitive individuals.
to win for yourself when necessary. Pause, reflect and respond – as
opposed to immediately reacting.
Sometimes you’ll need to stand
firm, sometimes it is better to bend.
101 - 120 You think before acting, and When seeking improvements and
regularly review your actions to discussing ideas, be sure to state
evaluate their impact. You see how they contribute to competitive
continuous learning as a key advantage - as opposed to leaving
component of being successful. others to make the association.
When things do not work out, you
can “shake-off” the loss and move
on. Some may think you lack the
hunger to win.
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