Eleanor Boniface July 16 2024
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Harnessing High Energy For Dynamic and Effective Teamwork

Navigating teamwork can be challenging, especially with diverse Facet5 profiles. Facet5, a personality assessment tool, reveals unique traits and behaviours within a team. By understanding each individual profile, their strengths and areas of risk, teams can enhance collaboration, improve communication, and achieve success.

In this blog post, I’m going to explore my learnings from my own profile, in particular my high-scoring Energy and what that means for my working preferences independently and within groups and teams.

“Outgoing”, “opinionated”, “she gets involved in all aspects of the business” are all things past and present colleagues would most likely say about me. Although these are great traits to have, I have learnt that it is best to flex up and down depending on the work environment or work relationship I am in. My Facet5 profile has been integral to me becoming more self-aware in those particular situations.

I’ve always been a talker, I once got given a certificate in primary school to not talk for an hour! This has come with challenges and at times has been a criticism from others. However, learning about my ‘Energy’ through Facet5 I realise that if I know how to play to my strengths, I can provide great support in a team environment. I really enjoy being part of a team and in the past due to me being ‘the loudest’ this has been confused with a desire to lead a team, when my natural instinct is to work together and build morale.

 

“Facet5 has five core dimensions. Will concerns a person’s drive and determination; Energy is their sociability and need for the company of others. Affection deals with trust and relationships, while Control reflects a person’s need to take an active role in what happens around them, their organisation, and need for structure. Emotionality is our overarching response to the world around us, our inner voice.”

 

My Facet5 Energy score is 7.3 which is relatively high (the average score being 5.5), this shows me as a person who is social, adaptable and willing to get things moving, or excited about new ideas. On the flip side, at times others may perceive me as pushy, quick to interfere, unable to be decisive, or a bit of an exhibitionist. To give an example of this, there have been times in meetings when I realise, I am the only person talking and giving ideas, which either means others enjoy sitting back, or I’m not allowing people to give their thoughts or opinions. I have been given tips from others who are similar, such as, put your hand in front of your mouth to prevent interrupting, or make a written note of themes that come out of conversations rather than interjecting with all your ideas. These have been helpful, yet recently I’ve reverted to my Facet5 profile to consider how to communicate my high Energy to others. Within this, I have found safe language to explain my behaviour, rather than apologising for my energy and making my traits seem negative. I now use language that shows the benefits such as ‘I tend to provide a lot of different ideas to get consensus or find a compromise’ or ‘I love to chat through ideas but let me know if you have a different communication style or if this feels distracting’. This also allows others a safe space to say ‘I find calls distracting’ or similar. There is the odd ‘sorry I’m a bit of an interrupter’, I can’t help but apologise when I feel an intense environment – maybe it’s the British in me.

I’ve been lucky enough for people to feel they can give me feedback on my Energy. Some of my colleagues really appreciate the ideas I share and have mentioned feeling more confident speaking up after seeing me challenge in conversations they may have wanted to but did not know how. This shows me that my high Energy can really impact others positively and be infectious, therefore the more I learn about myself and the strengths my energy can bring the more I can role-model positive behaviour and opinions of those who are ‘giving high energy’.

sample facet

 

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