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What is Talent Dynamics?

Talent Dynamics is a leading intrapersonal profiling tool used by more than 500,000 leaders and businesspeople worldwide to build trust and flow.

The Talent Dynamics test was created by Robert James Hamilton and is based on the Chinese I Ching philosophy. This ancient divination text also inspired Carl Jung’s personality archetypes developed in the early 20th century. 

Though it shares some surface similarities with other psychometric tests, Talent Dynamics isn’t about tabulating a score or label to put people in rigid boxes.

Rather than pigeonholing people, Talent Dynamics reveals each person’s natural genius while creating greater understanding and a common language to strengthen trust, communication, and performance.

personal awareness how do you get into flow

1. Personal Awareness: How do you get into flow?

Have you ever wondered why you see the world the way you do? Or why do some things come so easily to you while others are a grind to get through?

Talent Dynamics helps to identify where your attention and energy naturally go – this is where you can fully immerse yourself and achieve a state of flow where your best work happens. 

What is flow?

Flow is the state of losing yourself in your work or your passion.

If you’ve ever become so immersed in your work or an activity that you completely lost track of time until someone or something snapped you out of it, you’ve experienced flow.

On the other hand, when you find yourself dreading a task and putting it off until the last possible second (or avoiding it altogether), you’re wading in the stagnant waters where flow isn’t possible. 

In other words: flow is the path of least resistance. 

The Talent Dynamics Test generates a unique profile based on your personality, strengths, values, behavior, and productivity.

Your results will explore which of the eight talent profiles you most strongly align with while showing the ways in which you carry traits and elements of other types, as well.

Each profile reflects a combination of energy, action, and thinking styles and serves as an entrance point for greater self-awareness of your natural path so you can find your flow, make the most of your time, and know when to say no.

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2. Awareness of others and how to lead them so they can be in flow.

Talent Dynamics bolsters self-awareness and provides the framework for “aha” moments that reveal how you relate to others. This awareness helps build trust within teams and across roles by facilitating better communication and more profound understanding through a shared language. 

Of course, with 7 billion people on the planet, you can’t expect to split them all among eight profiles and gain an understanding of each person’s rich inner workings.

Talent Dynamics profiling includes a range of 0-100 percent across several components, and there are nearly 4 million different possible results.

The goal of the test and subsequent report isn’t to pigeonhole people into strict roles or paint them as interchangeable caricatures. Instead, it provides a shared language so leaders and team members can better communicate with and support each individual in activating their unique inner genius to achieve flow.

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3. Build a balanced team of geniuses for optimal performance.

The word team can refer to your employees, but it can also refer to your clients, contractors, spouses, family members, or any other group.

People construct maps and apply filters to help them understand and interpret their experiences. In any group where humans gather, we bring these individually created beliefs and languages with us. 

Talent Dynamics gives individuals and leaders a decoder ring to better understand these personal languages so we can build trust and communicate clearly and consistently.

It also provides a master key that shines a light on each individual’s natural path, helping leaders build well-balanced high-performing teams that leverage and celebrate each member’s talents and genius to achieve dynamic team flow.

If you’d like to learn more about how the Talent Dynamics model can help you and your team or have questions about whether Talent Dynamics or leadership coaching is right for you, let’s find some time to talk so you can figure out if we’re a good fit. You can schedule a free 15-minute meet-and-greet conversation with me here.

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