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Your Behavioral DNA without a Swab

Do you know what your true talents are? What really motivates you? Why you can’t figure out the “right” job or career? Or how can YOU make your work more rewarding? Learn more

Familiar questions? The vast majority of us have asked them from time to time. Now how and where to find the answers that fit YOU is the real question. The answers are available in a personality assessment that examines your basic motivational needs called The About U ReportSM. And it is available to members at www.about-ureport.com. The About U Report is the only instrument “out there” that actually gets at your underlying behavioral DNA and therefore does not change over time or situation.

After you complete a short (30-plus minute) assessment online, you immediately receive your own unique About U Report with a MP3 explanation. Your Report contains 5 sections. First, you get to see how motivated you are when doing different tasks, your Areas of Interest. The Report contains 10 and measures now important each is in your life. They point to your basic talents. Ask yourself: “Is your current situation one in which you spend time in these areas or not??”

Interests:

What: Each of us has interests, passions that motivate us and are a critical part of our lives. The Report contains ten and measures how important each is in your life.

Why: Interests are the motivators that get us up in the morning and keep us percolating throughout the day. Your high interests may help you in your career; they will certainly influence how you succeed in it. And they may be paramount interests that give richness to your entire life.

Next your Report shows you the kind of environment that both supports who are you and motivates you to behave effectively rather than reactively. And you get to see yourself from three different perspectives.

A. Effective Behavior:

What: Every person has a unique style, a preferred way of dealing with people and situations. The Report identifies eleven unique ways in which you interact with people. They are your public face that people see.

Why: Your public presence is how people perceive you, which means that is what they expect from you. If you’ve ever been curious about how you are perceived by others the eleven different effective behaviors in the Report will give you that answer.

B. Underlying Motivators:

What:We all have expectations of how we want others to behave and treat us. Our expectations affect how accepting, or not, we are of others and the social and business conditions where we operate.

Why: Knowing what our underlying motivators are will tell us what kind of environment we need in order to be effective. Some environments can be toxic, some supportive; know which is which, and why, is one factor that leads to success. Like Effective Behaviors, the Report contains eleven Underlying Motivators.

C. Stress Behaviors:

What: If the Underlying Motivators are not present in our environment it can result in stress: behaviors that are not effective and don’t serve our best interest.

Why: Unless we understand what causes stress we have no method for dealing with it. We become reactive, rather than responding effectively. Your Report describes eleven different Stress Behaviors with things to avoid and help in managing them.

The third section of your Report goes on to show you how all your motivational areas of interest and 11 elements of behaviors interact to give you your unique perspective on issues and how these color your perception of how the world works. Often these, too, are not visible to others and can be a surprise to you.

Organizational Focus:

What: Each of us views the world, and approaches problem-solving, working in a team, and dealing with co-workers in a unique way. The approach we take is determined by our Interests, Effective Behavior, Underlying Motivators, and Stress Behavior.

Why: Unless we know how we approach the world, we will not be able to appreciate how others do. And the knowledge of our approach to the world will give us an appreciation of how we can work with others and use our strengths to be more effective.

The Fourth Section provides the top 7 Job Families with which you most align and the bottom 3 Job Families which you probably should avoid. You also get a dictionary which shows you jobs within these families to further explore.

Job Families:

What: Using all the data you have supplied about yourself, the Report goes on to assess which seven (out of twenty) job families you most closely align with. And the measurement indicates not only the alignment, but its intensity.

Why: Knowing your alignment will begin to confirm – or not – your career selection.

The fifth section is a one page summary that can be shared with significant others in your life and work. It is the one which should resonate with who you are and validate all the data in your Report. As As mentioned earlier, your Report measures you at the DNA level. This means you receive an individualized report on who you are at your very core. It is a report that is relevant for the rest of your life.

How I Want Others To Treat Me:

Is a one page summary of your entire report. You can use it as a summary and to share with co-workers, your boss, or your direct reports.

Go to www.about-ureport.com to take the online assessment. This will take about 30 plus minutes. When you finish, you can immediately download your report along with an MP3 explanation of your report. The cost of the About U Report is $149. You pay for the report online by credit card (on a secure site) and are immediately taken to the assessment site.

When you are ready to receive additional feedback on your report from a certified About U Advisor, you can either purchase that service at the time you take your About U Report, or return at a later time.

There is an abbreviated version of the report – the Fast Look @ U Report – available for $19.95. This option gives you just a taste of who you are, but not enough to really provide the insights needed to move forward in your career and life. It is there for those who prefer an appetizer before getting the entire meal. You take the assessment one time and can always upgrade to the About U Report and About U Report with an Advisor at a later date.

The web site www.about-ureport.com contains more information on the reports, including complete examples of both. Click on the site, explore, and see what really motivates you and how to use your internal motivators to create your future, answer your questions and reduce your uncertainties.

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