Emergenetics

You may think you know yourself, but do you know how that affects your business? Lucky for you a company called Emergenetics has developed a test that shows you your thought process with graphical representation. Not only that, but its go in depth on your behavior style as well. A few of the Club Entrepreneur founders had the chance to take this test and talk with the founder of Emergentics. The results were awesome!

Emergenetics gives you information you never knew you needed. Through a 100 question test they map our your entire thought process and your strengths and weaknesses in your behavior all in a single profile. The test only takes about an hour, and the information is priceless. They break down your brain into four preferences:

Analytical - reasoning ability, logical analysis, and financial calculations
Conceptual - often searches for new ways to solve problems, excited by change
Structural - likes guidelines, methodical progress, and organization
Social - interest in getting along with people, reliance, sensitivity

The pie graph breaks down into percentages of how much you think in each category. Typically anything over 23% is considered a proffered thought process. The test also shows a bar graph of aggressiveness (compared to general population) of each category. For instance you could be very analytically but have a low aggressiveness in that category. Third, the test produces representation of your behaviors:

Expressiveness - Ranging from quiet to gregarious
Assertiveness - Ranging from peace keeper to driving/telling
Flexibility - Ranging from prefering Defined Situations to Putting Others Before Yourself

From that information you can find out how you behave in most situations. It was amazing how spot-on the results were. All just from a few questions over the internet.

Peter McLaughlin, the founder, took us through our results thoroughly, he even predicted what type of car each of us would like to drive just by looking at our profiles! The results print out on one sheet of paper with the all the graphs. From that sheet alone you could derive picture perfect conclusions about a persons personality.

As we found, most Entrepreneurs have high Conceptual (all of us were well above 40%) and high Social (25%+) thought processes. Myself and my partner Toby has almost identical thought processes. We even had a unique set - Toby and I are tri-model, we have at least 23% in Conceptual, Social, and Analytical. The one thing all of us were missing was a high structure percentage. I guess you can't be everything. But as you know, you have to surround yourself with people who know what you don't - thats how business gets done.

I would highly recommend everyone take this test. Your results come with a booklet that explains how to interpret the result so you can learn everything you need to know about yourself. You can finally see what you're missing and how to leverage yourself - which could come in handy with negotiations or even customer interaction. We'll soon be offering the Emergenetics program through Club Entrepreneur. Members will get a discount on the price, so keep an eye out for that offer!