1. What is 'Working Style'?

It can be defined as the way people in the work force absorb and retain new and difficult
information, think or concentrate, do their daily work and solve problems. Everyone has a
unique style in which they prefer to work and if a person's working style is matched with
their work requirements, job satisfaction increases and their work performance improves.
2. Why do I need to know my working style?
The more you know about yourself and what makes you tick, the better you will function
in your work environment and the less stress you will experience. A knowledge of
working styles reduces mismatches in the work place because employees who know how
they function best, reduce down time and increase their productivity, their
communication and their understanding of other people's working styles.
3. Can I change my working style if I want to?
Yes, you can change certain aspects of your overall style, particularly the elements in the
Social area and your Attitudes because they are conditioned or learned, not biologically
or genetically determined. They are usually influenced by your conditioning, your past
experiences and your professional environment.
That's why it's possible to change your preferences in the Social elements of your profile
(like with whom you work best and how you react to Authority) as well as in the Attitude
area - although it will not always be easy to change attitudes either with will power or by
changing your beliefs and/or circumstances.
Biological style elements are usually hard to change because they remain mostly stable
over a life time. What you can do is to increase you flexibilities in certain desired areas,
but it is necessary to realise that under pressure or stress people usually go back to their
basic style features, and learned flexibilities disappear.
4. Can the WSA improve our employees' performance?
Yes, our experience with the WSA in many different countries and different cultures has
shown that employees achieve performance improvement on many levels because they
are more aware of their strengths and weaknesses, what distracts them and how they can
maximise their potential. Only when people really know their style features ( preferences
and non-preferences), they can increase their flexibility and in that way counteract their
weaknesses.
5. As a trainer, how can I use this concept in my training sessions?
Knowledge about the learning/working style of participants helps a trainer to:

 orchestrate training sessions in such a way that individual learning needs can be
accommodated, avoiding a mismatch between trainer and trainee;
 understand biological learning needs of trainees;
 organise group/team work based on style preferences of participants
 set up the training room according to the learning needs of the group; (following
the results in the group profiles);
 make training sessions more effective, achieving long-term retention of training
content and sustainable change practices.

6. Are working styles useful for managers?

 Yes, particularly when it comes to staff selection or promotion. Knowing an employee's
working style will also help with communication, how they need to be instructed and
supervised and to which management style they will respond best.
7. Can I use WSA for setting up our office space?
Certainly. The results in the Physical Needs and in the Environment area of a person's
WSA Profile give detailed information about their preferences, flexibilities and non-
preferences. Comparing these results (individually or as a group) will give you reliable
guidelines for setting up and/or re-arranging your office space to match employees'
needs. Research has shown that people's performance improves when the work
environment is matched to their individual needs.
8. Is the WSA a psychometric or intelligence test?
No, it is not. It is a self-assessment which gives insight into someone's unique style
components regarding the physical space where they work and concentrate, their time-of-
day preferences, their social and environmental needs at work as well as their frame of
mind and their professional attitude.
9. Do you have WSA in-house training for corporations?
Yes, we offer our International WSA Certification Training as in-house training in
New Zealand and internationally in English; our overseas WSA Distributors offer the
same training in the language of their country.
10. Can I use/buy the WSA/TSA software without training?
Yes, you can, but we recommend you complete our International WSA Certification
Training, particularly if you are a corporate trainer, human resource officer, consultant
or manager because the training will give you a much deeper insight into our assessment
instruments, their use in training and management combined with practical applications
in the work place. People who have successfully completed our courses, are also entitled
to purchase our Personal Assessment Software at Certified User Prices.

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