What Kind of Work from Home Character Are You?

Recently a friend sent me a link to one of those cool char­ac­ter analy­sis tests. Since I really am a sucker for these things and the quiz was short, I took it. The pro­gram is called HOTS and it turns out that the results are actu­ally both kind of fun and very revealing.

The way this assess­ment works, there are four per­son­al­ity types: Hares, Owls, Tur­tles, and Squir­rels. And of course you could be mostly all of one type or any combination.

Here’s how Mar­sha, the Win­ter Blues Coach described the HOTS break­down of per­son­al­ity char­ac­ter­is­tics to me initially:

“In a nut­shell (no pun intended), here’s the breakdown:

Hares are idea peo­ple, clas­sic entre­pre­neur. They love the energy of the new idea and leap into action but have no inter­est or atten­tion to fol­low through on details.

Owls are the strate­gists. They see the 20,000 foot view, the big pic­ture. They see what’s miss­ing and what connects.

Tur­tles get the work done, slow and steady, one speed. Not great on ideas but they’ll carry them out.

Squir­rels are detail ori­ented — they love to orga­nize things in piles. Also not great on vision­ary ideas, but can see the small tweaks that can make a difference.

As you can see, you need all four kinds to make a busi­ness run, but you have to give them the right tasks.“

Turns out, I score as an owl — no mix­ture of traits, which I’m not so sure about, but based on the answers I gave, that is the type of work from home expert HOTS says I am.

As an Owl, I am spon­ta­neous and prac­ti­cal. Which is true. An owl, when pre­sented with a new idea, moves directly into think­ing of how to imple­ment it. Also true. And an owl is able to focus on many things at once. Yep. True again.

There’s more, but you get the idea. I’m guess­ing that Yolanda, my ex-​​partner, is a Hare. Which do you think you might be? How about your part­ners or your work from home cohorts or the ven­dors you work with?

In a larger busi­ness, you would surely have peo­ple in key posi­tions who have the right traits to get their spe­cific jobs done. When you work from home, it’s often only you and there are only so many hats any­one can wear at once.

So how do you become a tur­tle and get the impor­tant work done when you are really a hare and per­form best when you can burn hot and fast mov­ing quickly from one great idea to the next?

You find the right peo­ple to fill the gaps. You put together a sup­port team of trusted providers who will carry out your ideas. Or you join a mas­ter­mind group to serve as a sound­ing board and fil­ter for your ideas. You take on a part­ner who has com­pli­men­tary tal­ents. You hire a Vir­tual Assis­tant to han­dle the details for you.

Regard­less of how you do it, regard­less of whether you are Hare, Owl, Tur­tle, Squir­rel of a com­bi­na­tion of all, to be suc­cess­ful in your home busi­ness har­ness your cre­ative side and come up with your ideal team.

Go ahead. Take the quiz. You don’t have to give your email or name and it’s quick. Then come back and tell us all about it in the com­ments. Which are you and did the quiz nail you or totally miss?

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