Natural Abilities

Real career success is rarely down to money and status and much more to do with finding a job which ties in with your natural talents and abilities. Understanding our natural abilities helps us understand why we find certain situations difficult and where we will gain most career satisfaction.

The Highlands Ability Battery is an objective assessment of your natural ability and consists of 19 work samples. It’s extensive, taking around 3 hours (but you don’t need to complete it in one session) and the results will help you to really understand yourself.

Your results are shown as percentiles on a graph, comparing your scores to other people who have taken the HAB. A high score isn’t better than a low, it depends on whether a job requires it, or not. It’s frustrating to have an ability and not need it in a job or need an ability you don’t have.

The report is divided into driving abilities, specialised abilities and personal style.

The Driving Abilities

Classification

Classificationassesses the ability to see relationships among seemingly unrelated events, situations, or information. The relative ability to move from the specific to the more general, to detect a common thread that joins individual objects into a pattern.

Concept Organisation

Concept Organisation assesses the ability to arrange ideas, information, or objects in their most logical order. The ability to move from the general to the specific in solving problems.

 

Idea Productivity measures the ability to develop ideas quickly in response to a set of new facts; the quantity of ideas, not the quality.

Spatial Awareness Theory

Spatial Relations Theory measures the relative ability to see and understand how things work. The ability to conceptualise and understand relationships whether between abstractions or between tangible objects.

Spatial Relations Visualization

Spatial Relations Visualization measures the ability to "see" and follow in three dimensions an object that is represented in two dimensions. The ability is related to the relative preference for hands-on work and experience and the satisfaction in achieving tangible results.

The 5 driving abilities are so important Because they drive or influence everything we do. If we ignore them, we run the risk of falling into a role that doesn’t use our strongest talents or demands a talent we don’t have.

The Specialised Abilities

The specialised abilities can be divided into two categories - musical abilities and other specialised abilities. Together and separately, these abilities have an impact on the ways in which an individual takes in and learns new material.

Tonal Memory

Tonal Memory is the ability to remember through listening.

Rythm Memory

Rhythm Memory is the ease with which we can turn physical movement into a learning process.

Pitch Discrimination

Pitch Discrimination measures sensitivity to small differences in external stimuli; helpful in detecting subtle changes in speech inflection.

Design Memory

Design Memory is the ability to learn through graphics and to place new data and information into graphic form, e.g. diagrams, drawings.

Verbal Memory

Verbal Memory is the ease with which an individual learns new words and remembers the content of information presented visually, as in printed text; sometimes called associative memory.

Number Memory

Number Memory is the ability to learn, remember and use nonassociated material such as raw data and numbers.

Observation

Observation is the ability to focus on and remember visual details and to notice changes and irregularities.

Visual Speed and Accuracy

Visual Speed & Accuracy is the ease and speed with which you process & interpret new written data; advantageous in fields that require instant recall of statistics and clerical tasks.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary is an acquired skill rather than a natural ability and is included because of its enormous impact in the workplace. It determines the range of people with whom you interact most easily and naturally. You can improve your vocabulary through study and practice.

Personal Style

Introvert / Extrovert

Introvert / Extrovert this scale measures where you get your energy from, and to what extent you seek to have contact with others. Extroverts process information by talking about it. Introverts process information by thinking about it.

Time Frame Orientation

Time Frame Orientation this scale will assess your preference for the short, medium and long term. As well as under-standing your preference you can also learn how to function in your least preferred terms.

Generalist/Specialist

Generalist/Specialist You respond to a word and based on your response you find your position on this continuum. Generalists derive energy from working in groups and are intuitive about the reactions of others. They like to undertake a variety of tasks and enjoy contributing to the execution of a group project. Specialists prefer to work and solve problems independently. They like to study a project in depth and to contribute from their own perspectives.

  © HighlandsUK.com 2008

Valid CSS! Valid XHTML!

Amazing People