Trust that as you learn to learn about yourself, you’re developing skills that will catapult your leadership and make you invaluable to your organization and those you lead.

Your hardwiring helps you discover your unique way of interacting with and making sense of the world. And it gives you perspective, an ability to see why other people seem to interpret work so differently.

Leaders need to consider three types of hardwiring—Behaviors, Abilities, Motivations—that work together to describe the unique gifts, talents, and spin that you can bring to work.

Assessments should help us grow in compassion for others by showing us how different people communicate, think, and process information. And they give us all a common language for communicating those differences with one another.

Knowing your personality type helps you slow down your habitual reactions so that you become more aware of living in that space, growing increasingly free from those unexamined habits.

Knowing how you do things, what things you do easily, and why you do them gives you more command of your choices and actions as well as much richer understanding of how different people operate. This can lend you more grace in working with others.

A leader will always have tasks that aren’t life-giving, but learning your natural abilities frees you to test accomplishing these responsibilities in ways that are more in line with your innate talents. This reduces stress and fill your work with renewed energy and purpose.

When you find yourself in a moment of doubt, you can turn it into an opportunity to ask yourself how your deeper motivations and your colleagues’ might play into the situation, possibly transforming the dynamic.

Don’t let your sense of right and wrong cloud your perceptions. Learn to be open to how your team gets things done, even if it’s not exactly the way you would do it.