My Thinking Styles

As of January 2027 this title will be replaced with the new Thinking Styles assessment.

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The My Thinking Styles™ assessment is an online personal and professional development tool designed to evaluate how an individual tends to approach situations, process information, and make decisions. It is an untimed test that takes about 15 minutes to complete. Rather than acting as a high-stakes intelligence test, this assessment acts as a self-awareness guide that charts a user’s habits across 7 distinct thinking styles: Analytical, Inquisitive, Insightful, Open-Minded, Systematic, Timely, and Truth Seeking. By identifying which styles they rely on too much or ignore, users learn how to find a better mental balance to make higher-quality personal and professional choices.

What type of thinker are you?

We all use a variety of thinking styles in our daily lives, but we tend to favor some at the expense of others and that hurts our ability to make good decisions. My Thinking Styles™ helps you find the right balance. So you can make the best choices, both personally and professionally!

What does it do?

The assessment is a personal/professional development tool designed to evaluate thinking styles and how an individual tends to approach situations and make decisions.

It helps individuals discover their preferred thinking style from these 7 styles:

• Analytical
• Inquisitive
• Insightful
• Open-Minded
• Systematic
• Timely
• Truth Seeking

Untimed: 15 minutes
Uses: Staff and individual development

What It’s Best Used For

• Staff and individual workforce development: Providing current team members with objective feedback to improve their professional self-awareness, cognitive balance, and day-to-day work habits.
• Improving corporate decision-making: Helping employees realize when they are over-relying on a single thought framework at the expense of others, which naturally hurts their problem-solving ability.
• Supporting executive and team coaching: Providing career coaches, mentors, and consultants with an intermediate-depth behavioral framework to guide conversations around complex problem management.
• Balancing team thinking frameworks: Allowing team leaders to see if a department is heavily weighed down by a single type of thinker (e.g., purely systematic) so they can intentionally introduce alternative perspectives (e.g., inquisitive or open-minded).