Find your match!

"Why would someone NOT want to work with you?" - I was asked this question in a job interview once.  

In an interview we usually try to sell ourselves, so this question can feel unsettling, but reframed properly, it becomes a cultural fit question and an excellent self-awareness test.

The point is not what is wrong with me, but where and how do I function well and where and how do I not? How well do I understand my own working mechanisms, drivers, way of thinking? What kind of team, culture, leadership style, values, roles and tasks enable me to perform at my best?

🎁 Solution-focused question and tip for organisations

❓ How do we examine whether someone will succeed in our culture, leadership style, team dynamics and specific roles and where they objectively won't, regardless of professional competence?

💡 Tips for organisations

1. Clarify at organisational level what values, behaviours and leadership style you actually operate by (not just what is written).
2. Define the behavioural and cognitive competencies and drivers, motivators required per role for long-term success.
3. Create a shared value and competency map including behavioural, cognitive competencies, personal motivators, drivers you are looking for. This can become part of the hiring, onboarding, performance, development and career processes.

🎁 Solution-focused question and tip for You

❓ In what environments, cultures do I function well ?

💡 Excercixe for You: Create your own map of yourself
(I always do this excercise with my clients in career coaching, best if based on their ProfileXT results)

     1.       Describe the circumstances under which you perform really well?
               – What is the environment, the culture like?
               – What is the team like? How do they behave, collaborate?
               – What does your leader do? How does your leade behave?
               – What tasks, roles energise you and feel natural?
    2.        Identify your limits.
               – Under what circumstances do you tire quickly?
               – What triggers stress, withdrawal or conflict?
               – Which work styles, tasks drain you long term?
     3.        Define who would not want to work with you ( and vica versa) and why, based on your values,                             interests and working mechanism?
      4.        Turn this into a choice.
                 – What type of work environment are you actually looking for?
                 – In what culture do you thrive?
                 – What values and behaviour must a team embody for you to feel good?
                 – What kind of leader are you looking for?
     5.         Write a 2–3 sentence "self-awareness summary" you can even use in interviews. For example:
                 "I thrive in environments where…......."

Good fit is never an accident — it is the result of conscious understanding.