With the Highlands Ability Battery Adult Group Feedback Introduction © 2014 Highlands Company, LLC

Learn about your natural abilities (talents) Explore ways to use your talents Align your talents with other important things about you Learn how to explore what makes sense for you –Experiences/Education –Work/ Career Session Objectives Whole Person Approach

Highlands Ability Battery Self Management Tool

Whole Person

Abilities People are happiest and perform best when their natural abilities are used to the fullest

Skills The things you have learned to do well through practice and repeated use. Skills develop faster when they are built on natural abilities

Interests Activities and projects that arouse your passion and concern – politics, gardening, music

Personal Style The way you relate to other people – speech patterns, body language, social attitudes

Family Your family history and relationships have molded and framed your life and your attitudes. Put it all in context

Values The scales on which you measure your choices, options and decisions – how you measure good vs. evil, moral vs. immoral, wise vs. foolish

Goals The ends or results you want most to achieve – how you direct your energies and efforts

Stage of Career This moment in your life and how it relates to your past and your future

Abilities are different from skills – they come naturally rather than being learned Your unique combination of abilities and personal style tells a story

Learning the language of abilities allows you to capitalize on your strengths and make better career choices If ignored, you can land in mismatched roles or jobs

Intelligent and motivated people can work against their natural abilities, but they are rarely happy or satisfied doing so

Highlands Ability Battery Research-based – over 80 years Used in schools, businesses, education, government Measure 19 different abilities of styles Use worksamples – objective, performance-based measures More objective than self-report measures Use of time limits separate natural abilities (which takes less time effort and energy) from skills (learned, take more time to learn and practice to maintain) Results in a percentile ranking score – you relative to those in our database Highlands Ability Battery

Example HAB Worksamples Highlands Ability Battery

Spatial Relations Visualization

Design Memory

Verbal Memory

Concept Organization

Administration 19 Worksamples, each 5 – 10 minutes Registration to completion about 3.5 hours Do not have to take all at once Need online access to internet Need headphones and a mouse No interruptions Highlands Ability Battery

Results- cannot fail, no good/bad results No passing or failing High scores do not = “Good” Low scores do not = “Bad” Scores are percentile rankings Reported as low (1-35), mid (36-64) and high 65+ Highlands Ability Battery

Your Highlands Ability Profile Your Personal Style Your Driving Abilities Including Your Convergent, Divergent and Spatial Abilities Your Specialized Abilities Including Your Learning Channels Your Vocabulary

Reports Adult Report Review of each ability, worksample, definition and your score

Reports Highlands Career Exploration Supplement Combinations of Personal Style, Driving Abilities, Patterns and Career Exploration tools

Instructions and Tips (to be inserted) Review Instructions and Tips Sheet Distribute either electronically or print copy Highlight: Tech support, no interruptions, using a mouse and headphones/ear buds Highlight: Writing down their username and password Highlands Ability Battery

Distribution/Administration Instructions (to be inserted) Step One: Take the Highlands Ability Battery Online codes distributed today Select Adult report Self-administered– do not have to take all at once Report available online Print copy of your report(s) and bring it to the group feedback session The Ability Battery must be completed by midnight, Wednesday, May 21 st, 2014 Highlands Ability Battery

Details about Feedback; individual, group, class, etc. (to be inserted) Step Two: Group Feedback Session Review your natural talents Differentiate between talents and acquired skills Understand how you learn new information most efficiently including reading, listening, visual and kinesthetic Understand the work environment (e.g. pace, interaction with others, etc.) most comfortable for you Learn how to evaluate work activities for fit with your abilities Highlands Ability Battery