What motivates and drives you?
The EPT is a research-based test that has proven valuable for intrapreneurs, individual entrepreneurs, educational institutions, and entrepreneurship programs by helping them understand and leverage entrepreneurial potential. Additionally, many professionals, such as managers, leaders, and board members, have reported significant benefits from using the EPT for development.
It’s common for a leader to find that his/her normal style works better with some people than others. The EPT test helps leaders and managers understand why and what techniques might be most effective.
However, a feedback session is both essential and required to fully grasp and apply the insights from the test, as it provides the necessary context and guidance for meaningful development.
Key Benefits of the EPT:
- Self-awareness: Gain deeper insights into your entrepreneurial traits and untapped potential.
- Adaptation: Learn which work environments enhance your productivity and well-being.
- Conflict management: Improve interactions with other entrepreneurs and reduce unnecessary conflicts.
- Personal development: Use your EPT results as a foundation for personal growth and improvement.
Usage Scenarios:
- Personal Development: Leverage your profile to identify areas for growth and advancement.
- Team Building: Understand colleagues’ profiles to build cohesive and effective teams.
- HR and Coaching: Support staff development and coaching initiatives using EPT results.
Why Self-Awareness Matters: Self-awareness plays a pivotal role in entrepreneurial success by aiding in better decision-making and fostering a deeper understanding of personal motivations. It helps align your entrepreneurial nature with the right business ideas, enhancing both business performance and personal well-being.
Maximizing the EPT Experience: The EPT is most effective when used alongside professional feedback sessions. These sessions, based on over 30,000 tests and feedback provided by certified EPT coaches, ensure a deeper understanding of your results and how they apply to your personal and professional goals.
Insights from the EPT:
- Self-Discovery: Gain insights into your entrepreneurial strengths, weaknesses, and preferences to guide informed decisions about your ventures.
- Identifying Entrepreneurial Traits: Recognize key traits such as creativity, resilience, risk tolerance, initiative, and leadership.
- Tailored Development: Focus on developing essential skills and characteristics based on your results.
- Career Guidance: Determine whether entrepreneurship aligns with your natural inclinations.
- Selection and Recruitment: Use EPT in recruitment to identify candidates with entrepreneurial potential. This can be particularly useful for startups and companies looking to foster an entrepreneurial culture.
- Entrepreneurship Education: Inform curriculum design and personalized learning based on EPT data.
- Performance Improvement: Track progress and highlight areas for improvement.
- Promoting Diversity: Foster inclusivity by evaluating a wide range of entrepreneurial traits.
- Evidence-Based Decisions: Use data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions related to business development and team composition.
How EPT Benefits Non-Entrepreneurs:
Even individuals who do not identify as entrepreneurs can benefit from the EPT by exploring their motivations, strengths, and areas of interest.
- Self-Exploration: Understand your intrinsic motivations, values, and interests.
- Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses: Leverage strengths and address areas for improvement.
- Career Clarity: Gain insights into potential career paths aligned with your personality.
- Enhanced Self-Awareness: Improve interpersonal relationships by understanding your communication style and preferred work environment.
- Personal Development Planning: Create personalized plans to enhance skills and explore new opportunities.
- Strengthening Interpersonal Relationships: Understanding one’s motivations and communication styles can improve interpersonal relationships both personally and professionally.
- Exploring New Hobbies: Uncover hidden talents and interests.
- Decision-Making Support: Make informed decisions about education, volunteer opportunities, or projects.
- Life Satisfaction and Well-Being: Align personal goals with strengths and motivations for a more fulfilling life.
In Summary: The Entrepreneurial Profile Test (EPT) serves as a valuable resource for understanding and harnessing entrepreneurial potential. By providing evidence-based insights and tailored feedback, the EPT supports personal growth, enhances decision-making, and contributes to building a dynamic and innovative entrepreneurial landscape.
Discover your strengths today! Take the EPT and book a feedback session with a certified coach to fully understand your results and your response congruence (% score)—so you can maximize your potential.
Good luck and enjoy your results. Feel free to contact us or your EPT-certified coach.
Stefan Lindström 2010-2025©
Why do we do this?
- By improving self-awarenessfinding find out motivation factors and opportunities for improvements the entrepreneur can improve themselves and thereby their companies as well as better understand how to encourage both entrepreneurship and economic development and growth.
- We all recognize that improving self-awareness can be extremely helpful to enentrepreneursho wish to improve their performance and that of their companies.
- Developing a successful company requires the development of the organization. For an entrepreneurial company, this process needs to start with the entrepreneur, or as our research says, the entrepreneur needs to develop oneself.
- But gaining the insights necessary for this development is not easy. We have therefore developed a set of profiles, enabled by our research, which greatly facilitates the process of identifying and motivating the development.
- You also get a personality profile, which you can use in your personal development, as well as in team-development, recruiting, personnel development, HR, Coaching, Mentoring, etc. Self-awareness increases your ability and your development!
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