With the Highlands Ability BatteryAdult Group Feedback

Introduction

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• 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 PersonApproach

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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

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Example HABWorksamples

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Spatial Relations Visualization

Spatial Relations Visualization

Spatial Relations Visualization

Spatial Relations Visualization

Design Memory

Design Memory

Design Memory

Design Memory

Verbal Memory

Verbal Memory

Concept Organization

Concept Organization

Concept Organization

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

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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+

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Your Highlands Ability Profile

Your Personal Style

Your Driving AbilitiesIncluding Your Convergent,

Divergent and Spatial Abilities

Your Specialized AbilitiesIncluding 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

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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 21st, 2014

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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

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