The stated purpose of this assessment is to allow learners to determine if they have had the experience necessary to navigate a diverse environment. It gives them a window into their current ability to be flexible and to work with many different types of people.

Questions:

1. Stress that this assessment is used in conjunction with this chapter to show them the relevance of their own personal career aspirations to the central theme of the book. How will they become valued members of organizations designed and managed to foster their own growth and others and advance in their careers?

2. Give them the caveat that they are likely to apply many sorts of style indicators as they go forward. While they may agree with the descriptors and see a pattern among those taken, they should not allow these external measures to tell them who they really are. Nor should they use what others reveal to them as their primary career orientations to affix a stereotyping label on them.

3. You have the option of having them do the assessment simply for their own information. 

4. Alternatively, this could make a stimulating class event. If you choose this option, ask them to bring the assessment results to the class in which you have budgeted time for discussing them.