By Sénamé Agbossou

“After Hundreds of Requests for an Assessment…”

The messages started coming after my third post in this series.

“How do I know which Work Energy Type I am?”

“Can you create a quiz to help me figure this out?”

“I see myself in multiple types—how do I know my primary pattern?”

After 25 years of coaching leaders, I know that self-awareness without practical application is just interesting information. You need to know not only who you are, but how to leverage that knowledge for better results and deeper satisfaction in your work.

That’s why I’ve spent the last six months developing something special.

The Work Energy Types Assessment

Today, I’m excited to share the Work Energy Types Assessment: a focused, research-based tool that helps you identify your primary energy pattern and understand how to align your work with your natural wiring.

This isn’t another lengthy personality test that gives you complex results you’ll never use. It’s a practical assessment designed to give you immediate insights you can apply to your current role, team dynamics, and career decisions.

Why This Assessment is Different

Most leadership assessments tell you what you already know about yourself or categorize you in ways that feel limiting. The Work Energy Types Assessment is built on the Ubuntu principle that your individual energy becomes most powerful when it’s in service of collective success.

Here’s what makes it unique:

1. It’s Action-Oriented

Every result comes with specific strategies for optimizing your energy, improving your team relationships, and aligning your role with your natural patterns.

2. It’s Relationship-Focused

Your assessment results include guidance on how to work effectively with other energy types, because the Ubuntu philosophy reminds us that our individual gifts are only fully realized in relationship with others.

3. It’s Immediately Practical

No complex theory or academic jargon. Just clear insights about how you naturally work best and what you can do about it starting today.

What You’ll Discover

The assessment takes just five minutes, but the insights last a career. You’ll learn:

Your Primary Work Energy Type – Explorer, Builder, Connector, Driver, or Sensemaker, and what this means for your daily work experience.

Your Natural Strengths – The specific ways you add value that you might be taking for granted.

Your Energy Sources – What types of work, environments, and challenges naturally energize you versus drain you.

Your Growth Edge – The one thing that, if you focused on it, would most amplify your natural gifts.

Your Team Dynamics Guide – How to work more effectively with people whose energy types complement yours.

Arsène’s Discovery

Let me share what happened when Arsène, a marketing director at a Brussels-based startup, took the assessment.

Arsène had been struggling with what he thought was burnout. Despite loving marketing strategy, he felt drained by his role and couldn’t understand why. His performance was strong, his team respected him, but he felt like he was working against his natural grain.

The assessment revealed that Arsène was a primary Connector with strong Explorer tendencies: someone energized by relationship-building and creative collaboration. But his role had evolved into pure execution and campaign management, with little time for the strategic relationship work that gave him energy.

“It wasn’t that I was in the wrong career,” Arsène told me. “I was doing the right work in the wrong way.”

Arsène restructured his role to include more client relationship development and cross-team collaboration. Within months, his energy returned, and his team’s creative output increased significantly because Arsène was operating from his natural energy pattern rather than fighting it.

The Science Behind the Assessment

This framework isn’t based on theory; it’s based on patterns I’ve observed across hundreds of leadership coaching conversations. I’ve noticed that the most successful leaders aren’t necessarily the most skilled; they’re the ones who understand how they naturally bring energy to their work and have learned to optimize around that pattern.

The assessment questions are designed to identify not just your preferences, but your actual energy patterns; the difference between what you think you should do and what naturally energizes you.

Ready to Discover Your Type?

If you’ve been following this series and wondering where you fit, or if you’re curious about how to better understand your team’s energy dynamics, the assessment is ready for you.

It’s completely free, takes five minutes to complete, and gives you immediate results plus a detailed PDF report with personalized strategies for your specific energy type.

Here’s what people are saying about their results:

“Finally, an assessment that doesn’t just tell me about myself. It tells me what to do about it.” – Rebecca, Operations Manager

“I shared my results with my team, and it sparked the best conversation we’ve had about how we work together.” – James, Product Director

“I’ve taken dozens of leadership assessments. This is the first one that felt like it actually understood how I work.” – Maria, CEO

How It Works

The assessment presents five scenarios that reveal your natural work energy patterns. Based on your responses, it identifies your primary Work Energy Type and provides:

• Immediate results with your archetype and core characteristics
• Detailed PDF report with personalized strategies and growth recommendations
• Team collaboration guide for working effectively with other energy types
• Role alignment insights for making better career and project decisions

The Ubuntu Impact

What excites me most about this assessment isn’t just the individual insights; it’s the collective transformation that happens when teams understand their energy dynamics.

When Roxane (our Driver from last week’s post) had her entire team take the assessment, they discovered they had all five energy types represented. Instead of seeing their different work styles as friction, they began to see them as complementary forces that could create something more powerful than any individual could achieve alone.

“We went from feeling like we were constantly working against each other to feeling like we were designed to work together,” Roxane shared.

This is Ubuntu in action: recognizing that our individual energies become most powerful when they’re in conscious relationship with others.

Your Invitation

If you’re ready to understand your Work Energy Type and learn how to optimize your natural energy for better results and deeper satisfaction, the assessment is waiting for you.

Comment “ENERGY” below, and I’ll send you the direct link.

Or if you want to dive right in, you can find the assessment at [assessment link].

Whether you’re a leader trying to understand why certain roles energize or drain you, or you’re building a team and want to understand how different energy types can work together most effectively, this assessment will give you practical insights you can use immediately.

What Happens Next

Over the next few posts, I’ll be sharing results and insights from the first wave of assessment takers. The patterns that are emerging are fascinating; and they’re confirming what I’ve observed in my coaching practice: when people align their work with their natural energy, everything becomes more effective and more sustainable.

But first, I want to hear about your experience:

• What’s one work situation where you felt completely energized and in flow?
• What’s one situation where you felt like you were working against your natural grain?
• If you take the assessment, what surprised you most about your results?

Your energy matters; not just to you, but to everyone who benefits from the unique gifts you bring when you’re operating from your natural pattern.