1. Velimatti Virtanen, “Teacher”
One of your greatest assets is your ability to notice people’s needs. You can act decisively so that individuals´ needs are taken
into consideration. Your motto could be “No-one is left behind!” You wish to perform your daily tasks efficiently. You respect rules
and hierarchies.You usually finish your tasks duly in time and impeccably.
In Teams
When part of a team, you are an efficient
organizer of people’s activities, and you
have the ability to monitor practical
processes or bring projects to
completion. You are also good at refining
methods of operation and increasing the
meaningfulness of people’s activities.
You wish to bring projects to a close –
according to plans, regularly, and phase
by phase. You usually reach the targets
set and keep to schedule. Sometimes
you might stick to the plans slightly too
rigidly.
As a Leader or an
Employee
As a leader, you are determined,
practical, and a warm guide for people (a
natural leader). You make most
decisions by reflecting on your set of
values and that of your team. You create
harmony, mutual understanding, and an
encouraging atmosphere around you.
You can make people excited in practice.
As an employee, you are a loyal and
reliable participant. In order to give your
very best, you require that your boss
respect your values.
Your Influencing Style
In your style of influence or sales
activities, you are strong and rely on your
talents in speaking. You prefer activities
in the sale of concrete products or
services, or in customer services. You
mainly influence customers by creating a
personal connection or ambiance. Your
sales style is fairly detail-focused, and
some customers might find you slightly
rigid.
Learning & Creativity
You are a team learner and interested
mainly in practical matters. In order to
learn efficiently, you need to work
alongside others, with active interaction,
guidance, and approval.
Your style of creativity is practical and
applied. You are inventive in developing
existing modes of operation, products, or
services and in making them more
efficient. You might also have good
manual skills (such as do-it-yourself,
household management, cooking, arts,
or technological skills).
In Flow
When everything is running especially
smoothly, you are able to transform
thoughts into practical action among
others quickly. At your very best, you
inspire others to share in your vision.
With Years
Compared to the early stages of your
career your thinking and actions have
become more flexible and spontaneous.
You are better at improvising, and, if
needed, slight bending of the rules is also
possible. Your skills in performance,
marketing, and sales have improved. You
have also noticed that taking calculated
risks sometimes pays off. You have
noticed that in the current, changed
situation, ideas that did not cause much
excitement earlier might actually work
now. You are not as strict in your
thinking and opinions as before.
Strengths Survey
Helsinki
Vattuniemenranta 2
00210 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 10 832 0500
Tampere
Tullikatu 6
33100 Tampere, Finland
Tel. +358 10 832 0570
www.hrmpartners.fi
hrm@hrmpartners.fi
Business ID 1937510-1
HRM Partners Ltd

2. You in a nutshell
You view novel things with caution and look at changes often very critically. You
want to stabilize situations and things, and to consider what history has taught
us. You might sometimes take too fatalistic a view and think that “this has
already been tried, and it didn't work last time.”
You are dutiful and extremely systematic. You adapt to rules and rarely get into
trouble.
You are warm, sociable, and cooperation-oriented. You are interested in things
that can improve people's quality of life. You create harmony around you. You
value your home, family, and health.
You are a sociable and practical person. Friends are important to you. You are
interested in people. You want to help them by utilizing your exceptionally
systematic and responsible nature.
You are people-oriented and responsible, and you create harmony around you.
You want to help others and know how to do it; you are loyal and reliable. In your
relationships, you seek harmony and act responsibly.
Other people give you strength. Practical matters mean so much more to you
than theories. You make decisions mainly guided by your values and emotions.
You want to keep matters in order.
You are cooperative, friendly, and sympathetic to people. You are very practical
and responsible. You have a natural sensitivity toward the feelings of other
people.
You have a sense of obligation and responsibility that is stronger than most have
in matters that you handle. Correspondingly, you have a need stronger than most
have to be an active member – to participate – in groups and associations you
consider important.
You feel safe in a very stable environment where the division of responsibilities
and the teams are clear and permanent. You respect rules and routines more
than most. You also observe how a new thing fits with the existing rules.
You value dealing with matters in detail, more detail than most. You appreciate
solution models that are proven in practice. You do not feel that it pays to
“reinvent the wheel” or “change things that are already working.”
Interaction Style
When listening to others talk or make a
presentation, at the same time you
evaluate the matter from the standpoint
of practical realities and human
elements. You pay more attention to the
deficiencies and problematic issues of
the presentation than to the possibilities.
You also give feedback on these
observations. In your feedback, it would
be important for you to consider whether
focusing on challenges promotes
handling of the matter or whether you
should instead utilize your strengths – in
other words, adopt a more cooperative
attitude and try to consider some
immediate improvements to respond to
the challenges detected, working
alongside the person raising the issue.
Others might think you are kind of a
“Teacher” who is a disciplinarian and
teaches people the difference between
right and wrong. Since you like to talk,
you need to count to 10 once in a while
before saying things out loud, and to
think about whether some observations
about a person are really correct. It is
good to adopt a more permissive attitude
at times.
When talking or performing, you naturally
emphasize practical matters and the
effects that things have on people. You
are directed more toward charting
challenges than presenting totally new
ideas or solution options. Your oral or
written presentations are usually
accurate and well thought out. You rarely
make mistakes in matters related to
people.
Strengths Survey
Helsinki
Vattuniemenranta 2
00210 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 10 832 0500
Tampere
Tullikatu 6
33100 Tampere, Finland
Tel. +358 10 832 0570
www.hrmpartners.fi
hrm@hrmpartners.fi
Business ID 1937510-1
HRM Partners Ltd