The TAIS report outlines where you stand relative to your peers on 16 different performance dimensions. For each dimension, the report provides:
What follows is an excerpt from an actual TAIS report on one participant's Decision Making Style. This is only one page out of a 25-page report, but it will give you a taste of the valuable information each report contains.
This scale provides an indication of the individual's speed of decision making. High scorers make slower decisions, tending to sacrifice speed for the sake of accuracy. People who are cautious often worry about matters. Low scorers make quick decisions and are more likely to err because they end up sacrificing some accuracy for the sake of speed. They tend to become impatient with delays.
You tend to make decisions more quickly than the average person and about as quickly as most business leaders and top sales people do. You seem to handle pressure about the same as these people do. You will be frustrated by bosses, coworkers, or subordinates who are more cautious than you, who drag matters out and make you wait.
Pause a moment when you start to make others feel rushed to move or commit before they are ready. Paradoxically, you will get more out of them (on time) if you don't pressure them.
It is important that you find ways to bring into the open your need and apparent ability to make decisions fairly quickly. Because some of your rapid decisions will undoubtedly be in error occasionally (at least in others' eyes), it is really helpful if they hear your thought processes used in reaching your conclusion. When they cannot "see" how you made your decision, your "critics" are free to presume you were impulsive instead of decisive.
Team Building. Sometimes people who work or live together learn to laugh with each other at their idiosyncrasies in moments of stress. Laughter relaxes people, defusing enough of the pressure so that impatient people can wait more patiently and cautious individuals can move on, take action somewhat more rapidly.
Because you are relatively low on anxiety, you spend less time than average caught up in your head worrying about problems. This enables you to switch your focus of attention fairly quickly to what is going on around you even when you have been thinking. You still make concentration errors, but you apparently make fewer pressure-induced mistakes than most people do.