Functional Behavior Assessment - How It Works

How does it work?

How does a functional behavior assessment strengthen personal awareness and boost productivity and collaboration in the workplace?

There are two components that make up the MyHardWired profiling system:

Your personal report will identify your preferences amongst three dimensions of human behavior
Preferred, Expectation, and Instinctive Modes

Represented by 4 colors: red, yellow, green, blue
Each color signifies different behaviors and specific points of view

The three modes

PREFERENCES

The Preferred Mode uncovers the activities you enjoy most, your ideal management style, and your ideal work environment. By aligning with your natural preferences, this mode helps you unlock your best work, maximize your productivity, and find fulfillment in what you do. Your Preferred Style chart identifies what jobs and activities you find most rewarding and challenging, strengthening personal awareness.

EXPECTATIONS

The Expectations Mode highlights how you naturally approach and interact with others—and how you prefer to be approached in return. It also uncovers your management style and how you like to be managed, offering a clear roadmap for building stronger, more effective connections and fostering collaboration in any environment.

INSTINCTS

The Instinctive Mode shines a light on your instinctive fears, empowers your strengths, and reveals how you perceive the world. Understanding this dimension deepens your personal awareness and helps you identify what you need to feel secure and empowered. The dominant traits of your Instinctive Needs graph illustrate your learning style, what you trust, and how you will react under pressure.

Traits are represented by four colors

Red

- Action oriented
- Goal driven
- Loves independence
- Takes charge

Green

- Organized
- Systematic
- Fact based
- Uses history & caution

RED

- Action oriented
- Goal driven
- Loves independence
- Takes charge
GREEN

- Organized
- Systematic
- Fact based
- Uses history & caution
YELLOW

- Outgoing
- Team focused
- Collaborative
- Invites group input
BLUE

- Introspective
- Analytical
- Reflective
- Weighs options before deciding

Yellow

- Outgoing
- Team focused
- Collaborative
- Invites group input

Blue

- Introspective
- Analytical
- Reflective
- Weighs options before deciding

MyHardWired Profiles

When you combine the two components, you get your unique MyHardWired view.

Whole brained individuals blend structure, creativity, action, and strategy into a powerful, versatile mindset. They can zoom out to see the big picture while staying grounded in detail and logic. They act decisively, lead with energy, build strong systems, and adapt to both solo work and collaboration. With the ability to switch between innovation and execution, introversion and extroversion, vision and precision—they bring balance to any challenge and thrive in complex, multifaceted roles.

Whole Brained

Red/blue personalities are driven innovators who combine the Red’s dynamic energy with the Blue’s visionary outlook. They excel at creating and launching new ideas, thrive on progress, and prefer forging fresh paths to maintaining established ventures.

Individualistic

Red/yellow personalities are energetic and extroverted, thriving in fast paced settings. They combine a can do attitude with multitasking skills, using short term wins to fuel their momentum and maintain control through action.

Extroverted

Green/red personalities are decisive, focused, and clarity-driven. They narrow objectives with precision, balancing action (Red) and thoughtful evaluation (Green). By combining extroverted drive and introverted attention to detail, they effectively cut through ambiguity, creating a dynamic blend of momentum and focus.

Left Brained

Green/yellow personalities combine structure and collaboration. They excel at creating organized systems (green) while fostering strong teamwork (yellow). This balance makes them ideal for roles that involve service, team building, and ensuring everyone works together smoothly toward a common goal.

Conforming

Green/blue personalities are deeply analytical, strategic, and introverted. They excel at thorough research, avoid unnecessary risks, and develop well planned, long lasting solutions.

Introverted

Green/blue personalities are deeply analytical, strategic, and introverted. They excel at thorough research, avoid unnecessary risks, and develop well planned, long lasting solutions.

Yellow/blue personalities are expansive and visionary thinkers who thrive on complexity. They excel at seeing the big picture and exploring future possibilities, continuously expanding on initial ideas with an inclusive approach that fuels creativity and innovation.

Right Brained

The Assessment Process

Take the Functional Behavior AssessmentComplete an 81 question functional behavior assessment survey (should take about 15 minutes)

Unlock Your ResultsAs soon as you complete the assessment, you're able to instantly gain access to your private MyHardWired home page to view your report

Explore Your ReportGain insights through text, audio, and other interactive tools that make up your personal awareness report

Ongoing DevelopmentAccess regular updates, articles, and new features that align with your specific learning style and continue to grow your personal awareness

Frequently Asked Questions

What is MyHardWired?

MyHardWired is a 3-Dimensional Behavioral Assessment that shows how you’re naturally wired to think, communicate, and perform. It measures: Preferred Style (how you operate at your best), Expectations (how you expect others to approach you), Instinctive Mode (how you react under stress or when you feel secure). This 3D view gives you a clear, practical blueprint for better communication, stronger leadership, and more fulfilling work.

How soon will I receive my results?

Your functional behavior assessment results are available immediately upon completing the survey.

What does MyHardWired measure?

MyHardWired captures your core behavior, motivators, communication preferences, learning style, and stress response — then maps them across three dimensions for a full picture of how you’re wired and how you behave.

What does the personal report provide?

The MyHardWired Personal Report gives insights into what makes people tick, what motivates them, how they deal with stress, how they communicate (speaking or listening), learning style, management style, ideal work environment and what jobs and activities they enjoy or find frustrating.

What does the personal report NOT provide?

The MyHardWired report does not measure character, moral values, intelligence, or effectiveness.

How is it different from other assessments?

Most assessments stop at labeling your personality or giving you a single snapshot of your style. MyHardWired goes further by: Measuring three dimensions – Preferred Style, Expectations, and Instinctive Mode – to show how you perform at your best, how you expect others to approach you, and how you respond under stress. Capturing your motivators and stress triggers – so you can predict when you’ll thrive or burn out. Providing practical, actionable insights – not a 25-page report full of theory. You get clear takeaways you can use today to improve communication and performance. Working across roles and contexts – whether you’re an individual, a team leader, or a consultant, the results scale with you. In short, MyHardWired doesn’t just tell you who you are — it shows you how to use who you are to lead better, work better, and live better.

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