How to keep your personality profile alive over time
Don’t Let Your Personality Profile Gather Dust
Your personality is with you all the time. In every moment, every interaction, every response, every relationship, every habit – your personality is playing a role somewhere.
Sure, there are also many other factors impacting on how we behave in different moments throughout the day – and these are also highly impacted by our mood and the situation we’re in - but your personality is always there impacting on your personal style.
But here’s the problem…
When people take the time to complete a personality profile, most treat the insights like a one-off - not a tool they can return to. It ends up in the digital drawer, unopened just when it’s needed most—like during change, stress, or team tension.
Many of us have been there. We’ve been asked to complete a personality profile, we’ve had a team session to explore a little around what this means, we head off to lunch and forget about it!
But your profile isn’t a static snapshot. It’s a living, breathing guide to how you work, lead, connect, and thrive. The value isn’t just in the first read—it’s in using it as a reference when your context shifts, when you’re stuck, or when you’re growing into something new.
Let’s talk about how and when to keep your profile alive.
At TALY, we make it easy to integrate these insights into your daily work - especially during the recruitment process and in developing existing teams. Personality profiling is the key to unlocking stronger, more harmonious teams.
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Think of your profile as your personal playbook
Research has shown that almost 50% (!) of your engagement at work can be linked to how well your personality aligns to your work, and how much your leader shapes your role for you.
Your TALY Personality profile is more than a set of traits—
it’s a window into how you naturally tend to make decisions, respond to stress, connect with others, and find motivation. But these patterns aren’t fixed. Context shifts constantly: roles change, teams evolve, pressures rise, priorities flip.
And with every new context comes a new mix of triggers. You might react in familiar ways, but it’s harder to recognise your patterns when everything around you is different. That’s why revisiting your profile isn’t just helpful—it’s essential.
It brings clarity when the variables have changed. It grounds you in why you respond the way you do—and shows you how to work with it, not against it and then bring focus where it’s needed to stay adaptable and successful.
When to tap back in and why it matters…
Here are moments when dusting off your profile could be a game-changer:
Starting a new role or project
Big change? New team? Time to refocus. Your profile can remind you how you naturally collaborate and where you might need to stretch. TALY’s project view lets you build a team and understand how you collaborate and where you might have tensions that need more deliberate focus and action.Prepping for a tough conversation
Heading into a particularly challenging feedback session? Check in with your emotional intelligence scores - are you likely to overexpress or underplay your emotions? Are you more task or relationship orientated? How do you frame feedback?
You can also check in on the recipient’s TALY personality – helping engage in behaviours that’ll make the session smoother and delivered in a way that resonates with their deep motivators.Feeling stuck or flat
If work's feeling “meh” or you’re spinning your wheels, your motivational drivers might hold the key. Your profile can help you re-centre on what gives you energy and redirect your energy away from activities that drain your motivation.Leading others through change
Your personality doesn’t just affect you—it shapes how others experience you. When guiding a team through uncertainty, revisit your profile to check how you’re communicating, influencing, and supporting emotional needs.Hitting big goals or setbacks
Milestones—good or bad—are perfect times to reflect. How did your natural traits help or hinder you? And what might you want to change next time?
Make it a habit, not a hindsight
Here’s your friendly psychologist tip: don’t treat your personality profile like a time capsule. Treat it like a compass. Set a calendar reminder to revisit it every 2-3 months. Better yet, pin it next to your goals. Reflect after team reviews. Talk about it in coaching or 1:1s.
And most importantly—use it in real life. The more you tap into it, the more it becomes part of how you grow and lead.