Are You on the Right Mountain?

You can be good at your job and still be on the wrong mountain. Skill and effort can carry you a long way up a climb that was never yours. The signs are quiet: Sunday evenings that feel heavy, days that drag, and a sense that you are performing rather than living.

So we ask a simple question in every Apex Strengths report: does your current work use what you are best at?

Three places you can be

Apex. The parts of your work you enjoy most draw on your natural strengths, you are skilled at them, and you look forward to them. The advice here is simple: go deeper.

Bridge. You are capable, and some of your work fits you, but the parts you enjoy most use only some of your strengths. Most people are here, and it is a good place to be if you treat it as a bridge, not a home. The question is which parts of your work to lean towards.

Wrong Mountain. Your work mainly asks for strengths that are not your most natural ones, and you rarely enjoy it. This does not mean leaving tomorrow. It means finding the parts of your role, or a nearby role, that use what you are built for.

A bridge is a fine place to stand. It is a poor place to live.

How we find out

Built into the test are a few short questions about your real work: how you feel on a Sunday evening, whether people bring hard problems to you, and which parts of a normal week you would rather spend more time on. We compare those answers with your natural strengths. If the signal is not clear enough, we say so honestly instead of guessing.

Know where you stand. Then choose your next step on purpose.