Contribution Compass Tokens

ABOUT

Welcome to the Sirdar Contribution Compass – a profiling tool that enables you to understand both your area of maximum contribution to a team, company or organisation and how you can leverage the most value for yourself and for your organisation. You achieve this leverage simply – by investing your time in your area of maximum contribution, through what is referred to as your ‘natural energy’.

This tool aims to provide you with focus on how to maximise your application of skills, expertise and time and how best to play your most valuable role in a team. It does not aim to pigeon-hole you or box you into a label or category. People are far more complex and layered than that. While your expertise and acquired behaviour may change slightly over time as you evolve, it is highly unlikely that your main profile or natural energy will do so as it represents the fundamental way that you engage with the world around you, and in particular, in critical moments. A critical moment is when you are not thinking – you are just doing what you do, naturally. You will often find that your profile is reflected most accurately when you are under stress or under pressure. This is when your learnt behaviour falls to one side and your natural energy comes to the fore. The more we actually allow ourselves to operate within our natural energy, and refine our skills accordingly, the more effective we become and the more valuable we make our contribution.

Many of us spend most of our time in areas of our jobs or business activity that consume time and, more importantly, energy from us. The more time we spend in these areas of minimum contribution, the less energy we have and the less value we create for the company and, ultimately, for ourselves. When this downward cycle continues we can end up needing to put even more time into these unrewarding areas of minimal contribution.

Ironically, our parents, our teachers and now even our employers often drive us to work hard on improving the areas in which we are ‘weakest’. Imagine for a moment that we all understood that if we supported each other to focus on the areas where we create the most value – where we are the A+ student – everyone would be better off, both in our work environments and at home.

What if, as a gifted salesperson, you were given the opportunity to focus 100% of your time on activating new sales while someone else focused on nurturing those long-term relationships once on board? Imagine what the rewards could be for you and your company. Think about how much more fun you would be having simply because it does not feel so hard and it makes a much more powerful impact on the world around you.

Unless we understand what our particular contribution is and where we add the most value, then how can we have the rest of the conversation? It is not to say that you are no good at the ‘other stuff’ and it is not to say that you ‘cannot do it’. Yet it is to say, let’s focus you on what you can do and on what creates the most value for you and for your organisation.

The Sirdar Contribution Compass is a tool to guide your focus and direction. In understanding others more deeply, it supports you to make sure that all those on the journey with you are ‘aces in their places’ and motivated to achieve excellence. The whole really does then become greater than the sum of its parts.