I found this interesting set of notes from a trainer (Christoper Flett) who helps women understand the often still very male world of business. There’s a lot of overlap between his advice and what you would get applying our EQSQ personality tests. Well, if you assumed that EQ meant women and SQ meant men, which of course is not what our personality tests actually tell us. It is, as you know, that those with the male brain do better at the systemizing, those with the female the empathic tasks. But with that proviso, that we’re talking about brain types, he about gender, there is that meeting of minds.

For example, men are goals oriented, not process: we want to do things, not worry about how. Women seek more external affirmation (highly empathic behavior, thinking not so much about the task as the reactions of others), are more selfless (ditto) and so on. All of which is rather interesting I think.

We’ve got a trainer, working purely from observational experience of the business world, who comes up with very similar answers to our own EQSQ personality tests which are based upon analysis of the actual physical structure of the brain. When you start getting similar answers from entirely different methods of calculation, you do start to think that you might be on the right track.