Highlands Ability Battery logo (HAB)Highlands Ability Battery 

Finding out your natural abilities is a fundamental step towards a satisfying and successful career.

When we study and work in line with our natural abilities it's like driving along a brand new four-lane motorway. Working against your natural talents is like trying to make your way along a narrow, muddy, footpath. You can get there either way, but working with your natural talents is a lot easier and you will find much greater success.

Overview of the Highlands Ability Battery

The Highlands Ability Battery (tHAB) comprises 19 separate validated objective tests.  The HAB isolates natural abilities and analyses combinations of aptitudes in addition to individual aptitudes. It is an objective measure of your relative ability to do specific things from solving problems to remembering what you read. It tells you what you'll find easy, what will be difficult and is the foundation to effective career choice.

More information on the Highlands Ability Battery

Real career success is rarely down to money and status and much more to do with finding a job which ties in with what you can do easily.

We all have talents and abilities we are born with. These give us a special ability to do things easily and a reason why we can find other things difficult. We develop this ability through heredity and in childhood and our abilities can be measured from age 14.

Because they are hard wired they do not change. Practice won't make them stronger and ignoring them won’t mean we lose them. They differ from skills, which we can develop, but which we can also lose, and interests which can change. However, both skills and interests can enhance our abilities.

We are happiest and most satisfied when we make maximum use of our abilities. An individual may develop the skills to practice law, for example, but if she doesn't have the inborn talents which make the practice of law easy and satisfying, she will find her work unrewarding (and, even, as in the case of many lawyers, frustrating). When we apply our abilities to our study or work, we do our tasks better.

Knowing your abilities and natural talents can help you to

  • Understand where you are naturally talented
  • Know how you solve problems and make decisions most effectively
  • Understand clearly why you would be happy in some fields and not happy in others
  • Choose the best option from a group of study/ career/ job/ business choices
  • Know how to study most effectively
  • Know what other jobs within your organisation you would be more fulfilled with
  • Use your true strengths more effectively and more consistently
Here you can access a 2 page article which provides you with details on the highlands ability battery work samples: http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/assessments/HAB.pdf

To read a list of FAQs: FAQs for the Highlands Ability Battery

Who should take the Highlands Ability Battery?
  • Students who seek help in choosing A levels or a university degree subject
  • People who wonder why they are unhappy in their work
  • People seeking to make a career change and want to know what they are naturally good at
  • Anyone who seeks to understand their abilities

What's included and costsHighlands Explored eBook

  • Everything you need to take the assessment on line
  • Downloadable 31 page report
  • Additional reference booklet: Highlands Explored to help you get a deeper understanding of the assessment
  • 10 Steps to a Job you Love, 17 page eBook sold for £10
  • CD of our discussion so you can listen again to what was discussed
  • page Critical Career Implications summary which provides all key information on one page for easy referral  
  • 1 month of follow up to answer any questions you may have on how the results relate to your job or possible new careers
To buy: £275 

 

 

The Highlands Ability  Battery and Students 

ALL my clients who have taken the Highlands Ability Battery wish they had taken it when they were younger as the information is so powerful when making career decisions.

 

You get to know what you can actually do which puts you in a prime decision for making decisions on what to study and what will be the best career path to follow.

 

Students who take the assessment get the full 30 page report, in-depth discussion, all recorded onto CD and posted out to you, plus you get a full month of follow up to answer any questions you may have on how the results relate to your study and career choice. 

 

All students get the 70 page eBook on using the Highlands Ability Battery to enhance the way you learn, which can be of immediate benefit. Do consider taking the Student Silver Programme, which offers an extra hour of coaching at a reduced price!

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How do I buy, what happens next?

I want to get started. What happens next?

1: Phone

I want to make sure you are entirely happy with your decision so if you have any questions please do contact me.

To read a list of FAQs: FAQs for the Highlands Ability Battery

2: Sample the Highlands Ability Battery

   Get a feel for the assessment

Access a sample student report or an adult report

3: Make Payment

Order the Highlands Ability Battery, take the in-depth assessment, receive a 31 page report and schedule your in depth feedback discussion.  You also get a complimentary additional 39 page booklet - Highlands Explored, the most effective reference book for you to get the most out of the assessment and a CD of our discussion so you can listen again to what was discussed. Plus you get the 17 page e-book - 10 steps to finding a job you love (worth £10).  Plus you get a full month of follow up to answer any questions you may have on how the results relate to your job or possible new careers.

To buy: £275 

 

 

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Denise Taylor, Career Coach

"I've personally chosen the most effective assessments to help you to understand yourself, your relationships and to choose a career that is right for you."  

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I found our sessions very enjoyable and informative. You are easy to talk to. I particularly liked the way you allowed me space to explore my own thoughts, as well as guiding me gently back to the subject at hand if I strayed too far off on a tangent! John Walters, Berks

Denise really helped me to understand more of who I am. She has the patience to make sure I "got it" and knew what to do with the feedback."  Anna P, London

Felt as if we were just sitting down together for a chat! You come across as very approachable, and have a lovely melodious voice, which just imparts confidence!! Paula Mason, Notts