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Focus Styles: how people work, in 13 minutes

Wave Focus Styles is a behavioral questionnaire that shows what drives each person, where they excel and where they need support. Use it to hire, onboard and develop professionals against one standard.

Behavioral-assessment
Focus Styles Line Manager Report showing strengths and challenge areas
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See it in action

See how one questionnaire shapes the interview, the first weeks and every development conversation after

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Why teams choose it

Detail, in minutes

Thirteen minutes for them. For you, a read on where they will excel and where they will need support, specific enough to take into the interview and their first onboarding conversations.

Stylized Focus Styles Line Manager Report

One standard throughout

Selection, onboarding and development on the same science.

Sharper interviews

Interview questions built from each candidate’s results.

Easy for anyone

Insight anyone in the business can pick up and use.

Candidate experience

Every candidate can receive their own feedback report.

Compared fairly

Norm groups from graduates to senior executives.

How it works

From one completion to action

We set it up around how you already work: run Focus Styles on Wave Connect, order reports on their own, or have results flow into your HR system.

Where it fits

Where teams use Focus Styles

It fits professional roles, wherever you need more than a screening read and less than a full day of assessment.

Professional hiring

Each shortlisted candidate gets a Targeted Interview Guide built from their results, so interviewers test the strengths the role needs and probe likely challenge areas. Once hired, the Onboarding Report guides the first conversations.

Professional development

Give each person their top eight strengths and bottom eight challenge areas, with practical advice on each. Managers and coaches get a plan for the conversation, so development starts from evidence.

Team development

Show which roles each person tends to take and how they combine, so you can see which roles nobody covers and plan the team around it.

Change and transformation

Show how each person handles change across four drivers: dealing with change, staying connected, enabling new ways of working and maintaining drive. Each gets practical advice for the change ahead.

Use cases

What you can do with Focus Styles

One completion supports each of these moments, from the interview to a leadership review.

Run a sharper interview

Each candidate gets a Targeted Interview Guide built from their results, so every interviewer tests the priorities for the role and probes the real risks.

Choose between close finalists

When two finalists look the same on paper, the Expert Report shows where drive and self-belief part ways, giving you a clear reason to choose.

Protect your employer brand

Every candidate can get clear feedback on their strengths, so the people you turn down still leave with something useful and a better view of you.

Develop from day one

New starters and their managers get practical tips from week one. Development and Coaching reports then turn strengths and gaps into a plan to work from.

Close team gaps early

See which roles a team naturally fills, which nobody covers and who will find a change hardest, so you can plan support before work slips.

Catch leadership risk early

See which of nine risks a leader is most likely to show, how each could affect the team and the business, and practical steps to manage it.

Choose the right depth

Short, standard or comprehensive

About 6.5 minutes

The fast read for shortlisting at volume, when you need a consistent view of many people quickly.

What clients see

How Sodexo used Focus Styles through change

Your numbers

Calculate your ROI

Put in your own numbers and see what a better read on your people is worth before the cost of a wrong decision lands.

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Integrations

Fits into the systems you already use

Results flow into the HR system you already use.

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Questions we hear

Focus Styles questions

Short answers to what buyers ask before they choose it.

Wave Focus Styles is a short behavioral questionnaire that shows how a person is likely to work. It covers their motives, preferences and talents across four areas, Thought, Influence, Adaptability and Delivery, and is used for selection, onboarding and development.

See Focus Styles with your roles

Tell us which decisions you want to get right and we will show you the reports that fit.

Resources

More on developing professionals