Each personality style performs best and derives the most personal enjoyment from a workplace environment that meets his or her primary, or core needs. 

In the case of the Logical Way, they have a significant or core need for intellectual competence as well as precision and improvement, i.e. they can thrive in an environment that meets their high need for intellectual competence. 

If the workplace environment does not satisfy the primary need for their personality style, much talent, production time and many accomplishments can be lost.

I.    The workplace environment in which the Logical Way prefer to function:

• Unstructured

• High tech and scientific

• Challenging and innovative

• Flexible as to time and organization

• Permits independent work

• Involves problem solving, exploration, and innovation

• Permits debate and discussion and allows employees to ask “why”

• Provides clearly-defined performance expectations

•  Values quality and accuracy

• Provides opportunities to demonstrate subject matter expertise

• Shows control over factors that affect performance

• Recognition for ideas and intellectual competencies

II.   Strengths the Logical Way bring to the work environment:

• Focus on mission of organization

• Build conceptual frameworks or systems

• Look at the world and see new possibilities, meanings, and system relationships

• Examine consequences analytically and impersonally

• Architects of change

• Conceptualizing and designing especially with regard to organizational change

• Setting high standards

• Can see the core of complex issues or problems

• Sees the larger picture