Introducing RoleID
Your Primary Assessment Result
Before reviewing your specific assessment results, it’s essential to understand what RoleID is designed to capture—and why it matters.
RoleID identifies your most reliable pattern of intrinsically motivated contribution. Not your job title. Not your skills. Not what you aspire to do.
It reflects how you are naturally motivated and respond when responsibility increases, decisions matter, and outcomes have real consequences.
Across teams and organizations, people struggle because, first, their default way of contributing is either misapplied, overextended, or misunderstood—by themselves or by others. Second, they are motivated extrinsically, such as by financial gain or status, which is unsustainable for the long term.
RoleID exists to make that default visible and sustained through intrinsic motivation (see Part V of this manual for more on applying the science of intrinsic motivation). In this framework, it is a functional contribution pattern based on your intrinsic motivations.
RoleID describes:
What you instinctively notice first.
Where you tend to apply effort without being asked.
How you try to be useful when something is at risk.
The kind of value others come to rely on from you.
Roles are not preferences you select.
They are tendencies that surface consistently from within across contexts.
You have all the roles within you. And while you may competently express multiple roles, one typically emerges with less friction and greater reliability. That is your Primary RoleID.
Why Role Clarity Matters
Strength without clarity can quickly lead to friction.
When people lead with their strongest contribution without recognizing its limits, they often:
Solve problems that aren’t theirs to solve.
Overcorrect issues they’re not best suited to address.
Feel underutilized, overburdened, or misunderstood.
Create tension with others whose roles differ.
RoleID helps prevent that by providing a shared language for:
Responsibility.
Contribution.
Boundaries.
Balance.
This clarity becomes increasingly crucial as environments grow faster, flatter, and more complex, especially in the era of AI technology and automation.
How to Read Your RoleID Results
Your RoleID results are descriptive, not prescriptive. They indicate how you are most likely to contribute by default, not how you must continuously operate.
As you read:
Notice patterns you recognize from experience.
Pay attention to moments of relief or resistance.
Hold both strengths and constraints together.
Avoid treating the role as an identity.
Mastery does not come from leaning harder into your role. It comes from knowing when to deploy it, when not to, and how to sustain your motivation over the long term.
A Note on Role Names
The RoleID terms you’ll see are intentionally chosen to be vivid and memorable.
They serve as anchors—easy to recall under pressure and useful when reflecting on patterns quickly. Some of that language leans into a light, game-inspired tone, which becomes more apparent later in the manual.
Outside the RoleCraftID environment, each RoleID also has one or more plain-language alternatives you can use in professional settings. Think of the names here as shorthand, not labels—designed to aid recall and engagement, not define how you present yourself.
Introducing CraftID
Your Secondary Assessment Result
If RoleID describes what kind of value you most naturally contribute, CraftID describes how that value tends to show up in action.
Two people can share the same Role and look very different in practice.
The difference is Craft.
CraftID captures your mode of expression—the way you grow and mature from intention to impact.
It reflects:
How you tend to engage situations.
Where you apply energy first.
The form your contribution usually takes.
How others experience your role in motion.
Where RoleID concerns intrinsic function, CraftID concerns application delivery.
What a Craft Represents
A Craft is not a skill set or a learned technique.
It is a recurring behavioral pattern of growth—how you instinctively translate your RoleID into action as you mature, especially under time pressure or ambiguity.
CraftID influences whether you:
Start things or refine them.
Observe first or engage immediately.
Mobilize people or build capability.
Protect emotional space or push for momentum.
Craft shapes the texture of your work, not just its outcome.
Why Role Alone Isn’t Enough
Role without Craft is incomplete.
A Visionary Exhorter, for example, contributes momentum and belief, but how they are generated varies. Some exhort through direct activation. Others through careful perception, training, or relational safety.
CraftID explains those differences.
Understanding CraftID prevents two common problems:
Assuming someone will act the way you would in the same role.
Overgeneralizing strengths while missing delivery mismatches.
Combining Role and Craft
Your RoleID and CraftID are read together. When combined, they form your RoleCraft Identity (RCID).
For example:
Visionary Prophet + Activator → Prophet / Activator
Trusted Steward + Safekeeper → Steward / Safekeeper
Learned Teacher + Engager → Teacher / Engager
This combined identity describes both what you bring and how you bring it. It is the most accurate shorthand for understanding your contribution in real-world contexts.
How to Read Your CraftID Results
As with RoleID, CraftID results are descriptive rather than limiting. Just as you have every RoleID within you, you can develop other Crafts.
You can act outside your default CraftID when needed to become holistically effective.
But your primary Craft reflects the path of least resistance—the way contribution tends to flow most naturally for youas you grow and mature. It’s also been recognized and validated by others.
As you read:
Notice how others typically experience your contribution.
Pay attention to where effort feels energizing versus draining.
Consider how your CraftID amplifies—or distorts—your RoleID when overused.