Your Pigment trading card is a one-page summary of how you work best. It captures your working style, top strengths, and communication preferences in a format designed to be shared.
Think of it as a user guide for working with you, the kind of information that usually takes months of collaboration to learn, made available upfront.
We All Have a Preferred Way of Giving and Receiving Information
Most people are familiar with love languages. The idea is that we each have a preferred way of giving and receiving care, and when two people's preferences don't match, it creates friction that has nothing to do with how much they care about each other. The same thing happens at work, just with information instead of affection.
Some people give information through data and facts. They build a case with numbers, evidence, and research. Some people communicate through stories, grounding a point in a real situation or example that makes the idea feel tangible. Some people are most persuaded by who is involved, the credibility of the people in the room and the trust built over time. Others are moved by concrete, visible impact, the clearest possible picture of what changes and by how much.
The challenge is that most of us default to giving information the same way we like to receive it. When your colleague runs on data and you run on stories, the message often does not land the way you intended, not because either of you communicated poorly, but because you were speaking different languages without realizing it.
Knowing how the people around you give and receive information helps teams communicate with less friction, navigate difficult conversations more skillfully, and understand the intent behind what someone says, not just the words themselves.
Your trading card gives you and your teammates a shared starting point for that kind of understanding.
A Note on What the Trading Card Is Actually For
Your trading card is not designed to make other people adapt to you, and sharing it is not a request for everyone around you to change how they operate. It is a tool for awareness, specifically, awareness of the positive intent behind how you communicate and work.
When you give feedback in a direct, efficient way, some colleagues might read that as cold or dismissive. Your trading card helps them see something different: that directness is how you communicate when you respect someone's time and trust them with an honest perspective. That context changes how the feedback lands.
When you take longer to commit to a decision, some people might read that as hesitation or uncertainty. Your trading card helps them understand that you process by going deep before you go fast, and that your thoroughness is what makes your decisions reliable. That is useful information for anyone working with you.
Sharing your trading card gives people accurate information about your working style so they can understand what you mean, not just what you said. Miscommunications at work rarely come from bad intentions. They usually come from people assuming that everyone else processes and communicates the same way they do. The trading card helps close that gap.
The goal of sharing your trading card is not to ask your team to conform to you. It is to give them a clearer picture of who you are at work, so the people around you can collaborate with you more accurately from the start.
A 30-Minute Session Your Team Can Run This Week
If you are a manager, or if you want to bring this to your team, here is a simple process that works well and does not require any facilitation experience.
Have everyone on your team take the Pigment assessment and receive their trading cards. Then block 30 minutes together. The goal of the session is to have each person answer one question from their own card:
"What on your trading card is something you want the team to actually know about you?"
Each person shares one or two things from their card that feel most relevant to how the team works together. It does not need to be a full review of everything on the card, just the things that would genuinely help teammates understand how to work with them better.
Use these three questions to go deeper and keep the conversation grounded:
"When is a time this showed up at work, and what happened because of it?"
Asking for a real example grounds the trading card in something concrete rather than keeping it abstract, which makes it much more useful to everyone in the room.
"Is there anything on your card that surprised you, and does it feel accurate now that you've had time to sit with it?"
This question opens up honest self-reflection and signals to the team that thoughtful, candid conversation is welcome here.
"Based on what you've just shared, what is one specific thing that would help us collaborate with you more effectively?"
This is where the session turns from awareness into something the team can actually act on together.
A half-hour session with three good questions is enough to change how a team understands and works with each other. Teams that build this kind of shared language tend to communicate more directly, give each other more useful feedback, and ask for support earlier when they need it, all of which makes the team's work stronger over time.
A Good Place To Start
Sharing your trading card doesn't require a formal presentation. A simple message works:
"I recently did a professional assessment that captured how I work best. Here's my trading card, thought it might be helpful as we collaborate."
That's it. You're not asking for anything. You're just providing useful information.
Often, sharing prompts others to reflect on their own working style too. Some teams find value in everyone sharing their cards; it creates a shared language for talking about collaboration preferences without making it personal.
Keep Reading
If you found this useful, explore more ways to apply your Pigment results:
How to Get the Most Out of Your Assessment shows you how to read, interpret, and act on every section of your Pigment results so nothing gets overlooked.
How to Use Pigment at Work walks you through practical ways to apply your assessment results in everyday professional situations.
Does Your Monday Morning Pass This Test? offers a simple way to check whether your current work aligns with who you are.
10 Questions As You Kick Off The New Year gives you a framework for reflecting on what's working and what needs to change.
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