Trail Blazers are great at coming up with ideas for products, services, and entire businesses and brands, that have never been done before. They’re also good at thinking outside of the box to ideate ways in which to make existing things bigger and better, to make more impact and income. CIOs (chief innovation officers) of businesses usually have this personality type.

Creation - especially content creation - is also a strong suit of Trail Blazers, who find their flow doing arty-type tasks. Copywriting might be something Trail Blazers can quite quickly and easily turn their hand to, or even graphic design. In the corporate world, Trail Blazers might find themselves doing either (or both) of these things, but they are also well placed in the likes of creative direction whether that’s heading up a project in a commercial company, or coming up with concepts as a CEO for other team members to carry out. In business, Trail Blazers are also well suited to strategy. This is one of the areas in which CEOS are often best placed!

One of the great things about Trail Blazers is how quick they are to take action. When they see something in their mind, they want to hold it in their hand YESTERDAY, and they aren’t afraid to make messy moves (when things are around 80 or 90% done) to make that happen as soon as possible. Trail Blazers therefore make great leaders, as well as innovators and creatives. 

Trail Blazers can struggle to stay on task. This personality type is inspired by so much, and so often, that they often move onto the second task and the third task… before they’ve finished the first one. This can lead to Trail Blazers racing to catch a deadline, or miss them altogether. It can also lead to projects being started but not completed… discarded while the Trail Blazer moves onto something that excites them more!

In being zoomed out to look at the big picture so often, Trail Blazers sometimes forget to zoom in to look at the small details. They can be guilty of seeing products, services (and even people!) for their potential, sometimes, rather than for what (or who) they are. This can lead to disappointment for Trail Blazers if/when things don’t work out. They’re big dreamers, and if/when the reality doesn’t match their dreams, they can wind up feeling deflated.

Trail Blazers can have a hard time managing people, because they have such high expectations of others. They have a tendency to be over-optimistic as to what they and other people can achieve, and if people don’t do things as well or as quickly as they do, it can leave them feeling frustrated and wanting to take on not just their own tasks, but everybody else’s as well! The downside of wanting things done ASAP as a Trail Blazer, is that they don’t always take into account the logistics of operation. Putting plans in place for project management can be just as hard a task as people management is for a Trail Blazer.