The Gap Assessment

The Gap
Assessment

Discover the behaviors that help you build personal and professional success.

Building a fulfilled life and successful career starts with acknowledging the tension that exists between your personal aspirations and professional success. The Gap Assessment reveals how the behaviors in the BRIDGE Domains can help you build and sustain long-term success.

Take the Assessment

8 to 12 minutes

Where
you are

Where you're
meant to grow

What it helps you answer

The questions every early-career professional is sitting with.

What is actually holding me back, when I am working hard and still feel stuck?

Where should I focus first, out of everything I could be working on?

What is my next move, and how do I know it is the right one?

Behaviors, not another identity

Rooted in the BridgeWork Framework.

B R I D G E

The BRIDGE Domains are behaviors that help you navigate the tension between your personal aspirations and your professional success. It is not a set of skills or strengths, it is a way of living you practice each day, because that tension stays with you throughout your life.

BBalance the Tension

Growth isn't choosing between self-improvement and career advancement. It's balancing both, so your well-being and your work hold each other up.

RReflect on Where You Are

Before you cross a bridge, you assess your starting point by taking honest stock of what's working and where you want to go.

IInvest in the Journey

Growth takes deliberate investment: mentorship, training, and experience that strengthen both your personal and professional foundation.

DDevelop Strong Connections

Bridges connect people and opportunities, and so does your career, through relationships that support both who you are and what you do.

GGain Experience & Adapt

A bridge must be tested to stay strong. Your career grows through real-world experience, adaptability, and resilience.

EEmbrace the Process

The bridge between who you are and who you're becoming is a journey, and success is growing along the way, not just reaching the other side.

Why this is different

Behaviors to be practiced.

Most assessments hand you a label and stop. The Gap Assessment is built to move you. It does not sort you into a type or a set of strengths, it shows you the distance between where you are and where you want to grow, and what to do first.

Myers-Briggs

Tells you your personality type. A label for who you are.

StrengthsFinder

Tells you what you are already good at. A snapshot of today.

The Gap Assessment

Identifies how you are balancing the tension between your personal aspirations and professional success.

Your personalized results

What your results will reveal.

A personalized read on you: a short, plain-language interpretation of where you are and what to focus on first.

How you show up across each of the six BRIDGE domains.

Your primary and secondary gaps, and the growth stage you're in right now.

A clear next step: a Gap Session with a Certified BridgeWork Navigator, who walks you through what your results mean and how to use them.

Sample profile

How it works

From assessment to action in three steps.

Take the assessment

8 to 12 minutes, on your own time. No prep, no jargon.

Get personalized results

Your domain scores, your gaps, your growth stage, and a personalized read on where to focus.

Book your Gap Session

A guided debrief with a Certified BridgeWork Navigator to turn your results into your next move.

In their words

Clarity they can act on.

These are my results and I think they are fairly true. What I am being exposed to and getting to lead is probably why I landed where I did. I definitely agree with the gap around embracing the process. Since change is inevitable in leadership, that is something I know I need to grow into.

Jonathan

Chicago · Healthcare

I appreciated that the results were not framed around what was wrong with me, but around recognizing strengths while identifying opportunities for growth. After more than 20 years in leadership, navigating a career transition, the reminder that growth requires adaptability was especially timely.

Julie

Huntsville · Human Resources

My highest score was balance. Holding competing demands is what I do all day, so no surprise there. What I learned is that all that steadiness can be a way of skipping past discomfort instead of sitting in it long enough to grow from it. My strength has been doubling as my ceiling.

Rayven

Houston · Higher Education

BridgeWork created The Gap Assessment to spark reflection, not evaluation. It's a moment to pause, measure where you are, and begin charting a path toward sustainable, people-centered success.

FAQ

What is The Gap Assessment?

For individuals

A personalized read on where you are and a clear next step to close your gap.

For teams

A dashboard that turns everyone's results into one plain-language summary of where to invest.

What problem does it solve?

For individuals: it shows how your everyday behaviors are helping or holding back the personal and professional success you are building. You see how you show up across the six BRIDGE domains, your primary and secondary gaps, the growth stage you are in, and a plain-language read on where to focus first.

For organizations: it creates a shared language and an evidence-based view of where a team is strong and where the shared growth edge is, so development goes to what matters most.

Who is it for?

Anyone building a career and a life at the same time and feeling the tension between their personal aspirations and their professional success, from emerging professionals to established leaders. It also gives organizations a shared language and a data-informed way to develop their people.

Is this a personality test?

No. Personality tests like Myers-Briggs or StrengthsFinder hand you a fixed label for who you are or what you are good at. The Gap Assessment looks at your behaviors, the things you actually do, and shows how well they help you navigate the tension between your personal aspirations and professional success, then points you to your next move.

How does it work, end to end?

Take the assessment online, about 8 to 12 minutes.
Get your results: how you show up across the six BRIDGE domains, your primary and secondary gaps, your growth stage, and a plain-language read on where to focus.
Book a Gap Session with a Certified BridgeWork Navigator to turn your results into a plan you can act on.

How long does it take?

About 8 to 12 minutes.

How often should someone retake it?

Every 4 to 6 months is ideal. That cadence balances real growth time with momentum.

I did not receive my results email. What should I do?

Check spam or promotions folders, then contact us at connect@dobridgework.com and we will resend your summary.

Privacy note

Your responses are confidential and will only be used for developmental feedback and aggregated insights that help organizations invest more effectively in their people.

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