BG5: The Corporate Branch of Human Design
Within Human Design, or the Science of Differentiation, there is a branch called BG5 that refined the system so that it focuses with precision on who we are as professionals. Human Design allows us to understand the complete essence of who we are, from our Purpose in this life to the reason why we are the way we are, or how we are designed to be.
In all its magic, a Human Design Chart is still something extraordinary that can be applied at any phase of our life, in any period of time and in any circumstance. The Human Design system may seem absolute in what it says, but the knowledge it brings is meant to be experienced and worked with over time. The focus of the BG5 system is to find specific solutions to each person’s professional challenges.
The BG5 system is therefore a system that draws from Human Design, but it is still unique and independent. Its system of analysis is different, and even the terminology has been adapted to support its specific needs. Ra Uru Hu conceived this system when he came up against the difficulty people had in integrating Human Design because of its complexity.
Nowadays, many companies already use personality tests such as Myers Briggs, the Enneagram, and others to understand what kind of employees they have, how to make the best use of them, and how to place them in roles where their innate characteristics can shine. When a company functions like a machine in which all the pieces must fit together, what do we do when they do not work in harmony?
We are all different, with different characteristics and skills, unique ways of communicating and assimilating knowledge, but many of us operate on autopilot, trying to be what is expected of us, pushing ourselves to use abilities we do not naturally have, and creating enormous resistance within our professional lives.
Understanding our potential, where it lies, and how to reach it is the fastest way to develop our career and maximise ourselves professionally. Personality tests can offer useful insight into who a person is, but they are limited by time and circumstance, which leaves room for multiple personalities within the same person.
With the BG5 system, the only variable is conditioning because, even if the person is not yet what appears in the chart, we already know that this is what they were designed to be and what they may eventually become.
How does the BG5 system work?
The BG5 system is grounded in ancient philosophies, but also in our unique genetic information. Unlike Personality Tests, which rely on subjective questions and are highly dependent on the individual’s ability for self expression and self analysis, the BG5 System offers an objective analysis of each person’s characteristics based on a single question: “On what day, at what time, and where were you born?”
The truth is that the answer to this question allows us to find the key to our BG5 Success Code because it makes it possible to analyse our characteristics at both a conscious and unconscious level, looking at our innate and unchanging skills.
Of course, it may seem strange to carry out an analysis of professional skills based on something that does not have proven scientific studies behind it. Trusting an individual BG5 analysis, or one for a group, is still an act of faith, but if Humanity moved only by what has already been scientifically proven, we would never have had so many scientific advances.
The system used in BG5 has now been around for three decades and has helped many people find their professional path and reorganise their departments. When so much of who we are is already genetically programmed within us, we cannot limit ourselves to choosing someone for a role based only on an A4 sheet with a professional summary and an interview that represents a single moment in that person’s life.
As extraordinary as it may sound: what if hiring someone were based solely on what that person can naturally bring to the company, rather than on the privileges or misfortunes they have had in life, or on what they so badly want to be, but are not in their essence? What if we knew in advance that a person with so much experience in the field and so much knowledge to share would, in truth, drown in that department with fifteen other people?
How do you find the ideal job?
Many of us feel lost professionally. We reach a point where what we do no longer satisfies us and we want to find something that truly motivates us and brings us joy. Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life, that is what they say, but it is not that simple. Life ends up pushing us into certain places, we follow the opportunities that offer employment, money, or are simply presented to us, and we adapt to the environment we are in. We begin to function within what is expected of us until one day the money in the bank no longer makes sense, our colleagues wear us down, or we simply feel that our path is no longer there. We enter a period of self questioning in which our CV and qualifications tell us nothing and, although we know our happiness is no longer there, we also do not know where it is.
The truth is that what we are looking for is also looking for us. It is a question of learning how to look at ourselves as a whole and being able to tell the Universe what we want. We exist to live our Purpose and to make our energetic exchanges with everything around us more genuine and more efficient.
People say that, in order to find what we should really be doing, we need to go back to our childhood and look for what we loved doing for hours on end without worrying about the outcome. It is a good starting point for many people, but there are two essential flaws in this method: it does not take into account that some of us did not grow up in an environment that allowed us to explore the world with curiosity, and it does not take into account that today’s job market includes many more niches and fields that people could not even have imagined thirty years ago. And yet, when we were born, we already carried the skills needed to do the work we were made for.
On the other hand, we know that the education system does not favour certain characteristics such as creativity and individualism. Society conditions us into a mindset of giving everything we have and studying or working in order to reach the dream. That dream is not always ours. It may be what was sold to us by society, by our parents, or by whatever comment happened to activate our shadow aspects.
We all have a role to play and there is nothing wrong with some being leaders and others simply being here to respond. However, if we do not function in harmony, none of us can truly fulfil our real function. That is why BG5 analyses are just as important, or even more important, when carried out in a group context such as a department, company, partnership, and so on, because they allow the entire working group to be optimised.
The BG5 Professional Design
A BG5 analysis answers many relevant questions about who you are when you are working and, consequently, what your strengths are and how you behave energetically while you work, giving you permission to explore different avenues in your professional life and to recognise skills you have that do not necessarily appear on your CV. In this way, you can find your ideal job and live the life you are meant to live.
The purpose of a BG5 professional analysis is to empower individuals and companies by providing them with the tools and strategies to better recognise and make use of their unique skills and talents. When more than a third of our life is spent working, it is essential that this be an area of our life in which we feel satisfied and fulfilled.
The tools provided during a BG5 Professional Design analysis help guide the recipient towards a more successful professional career with greater material return, helping individuals and companies not only create a working environment with more mutual support and satisfaction, but also increase financial success.
The BG5 success code defines a series of key areas that help both an individual find their career and a company find its ideal employee. The BG5 Success Code is unique and individual, which means each member of a group needs to be analysed individually in order to understand how they integrate within a group.
Some of the parameters used in the BG5 Success Code are:
Career Type: your Career Type reveals how you express yourself in the professional world. Your Professional Design is unique, but it will fall within one of the 5 existing Career Types: Classic Builder, Express Builder, Innovator, Advisor, and Evaluator.
Personal Interaction: explains how you are here to express yourself.
Decision Making Strategy – reveals how you can make decisions you can trust and that will optimise your professional career or company.
Key Indicators – tells you what the signs are that you are on the right or wrong path for your professional development and financial prosperity.
Assimilation – shows you how you understand and digest information.
Environmental Style – reveals the type of environment in which you work best.
Entrepreneurial Skills – the skills you naturally bring with you and can contribute to your team.
Characteristics in Teams and Small Businesses – the role you play within these groups.
The Nine Roles – tells you how you function best at work.
Shadows/Distractions – explains the kinds of things that pull you away from your professional path.
Role – reveals how others see you.
Life Work – what did you come here to give to the world in professional terms?
General Themes, Strengths and Contributions, Characteristics and Qualities – you are the sum of all your talents and skills.
Companies and Strengths in Groups – reveals whether your skills and characteristics are well suited to larger groups.
Do you want to explore your Professional Design?
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