Conscientiousness

Conscientiousness is the key personality trait included in the Focused Formula for Success from the BIG5 and is described from a positive and proactive stance which can be summarised as a “will to achieve”. Someone who is high in conscientiousness has direction.

conscientious, careful, reliable, hardworking, well organized, scrupulous, self-disciplined, neat, punctual, practical, deliberate, ambitious, emotionally stable, self-reliant, businesslike, energetic, knowledgeable, persevering, intelligent, fair, perceptive, cultured

Source: Robert R. McCrae and Paul T. Costa, Jr. 1987

Five-factor model in personality (“BIG 5”)