Personality Assessment
Two of the most
important factors to determine your happiness and success in a job are
your personality and attitudes. Assess your feelings and actions
in different situations as they may be different, e.g., in a large group
vs. one-on-one, in a fast paced vs. slow-paced environment. You are
unique, having different tolerance levels than others for chaos, detail,
and risk taking.
It is important
to evaluate who you really are now, not the person you think you would
like to be. Be honest when you judge your thoughts and feelings,
your attitudes and behaviors. The results of a personality assessment
show personality strengths that are special to the individual.
The results could provide guidance on how you prefer to interact in the
workplace and how your personality type may communicate more effectively
with others with a different personality profile. Check with your
friends. Do they see you as you see yourself? Interacting with
others in your preferred personality style takes advantage of your strengths
and requires less energy than making an effort to interact with others
using traits that are not as well developed.
What is an Attitude?
Spranger identified
six attitudes which are defined as follows:
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Theoretical:
A Passion to discover, systematize and analyze; a search for knowledge.
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Utilitarian: a
passion to experience the impressions of the world and achieve form and
harmony in life; self actualization.
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Social: A passion
to eliminate hate and conflict in the world and to asset others in becoming
all they can be.
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Individualistic:
A passion to achieve position and to use that position to affect and influence
others.
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Traditional: A
passion to seek out and pursue the higher meaning in life and achieve a
system for living.
Eduard Spranger
(1928) Types of Men.
Personality
Preferences
Effectively
interacting with others requires understanding your preferences in terms
of the way you live in the world both outside yourself and inside yourself,
the way you take in information and make decisions, and the type of environment
in which you are most comfortable. In what ways do you prefer to
interact with the world?
Examples
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You become energized
by being around people most of the time, or need to spend time alone, or
think out loud, or need time to think to prepare answers before speaking,
or pursue a few interests at great depth, or share personal information
freely, etc.
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You process information
by concentrating on what you take in through your senses (seeing, hearing,
feeling, smelling, tasting) and on what is real and concrete, or value
imagination, or look at a situation and think about its meaning and consequences,
etc.
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You make decisions
by using logic and objective analysis, or deciding based on my personal
values and what is right for yourself and others, or prefer one standard
for all with no exceptions, etc.
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Your preferred
environment is tending to live in an orderly way where life is structured
and matters settled, or tending to live spontaneously with all kinds of
possibilities, or are happier after decisions are made, or avoid closure,
or try to understand life rather than control it, etc.
Values and attitudes
help to initiate one's behavior and motivations. Personality assessment
helps illuminate those motivating factors and attitudes and allows a person
to understand the driving forces behind their decisions, gain an understanding
of how people see the world differently and value different things in life,
and to understand how values effect their choices and, provides purpose
and direction in their lives.
Once you know
the attitudes that drive your action, you will be able to understand the
causes of conflict. You will understand and appreciate your relationships
as you recognize the attitudes of other people. You will see how
their attitudes might interact with your own.
Understanding
your attitudes, values, and personality traits allows you to take control
of your decisions, your life and your enjoyment of life. You learn
to:
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Know the WHY of
your actions.
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Make career choices
that will increase your job satisfaction.
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Understand the
causes of conflict
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Develop an increased
appreciation for the uniqueness of others
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Appreciate the
viewpoint of others who see life differently
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Increase your enjoyment
of life
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Increase your satisfaction
and fulfillment in life.
Links
to More Information
TypeLogic
http://www.typelogic.com/ The
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
http://www.advisorteam.com/user/ktsintro1.asp
Personality
Assessment
http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/step1_2.asp Life Colors
http://www.lifecolorsonline.com/lifecolorslite.html
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