WORK ENVIRONMENT/PERSONAL STYLE
Your preference for Extroversion indicates that you are energized more by external forces and events than by internal ones. Throughout your day you may prefer a great deal of activity, which energizes you. [and I can drive others crazy by constantly needing to interacting, thus they send me on the road]
With a longer Time Frame Orientation – beyond five years – you will probably be viewed as a strategic thinker or planner and contribute to your organization from that perspective. One word of caution about a long Time Frame Orientation: unless your long-range plans are backed with specific short-term goals and intermediate actions, it is very easy to live in the future, believing there will always be time to act.
You may find that when someone needs a fast answer to a problem, you just “know” the answer, without needing to get there logically. This is Classification.
Your Idea Productivity is extremely strong. This means that you may have a constant stream of new ideas and thoughts throughout the day. Managed properly, this stream can be an important and valuable resource for you and for your company. You must exercise care, however, [thinking out loud like this also drives people crazy, especially in board and other meetings]
LEARNING
Your Verbal Memory score is in the mid-range. This indicates that you have a good ability to recall what you read, but that on occasion you may find it necessary to take notes or re-read.
Your score in Tonal Memory indicates that you have a good ability to recall what you hear. You may find that you need to concentrate more intensely when hearing material that is not particularly interesting to you [I’ve almost given up – yeah, I know, this is the problem!].
You have a very strong ability to take in new information in the form of charts, graphs, maps or other two-dimensional forms.
Your Rhythm Memory score indicates that learning something that requires body movement or following a beat will require repetition and effort for you. You may need to repeat a new sports play or dance rhythm more than once before it becomes easy for you [neither ever will!]
PROBLEM SOLVING/DECISION MAKING
You have a consultative problem-solving style. You are able to evaluate seemingly unrelated information and logically explain it to others. With this type of problem-solving style, you are able to draw conclusions quickly and accurately as well as explain how you arrived at the solution.
Your low score in Spatial Relations Visualization means that you are more at ease in dealing with and solving problems that have to do with people, ideas, relationships, feelings, strategy, and concepts than in technical or mechanical areas. The solutions you develop to problems will probably involve these abstractions also, as opposed to purely technical or mechanical solutions. [I glaze over when it’s scientific or involves engineering – i.e., Steven understands ecology and tells me what we need to do]
With a high score in Time Frame Orientation, you are most likely to think of solutions to problems that focus on or bear results five to ten years or more in the future. You consider most the long-range implications of your solutions to problems.
COMMUNICATION
Specialists have their own unique language and perspective. As a Specialist, you prefer to work as an individual and to make a contribution from an expert or particular point of view. You will tend to communicate your view with passion and intensity, because you often “own” your work as a personal extension of yourself. You tend to communicate from your own unique position and tend to have a unique way of seeing almost any issue. Because 80% of the population consists of Generalists, the Specialist is likely to appear and feel out of sync in communicating with a group of Generalists. Sometimes it can be difficult for you to understand how others feel at work, and your communication may not appear to be connected to the group or team goal.
You like and need free social interaction during communications. Situations that require communicating in structured, stereotyped formats will feel stressful and energy-draining. You often process information by talking ideas or information over with others before drawing a conclusion. This can mean that when you communicate your thoughts or ideas, they may represent a series of possible suggestions rather than a final conclusion. You may react immediately to a thought or idea; but your initial reactions may not express your final conclusions.
You may find it quite easy to understand what a person is driving at or intending to say -even before he finishes talking. In working with a team, you may find that an answer to a problem seems obvious to you, but is anything but obvious to others. You may find that you draw conclusions from a stated set of facts long before others do. All of this can make you feel or act impatiently at times. You may often think, “OK, get to the point,” when talking to others and you may find it difficult at times to slow down enough to listen to other points of view.
Your score in Idea Productivity allows you to generate a large number of ways to communicate and many different angles and examples. Idea Productivity helps with persuasion and sales and facilitates communication roles such as teaching, brainstorming, and selling. High Idea
Your low score in Spatial Relations Visualization means that you are most comfortable dealing with words, people, feelings, relationships, and ideas. This is often a huge help in dealing with organizations and teams, because it is relatively easy for you to see, understand and work with the abstract feelings and ideas of work teams or groups.
A high score in Observation can help you in reading body language, enabling you to observe unspoken communication.
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