Color Your Future

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2. Realize there are other ways of thinking, believing, acting and feeling Understand others Accept and tolerate others Respect others Celebrate others Live and work well with others Why study Personality/Temperament Styles?

3. Disclaimer Although, during this presentation, we may seem to be experts in personality/temperament styles, however,…we are only facilitators!

4. Temperament’s True Colors Orange • Orange Artisan/Adventurer • Gold Guardian/Defender • Blue Idealist/Counselor • Green Rational/Scientist Gold Blue Green

5. True Colors • Before we explore these personality colors in more detail… • Let’s take the True Colors Test! • This is a very limited six question test • To get a better idea of your color, you might want to take the Keirsey Temperament Sorter

6. True Colors • What is your primary color? • How close is your secondary color? • What about the name of your color seems most like you? Artisan Adventurer Idealist Counselor Guardian Defender Rational Scientist

7. Orange: Artisan/Adventurer • Represents energy, potency, power, and strength. • Has the meaning of desirefor adventure and all forms of appetite and craving. • Feels the will to achieve results, to win, to be successful. • Desires all things that offer intense living and full experience. • Generates an impulse toward active doing: Sport struggle competition enterprising productivity • Is the present

8. Orange: Artisan/Adventurer at school • Fidgety • Disorderly • Not serious • Scattered • Cluttered • Uncontrollable • Active • Spontaneous • Carefree • Great Negotiator • Curious • Resourceful • Likes chaos • Multitasker • Great Joker Test? What test? I forgot!! I had a game last night! Rules?Forget the rules! Let’s try it…It’ll be fun!

9. Orange: (Artisan/Adventurer) • Distribution in Population-12-33% • Goals in Life: Fun and Adventure • Likes: Action, Sensation, Fun, Competition • Dislikes: Inaction, being bored, being pinned down, detail, formality • What others might dislike about Oranges: • Can be oblivious to over-all patterns that are apparent to others • They may seek to stimulate competition that others find burdensome • Contributions: • Speedy Troubleshooting • Learn (and sometimes forget) quickly • Ability to negotiate, “angle” a deal • Great in situations that allow physical action, jokes, short-term, high impact activities

10. Art/Entertainment/Sports/ Journalism/Literature Elvis Presley Elizabeth Taylor “Magic" Johnson Madonna Hugh Hefner Johnny Carson Barbra Streisand Clint Eastwood Michael Jordan Science/Education/Humanities/ Philosophy/Religion Jean-Jacques Rousseau Politics/Government/Military Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Winston Churchill George S. Patton Erwin Rommel Nikita Khrushchev Boris Yeltzin Business/Industry/Finance John Paul Getty (ESTP) Donald Trump Charles Lindbergh (ISTP) Famous Artisan/Adventurers

11. Orange: Artisan/AdventurerPossible Occupations • Party Animal • Warrior • Mountain Man • Craftsman • Wild Woman • Joker • Performer

12. Gold: Guardian/Defender • The cornerstone • Represents a need to be responsible, to fulfill duties and obligations, to organize and structure our life and that of others. • Values being practical and sensible. They believe that people should earn their way in life through work and service to others. • Reflects a need to belong through carrying a share of the load in all areas of living. • Represents stability, maintenance of the culture and the organization, efficiency, and dependability. • Embraces the concepts of home and family with fierce loyalty and faithfulness.

13. Gold: Guardian/Defender at School • Organized • Rule follower • Efficient • Orderly • Good Planner • Goal Oriented • Decisive • Dependable • Rigid • System Bound • Perfect • Predictable • Practical Test: Just tell me exactly what I need to know… Rules: We must follow the rules, they exist to keep order, to maintain safety and to ensure quality.

14. Gold: Guardian/Defender • Distribution in Population-33-50% • Goals in Life: Security, Acceptance, Authority • Likes: Structure, Rules, Organization, fulfilling expectations, details, perfection • Dislikes: Change, cavalier or careless people, people who flout the rules, rowdy people • What others might dislike about Golds: • Can be interested in establishing order in a way that offends others • The Gold way of action may seem too restrictive to others • Contributions: • Protector of status quo, tradition • Good at finding fault with new ideas, methods • Ability to eliminate “bugs” when developing something new

15. Gold: Guardian/DefenderPossible Occupations • Guard • Banker • FBI Agent • Accountant • Pharmacist • Dentist

16. Art/Entertainment/Sports/ Journalism/Literature Ed Sullivan Kareem Abul-Jabbar Barbara Walters Dan Rather Mike Wallace Science/Education/Humanities/ Philosophy/Religion Brigham Young Thomas Hobbes Mother Teresa Politics/Government/Military George Washington Woodrow Wilson Harry S. Truman Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford George Bush Queen Elizabeth II Queen Victoria General Colin Powell Sandra Day O'Connor Business/Industry/Finance Sam Walton Ray Kroc John D. Rockefeller J C Penny F W Woolworth William K Kellogg Charles Post J. P. Morgan Famous Guardian/Defenders

17. Blue: Idealist/Counselor • Represents calm; physiological tranquility and psychological contentment. • Values balance and harmony. • Prefers life free from tension... They are settled, united, and secure. • Represents loyalty and a sense of belonging • Vulnerable, when friends are involved. • Corresponds to depth in feeling and a relaxed sensitivity. • Characterized by empathy, aesthetic experiences, and reflective awareness.

18. Blue: Idealist/Counselor at school • Emotional • Naïve • Easily duped • Too nice • Talks too much • Ignores policy • Instigator for the cause • Creative • Idealistic • Works for the Cause • Empathetic • Caretaker • Trusting • Harmonious Test:This test question seems a little harsh! I hope no-one is offended! Rules: We will follow the rules as long as no person nor animal is hurt. If the rule causes hurt, we will organize a movement to change the rule!

19. Blue: Idealist/Counselor • Distribution in Population-12-25% • Goals in Life: Harmony, Good emotions, Using intuition, Know self better • Likes: Feelings, harmony between people, spirituality and imagination, interaction with others • Dislikes: Strife and discord, those who value rules or ideas more than people, insensitivity to other’s feelings, or plight, competition • What others might dislike about Blues: • Can be overly sensitive or concerned about other’s feelings • May seem flaky and governed too much by feelings • Contributions: • Especially aware of accepting-attending behavior and note it’s presence or absence more keenly than others • Instrumental in creating more harmonious relations in the workplace and in boosting morale

20. Blue: Idealist/CounselorPossible Occupations • Poet • Actor • Musician • Counselor • Teacher • Prophet • Peace Corps

21. Arts/Entertainment/Sports/ Journalism/Literature Jane Fonda Shirley MacLaine Emily Dickenson Oliver Stone Business/Industry/Finance none Politics/Government/Military Mohandas Gandhi Eleanor Roosevelt Vladimir Lenin Mikhail Gorbachev Thomas Paine Alexander Hamilton Molly Brown "The Unsinkable“ Science/Education/Humanities/ Philosophy/Religion Lord Alfred Russel Wallace Albert Schweitzer Carl Rogers Soren Kierkegaard Plato Famous Idealist/Counselors

22. Green: Rational/Scientist • Expresses itself psychologically as human will in operation: as persistence and determination. • An expression of firmness and consistency. • Strength can lead to a resistance to change if it is not proven that the change will work or is warranted. • Values their intellect and capabilities above all else. • Characteristics seek to increase the certainty of their own values through being assertive and requiring differences from others in intellectual areas. • Depend upon information rather than feelings to create a sense of well-being. • Expresses the grounding of theory and data in its practical applications and creative constructs.

23. Green: Rational/Scientist at School • Intellectual • Creative • Visionary • Unique • Rational • Critical Thinker • Calm • Nerdy • Eccentric • Devalues relationships • Controlled • Methodical • Requires more information Test: This test requires nothing more than memorization! Ask me to think…to solve…to prove! Rules: I generally walk to the beat of my own drum. I never follow rules blindly. Prove to me that it is a good rule. If you can’t, then we seek to abolish it and write a new one!

24. Green: Rational/Scientist • Distribution in Population-10-13% • Goals in Life: Understand everything, Question everything, Have novel insights, Independence • Likes: Thinking, reasoning, Inquiry and questioning everything, Logic, the “Big Picture” • Dislikes: Routine, Following illogical instructions or traditions • What others might dislike about Greens: • Irritate others by frequently seeing interesting ideas or directions of development uninteresting to others • Can become locked into a search for the ultimate perfect answer • Contributions: • Solitary thinkers who scrutinize and question everything in a hope to build a better idea, organization, mechanism • Brave, lonely long-distance thinkers who ponder everything and seek complete understanding and answers

25. Green: Rational/ScientistPossible Occupations • Scientist • Computer genius • Inventor • Scholar • Mathematician • Engineer

26. Arts/Entertainment/Sports/ Journalism/Literature Steve Allen William F. Buckley Walt Disney Mark Twain Science/Education/Humanities/ Philosophy/Religion Albert Einstein Charles Darwin Friedrich Nietzsche Marie Curie Booker T. Washington Aristotle Politics/Government/Military Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur Peter the Great Margaret Thatcher Business/Industry/Finance Bill Gates Steve Jobs Buckminster Fuller Thomas Edison Steve Wozniak George Soros Famous Rational/Scientists

27. The Shadow and Bright Side

28. The Shadow and Bright Side

29. Is the glass half empty or half full? • Orange: Are we going to worry about glasses all day? I’ve got a softball game! • Gold: Do I have the answer to this question? No one told me we’d be asked this question…Will it be on the test? • Blue: Hmmm, I don’t know…What do you think? Maybe we should ask the others. By the way, that is a lovely glass.Did your mother give it to you?

30. Is the glass half empty or half full? Green: Well, due to the irregular shape of the glass, a guess based on a visual cue would be inaccurate. Hmmm, why don’t you do this: Make a mark on the glass (make sure you mark the bottom of the meniscus), then pour the contents into another, bigger glass. Then fill it back up to the mark from the faucet. Now add the original contents back in. If the water overflows the lip, the glass was more than half full. If the water doesn’t come up to the top, the glass was more than half empty.

31. References • Keirsey, D, and Bates, M. (1984). Please Understand Me. Gnosology Books, Ltd ISBN 0-9606954-0-0 • David Keirsey’s website:Temperament:Different Drums, Different Drummershttp://keirsey.com/ • William Kirby, Lynn Kirby, Larry Riggs’ website True Colorshttp://www.uwsp.edu/education/wkirby/pluralis/colors.htm • Don Lowry’s True Colors website http://www.truecolors.org/true_colors_story.html