Student Wellness
Personality Dimensions® presentation

Inquiring Greens Abilities (Strengths)

• Logical and impartial
• See the core of complexity
• Analytic and objective
• See possibilities
• Set standards
• Concentration
• Conceptual models

Organized Gold Abilities

• Planning and organization
• Setting up procedures
• Decision making
• Structured and orderly attention to detail
• Measurement and evaluation
• Caretaker

Resourceful Orange Abilities

• Flexible and adaptable
• Breadth of skills
• Good negotiators
• Entertaining
• Strong in crisis situations
• Entrepreneurial
• Realistic and practical
• Carry out tasks/doers

Authentic Blue Abilities

• Excellent people skills
• Persuasive
• Supportive and caring
• Perceptive of feelings
• Open and honest
• Catalyst/motivator
• Takes global perspective

Recognize other Temperaments by what others talk about and do Saying

From Keirsey, Please Understand Me II, 1998

What do the Temperaments Have in Common?

Orange and Gold

• Task oriented
• Detail oriented
• Here and now

Green and Blue

• Creative
• Interested in ideas
• Big picture focused

Orange and Green

• Seek what works
• Competitive
• Independent

Gold and Blue

• Caretakers
• Socially responsible
• Helpful and cooperative

(In common across the matrix)

Gold and Green

• Critics
• Specialize
• Want things done right
• Value consistency

Orange and Blue

• Optimistic
• Breadth of skills
• Like and need recognition
• Good negotiators and problem-solvers

To Communicate & Reduce Conflict with Different Temperaments

Authentic Blue

• Respect Authentic Blue feelings and intelligence
• Sandwich negative feedback
• Praise frequently
• Be patient

Inquiring Green

• Toughen up
• Get to the point
• Answer the “why?”
• Recognize Inquiring Green ideas

Resourceful Orange

• Trust them (to do it their way)
• Limit structure
• Give short deadlines
• Give them fun & variety

Organized Gold

• Give lots of lead time
• Cover the “what ifs” (Have a back-up plan or two)
• Respect Organized Gold need for structure
• Give clear instructions and timelines

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Websites for free “Color” quizzes for your friends and family. They are not exactly the Personality Dimensions, but are very similar.

http://www.truecolorscareer.com/ Carolyn Kalil, MA

http://www.truecolors.org/