So I was at a staff retreat earlier this week where I received my very own Personal Profile. A few weeks ago I took an online test called the "Insights Preference Evaluator," and the report I received was based upon my responses to a testing instrument that asked me to make choices between pairs of words choosing which pairs were more like me and which were less and placing other choices on a ranking scale. It was pretty inscrutable - the words reappeared now and again with different pairings and nothing was entirely logical. One reacted to the pairs of words as opposed to reading and comprehending a specific question. My explanation is not doing justice to what I think was actually a very sophisticated attitude survey testing model. The results of this test are plotted on a color wheel with 72 different possible positions but I will simply present the image of the eight major color types below. Of course. I got to see this wheel and many of the explanations before I got my personal report and I expected full well to find myself in the "Director" color wedge. Here is the general description of the "Director":"The Director:Fiery Red. Extraverted ThinkingDirectors are forceful decisive and dominant people who tend to be strong individualists. They are forward-looking progressive and compete to achieve their goals. They prefer an ever-changing environment with challenging goals and enjoy the unusual and adventurous. However. Directors can be perceived as self-centred and they may need to learn to understand the negative impact they can have on other people if they forget to take the feelings of others into account in their drive for success."Of course how one sees oneself and what the profile results say are often quite different. I've done the whole "Myers-Briggs" thing many times and have consistently emerged as an ENTJ every time. This Insights Discovery evaluation uses the same Jungian measurements as the first three letters of the MB type (and in fact my Discovery profile reaffirmed that I am extraverted and intuitive though I did test as a more feeling than thinking person on this test.)Well. Lex Ham Rand did NOT turn out to be a big bossy red dominating director. According to this test. I am an "Inspirer," all sunshiney yellow and sociable. Here is the description of the "Inspirer":"The InspirerSunshine Yellow. Extraverted FeelingInspirers are outgoing and enthusiastic seeking favourable social environments where they can develop and maintain networks and contacts. They are able to create enthusiasm in others for their cause. Verbally effusive they are good at promoting their own ideas. Usually but not if they are upset they are optimistic and see the good in most people and situations. Inspirers may leap to favourable conclusions without all the information. To others they may appear inconsistent. Controlling and planning their time may be rather difficult."Yikes. Not exactly how I view myself. The report is a computer generated narrative (giving one the comforting feeling of reading a personally-written analysis with the liberal use of your first name in the most positive of the sentences). My first thoughts before reading it were quite dismissive because I thought it was a big scam akin to the. ( - it's quite funny.)This report however was so accurate in its mindless knitting together of stock sentences from the algorithm of my responses to the evaluation test that I was blown away. Shocked. Taken aback. Here are some of the more choice sentences that gave me pause in their accuracy:"He has an urge for lifelong learning and can shake off depression by simply finding projects that fascinate him.""His life will tend to be a series of initiated but unfinished projects.""He may often make decisions based upon how he feels about a situation rather than how the situation actually is."And on and on. It is a bit like reading one's horoscope - the language is generic enough that anyone could find themselves described by what are quite obviously broad sweeping statements. This report however goes on to discuss my "opposite" type gives lists on "how to manage LHR" and "how to communicate with LHR," has lots of charts and graphs and makes a heroic effort to dress up its soft science with statistics numbers and quantities. I read my report quickly finding it pretty much on the mark but was fascinated to see others reading their reports and shaking their heads and furrowing their brows. Not everyone enjoyed looking into the metaphorical mirror in the report's pages. So have a sunshiney inspiring day everyone! I am going back to my daily tasks comforted in my dislike of some of those tasks by this sentence from my report:"Work that is purely practical or work that leaves him on his own for long periods can make him irritable."C'est vrai!!!
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