Orange Temperament: The Activators
On the Job Focus: Action Oriented and Sells the Customer on Ideas/Products
If you are an Orange...
- Likes an active lifestyle
- Enjoy spontaneity and enthusiasm
- “Fix it” people, efficient in a crisis
- Vibrant attitude and personality
- Makes any environment lively, makes their work seem enjoyable
- Flexible and easily adaptable, no need for directions
- Could “sell the shirt off their back”
If you work with an Orange...
- Remember they like to have fun
- Be enthusiastic and adventuresome
- Give them space, let them loose on a project
- Move quickly to the discussion point
- Let them sell your ideas to others
- Foster creative opportunities and use tangible rewards
- Acknowledge their entrepreneurship
Blue Temperament: The Peacemaker
On the Job Focus: Blue Tends to be Interactive and Customer Oriented
If you work with a Blue...
- Provide opportunity to empower others
- Associate a “cause” with work
- Provide group projects/team building approaches
- Respect display of emotion
- Talk with feeling and emotion, share feelings
- Provide positive praise when appropriate
If you are Blue...
- Tireless effort to create harmony
- Ability to draw out others
- Inspirational personality, can motivate others
Gold Temperament: The Organizer
Gold Tends to be Structured and Company Oriented
If you work with a Gold...
- Be punctual, neat and orderly
- Praise their organizational skills
- Acknowledge their skills for planning, details
- Remember that detail planning is important
- Respect rules and authority
- Follow through on promises
- Respect their environment
- Ask about family, respect traditions
If you are Gold...
- Seek structure, organization
- Values timeliness, has everything ready where/when you need it
- Values neatness, “everything has it’s place”
- Fits in well with rules, very structured
- Can get compulsive and not relax
- Dependable, loyal, ethical
- Completes things with expertise
- Interested in history, tradition and family background
Goals Today:
Learn to Recognize and Appreciate
1. Your own strengths and preferences
2. Strengths and preferences of those at home and at work
3. Value and importance of diversity
4. Develop rapport and team building
Summary
List two things you would take with you if you were stranded on a desert island.
List these on our front board.
Group A: Come up with the ways the items will help you survive.
Group B: Come up with the possible situations that might occur, and inquire how they can be solved.
The Historical Perspective
LisaMarie Mariglia, MS, CFLE
&
TSgt Rowena Ennis
Airman & Family Readiness Center
1. Know your own strengths and preferences
2. Know strengths and preferences of those at home and at work
3. Know the value and importance of diversity
4. Develop rapport and team building
Feeling a Little Blue?
In Your Color Groups Answer These Questions:
- Not everyone will fit the descriptions all the time
- One color does tend to be dominant
- Part of our uniqueness comes from how the four colors combine in our personalities
1. What do you value?
2. What brings you joy?
3. What are your strengths?
4. What are your needs?
Green Temperament: The Analyzer
On the Job Focus: Independent and Product Oriented
If you are a Green...
- Intellectual approach to things, analytical
- Appears aloof, cool manner
- Avoids social obligations, prefers small groups
- Likes to look at the whole picture
If you work with a Green...
- Need to know “why” you are doing something
- Likes to work alone, let them be independent
- Like to figure things out for themselves
- Communication will openly quickly if you acknowledge their competence
- Don’t push them into discussing feelings
- Talking too much is annoying
Desert Island Activity
4 Lenses Training