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Your strengths are as followsLife is in your bones making you an enjoyable person to be with. Others around you find that you inspire them. People find it
easy to relate with you because you show your feelings easily. If words could make money, you would be a millionaire! Indeed, you are rich - in friendships since you delight in communicating with them. While others make a drudgery out of work, you find joy in it due to your playful attitude. If all that was needed to raise the dead were some laughter and fun, you would have emptied entire graveyards. Spontaneity comes easily to you. You would qualify as the ultimate royalty who reaches out to his/her subjects because you truly enjoy reaching out to others. Only when the whole world learns to be like you, will loneliness be a forgotten word. In the most wretched of conditions, you may well be the lone fellow who bears a smile of cheer. Colleagues appreciate your energy and enthusiasm. If governments talk at tables to avert war, then they had better choose you to come along. Your convincing style would win over anyone's heart. You thrive best in an atmosphere of instantaneity, where all endeavours and results are best executed and anticipated in the shortest time. Watching a football game with you in it, would never be a bore if all the other players had were as competitive as you are. You are a person of action who likes to get things done quickly. Others often have difficulty keeping pace with you since you find them too slow for you. You provide firm leadership especially in times of difficulty. When somebody needs to do the job, everybody will not have to worry that nobody will get it done, because that somebody is you. Your desire to win motivates you to strive for greater heights. In short, you are Olympic material. Your refusal to be seen in weakness reinforces your appearance as an entity of steel, strength and courage. It is very important to you to be given the freedom to complete a job. Just as yeast and heat are important to the baker in raising and baking a cake, so are power and authority essential to you to get a task completed. You are probably most comfortable when the reins of authority are placed in your hands because of your preference towards assuming leadership. You love challenges.
You may have these weaknesses
Be more diligent and watchful in what you do on. Things would be a lot better if you'd talk less and spend time listening more to others. While your talkativeness is enriching in social contexts, yet remember to give time to others to express themselves too. It's always nice to be seen centre stage in the limelight of attraction. However, too much of it may arouse unnecessary envy, or perhaps, make your weaknesses more apparent. If a fire could be started each time one was careless, then with you around, fires would be commonplace. Try and be a little more mindful of what you say or do. At the rate you are going about life, your lack of care may cause you to end up in undesirable situations. Be a bit more careful, especially when it is concerning the lives of others. Don't be too impulsive in admitting everyone you meet into your circle.
A summary of your strengths are as follows
Get things done on timeAre a risk-takerAre confidentAre willing to try unusual approaches to solve problemsAre persuasiveAre competitiveEnjoy being spontaneous
A summary of your weaknesses are as follows
May daydream a lotTend to be restless, always seeking for new fun-filled activitiesTend to draw attention towards yourselfMay be perceived as trying to manipulate othersTend to be stubbornAre perceived by others as strange and too individualisticFind working in teams too much of a bother
In order to nurture your Emotional Intelligence (EQ), you should develop
More tolerance with people you consider to be slowMore attention to details and accuracyControl over your tendency to be restlessGreater appreciation of the value of rules and regulationsMore patience with people who cannot understand your new ideas and suggestionsGreater sensitivity to others' feelingsMore gentleness in speaking to others
You tend to express your creativity in the following waysGood overview and grasp of matters at hand. Collaborates with others to emerge with creative outcomes - this openness is a good and fresh source of input of ideas. Stubborn insistence on creative expression, fuelled by self-confidence. Your creative inspiration often comes from talking to wide network of people. Your creative ideas may actually be a synthesis of current opinions but given the gloss of glamorous presentation by you. Confident in introducing your new ideas. Relatively brief analysis is applied due to drive to get things done fast.
How you might improve on your creativity
Do not be overly self-confident as you come up with new and creative ideas. Be prepared to meet with disappointment and disapproval since not everyone appreciates your new ideas. Admit that criticism of your ideas and works are inevitable and not necessarily bad.More intense thought is needed to refine your imaginative ideas. Become more aware of implications of implementing your new ideas. You should ensure that your presentation of your creative ideas, though flamboyant and stylish, will not lack substance, miss the essentials and appear shoddy. Present your new ideas in a more patient manner.
You can help your organization byOffering different problem-solving approaches through thinking outside the box. Inspiring members through your charisma. Representing the organization and making interesting presentations. Generating vision for the future. Being full of energy and dynamism while working. Spearheading ventures risky in nature. Generating enthusiasm and excitement among the more lethargic members.
In leadership and supervisory roles, it is important that you try to do the following steps
Follow through on initial ideas before moving to newer ones. Realize that not everyone can be accepting of you nor your plans. Learn to be more tactful in communicating with others. Exercise more patience with others. Be more gentle and diplomatic when disagreeing with subordinates. Listen and consider the suggestions of others. After you have given instructions, try to ensure others have completely understood these instructions.
To enrich your interpersonal relationships with others, try to do the following
Recognize that not everything in life is a matter of winning. Don't push others but put yourself in their shoes. Give others a chance to speak, don't interrupt. Be more gracious when you disagree with others. Admit your mistakes; learn to say sorry more often. Learn to wait. Realize that others may be different from you; give allowances for their differences.
In facing conflicts, you tend to do this
Desire to only have a win-lose situation with you winning and the other party losing. Wonder why others cannot figure out a simple solution to the problem. Not bothered to understand the other person's point of view. Tends to become argumentative. May become defensive. May get aggressive quickly. Joke to alleviate matters.
How to better manage yourself when facing conflict
Try to not become argumentative. Use humour to diffuse tension at the right moment and on the right issue. Accept that not all will think or agree with the way you do. Practise win-win solutions. Use your creativity to resolve the conflict. Try to read the other person's feelings regarding the matter. Try to see the other person's point of view in the conflict.
The following actions may cause stress
Personal attacks. Having to deal with forgetful people. Constant and over-supervision. Situation is not challenging enough. You perceive the situation is too stiff and formal. Not allowed to exercise your curiosity. Not allowed freedom to do what you think it is the right thing to do.
Stress - Why you react the way you do
Feel that you are being micro-managed. Feel blocked in your desire to achieve better results in a quicker way. Perceive that others do not approve your actions. Feel blocked by others in your attempts to get achievements. Find that others frustrate your attempts to obtain results. Think you are not given enough freedom to do what you want to do. Find others too slow.
Stress - How to overcome your unfavourable reactions
Speak more softly and gently. Try to be more gracious with others. Try to be less competitive. Calm down before meeting others. Learn that your need for significance cannot be met by proving that you can achieve results. Learn to be less intimidating. Be less competitive.
Your approach/strategy and attitude towards learning
Motivated to learn if public recognition or glamour is the reward at the end. Broad minded and receptive to recent developments and almost any theory. People-related subjects are greatly favoured. May get impatient with details deemed unimportant or which hold back persons' time. Teachability may be lacking, hindering fresh input from outside. Subject matter must be good enough to generate interest and provide enjoyment. Offers active participation and learning in a group.
To be a more effective learner
Be humble to admit that many things you still need to grasp. And require the help of others from time to time. Don't be too quick to brush off something as unimportant just because it takes more time to learn. Learn to be more patient and thorough in dealing with details that appear to seem not too relevant at first. Aim to achieve sufficient depth and breadth of coverage so as to produce quality learning and better results. Don't let the absence of recognition stop your progress - much of the motivation must come from yourself. Aim to achieve sufficient depth and breadth of coverage so as to produce quality learning and better results. Be more organised and orderly - this will save you time and energy later on.
