Dominance influencing of others Steadiness Conscientious-
ness
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This person’s tendencies include:
  • Getting immediate results
  • Causing action 
  • Accepting challenges
  • Making quick decisions
  • Questioning the status quo
  • Taking authority
  • Managing trouble
  • Solving problems

This person desires an environment that includes:

  • Power and authority
  • Prestige and challenge
  • Opportunity for individual accomplishments
  • Wide scope of operations
  • Direct answers opportunity for advancement
  • Freedom from controls and supervision
  • Many new and varied activities
This person’s tendencies include:
  • Contacting people
  • Making a favorable impression
  • Verbalizing with articulateness
  • Creating a motivational environment
  • Generating enthusiasm
  • Entertaining people 
  • Desiring to help others
  • Participating in a group

This person desires an environment that includes:

  • Popularity, social recognition
  • Public recognition of ability
  • Freedom of expression
  • Group activities outside of the job
  • Democratic relationships
  • Freedom from control and detail
  • Opportunity to verbalize proposals
  • Coaching and counseling skills
  • Favorable working conditions
This person’s tendencies include:
  • Attention to key directives and standards
  • Concentrating on key details
  • Working under known controlled circumstances
  • Being diplomatic with people
  • Checking for accuracy
  • Critical thinking
  • Critical of performance
  • Complying with authority

This person desires an environment that includes:

  • Security assurance
  • Standard operating procedures
  • Sheltered environment
  • Reassurance
  • No sudden or abrupt changes
  • Being part of a work group
  • Personal responsiveness to their effort
  • Status quo unless assured of quality control
  • Door openers who call attention to accomplishments
This person’s tendencies include:
  • Performing an accepted work pattern
  • Sitting or staying in one place
  • Demonstrating patience
  • Developing specialized skills
  • Concentrating on the task
  • Showing loyalty
  • Being a good listener
  • Calming excited people

This person desires an environment that includes:

  • Security of the situation
  • Status quo unless given reasons for change
  • Minimal work infringement on home life
  • Credit for work accomplished
  • Limited territory
  • Sincere appreciation
  • Identification with a group
  • Traditional procedures

 

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This person needs others who:
  • Weight pros and cons
  • Calculate risks
  • Use caution
  • Structure a more predictable environment
  • Research facts
  • Deliberate before deciding
  • Recognize the needs of others

To be more effective, this person needs:

  • Difficult assignments
  • Understanding that they need people
  • Techniques based on practical experience
  • An occasional shock
  • Identification with a group
  • To verbalize the reasons for conclusions
  • An awareness of existing sanctions
  • To pace self and relax more
This person needs others who:
  • Concentrate on the task
  • Seeks facts
  • Speak directly
  • Respect sincerity
  • Develop systematic approaches
  • Prefer dealing with things to dealing with people
  • Take a logical approach
  • Demonstrate individual follow-through

To be more effective, this person needs:

  • Control of time
  • Objectivity in decision-making
  • Participatory management
  • More realistic appraisals of others
  • Priorities and deadlines
  • To be more firm with others
This person needs others who:
  • Desire to expand authority
  • Delegate important tasks
  • Make quick decisions
  • Use policies only as guidelines
  • Compromise with the opposition
  • State unpopular positions

To be more effective, this person needs:

  • Precision work
  • Opportunity for careful planning
  • Exact job and objective descriptions
  • Scheduled performance appraisals
  • As much respect for people’s personal worth a for what they accomplish
  • To develop tolerance for conflict
This person needs others who:
  • React quickly to unexpected change
  • Stretch toward the challenges of an accepted task
  • Become involved in more than one thing
  • Are self-promoting
  • Apply pressure on others
  • Work comfortably in an unpredictable environment
  • Delegate to others
  • Are flexible in work procedures
  • Can contribute to the work

To be more effective, this person needs:

  • Conditioning prior to change
  • Validation of self-worth
  • Information on how one’s efforts contribute to the total effort
  • Work associates of similar competence and sincerity
  • Guidelines for accomplishing the task
  • Encouragement of creativity 
  • Confidence in the ability of others