Comments on: The Personality Translator http://blog.intunique.com/2008/01/15/the-personality-translator/ Because IQ is just Part of Smart Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:08:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Omyword! http://blog.intunique.com/2008/01/15/the-personality-translator/#comment-6 Omyword! Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:22:43 +0000 http://blog.intunique.com/2008/01/15/the-personality-translator/#comment-6 Hey Kent - Thanks for finding my blog. This stuff has always been interesting to me. I remember getting certified for DISC a long time ago, and thinking it was a great way to honor people's strengths, while at the same time, recognizing people's weaknesses and organizationally building a team that balances it all out. There are always the ones who forge ahead (without thinking), balanced by the ones who want to analyze things before acting (with the possibility of getting paralyzed in the process). The push-pull hopefully creates good results. I am not so sure about these personality assessments now. There are people who operate outside of the norm, who get sidelined, ignored or passed over. HR people use these assessments to make sure that everything is kept at a simmer, but sometimes, we need a boiler to get us out of our boxes. These assessments can support the status quo and engender mediocrity. There's my $92. :-) However, I remember teaching personality styles to Barney's department store sales people, with a focus on how to recognize different types of shoppers, and how to interpret what they say, and respond accordingly. So, your translator idea is a really good one. I don't think I'd pay anything for it, meself. But I'm way outside corporate America these days. :-) Hey Kent - Thanks for finding my blog. This stuff has always been interesting to me. I remember getting certified for DISC a long time ago, and thinking it was a great way to honor people’s strengths, while at the same time, recognizing people’s weaknesses and organizationally building a team that balances it all out. There are always the ones who forge ahead (without thinking), balanced by the ones who want to analyze things before acting (with the possibility of getting paralyzed in the process). The push-pull hopefully creates good results. I am not so sure about these personality assessments now. There are people who operate outside of the norm, who get sidelined, ignored or passed over. HR people use these assessments to make sure that everything is kept at a simmer, but sometimes, we need a boiler to get us out of our boxes. These assessments can support the status quo and engender mediocrity.

There’s my $92. :-)

However, I remember teaching personality styles to Barney’s department store sales people, with a focus on how to recognize different types of shoppers, and how to interpret what they say, and respond accordingly. So, your translator idea is a really good one. I don’t think I’d pay anything for it, meself. But I’m way outside corporate America these days. :-)

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