1. Personality Prototypes
Understanding differences

2. Personality Prototypes BY Baum and Nicols
Practical Managers
Learned Experts
Creative Problem Solvers
People Persons

3. PRACTICAL MANAGER
TIME KEEPER –
ORGANIZER –
CONCRETE SEQUENTIAL

4. It’s a good day when everything gets checked off the list.

5. It’s a good day when… Work (No surprises, things go as planned)
Meetings (Agenda is followed and handout provided with important info
Home (Work before play)
PLAN, PLAN, PLAN
Life is predictable and follows a
schedule

6. PRACTICAL MANAGER

7. Practical Manager STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Attention to details (love deadlines, timelines, punctuality)
Create to improve products or ideas
Finely tuned senses
Keep others on task

8. Practical Manager STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Attention to details (love deadlines, timelines, punctuality)
Create to improve products or ideas
Finely tuned senses
Keep others on task
Orderly, predictable environment
Structure, clear expectations and detailed directions
Opportunities to elaborate and add detail

9. Practical Manager STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Attention to details (love deadlines, timelines, punctuality)
Create to improve products or ideas
Finely tuned senses
Keep others on task
Orderly, predictable environment
Structure, clear expectations and detailed directions
Opportunities to elaborate and add detail
Perfectionism
Rigidity
See the world in black and white

10. CONFLICT STARTERS
Unrealistic objectives, unclear directions, mixed signals.
Broken promises, surprises, last minute changes in plan
Being the work horse of a group
Tardiness and wastes of time, energy, & money
Loss of face, rank, job security
Poor quality goods and services

11. Relationship stressors
Being domineering, opinionated, negative and critical
Refusing to relax and be spontaneous
Manipulating others
Obsessive compulsive
Being picky, stubborn and pessimistic

12. Keys to negotiation Be practical and precise
Try to offer an objective argument based on facts
Calm, calm, calm
Pilot study, trial, evaluate results

13. LEARNED EXPERT
THINKER
LOGICIAN
ABSTRACT SEQUENTIAL

14. It’s a good day when I can think, strategize.

15. It’s a good day when…
Work (Had a great debate on an issue with a colleague)
Meeting (Intellectual discussion about learning or achievement or best practice based on research.
Home (Time to read the paper, watch the news or the history channel or engage in a mental challenge)
Life is somewhat predictable with some kinds of structures or routines in place.
ARGUE, DEBATE, DISCUSS

16. Learned Experts STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Very knowledgeable
Can synthesize ideas and create theories and models
Outstanding vocabulary
Excellent debater

17. Learned Experts Students
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Very knowledgeable
Can synthesize ideas and create theories and models
Outstanding vocabulary
Excellent debater
Intellectually stimulating environment
Games and activities that require strategizing
Opportunities to research, discuss, and hypothesize

18. Learned Experts Students
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Very knowledgeable
Can synthesize ideas and create theories and models
Outstanding vocabulary
Excellent debater
Intellectually stimulating environment
Games and activities that require strategizing
Opportunities to research, discuss, and hypothesize
Intolerance of others perceived as less smart
Argumentative
Sarcasm, opinionated

19. LEARNED EXPERT

20. Conflict starters Demands for practical, how to applications
Unreasonable deadlines for researching and studying
Vague thinking, emotional arguments, crying
Discussions about feelings
Touchy – feely activities
Brainstorming sessions and cooperative group work

21. Relationship stressors
Being opinionated, sarcastic, arrogant
Becoming blind and insensitive to the appearances, thoughts, feelings and opinions of others
Exhibiting a no-it all attitude
Denying or rationalizing the hurts they inflict on others
Out of touch with the real world

22. Keys to negotiation
Present logical argument based on research (formal or informal)
Rules of debate
(3 minute rule/1/1)
Mediator

23. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER
INVENTOR
ADVENTURER
RISK TAKER

24. It’s a good day when I can do it my way.

25. It’s a good day when… DON’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER
Work (It was fun. I had lots of choices and options.)
Meeting (Fun activity with lots of creative problem solving and new initiatives considered).
Home (No plan, leave options opened)
I can do it my way!!!
DON’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER

26. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER

27. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Divergent thinker, can generate many ideas
Flair for adventure and spontaneity
Empathetic
Life of the party, fun

28. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Divergent thinker, can generate many ideas
Flair for adventure and spontaneity
Empathetic
Life of the party, fun
Creative environment
Options
Opportunities for multiple projects

29. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Divergent thinker, can generate many ideas
Flair for adventure and spontaneity
Empathetic
Life of the party, fun
Creative environment
Options
Opportunities for multiple projects
  Disorganization lack of attention to details
Difficulty following directions
Own agenda, stubborn

30. Conflict starters Demands to explain their insights
People who dismiss moral/ethical values
Forced to work with incompetents
Political correctness
Fixed routines and restrictions on freedom
Meaningless activities and relationships

31. Relationship stressors
I want what I want when I want it
DON’T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER
Unwilling to compromise because they have the truth
Taking advantage of the vulnerabilities of others
Breaking promises, not fulfilling obligations to others
Will manipulate the system to win

32. Keys to negotiation Choice or options Creative solution
General guidelines not specific iron clad decisions with lots of details

33. People Person AMBASSADOR, PEOPLE PERSON SENSITIVE, EMOTIONAL
CREATIVE ARTISTS

34. It’s a good day when I feel special and appreciated.

35. It’s a good day when… Work (When everyone agreed and were friendly)
Meeting (Time to chat with friends and have refreshments).
Home (My spouse told me he loved me)

36. PEOPLE PERSON STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Creating harmony
Colorful, dramatic
Social skills
Attuned to feelings

37. PEOPLE PERSON STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Creating harmony
Colorful, dramatic
Social skills
Attuned to feelings
Colorful, social environment
Opportunities to interact with others
Opportunities for creative expression

38. PEOPLE PERSON STUDENTS
Gifts
Needs
Possible Problems
Creating harmony
Colorful, dramatic
Social skills
Attuned to feelings
Colorful, social environment
Opportunities to interact with others
Opportunities for creative expression
Disorganization lack of attention to details
Will repress own needs to keep the peace and avoid conflict
Over sensitive, over dramatic

39. PEOPLE PERSONS

40. Conflict starters Demands for rational explanations for gut feelings
Individuals who abandon or exclude them without notice
Up-tight, humorless, critical, and negative people
People who are not polite or say I’m sorry
Excessive paperwork defined duties, no time to socialize
Memorizing details
People who mock emotions, arts, non traditional therapies

41. Relationship stressors
Victim of mood swings and emotional excesses
Thin skinned and hypersensitive
Resurrecting old hurts and wallowing in self pity
Can play the victim
Can be either the over indulgent parent or the child who refuses to grow up

42. Keys in negotiation Non hostile language/ no accusations
Assuring they are loved, respected, etc. in spite of conflict.
Agree to disagree

43. Practical Manager vs. Creative: Who is right?

44. Let’s get organized: Down with disorder movement
Sales of home-organizing products, like accordion files and label makers and plastic tubs, keep going up and up, from $5.9 billion last year to a projected $7.6
billion by 2009, as do the revenues of companies that make closet organizing systems, an industry that is pulling in $3 billion a year, according to Closets magazine.

45. This is why January is now Get Organized Month, thanks also to the efforts of the National Association of Professional Organizers, whose 4,000 clutter-busting members will be poisedwith clipboards and trash bags--ready to to minister to the 10,000 clutter victims

46. We need an organized space to think and work.

47. Getting Things Done originator David Allen is a man who practices what he preaches, especially when it comes to capturing his thoughts and "Oh yeah" moments. Two of the unique but fitting items on his desk are a label maker and a sand timer. The producers of the clip note that this was shot hastily, at the end of Allen's time commitment for an interview, but the essence of his David Allen Co. office comes through….

50. Or do you embrace the anti anti-clutter movement? (NY Times, 2009).
This says yes to mess and urges you to embrace your disorder
It’s a movement that confirms what you
have known, deep down, all along: really neat people are not avatars of the good life; they are humorless and inflexible prigs, and have way too much time on their hands.

51. Writer’s haven
Einstein’s oft-quoted remark, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?”

52. Creatives claim: It takes time to organize
We need to have everything's in front of us.
Searching through the piles helps make connections
Organization is a form of procrastination
Creative thinkers are messy. Creative thinkers tend to have messy desks. In January 2006, a study of hundreds of CEO's indicated that the highest scorers in innovation and risk-taking scored lowest on organizational and neatness skills. Creative people organize their desks intuitively to correspond with the way their minds organize information, and studies suggest that people with messy desks have great career potential.

53. Creative space

54. Calendar for randoms post it calendar
Marcella Moran, co-author of Organizing the Disorganized Child (coming out August 2009 from Harper Studio) gives quick tips for organizing your kids ...

55. Where do you fall on the continuum?
Can disorganized folks be productive?
What is organization anyway?
What skills do our kids need to be successful?

56. Linear organization Need for set routine Perfectionism
Lack of independence
Detailed directions
Time and place for all things
Quiet place to work 

57. Practical Managers Specific directions—To do list—Check it off
Routine to be followed
Quiet place with materials in place
Binder with compartments
Daily calendar
Perfectionism
“Plan B”
First draft mentality
Timer

58. Learned expert Need to see the big picture Relevance
Outline of what to do with a few subtasks
Ability to access sources
Need challenging assignments
Quiet place to work
General routine but opportunities to explore deeper
Weekly/monthly calendar

59. Spontaneous/holistic organization
Tend to misplace things
Skip or forget directions,
“Post- it” monthly calendar, Backwards planning and deadlines
assignments back and forth
Time management: Come home between 5:45-6:00
Piles, stacks, and storage bins

60. Creative Problem Solvers
Easily bored
Flexible routine
Choice of where, when, and in what order to finish homework
Multi task with scheduled breaks integrate movement (dance, run, jump)
“Partial completion method”
Making tasks into games and competitions

61. Environment for creative problem solvers
Project based with shelf or area for each project
Opportunity for “mix and match”
Collection or drop box
Music in background, tv on

62. Supports for the creative problem solver
“Check out partner” who is organized
Time to organize
Multiple backpacks cleaned out weekly
List on front door –things to remember or a remember bracelet
Webbing used for organizing ideas
In, out, and in process folders

63. People Persons Study buddy Work at kitchen table
Opportunities to be creative even if it takes more time
Timer to get started—no phone or social networking opportunities
Calendar with stickers
Organize in stacks, bins,

64. An example
Practical Manager Mom who really needs to find a way to keep her family organized.
Family Folders
Find your child’s style—Personality Profiler
Susan's Website

65. Group work: Creative use of information
In your group, discuss your children and their organizational style.
Choose one behavior or goal you have for your youngster and decide on an appropriate strategy to try.
Make sure you are trying strategies that align to your child’s style not your style.

66. Do you know me? They say, “You did not learn your fifty prepositions
Therefore you flunk English Composition!”
But did you know:
I read castle in the Attic in a day.
The Indian in the Cupboard made my heart sing.
And I can answer all the riddles Bilbo did to capture Gollum’s ring.
Did you know?

67.  They say, “Your book report did not follow the form I gave you.
You get no credit!”
But did you know:
I am writing a book of my own.
I didn’t know if I could, but when I tried, the words just came and came.
Mom taught me how to use the word processor.
Now I can save my words and bring them back whenever I want to.
Sometimes I change them because I don’t always feel the same.
Did you know?

68. They say, “You don’t join organized sports. You don’t do anything.
What’s wrong with you?”
But did you know:
I wrote a song for my mom because I found her feeling bad.
My dad smiled and took his guitar and put my song to music.
We played it for my mom and she cried, but I don’t think it was because she was sad.
Did you know?

69. THEY say,
“I am teaching the scientific process here, and all you want to do is play.
You get a D!”
But did you know:
I can name all the constellations and find them in the sky.
Now I am learning all the Greek and Roman myths that go with each one.
It’s exciting!
I have a million questions, but you get impatient when I’m always asking,
“Why?” Why do you?  Did you know?

70. THEY say, “You did not do your homework review sheet
THEY say, “You did not do your homework review sheet. You will stay for detention.
You do not keep your mind on the things that are important.”
But did you know:
I can feel the minute I walk into a room if things aren’t going well.
I know when someone needs a hug, and I can give it too.
I can clown and make you laugh or sit quietly and listen.
And if you share a secret,, even if I don’t understand
I would never tell. Did you know?

71. Did you know that I can travel anywhere I want to in my mind.
I can travel far away from you.
And I do.  
Did you Know?
No?
Because, you do not know me Pamela Quinn