Illuminate Your Life Do What You Are (DWYA) Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) Multiple Intelligences (MI Advantage)

Illuminate Your Life Exercises for Today Located at Click on Training Notes Job Jar Activity Personality Checklist Talkers and Listeners J/P exercise

Illuminate Your Life Personality Assessment

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Carl Jung We are born with natural preferences which we develop over a lifetime. There are no good or bad types. Each type has their own unique gifts and talents. Exercise: What is a preference?

Illuminate Your Life Key Theme Choosing a major Career choice Learning Style Communication Self-understanding

Illuminate Your Life Job Jar Activity Use it to introduce career assessments

Illuminate Your Life Administering the DWYA Find a time when you are not tired or rushed. There are no right or wrong answers. Answer quickly giving your first impression. Do not over analyze. You will have a chance to look at your profile and change it if you think it is not correct.

Illuminate Your Life Administering the DWYA Answer the questions honestly to get the best results. Answer the questions how you usually are when you are not stressed. Do not answer the questions: –How you want to be –How you have to be at home, work or school –How others want you to be

Illuminate Your Life Getting Good Results Encourage students to give honest answers. What are some reasons students would not give honest answers?

Illuminate Your Life Administering the DWYA The test does not measure: –Intelligence –Psychological or emotional health

Illuminate Your Life Resources Do What You Are Handbook Psychometric Report Also on the Professional Guide on your faculty menu

Illuminate Your Life Interpreting the Assessment

Illuminate Your Life Use the Personality Checklist Contains a quick checklist with definitions Use it to help students understand their results Available in the Instructor Manual Training Notes for Sam Houston State University

Illuminate Your Life 4 Dimensions of Personality Type Extravert or Introvert How we interact with the world and where we place our energy Sensing or Intuition The kind of information we naturally notice and remember Thinking or Feeling How we make decisions Judging or Perceptive Whether we prefer to live in a structured or more spontaneous way

Illuminate Your Life Begin Self-Assessment How we interact with the world and where we place our energy E _____________________________|____________________________ I Extraversion Introversion

Illuminate Your Life Careers Extravert Customer service Sales Public relations Human resources Physical therapist Financial advisor Business management Introvert Computer scientist Software engineer Scientist Engineer Accountant Graphic designer Pharmacist Artist

Illuminate Your Life Talkers and Listeners Talker What made me a talker? How can I develop my listening skills? How can I help listeners talk more? Listener What made me a listener? How can I develop my talking skills? How can I help talkers listen more?

Illuminate Your Life Self-Assessment The kind of information we naturally notice and remember S _____________________________|___________________________ N Sensing Intuition

Illuminate Your Life Careers Sensing Business executives Accountants Police and detectives Judges Lawyers Computer programmers Doctors Dentists Interior decorators Intuitive Scientists Engineers Psychologists Artists Photographers Actors Professors Writers

Illuminate Your Life Personality Exercise Write about the picture for 3 minutes

Illuminate Your Life Self-Assessment How we make decisions T _____________________________|___________________________ F Thinking Feeling

Illuminate Your Life Careers Thinking Business managers and administrators Lawyer Judge Computer Specialist Scientist Engineers Mathematicians Doctors and dentists Military leaders Feeling Child care workers Social workers Counselors Family practice physicians Pediatricians Interior decorators Photographers Artists and musicians

Illuminate Your Life Self-Assessment Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way J _____________________________|_____________________________ P Judging Perceiving

Illuminate Your Life Careers Judging Business executives Managers Accountants Financial officers Police and detectives Judges Lawyers Computer programmers Military leaders Perceptive Pilots Athletes Paramedics Police and detective work Forensic pathologists Engineers Scientists Carpenters Artists Musicians

Illuminate Your Life J and P Exercise: Where do you stand? –I can play anytime –I have to finish my work before I play

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The Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) Measures preferences in 20 areas

Illuminate Your Life Administering the PEPS Give your initial response No need to over analyze Answer as though you were learning new or difficult information

Illuminate Your Life Important Considerations It is not a test It describes how you prefer to learn new or difficult material Usually there are 6 or 7 areas out of 20 that are important for an individual

Illuminate Your Life Measures preferences in 20 areas –Perceptual Auditory Visual Kinesthetic Tactile

Illuminate Your Life PEPS Immediate environment –Sound –Heat –Light –Design (formal or informal)

Illuminate Your Life PEPS Emotionality –Motivation –Responsibility –Persistence –Structure

Illuminate Your Life PEPS Sociological –Self oriented –Peer oriented –Adult oriented

Illuminate Your Life PEPS Physical –Time of day –Food intake –Mobility

Illuminate Your Life Perceptual Auditory (one third) Visual (one third) Tactile/Kinesthetic (one third) Learning disabled as well as gifted prefer tactile/kinesthetic

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Learning Style Exercise: The Paper Airplane

Illuminate Your Life Questions?