successful home working
Types of home worker
What kind of home worker are you?
The key to working successfully from home is understanding yourself and being able to adapt your work routine to suit your personality and situation. A good way to start is by completing a personality profile, which will help you to better respond to the demands of working from home.
A personality profile does this by identifying your strengths and areas for development, your communication and decision-making styles and possible blind spots.
Judy Heminsley runs a training and coaching practice with her partner Andy Britnell, who is a licensed practitioner for Insights, the global learning and development organisation whose personality profiles are used by blue chip companies all over the world.
Andy’s website has much more information on personality profiles and you can buy your own profile, followed by 30 minutes telephone coaching with Andy.
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Hi Rosie
That’s because we are not one dimensional and don’t fit into a ‘box’ of colours!
We work with all four colour energies and our personality is determined by the amount of each. Most of the time we have a preference for using one type of colour energy followed by a secondary one.
The third energy may or may not be used consciously and the ‘shadow energy’, our least preferred colour energy, is the one that we find most difficult to work with. We may find people with that energy as their primary colour difficult.
It’s not unusual for couples to have partners who have different personalities ad colour energies (opposite types).
More information on my personal development website here http://www.andybritnell.co.uk/profiling/index.html
Hope that makes sense
Andy
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Thanks, Andy. I fit a lot of the Myers Briggs profiles as well. I fit right into E/I, T/P and F/J profiles, most of the combinations except any involving S.
Eventually I decided that my balance was in being towards the extreme end of most attributes (except one, where I can’t relate) – together they balance each other.
Combining opposites in one person is rather challenging, but it’s ok once I realised what was going on (that’s blue and yellow talking, expressed in green and driven by red).
It’s no wonder I need frequent lie-downs!
Will go take a look-see at your website, Andy, you speak a lot of sense.
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You’re welcome Rosie
You could of course be a what Insights describe as a ‘creative’ type.
That’s someone who quite naturally holds two opposing energies together at a conscious level and at an instinctive, or less conscious level, has the ability to utilise the two other opposing energies!
This is a double edged sword – the positive is you can draw on all 4 energies, have the ability to be flexible with your behaviour and can engage with all types. The downside to this is that people might find you difficult to place!
It is natural for people to want to categorise you as this or that. But because you are this and that they can’t get a handle on you and might get some surprises! One moment you are fun loving. enthusiastic, global ideas yellow and then might switch to questioning, serious, down in the detail blue.
If you want some information about this I have a document which explains this particular creative type in more detail.
Hope that resonates with you.
Andy
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I’m yellow with more than a touch of green it would seem!