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FROM CHAPTER THREE:"WHAT MAKES YOU TICK?"
(Note: this excerpt is taken from someone's personalized ebook. The content of your book would be personalized from your own responses to the FPYC questionnaire which you can begin at the top of this page.)
"...Why is it important to know your temperament type?
The last thing you want - in the demanding work environments of the knowledge age - is to be stuck in a role that is not suited to your temperament.
It’s like using a tool for something that it’s not designed for.
Have you ever tried to use a knife when you couldn’t find a screwdriver? Firstly, it doesn’t do a very good job, and secondly it ends up ruining the knife.
People are similar. When they do what they are not designed to do, they don’t perform very well and eventually they break.
For example, someone who likes to work by themselves, and to a schedule, will find it very stressful working with others in a disorganized environment.
That’s why an understanding or your temperment type is another crucial pre-requisite to understanding your Authentic Direction.
KEY ASPECTS OF THE ESFS TEMPERAMENT
Potential strengths:generous, dependable, nurturing, obliging, popular, goodhearted, sympathetic, gracious. Good in predictable, structured activities.
Potential limitations:can find change daunting and would benefit from taking time to think about the 'big picture'.
What does the fact that you are an “ESFS” mean for your career?
You prefer to work in situations involving other people, rather than on your own. You are comfortable meeting and interacting with people, and you are at ease in a high energy environment.
You function best when you are able to establish and maintain warm and genuine interpersonal relations with other people.
You like to work in real and tangible ways where you believe you are helping to improve the quality of life of others.
You are happy in exercising control and supervision over others, but where you can encourage them to work harmoniously towards common goals.
You like management situations and you enjoy making decisions, but prefer to work in settled and structured systems. You are happiest when systems are working as they should, where there is an established chain of command, and authority is command, and authority is accepted and respected.
Innovation and rapid and unexpected change are foreign to your temperament, but you are good at identifying problems associated with the new and innovative. You are then able to use your practical approach to pointing out these problems and then helping to solve them.
Innovators sometimes overlook the practical problems that you see quite naturally.
However, you should beware of raising these problems in a way that might be seen as obstructive.
If you are obstructive - seeing problems without solutions - this can be a sure road to redundancy.
However, if used positively this aspect of your temperament can be a great advantage.
The major strength of your temperament is your potential to cope with detail and complex real problems that deal with people and their concerns. It is natural for you to empathize and concern yourself with people problems.
Provided you can also develop the potential to look beyond the surface appearance of things and see the underlying patterns and meanings,
then your effectiveness will be improved.
You are likely to experience tensions until decisions are made and can sometimes be a little hasty in your decision making.
You should avoid making decisions too quickly until you have a firm grasp of all the details.
You tend to make decisions on the basis of how the outcome will affect others, but sometimes you have to put this aside and assess the situation from a more objective and logical standpoint."
Reference: Career finder free test
For more information on Authentic Direction: How to Find Your Life's Purpose and Ideal Career, complete the questionnaire beginning at the top of this page.
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