Golden Retriever

Golden Retriever - Loyal

  • One word describes these people: LOYAL.
  • They’re so loyal that they can absorb the most emotional pain and punishment in a relationship and stay committed.
  • They are great listeners, incredibly empathetic, and warm encouragers.
  • However, they tend to be such pleasers that they can have great difficulty being assertive in a situation or relationship when needed.

Personality Type Cross-reference

MBTI / Keirsey - Artisan (SP - Sensing / Perceiving)
Enneagram
Temperaments

Recognized by

  • Calm approach
  • Relaxed posture
  • Sitting or leaning when possible

Basic Disposition

Does Their Part Cooperates with Others to Get the Job Done
  • Slow-paced
  • People-oriented
  • Projects-oriented

Decision Making

Relational
  • Makes decisions more slowly
  • Wants input from others
  • Often yields to the input

Motivated by

  • Good relationships
  • Appreciation of others

Desires

  • Have no conflict; and to keep the peace!
  • Quality relationships
  • Freedom to work at own pace

Greatest Needs

  • The Golden Retriever needs security
  • A relaxed and agreeable environment free of conflict

Greatest Fears

  • Loss of Financial Security
  • Loss of Emotional Security
  • Sudden Change

Strengths

  • Patient
  • Easy-going
  • Agreeable
  • Team player
  • Enjoys routine
  • Stable
  • Reliable
  • Dependable
  • Supportive
  • Empathetic
  • Compassionate
  • Sensitive to feelings of others
  • Tremendously loyal
  • Puts people above projects
  • Peacemaker

Weaknesses

  • Indecisive
  • Over-accommodating
  • May sacrifice results for the sake of harmony
  • Slow to initiate
  • Avoids confrontation even when needed
  • Tends to hold grudges and remember hurts inflicted by others
  • Fears change
  • Misses opportunities
  • Stays in a rut
  • Is easily hurt

Get depressed when...

  • Life is full of conflict.
  • They have to face a personal confrontation.
  • No one wants to help, and the buck stops with them.

As leaders

  • They keep calm, cool, and collected
  • Don’t make impulsive decisions
  • Are well-liked and inoffensive
  • Won’t cause trouble
  • But don’t often come up with brilliant new ideas

Work Valuablity

  • They cooperate and are a calming influence, keep the peace, mediate between contentious people, and objectively solve problems.

In Pressure or Tense Situations

  • Gives into the opinions, ideas, and wishes of others.
  • Often too tolerant.

Recovery

  • Nothing Time

Time Management

  • Golden Retrievers focus on the present
  • Devotes lots of time to helping others and building relationships.

Communication Style

  • Two-way communicator
  • Great listener
  • Provides empathetic response

Communicating with...

Wants You to Be:
  • cooperative and pleasant
Provide them With the following:
  • assurances
  • information on how it will affect their circumstances
  • popular ideas
  • risk sharing
  • reliability
  • assistance in presenting to others
General Strategies:
  • be non-threatening and sincere
  • show personal interest and support their feelings
  • don’t push
  • move along in a slow manner
  • show that you are listening
  • be easy-going
  • assure them that you stand behind any decisions

Like people

  • Who will make decisions for them, recognize their strengths, not ignore them, and give them respect.

Dislike people

  • Who are too pushy and too loud and expect too much of them.

Tend to marry

  • Influential clerics because they respect their strength and decisiveness, but later the peacefulness gets tired of being pushed around and looks down upon.

Actions to improve

  • Learn to say no and to confront
  • Set goals and became self-motivated
  • Be willing to do more and move faster than expected
  • Face your problems as well as others