Otter

Otter - Fun Seekers

  • Otters are excitable, fun-seeking, cheerleader types who love to talk!
  • They’re great at motivating others and need to be in an environment where they can talk and vote on major decisions. 
  • The otters’ outgoing nature makes them great networkers—they usually know a lot of people who know a lot of people.
  • They can be very loving and encouraging unless under pressure when they tend to use their verbal skills to attack. 
  • They strongly desire to be liked and enjoy being the center of attention.
  • They are often very attentive to style, clothes, and flash.
  • Otters are the life of any party, and most people enjoy being around them.

Personality Type Cross-reference

MBTI / Keirsey - Idealist (NF - Intuition / Feeling)
Enneagram
Temperaments

Recognized by

  • Constant talking
  • Loud volume
  • Bright eyes
  • Moving hands
  • Colorful expression
  • Enthusiasm
  • Ability to mix easily

Basic Disposition

Shapes Existing Environment by Working through People
  • Fast-paced
  • People-oriented

Decision Making

Impulsive
  • Intuitive and fast
  • Makes lots of “right calls” and lots of wrong ones

Motivated by

  • Prestige
  • Recognition
  • Approval of others

Desires

  • Have fun!
  • Opportunity to help and motivate others
  • Opportunities to verbally share their ideas

Greatest Needs

  • The otter needs social activities
  • Activities that are fun

Greatest Fears

  • Fixed Environment
  • Loss of Social Approval

Strengths

  • Enthusiastic
  • Optimistic
  • Good Communicator
  • Emotional and Passionate
  • Motivational and Inspirational
  • Outgoing
  • Personal
  • Dramatic
  • Fun-loving

Weaknesses

  • Unrealistic
  • Not detail-oriented
  • Disorganized
  • Impulsive
  • Listens to feelings above logic
  • Reactive
  • Can be too talkative
  • Excitable

Get depressed when...

  • Life is no fun, and no one seems to love them.

As leaders

  • They excite, persuade and inspire others
  • Exude charms and entertain
  • But are forgetful and are poor on follow through​

Work Valuablity

  • For colorful creativity, optimism, light touch, cheering up others, and entertainment.

In Pressure or Tense Situations

  • The otter ATTACKS.
  • Can be more concerned about their popularity than achieving tangible results.

Recovery

  • Social Time

Time Management

  • Otters focus on the future
  • Tendency to rush to the next exciting thing

Communication Style

  • Enthusiastic and stimulating
  • Often one-way
  • Can inspire and motivate others

Communicating with...

Wants You to Be:
  • stimulating and interesting
Provide them With the following:
  • quality
  • information on how it will enhance their status
  • increased talent
  • originality
  • uniqueness
General Strategies:
  • be interested in them
  • support their dreams
  • feelings and opinions
  • be sociable
  • do not hurry the discussion – give them a chance to verbalize
  • try not to argue
  • don’t deal with details – put it all in writing
  • do not be shy
  • agree on the specifics of any arrangement

Like people

  • Who listen and laugh, praise and approve.

Dislike people

  • Those who criticize don’t respond to their humor and don’t think they are cute.

Tend to marry

  • Perfect with people who are melancholy, sensitive, and serious, but the otters quickly tire of having to cheer them up all the time and of feeling inadequate and stupid.

Actions to improve

  • Be attentive to others
  • Be more optimistic
  • Get more organized
  • Don't talk as much
  • Learn to tell time