Red - The Power Wielder

Red - The Power Wielders

  • Reds are highly committed to causes - Accomplish whatever life places before them
  • Reds are visionaries – Look toward the future and take steps necessary to take them there
  • successfully
  • Reds are known as insensitive and selfish
  • Reds are proud and known to parade their values and opinions in the faces of all others
  • Reds appear solid and sure of themselves – Few people are willing to confront them
  • Reds sense what is right
  • Red are highly critical of other people
  • Reds can bury their insecurities
  • Reds must be right
  • Reds are daring and bold
  • Reds are opinionated and stubborn
  • Reds are not natural conversationalists – Natural lecturers
  • Reds are calculating and manipulative to control lives and produce results

Personality Type Mapping

MBTI / Keirsey - Rational (NT - Intuition / Thinking)
Enneagram
Temperaments

Strengths

  • Natural leader
  • Operates in a very logical, sensible manner
  • Makes decisions quickly and easily
  • Self-motivated
  • Quick with good advice and direction
  • Strong sense of independence
  • Excels with logical thinking
  • Committed to a productive lifestyle
  • Dynamic and direct
  • Thrives on independence
  • Highly resourceful (strong survivor)
  • Creative in crisis
  • Direct and quick with suggestions
  • Great in emergencies
  • Direct and quick with disasters
  • Promotes group activities
  • Engages in conflict comfortably and directly
  • Productive in solving dilemmas

Limitations

  • Out of touch with own feelings
  • Insensitive and tactless
  • Blames others for personal misfortunes
  • Dislike being told what to do
  • Poor listener
  • Enters friendship, asking, “What’s in it for me?”
  • Demanding and arrogant
  • Promotes turmoil and conflict when a personal goal is to be gained
  • Out of touch with own feelings
  • Renationalizes and denies own failings
  • Always right
  • Cannot relax and feel comfortable unless producing something
  • Often arrogant and defiant or authority
  • Inconsiderate of other’s feelings (selfish)
  • Inpatient with others 
  • Insensitive and unemotional
  • Doesn’t like to admit the need for friendship
  • Remains detached from sharing self ultimately
  • Listens only when convenient
  • Maintains mostly rational friendships
  • Tries to control group activities
  • Expects friends to do things their way
  • Won’t admit inadequacies for fear of losing power and control
  • Negative, critical, and judgmental of others
  • Feels it is more important to be correct than agreeable
  • Blunt or rude when angered
  • Boring
  • Expects to be entertained while waiting for the action to begin
  • Stubborn
  • Denies any personal inadequacies of responsibility 

How to Develop a Positive Connection

Do’s
  • Present issues logically
  • Demand their attention and respect
  • Do your homework!
  • Be direct, brief, and specific in conversation
  • Be productive and efficient
  • Offer them leadership opportunities
  • Verbalize your feelings
  • Support their decisive nature
  • Promote their intelligence reasoning where appropriate
  • Be prepared with facts and figures
  • Respect their need to make their own decisions their way
Don'ts
  • Embarrass them in front of others
  • Argue from an emotional perspective
  • Always use authoritarian approach
  • Use physical punishment
  • Be slow and indecisive
  • Expect a personal and intimate relationship
  • Attack them personally
  • Take their arguments personally
  • Wait for them to solicit your opinion
  • Demand constant social interaction (allow for alone time)