Dominant

Dominate Style

Dominate traits...
Independent
Ambitious
Innovative
Decisive
Determined
Competitive
Dominate Style people are Fast-paced and Task-oriented and are most interested in the big-picture goals, objectives, tasks, and results.

They are self-starters, direct, decisive, and will challenge the status quo and prefer to lead than follow and tends towards leadership and management positions.

They are highly self-confident, risk-takers, and problem-solvers, enabling others to look to them for decisions and direction.

They are motivated by...
  • New challenges and solving problems.
  • They want the authority to take risks and make decisions.
  • And they like to be shown appreciation for their accomplishments.
Things that annoy them...
  • Inefficiency, indecisiveness, and laziness.
  • Lack of – discipline, plan, purpose, direction, authority, and control.
Under pressure, they may become...
  • Dictatorial, domineering, demanding, angry, intense, forceful, direct, and even bossy.

When communicating with...

When you’re Communicating with Dominate People
  • Try to be efficient and well-organized.
  • Try to get to the point quickly.
  • Argue facts, not personal feelings, when you disagree.
  • Provide alternative actions with brief supporting analyses to influence decisions.
  • They need choices rather than ultimatums.
When Dominate People Communicate with Others in General
  • Be attentive to other people’s ideas.
  • Show support and appreciation for their opinions, feelings, and ideas.
  • Try not to control the conversation.
When Dominate People Communicate with Influence Style People
  • Be enthusiastic and complimentary.
  • Listen and try not to push to make your point.
When Dominate People Communicate with Steady Style People
  • Be sensitive and appreciate their concerns.
  • Don’t be forceful or speak down.
When Dominate People Communicate with Compliant Style People
  • Be prepared and specific, and don’t use generalities.
  • They want an explanation, not a debate.

Team Value

  • They welcome challenges without fear and can overcome obstacles.
  • They are innovative in getting results.
  • They can see the big picture and maintain focus on goals.
  • They can handle multiple projects and function well with heavy workloads.
  • They provide direction and leadership and push the group toward decisions.
  • They are willing to speak out and accept risks.
  • They are also generally optimistic, self-reliant, specific, and direct.

Weaknesses

However, Dominate people tend to overstep authority and prefer to be in charge.

At times they can be argumentative and not listen to the reasoning of others.

They tend to dislike repetition and routine and may ignore the details and minutia of a situation, even if it’s essential, and they may attempt too much at once, hoping to see quick results.

Ideal Environment

Dominate people like to focus on the future and the big picture, prefer non-routine, challenging tasks and activities, and enjoy being in charge.

They want the freedom to make decisions for themselves and crave freedom from controls, supervision, and details and want space from routine and mundane tasks is essential.

Dominate people appreciate receiving verbal recognition from others as well as rewards.

Leadership Traits

They tend to take a hierarchal or “autocratic” approach with other people.
  • Active, task-oriented who likes taking charge and directing groups to accomplish difficult tasks.
  • They don’t take “no” for an answer.
  • They tend to plan and push forward, challenging others to follow.
  • They don’t like sitting still and waiting for things to happen.
  • They like to make things happen.
  • They motivate and mobilize people to accomplish the task.
  • They like long-range planning with specific short-term goals involving many people moving forward together.

Follower Traits

  • Respect strong leaders.
  • Want to be part of a winning team.
  • Follow with power and authority in mind.
  • Wonder, “Will this action make me more respected and get the job done?”
  • Need choices, rather than “get in or get out” ultimatums.
  • Need opportunities to do their own thing.

Teaching Style

  • Demanding type are dedicated students and driving instructors.
  • They like challenging research to convince others.
  • They tend to be too forceful.
  • They make firm disciplinarians.
  • Often domineering, they need to be more gentle with their insights.
  • Digging deep while getting to the point can be frustrating.
  • They should balance dedication to teaching with more people orientation.
  • They can get the job done when explaining why something is true.

Learning Styles

Dominate People as a Kinesthetic Learner
  • Wants to FEEL in control of learning.
  • Desires strong, emotion-packed presentation, as opposed to sensitive or silly expressions.
  • Responds best to the authority who makes them relate personally to the learning.
Dominate People as a Visual Learner
  • Wants to SEE progress and results.
  • Responds best to action-packed visuals.
  • Learns best when lessons are animated or shown, as opposed to written or spoken.
  • Desires more hands-on, group learning by example.
Dominate People as an Auditory Learner
  • LISTENS best to challenges and straightforward communication.
  • They want to hear the bottom line and summarized facts.
  • They don’t like to listen to long, drawn-out stories.
  • Responds best to serious and hard-hitting points.
  • Pays the most attention when lessons are direct and demanding.

Personality Type Cross-reference

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