Green - Cognitive Oriented

You seek knowledge and understanding
  • Analytical, Global, Conceptual
You live life by my standards
  • Cool, Calm, Collected
It would be best if you had explanations and answers
  • Inventive, Logical, Perfectionist
You value intelligence, insight, fairness, and justice
  • Abstract, Hypothetical, Investigative
You are a natural non-conformist, a visionary, a problem solver

Your Strength is Knowledge

They feel best about themselves when solving problems and when their ideas are recognized, especially when they feel ingenious.

  • They seek to express themselves through their ability to be an expert in everything.
  • Their idea of a great day is to use your know-how like a laser to create solutions because you are a complex individualist with great analytical ability.
  • Although you do not express your emotions openly, you experience deep feelings.

The Need to Be Ingenious

People in this group are in esteem when they are competent.

  • They want to understand and control the realities of life.
  • This control represents the power to acquire the multiple abilities they pride themselves on.
  • They feel best about themselves when solving problems, and their ideas are recognized.
  • They are complex individualists with extraordinary analytical abilities.
  • Although they do not express their emotions openly, they experience deep feelings.
  • The vision of genius, the challenge of science, the complexity of models and systems, and the perfection of symmetry symbolize these abstract thinkers.
  • They thrive on mental competencies as well as on the skills and abilities of others.
  • They are motivated by a quest for knowledge and the ability to seek and provide it.
  • The control of knowledge is as crucial as its acquisition because such control can be perceived as power.

Motivated to Improve

People in the Green group do not see the performance aspect of knowledge as a primary concern.

Instead, they gain self-esteem by providing information for others to act upon.

The results motivate them to improve on what they previously perceived or created.

The importance and emphasis on performance concern them only when it is their own, as with developing an idea or pursuing new knowledge.

Language as a Communication Tool

The Green personality seeks self-esteem and gratification in professions and activities which rely on competence.

This includes the sciences, engineering, computers and mathematics, philosophy, and any field requiring precise ideas detailing.

Language and its use are merely toys with which to play, and there is a particular fascination with Language as a communication tool.

Working as a Source of Pleasure

As a Green, a person derives genuine pleasure from work because it represents a continual quest for knowledge.

Work may be a means of providing creature comforts. Still, it is also a source of recreation.

On a day away from paid work, people with a Green personality may be content to sit before the television and listen only to informational programs.

To be mentally idle is to be worthless.

Charactrtistics

  • Innovative and inventive.
  • Problem solver.
  • "Why" mentality.
  • Calm, cool, collected.
  • Intellectual.
  • Independent.
  • Analytical and strategic.
  • Relationships are logical.
  • Perfectionist.
  • Usually tech-savvy.
  • Developing models.
  • Analytical processes.
  • A variety of interests.
  • They admire intelligence.
  • They utilize precise Language.
  • Abstract thinking.
  • They explore ideas.
  • They strive for competency.
  • They store wisdom and knowledge.
  • Abhorring redundancy.
  • They handle complexity.

On a bad day, you may...

  • Become Overly Indecisive.
  • Refuse to Cooperate with Others.
  • Become more Aloof/Withdrawn.
  • Put Others Down.
  • Use Sarcasm.
  • Refuse to Communicate.
  • Become Highly Critical of Yourself/Others.
  • Turn a Cold Shoulder to Others.
  • Demand Unreasonable Perfection.

Stressors

  • They are overly sensitive people.
  • Lack of independent thinking.
  • Small talk.
  • Mistakes or ineptitude in self or others.
  • Decisions made with no data.
  • Redundancy or routine.
  • Red tape.
  • Nothing new to look forward to, no variety.
  • They are made to look incompetent.
  • Lack of Control.
  • Incompetence.
  • Emotional Displays.
  • Social Functions.

Frustrations

Things that Frustrate You...

  • Routine.
  • Plagiarism.
  • Illogical Arguments.
  • Incompetence.

Things You Do That Frustrate Others...

  • Not Being Social.
  • Living in the Future.
  • Being Wordy.
  • Blowing Up When Criticized.
  • Not Going with the Flow.
  • Being Too Independent.

Relationships

  • They prefer to let your head rule your heart.
  • They dislike repetition, so it isn't easy to express feelings continuously.
  • They believe that once feelings are stated, they are apparent to a partner.
  • They are uneasy when their emotions control them.
  • They want to establish a relationship, leave it to maintain itself, and return their energies to their career.

When talking with others...

  • Ease up on the "whys."
  • Let others express their emotions and learn to listen without "fixing."
  • Save the debate.
  • Inform others when you are processing.

When talking to a Green...

  • Give them time to think.
  • Give independence.
  • Stick to logic.
  • Recognize their contributions and intelligence.
  • Don't misinterpret their need for information.

You see yourself as...

  • Superior Intellect.
  • Powerful.
  • Eminently.
  • Reasonable.
  • Calm.
  • Not Emotional.
  • Precise.
  • Not Repetitive.
  • Able to Find Flaws.
  • Seeking Justice.
  • Able to Reprimand.
  • 98% Right.
  • Creative.
  • Visionary.
  • Original.
  • Rational.
  • Under Control.
  • Objective.
  • Firm-Minded.
  • Knowledgeable.
  • Confident.
  • Innovative.
  • Independent.
  • Logical.

Others see you as...

  • Intellectual Snob.
  • Heartless.
  • Ruthless.
  • Unrealistic.
  • Emotionally Controlled.
  • Afraid to Open Up.
  • Critical.
  • Fault-Finding.
  • Unfair.
  • Unappreciative of Others.
  • Arrogant.
  • Doesn't Care About People.
  • Eccentric.
  • Weird.
  • Cool.
  • Aloof.
  • Unfeeling.
  • Lacking Mercy.
  • Stingy with Praise.
  • Arrogant.
  • Anti-social.
  • Heartless.

Childhood

  • They appeared to be older than your years and focused on your most significant interests, achieving in mentally stimulating subjects.
  • They are impatient with drills and routines, question authority, and must respect teachers before they can learn from them.

Work Traits

Green employees perform best when exposed to the driving force or overall theory behind their role with the organization:

  • They prefer to work independently.
  • New ideas and concepts arouse your curiosity, and you enjoy interpreting them before adding them to your knowledge bank.
  • They are gratified by probing abstract concepts, responding positively to recognizing and appreciating your competence in a subject.
  • They are conceptual and an individual thinker.
  • For them, work is play.
  • They are drawn to constant career challenges and like to develop models, explore ideas, or build systems to satisfy my need to deal with the innovative.
  • Once You have perfected an idea, you prefer to move on, leaving the project to be maintained and supported by others.
  • They are very aware of the intricacies of systems and organizations.
  • They like to design systems that improve the organization's functioning and find it challenging to be repetitive once any system functions.
  • They can be somewhat impatient with irrelevant personal interactions.
  • They feel your most extraordinary organizational contributions are your ideas and your ability to solve problems.
  • They are most proficient in performing their job when they can do it competently.
  • They think it is wise to create new procedures, reflecting the advances made in technology and culture.
  • They enjoy giving co-workers new insights and knowledge from their experience and research.
  • They favor organizational techniques are meetings, projects, reports, and seminars.
  • They take a logical approach to resolving conflict.
  • They enjoy inspiring those with whom they come in contact to stretch their intellect.
  • Their concept of success emphasizes knowledge, logic, self-control, clarity, intelligence, and principle.

Leadership Style

  • Expects intelligence and competence.
  • Assumes task relevancy.
  • Seeks ways to improve systems.
  • Visionary.
  • Analytical.
  • Encourages change for improvement.
  • Constantly "in process" of change.
  • Expects people to follow through.

You like to receive praise when...

  • Their competence is recognized.
  • The quality of your work is recognized.
  • They are praised with specific vocabulary.
  • Specific knowledge you acquired is recognized.
  • Their integrity is recognized.
  • Their independent competence in a job is recognized.
  • Someone appreciated their analysis.
  • A clear, logical explanation of what was done is expressed precisely.