Understanding “The Natural Leader” North Compass Personality Type

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What is the North Compass Personality Type?

The North Compass Personality Type is the “Natural Leader” Style. They like to focus on the goals and objectives, are action-oriented, and love checking off a task.

Northerners are confident, decisive, intensely independent, and hate indecision.

• Motto – Get the job done fast.
• Motivation – Competition.
• Priority – Goals.
• Pace – Fast and determined.
• Strength – Quick decisions.
• Weakness – Impatience.
• Aptitude – Leadership.
• Work Style – Independent.
• Main Work Competency – Supervisory.
• Image – Achievement.
• Pet Peeve – Indecision.
• Symbol – Lightning bolt.

North and East characteristics

Work hard, be Productive, Take responsibility, be Serious, Finish tasks, and Catch mistakes.

North and West characteristics

Move fast, be Talkative, Enjoy the action, Welcome change, and Bold Take risks.

North Personality Type cross-reference

• Keirsey Type – Rationals
• Temperament Type – Choleric
• Animal Type – Lion
• DISC Type – Dominant
• Socio-Communicative Type – Driver
• True Colors – Green
• Color Code – Red
• Occupational Type – Enterprising
• Learning Type – Activist
• Leadership Type – Dominator

MBTI Personality Types (xNTx) – Intuition and Thinking

• ENTJ – The Commander
• ENTP – The Debate
• INTJ – The Architect
• INTP – The Thinker

Enneagram Types

• Type 1 – The Reformer (ENTJ, INTJ)
• Type 3 – The Achiever (ENTP)
• Type 5 – The Investigator (INTJ, INTP)
• Type 7 – The Enthusiast (ENTP)
• Type 8 – The Challenger (ENTJ)

North Personality Type Careers

North-­East job examples

• Military Officer – leader (N), structured  regulations (E)
• Negotiator – assertive (N), analytical (E)
• Chairperson – authoritative (N), organized (E)
• Maitre d’ – decisive (N), proper protocol (E)
• Conductor – goal­centered (N), focused (E)

North-­West job examples

• Chief Executive – in control (N), visionary (W)
• Manager – hardworking (N), flexible (W)
• Project Leader – fast­paced deadlines (N),  innovative (W)
• Police Officer – fearless (N), risk taker (W)
• Coach – action­centered (N), adaptable (W)

What is the Personality Compass?

The Personality Compass, “A New Way to Understand People,” was developed by Diane Turner and Thelma Greco in 1998. Although similar to the four core Personality Temperaments, the Personality Compass focuses more on how individuals interact with others and less on personality tendencies like introversion vs. extraversion.

Learn more about the Compass Personality Types.

Personality Temperaments, Traits, and Types

Personality Temperaments, Personality Traits, and Personality Types are used in Psychology to discuss a person’s Personality, a collection of Emotions, Perceptions, and Actions that interact with each other, regulate themselves, and shape a dynamic system that forms a person’s Behavioral Patterns.

Your inherited Traits (your Personality Temperament), along with your acquired Traits (such as education, socialization, and other various pressures and aspects in your life), form your Personality.

A Personality Type identifies a specific collection of Traits, both learned and natural, that comprise a broad, general Personality Classification—a way of labeling a collection of traits and behaviors.

A Personality Trait remains consistent and stable over time, which means you exhibit the same pattern across different situations and throughout your life.

Three criteria characterize Personality Traits: (1) consistency, (2) stability, and (3) individual differences. For example, if you are talkative at home, you also tend to be talkative at work. And if you were talkative at age 20, you would still be chatty at age 40.

Personality Temperament is your “Naturally Intuitive” biological Trait. These Traits are partly inherited from your genes and partially determined by your brainstem, which doesn’t change throughout your life. These are Natural Traits regarded as innate or inborn and not learned.

Your Personality Temperament is formed as an infant and is hard to modify, manipulate, or change because it is genetic. In some way or another, your inherited behavioral tendency will always be there.

Personality Traits are the quantitative differences between people, and Personality Types are qualitative differences between people. The most crucial difference between the Trait Theory and Type Theory is that Type Theory views people’s characteristics as discrete categories. In contrast, Trait Theory views these characteristics as a continuum.

For example, where a Type Theorist would claim that introverts and extraverts are two types of people, a Trait Theorist claims extraversion is a gradient and individuals can fall somewhere in the middle.

Your Temperaments, along with acquired Traits, form your Personality.