Psychographics
If you want to get to know me, this is a pretty good place to start.
As someone fascinated in understanding humans and why we do what we do -- I've always found psycho-behavioral assessments fun.
I find them revealing and alluring, yet incomplete. Like looking through a stained glass window of a church, it's hard to see the eye color of the priest inside.
With that grain of salt in your pocket, here are the results of several assessments I've taken.
The Predictive Index
Behavioral Assessment
Profile Archetype & Dimensions
Score ID: 065-0352-044
Summary
Nick is a confident, independent self-starter with competitive drive, initiative, a sense of urgency, and the ability to make decisions and take responsibility for them. Can react and adjust quickly to changing conditions and come up with ideas for dealing with them. 065-0352-044
Responds positively and actively to challenge and pressure, and has confidence in their own ability to handle novel problems and people. Distinctly faster-than-average pace of work, Nick learns and takes action quickly. On the other hand, they’ll become impatient and restless working repetitively with routine details or structured work. They’re confident in assumptions about any missing information, and comfortable acting even in the absence of complete information.
Self-assured, Nick sets high standards of achievement, both personally as well as for teams and looks for opportunities to compete and to win. Venturesome, they are stimulated by new challenges and situations, and can generally be found driving to new horizons. Harbors strong personal and professional ambition.
Strongest Behaviors
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Proactivity, assertiveness, and sense of urgency in driving to reach personal goals. Openly challenges the world.
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Independent in putting forth their own ideas, which are often innovative and cause change.
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Resourcefully works through or around anything blocking completion of what they want to accomplish; aggressive when challenged.
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Impatient for results, puts pressure on self and others for rapid implementation. Far less productive when doing routine work.
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Relatively quick in connecting to others; reasonably open and sharing. Builds and leverages relationships.
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Fluent, enthusiastic, and comparatively frequent in communication; a motivator who pays attention to others’ points of view.
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Collaborative; works with and through others. Focused on team cohesion, dynamics, and interpersonal relations.
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Risk-taking and focus on future goals; more concerned with the future than the past.
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More interested in their own ideas than traditional ones. Adaptable, operates flexibly.
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An original thinker who isn’t easily discouraged by setbacks. Willing to bend the rules to achieve goals.
Management Strategies
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As much independence and flexibility in activities as possible.
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Opportunities to learn and advance.
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Opportunities for expression of, and action on, ideas and initiatives.
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Variety and challenge in responsibilities.
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Opportunities to demonstrate skills, and recognition and reward for doing so.
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Freedom from routines and repetitive details, balanced by accountability for results.
Personality Assessment
Profile Archetype & Examples
Summary
A Commander (ENTJ) is someone with the Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging personality traits. They are decisive people who love momentum and accomplishment. They gather information to construct their creative visions but rarely hesitate for long before acting on them.
Commanders are natural-born leaders. People with this personality type embody the gifts of charisma and confidence, and project authority in a way that draws crowds together behind a common goal. However, Commanders are also characterized by an often ruthless level of rationality, using their drive, determination and sharp minds to achieve whatever end they’ve set for themselves.
Strongest Characteristics
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Striving for Greatness - If there’s anything Commanders love, it’s a good challenge, big or small, and they firmly believe that given enough time and resources, they can achieve any goal.
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Affinity for Talent - Commander personalities have a particular skill in recognizing the talents of others, and this helps in both their team-building efforts.
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Impatient and Overbearing - Commanders want things done yesterday and are relentless in their pursuits. They are quick to voice thoughts and have firm convictions, which can over power more contemplative and sensitive personalities.
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Efficiency and Kinetic Energy - Commanders see inefficiency not just as a problem in its own right, but as something that pulls time and energy away from all their future goals. Commanders bring energy and are energized by progress towards plans and goals.
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Confident and Determined - Commanders trust their abilities, make known their opinions, and believe in their capacities as leaders. Nothing is quite as satisfying to them as rising to the challenge of each obstacle in their run to the finish line.
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Stubborn and Assertive - Commanders are all too capable of digging in their heels, trying to win every single debate and pushing their vision, and theirs alone. They are notoriously unsupportive of any idea that distracts from their primary goals.
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Strategic and Big Thinking - Commanders are known for examining every angle of a problem and not just resolving momentary issues, but moving the whole project forward with their solutions. They are able to inspire and invigorate others, often chosen to lead.
Management Strategies
As a manager:
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Confident, charismatic communicators who don't choose between efficiency for quality.
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The mission is paramount. Everything else, including themselves, is secondary.
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Assertive and direct with their teams and colleagues.
As a subordinate:
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Requires active and engaged management, they desire involvement and impact.
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Sensitive to feedback and calibrating their performance to satisfy their own high standards.
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They deeply appreciate objectivity and rationality. Often brush aside subjective or evidence poor criticism.
Personality Assessment
Enneagram Type
Summary
Eights are self-confident, strong, and assertive. Protective, resourceful, straight-talking, and decisive, but can also be ego-centric and domineering. Eights feel they must control their environment, especially people, sometimes becoming confrontational and intimidating.
Eights typically have problems with their tempers and with allowing themselves to be vulnerable. At their Best: self- mastering, they use their strength to improve others' lives, becoming heroic, magnanimous, and inspiring.
Basics
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Basic Fear - being harmed or controlled by others
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Basic Desire - protect themselves (to be in control of their own life and destiny)
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Basic Motivations - Want to be self-reliant, to prove their strength and resist weakness, to be important in their world, to dominate the environment, and to stay in control of their situation.
Type Overview
Eights enjoy taking on challenges themselves as well as giving others opportunities that challenge them to exceed themselves in some way. Eights are charismatic and have the physical and psychological capacities to persuade others to follow them into all kinds of endeavors.
Eights have enormous willpower and vitality, and they feel most alive when they are exercising these capacities in the world. They use their abundant energy to effect changes in their environment—to “leave their mark" on it. Eights understand that this requires strength, will, persistence, and endurance—qualities that they develop in themselves and which they look for in others.
Eights are the true “rugged individualists” of the Enneagram. They want to be independent, and resist being indebted to anyone. They often refuse to “give in” to social convention, and do not let the opinions of others sway them. They go about their business with a steely determination that can be awe inspiring, even intimidating to others.
Eights are often extremely industrious, but at the price of losing emotional contact with many of the people in their lives. Those close to them may become increasingly dissatisfied with this state of affairs, which confounds Eights.
Beneath an imposing exterior, Eights often feel hurt and rejected, although this is something they seldom talk about because they have trouble admitting their vulnerability. Eights attempt to defend themselves by rejecting others first.
The more Eights attempt to make themselves impervious to hurt or pain (whether physical or emotional), the more they “shut down” emotionally to become hardened and rock-like.
When Eights are emotionally healthy, they have a resourceful, “can-do” inner drive. They take the initiative and make things happen with a great passion for life. They are honorable and authoritative—natural leaders who have a solid, commanding presence.
Their groundedness gives them abundant “common sense” as well as the ability to be decisive. Eights are willing to “take the heat,” knowing that any decision cannot please everyone. They want to look after the interests of the people in their charge without playing favorites. They use their talents and fortitude to construct a better world for everyone in their lives.
Enneagram Cheat Sheet
