1. Empowering people through Core Qualities

2. Use core qualities to discover your challenges in life

3. Core Quadrant
You can visualise the theory of Ofman in a Core Quadrant

4. Core quality tool Was developed by Daniel Ofman
Can be used to discover, and give tremendous insight, in who you are and what your core qualities, pitfalls, challenges and allergies are in life.
Core qualities can be made visible in a core quadrant.

5. Core Quality
A core quality is a specific strength that characterises you
It is a strong and positive personal quality
It makes you what you are
It is one of the first things people say about you when they are asked to describe you
Each person has at least one core quality

6. Examples qualities
You are decisive
You are modest
You are rational

7. Pitfall Your pitfall goes hand-in-hand with your core quality
It is the distortion of your core quality when you show too much of it
It is the reversed side of the medal, your quality becomes a weakness

8. Creating the quadrant Core Quality Pitfall too much
Strength becomes pitfall
Core Quality
Pitfall
To every sunny side is also a shadow side

9. Other examples Core Quality Pitfall Decisive Forcing Modest Invisible
Rational Distant

10. A distortion is too much of something good
Strength becomes pitfall
Determined ?
Self-confident – arrogant
Flexible – laisser-faire

11. A distortion is too much of something good
Strength becomes pitfall
Determined
Pushy
Self-confident – arrogant
Flexible – laisser-faire

12. Challenge Your challenge is the positive opposite of your pitfall
It is a positive quality that you should show more often
It is a quality you often recognise and admire in others
This quality is needed to keep your core quality well-balanced

13. With the Pitfall comes the Challenge
Determined
pushy
With your pitfall you get a challenge connected to your core quality.
The challenge is positive and the contrary of your pitfall, the opposite of your pitfall but than positive. ?

14. With the Pitfall comes the Challenge
Determined
pushy
What matters is to find a balance between you core quality and your challenge
Patience

15. Allergy Your allergy is the negative opposite of your core quality
Most people are allergic to their own challenge recognised in other persons
You can get into conflict with people that are in your allergy zone, especially when that person is the personification of that behaviour you detest

16. Core Quadrant Core Quality Pitfall Allergy Challenge
From the core quadrant you can quite often predict Potential conflicts
Most people seem to have an allergy for the ‘too much’ of their challenge, especially if you find that in an other person!
Allergy
Challenge

17. Core Quadrant Pitfall Allergy Challenge
From the core quadrant you can quite often predict Potential conflicts
Most people seem to have an allergy for the ‘too much’ of their challenge, especially if you find that in an other person!
Allergy
Challenge

18. Core Quadrant Determined Pushy Passivity Patience
From the core quadrant you can quite often predict Potential conflicts
Most people seem to have an allergy for the ‘too much’ of their challenge, especially if you find that in an other person!
Passivity
Patience

19. Four Entries Core Quality your specific strength
Pitfall the label people put on you
Challenge what you would like to have
more of
Allergy what you find difficult to
handle in other people

20. Core Quadrant Core quality Pitfall Allergy Challenge
The core quadrant can help you to become more aware of your own and others qualities and challenges
It also shows that you can learn most/a lot from the people you have an allergy for
You can learn the most from the things you find most difficult to deal with

21. Core Quadrant
Flexible
Laisser-faire
rigid
structured

22. Core Quadrant
Self-confident
arrogant
submissive
modest

23. Each individual has positive qualities
Each individual has positive qualities. Searching for these positive traits and strengthening them is called empowerment.
Ofman's theory on core quadrants presents a method for identifying and strengthening each individual's positive characteristics.

24. Create your Core Quadrant

25. Create your Core Quadrant
You can start in any part of the quadrant:
Start an inventory of your strong points and elaborate by defining your pitfall, challenge, and allergy.
Have others told you what they often dislike about you? That might be your pitfall. Look for the positive quality behind it and continue by determining your challenge and allergy.
You might already know some of your challenges. Try finding the positive quality behind them and describe the accompanying pitfall and allergy.
Is there somebody that immediately pops up in your mind when you talk about your allergies? Try describing the positive things of that person and discover what it says about you.

26. Exercise Work in pairs Use your first language if you prefer
Work out one of your core qualities in a quadrant and discuss with your partner
Try working out a quadrant about somebody you dislike (allergy)

27. Using your core quadrant
Put your own behaviour and that of others into perspective
Improve your relationship with colleagues
Prepare yourself for job interviews
Define challenges to improve these qualities, for instance for your personal development plan

28. More on this subject? In English: Core Qualities – Daniel Ofman
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