1. Discovering Your Personality Type

2. What is the True Colors Personality Test?
An easy, entertaining way to understand you and those you are around by recognizing your personality type and its characteristics

3. Why Discover Your Personality Type?
Gain insight into yourself and others by providing clues as to your strengths, weaknesses, joys, and stresses
Your personal and professional success is based in part on your ability to work effectively with others.

4. Different Drums and Different Drummers (Excerpted from Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates)
If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.
Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view
Or if my emotion is less that yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

5. Different Drums and Different Drummers (Excerpted from Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates)
Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.
If I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

6. Different Drums and Different Drummers (Excerpted from Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates)
I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague.
If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that someday these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might appear to you as right for me
To put up with me is the first step in understanding me.

7. Different Drums and Different Drummers (Excerpted from Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates)
Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness.
And in understanding me you might come to prize my difference from you, and, far from seeming to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.

8. Today we are going to discover those differences in each of us!

9. Let’s discover what you are first!!
What are the 4 Types?
Let’s discover what you are first!!

10. The Test…. 3 4 2 1

11. Once you have finished ranking the words…
Add the numbers for each section and write it in the “Total of A” “Total of B”, etc. You should have 8 numbers
Transfer these numbers to page 2 “How Did You Score?”
Rank your colors in the section “What Have You Discovered?”

12. Now that I know what I am, what does that mean?

13. GOLD

14. GREEN

15. BLUE

16. ORANGE

17. Group Activity
Within your color group, discuss your color style. Answer the following questions….
What are the characteristics of your color?
What are your colors’ strengths?
What are your colors’ weaknesses?

18. Gold How you see yourself
Stable
Providing security
Dependable
Firm
Always have a view
Efficient
Realistic
Decisive
Executive type
Good planner
Orderly, neat
Organizer person
Practical, expects same
Goal oriented
Finish what I started
Good at sorting, weeding out
Between 33%-50% of the population.
Goals include security and acceptance of others.
Gold questions and worries; good at finding fault in new methods and ideas
Good protectors of status quo; tradition
Likes: structure and rules, expectations, organization
Dislike: change, people who are too cavalier-careless, rule-breakers
Golds can be interested in establishing order in a way that offends or irritates others.  The usual Gold idea of order and hierarchy can seem like unnecessary baggage or restrictive to other colors.

19. Gold How others may see you…
Rigid and controlling
Dull, boring
Stubborn, pigheaded
Opinionated
Unimaginative
Judgmental
Bossy, controlling
Limiting flexibility
Uptight
Sets own agenda
Predictable
Rigid idea of time
Not able to do many things at once
Throws away good items needlessly

20. Green How you see yourself
Superior intellect -- 98% right
Tough-minded
Efficient and Powerful
Creative, visionary
Eminently reasonable
Rational and Calm, not emotional
Under control
Precise, not repetitive
Able to find flaws
Task, goal focus
Holding firm to policy
Seeking justice
Assuming things will be well done
Great planner
Firm-minded, able to reprimand
Between 10%-13% of the population.
Often viewed as scientists, nerds, computer geniuses
Goals include understanding and questioning everything.
Likes: Thinking, reasoning
Inquiry and questioning everything
Logic, structure
The "big picture" 
Dislike: Routine and Following illogical instructions or traditions
Irritate others by frequently seeing interesting ideas or directions of development uninteresting to others.
Can become locked into a search for the ultimate and perfect answer, procedure, etc. when no one else cares about the subject.
Seem arrogant to others at times -- Sometimes deliberately choose to ignore rules or others' wishes or concerns.  Focus instead on their own, more strictly logical picture of what is going on and what should be achieved in the future.   .

21. Green How others may see you…
Intellectual snob
Arrogant
Heartless
Doesn't care about people
Ruthless
Unrealistic
Eccentric, weird
Emotionally controlled
Ignores people values
Cool, aloof, unfeeling
Afraid to open up
Critical, fault finding
Not on my side
Devaluing relational aspects
Lacking mercy, unfair
Unappreciative, stingy with praise
Doesn't consider people in plans

22. Blue How you see yourself
Warm, Caring, Compassionate
Romantic
Spiritual
“People person”
Willing to work tirelessly for a cause
Unselfish
Empathetic
Affirming
Caretaker
Social interaction expert
Able to see need for exceptions
Conscious of past relations
Like to please people
Sympathetic
Great communicator
Wanting harmony
Between 12%-25% of the population.
Often viewed as scientists, nerds, computer geniuses
Goals include Harmony, Good emotions, Using intuition , Know self better .
Likes: Feelings
Harmony between people
Spirituality and imagination
Interactions with others
Dislike: Strife and discord
Those who value rules or ideas more than people.
Insensitivity to others' feelings or plight.
Competition
Overly sensitive or concerned about other's feelings.
May seem flaky

23. Blue How others may see you…
Over-emotional
Bleeding heart
Mushy
Flaky, unrealistic
Hopelessly naive
Too tender-hearted
Easily duped
Too "touchy feely"
Too nice
Naive, too trusting
Smothering
Stuck in/lives in the past
Groveling, fawning, soft
Talks too much
Obscures the issues

24. Orange How you see yourself
Fun-loving, enjoys life
Spontaneous
Flexible, adaptable
Carefree
Proficient, capable
Hands-on person
Practical
Problem-solver
Good negotiator
Here and now person
Do many things at once
Resourceful
Can deal with chaos
Curious, welcomes new ideas
Superior ability to discriminate among options
Between 12%-33% of the population.
Often viewed as party animal, warrior 
Goals include having fun and adventure and avoiding boredom
Likes: Action
Sensational things
Fun
Competition Making a strong, immediate impact on others.
Dislike: Being bored, Inaction, Being pinned down, May dislike school, lessons, books, extended explanations or discussion, Detail, formality or complexity that others see in a task or project, Self-revelation or analysis.
Can be oblivious to over-all patterns that are apparent to others.
They may seek to stimulate competition that others find burdensome.
Not serious enough.   .

25. Orange How others may see you…
Irresponsible
Flaky, Wish-washy
Not serious
Spends time at things they enjoy
Not interested in ideas
Indecisive
Disobeys rules
Manipulative, not to be trusted
Turn off to past-oriented blue
Turn off to future-oriented green
Not able to stay on task
Scattered, cluttered
Uncontrollable
Resists closure or decision

26. Now that we realize our differences, how do we succeed together as a team??
Recognize the strengths and weaknesses!

27. Gold
Their strengths include their strong sense of responsibility and duty to the organization. These are the organization’s backbone.
Their weaknesses include their rigidity and narrow focus on meeting rules and regulations.

28. How to succeed with Gold
Be organized and neat in work and appearance
Be truthful
Plan ahead of them
Don’t beat around the bush; be up front
Respect their need for tradition and stability
Be loyal and dependable
Support their need for structure and security

29. Green
Their strengths include their ability to think systematically and strategically. These are the natural analysts.
Their weaknesses include their tendency to make things more complex than necessary and their impatience with incompetence.

30. How to succeed with Green
Respect their preoccupation with ideas and logic
Know that they care but may not express feelings freely
Respect their wisdom and knowledge
Think ahead; Greens appreciate future-orientation
Help them with day-to-day details
Praise their ingenuity and intelligence

31. Blue
Their strengths include their ability to persuade and cooperate. These are the team-builders.
Their weaknesses include an over-personalization of organizational problems and their tendency to carry grudges.

32. How to succeed with Blue
Respect their need to know about you
Take a creative approach to problem solving
Be truthful and sincere
Cooperate with other team members
Show that you value and appreciate them through thoughtfulness
Be helpful, open, and communicative

33. Orange
Their strengths include their ability to do a variety of tasks with ease and their sense of urgency when the situation demands it. These are the organizational troubleshooters.
Their weaknesses include their disinterest in routine and being too present-oriented, at the expense of long-term thinking.

34. How to succeed with Orange
A direct right-to-the-point approach gets their attention
Respect their lack of structure and need for spontaneity
Get involved in physical activities with them
Compliment their generosity and sense of humor

35. Things to Remember One color is not above another personality color!
Most people exhibit traits of each of the different colors; rarely is someone only one color.
Honor all the colors – the purpose of tonight’s activity was to appreciate and understand other personalities, not to separate ourselves.

36. Discovering Your Personality Type