Keys to

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Keys to Personal Success
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Agenda

• Welcome (Ice Breakers Overview)
• True Colors Evolution
• What Are Your True Colors? (Card Sort)
• Brightening Activities
• True Colors Video
• Appreciating Differences
• Applying True Colors to Life
• Closing Activities

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Welcome

• Your Facilitator
• Whos Here Ice Breaker Activity
• Expected Outcome of Seminar

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True Colors Evolution

• 400 B.C. Hippocrates ? Four types
• Sanguine
• Choleric
• Phlegmatic
• Melancholic

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True Colors Evolution
1921 Carl Jung ? Psychological
type Thinker Feeler Sensor In
tuitor
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True Colors Evolution
Isabel Myers Katherine Briggs ? MBTI
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True Colors Evolution
1967 David Keirsey ? Temperament
Types Apollonian Promethean E
pimethean Dionysian
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True Colors Evolution
1978 Don Lowry ? True Colors
Don becomes aware of the work of David Keirsey.
He believed there were Fundamental and Universal
applications of Keirseys work. Butto remember
it, it needed to be FUN! True Colors is
born. ORANGE ? GOLD ? BLUE ? GREEN
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Activity
Imagine that you have written a book that is
about to be published.
Write a short piece about yourself (no more than
50 words) that will appear on the book jacket
under the title About the Author. You have 5
minutes to complete this activity.
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Card Sort What Are My Colors?
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What is Your True Color Spectrum Today?
Card Sort Results
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What is Your True Color Spectrum Today?
Word Cluster Sort
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Final Tally
What is Your True Color Spectrum Today?
Add Each Column Down
Whats My Color?
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Core Needs Values ?ORANGE
Skillfulness Freedom
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Attributes ? ORANGE

• Playful
• Energetic
• Charming
• Risk-taker
• Just do it
• Test limits
• Quick witted
• Master negotiator
• Creative, inventive
• Lets make a deal
• A natural entertainer
• High need for mobility
• Visual and kinesthetic

• Pushes the boundaries
• Natural nonconformist
• Thrives on competition
• Likes tangible rewards
• External focus of control
• Stimulates the economy
• Impulsive and spontaneous
• Appreciates immediate feedback
• Tends to be left/right brain integrated
• Most productive in informal environments

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Reframing ? ORANGE

• OTHERS MAY
• PERCEIVE ORANGE AS
• Goofing off too much
• Manipulative
• Untrustworthy
• Unable to stay on task
• Scattered
• Taking unnecessary risks
• Resisting closure or decisions
• Obnoxious
• Immature
• Self-centered

• ORANGE MAY
• PERCEIVE SELF AS
• Flexible, easy-going
• Having a playful attitude
• Exploring new possibilities
• Clever, good negotiator
• Open to change
• Having many interests
• Able to do many things
• Adventurous, courageous
• Valuing freedom
• Bold, assertive
• Fun-loving, enjoying life
• Independent

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Core Needs Values ? GOLD
Duty Responsibility
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Attributes ? GOLD

• Be prepared
• Loves to plan
• Detail-oriented
• Service-oriented
• Values family traditions
• Helpful and trustworthy
• Conservative and stable
• Should and should not
• Rarely breaks the speed limit
• Strives for a sense of security

• Punctual, predictable, precise
• Value order and the status quo
• Duty, loyalty, useful, responsible
• There is a right way to do everything
• Tends to be left-brained and analytical
• Strong belief in policies, procedures, rules
• Most comfortable with a formal environment

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Reframing ? GOLD

• OTHERS MAY
• PERCEIVE GOLD AS
• Rigid, inflexible
• Controlling, bossy
• Too serious
• Resistant to change
• Opinionated
• System-bound
• Lacking imagination
• Judgmental
• Boring
• Uptight
• Predictable
• Autocratic

• GOLD MAY
• PERCEIVE SELF AS
• Consistent
• Providing structure
• Goal-oriented
• Firm or traditional
• Knowing right from wrong
• Loyal to organization
• Realistic
• Decisive, seeking closure
• Dependable
• Concerned about security
• Following a routine
• Having leadership ability

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Core Needs Values ? BLUE
Relationships Authenticity
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Attributes ? BLUE

• Enjoys symbols of romance
• Strong sense of spirituality
• Sensitive to needs of others
• Peace, harmony, relationships
• Motivate and encourage others
• Cooperative rather than competitive

• Mediators
• Optimistic
• Caretakers
• Passionate
• Peacemakers
• True romantics
• Cause-oriented
• Need to feel special
• Always has a kind word

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Reframing ? BLUE

• BLUE MAY
• PERCEIVE SELF AS
• Having feelings
• Compassionate
• Romantic
• Idealistic
• Empathetic
• Caring
• Seeing best in others
• Nurturing
• Liking to please people
• Wanting harmony
• Great communicator
• Valuing feelings

• OTHERS MAY
• PERCEIVE BLUE AS
• Very emotional
• Overly sensitive
• Mushy
• Too tender-hearted
• Easily persuaded
• Too nice
• Too trusting
• Smothering
• Too soft, too giving
• Weak
• Talking too much
• Illogical

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Core Needs Values ? GREEN
Intellectual Competence Knowledge
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Attributes ? GREEN

• Should be able to
• Why?
• Intellectual
• Theoretical
• Idea people
• Philosophical
• Very complex
• Perfectionists
• Standard setters
• Visionaries, futurists
• Can never know enough
• Cool, calm and collected

• Work is play - play is work
• Often not in the mainstream
• Abstract, conceptual, global
• Need for independence and private time
• Explores all facets before making decisions
• Knows how to spell and pronounce big words
• Approaches interpersonal relationships in a
  logical manner

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Reframing ? GREEN

• GREEN MAY
• PERCEIVE SELF AS
• Confident
• Mentally tough, strong
• Logical, rational
• Visionary, inventive
• Self-controlled
• Enjoying ones own company
• Good at analysis
• Objective
• Having ability to reprimand
• Having high expectations
• Knowledgeable
• Thinking deeply

• OTHERS MAY
• PERCEIVE GREEN AS
• Arrogant, a know it all
• Cold, hard
• Insensitive
• Head in the clouds
• Cool, aloof, unfeeling
• Afraid to open up
• Critical, fault-finding
• Lacking compassion
• Unappreciative of others
• Intellectually demanding
• Argumentative
• Absent minded

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Brightening Your True Color

• GOAL
• To better understand yourself and learn about
  others.
• PROCESS
• Arts and Crafts Create a representation of your
  color spectrum.
• Break into groups of brightest color. Select a
  leader to record your comments and ideas.
• In your color groups discuss
• 1. What are your strengths, joys, values and
  needs?
• 2. What are your stressors and frustrations?
• Report out.

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Entertainment Activity
Time Out for a True Colors Video
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Appreciating Differences

• Group Discussion
• What is the one thing that is most misunderstood
  about you/your color?
• You have all four colors in you.
• Learn how to use them

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Valuing Differences Creating Unity

• GOAL
• To bring a level of appreciating differences.
• PROCESS
• Separate into blended groups. Select a leader to
  record your comments and ideas.
• In groups discuss
• Create an ideal Business/Venture/Activity that
  utilizes the strengths of each color on the
  committee and appeals to each color of
  participant.
• Report out.

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• Know Thyself
• and learn about those around you.
• With True Colors you can
• enable understanding
• increase communication
• create harmony

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Closing
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