I know, I know...
It's been a while. But then again there hasn't been anything too exciting going on lately - at least nothing blog worthy... The past two weeks I have not been motivated to work, much less write in a blog, but the slump is over. I am actually accomplishing something! Hell, I got home from work tonight at about 7, had dinner, and at about 8 I jumped on my computer and did some more work until about 11. And I feel good about it. Really good.
At my office, we recently took this, for lack of a better term, personality test in order to under stand how we all work and to make the teams work better together. This test basically divides how your brain thinks into four sections - notated by color. The colors are red, yellow, blue, and green. Every brain has all four colors - however everyone has a preference for which part of the brain they work best or easiest in. The average person has two preferences. (A preference being any color that shows up with 23% or more of your answers to the test they give you.) IT is rare (but not impossible) to have one, three, or four preferences.
The colors stand for the following:
BLUE: Analytical - this person thinks big picture, they enjoy math and science, they are looking more at the future. They are very cut and dried. They only want top line details. No fluff.
GREEN: Structural - this person who is very process oriented, they love checklists, they don't feel like they have accomplished anything until things can be crossed off their list, they are extremely detail oriented and need all the little bits of information.
RED: Social - this person needs to know that everyone is okay, they will get to the work once they know that everyone is happy, they will put everything aside if they sense any tension, etc.
YELLOW: Conceptual - this is the most creative of the four preferences, they also think big picture, however they are not decision makers, they also keep working on things because nothing is ever complete there is always room for improvement.
So the point of me explaining Emergenetics, in a very topline (dare I say Blue) way that doesn't give it complete justice, is so that you will understand that when I say I am very green, I don't mean new, inexperienced, or Irish - I mean that I am very anal, I need you to give me all the information and let me decide what is important to me. And, when I get to cross things off my to-do list (like the three things that I can cross off after working from home this evening) I am extremely happy. (For those of you that care I have the following preferences - green, followed closely by blue, red is also an almost preference coming in at 22%.)
Let me explain just how anal I am. When at work, I use a different highlighter every day of the week. (Monday is pink, Tuesday orange, Wednesday yellow, Thursday green, and Friday blue - a modified ROYGBIV if you will.) My highlighters are lined up in their little holder in order. Do not mess them up. I have 24 sharpie pens in all different colors. They are also lined up in color groups - again DO NOT TOUCH. Shall I go on? I don't think I need to.
But something to keep in mind - most people with OCD have a predominant green preference. Scary huh?
At my office, we recently took this, for lack of a better term, personality test in order to under stand how we all work and to make the teams work better together. This test basically divides how your brain thinks into four sections - notated by color. The colors are red, yellow, blue, and green. Every brain has all four colors - however everyone has a preference for which part of the brain they work best or easiest in. The average person has two preferences. (A preference being any color that shows up with 23% or more of your answers to the test they give you.) IT is rare (but not impossible) to have one, three, or four preferences.
The colors stand for the following:
BLUE: Analytical - this person thinks big picture, they enjoy math and science, they are looking more at the future. They are very cut and dried. They only want top line details. No fluff.
GREEN: Structural - this person who is very process oriented, they love checklists, they don't feel like they have accomplished anything until things can be crossed off their list, they are extremely detail oriented and need all the little bits of information.
RED: Social - this person needs to know that everyone is okay, they will get to the work once they know that everyone is happy, they will put everything aside if they sense any tension, etc.
YELLOW: Conceptual - this is the most creative of the four preferences, they also think big picture, however they are not decision makers, they also keep working on things because nothing is ever complete there is always room for improvement.
So the point of me explaining Emergenetics, in a very topline (dare I say Blue) way that doesn't give it complete justice, is so that you will understand that when I say I am very green, I don't mean new, inexperienced, or Irish - I mean that I am very anal, I need you to give me all the information and let me decide what is important to me. And, when I get to cross things off my to-do list (like the three things that I can cross off after working from home this evening) I am extremely happy. (For those of you that care I have the following preferences - green, followed closely by blue, red is also an almost preference coming in at 22%.)
Let me explain just how anal I am. When at work, I use a different highlighter every day of the week. (Monday is pink, Tuesday orange, Wednesday yellow, Thursday green, and Friday blue - a modified ROYGBIV if you will.) My highlighters are lined up in their little holder in order. Do not mess them up. I have 24 sharpie pens in all different colors. They are also lined up in color groups - again DO NOT TOUCH. Shall I go on? I don't think I need to.
But something to keep in mind - most people with OCD have a predominant green preference. Scary huh?
posted by Shannon @ 11:18 PM
2 Comments:
At 7:34 AM,
Anonymous said…
i think i'd be a mix between blue and green. that makes sense though, seeing as i'm an analyst! haha
At 10:42 AM,
Shannon said…
I'm going to venture a guess that you are more green than blue, based solely on all of the research and the detail that goes into some of your live journal posts.
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