Personality Assessment Key
Key question: What?
Key motivation: "Do it now."
Lions tend to like:
Direct communication
Freedom from controls
Taking charge
Overcoming opposition
Competition, challenges
Goals
Varied activities
Immediate results
Lions tend to dislike and/or fear:
Repetitive activities
Losing
Lack of achievement
Committees and bureaucracy
Slow decision making processes
Lions tend to dislike and/or fear:
Goals, individual achievements
Directions, not demands
Freedom to make choices
Challenges
Power and authority
Tasks
Varied activities
Otters at a Glance
Key question: Who?
Key motivation: "Do it together."
Otters tend to like:
Talking
Consensus
Anything fun
Motivational environments
Opportunities to help and or inspire
Doing things with others
A platform to inform or entertain others
Meeting new people
Otters tend to dislike and/or fear:
Deadlines
Pessimism
Boring activities
Being isolated
Rejection
Control
Details
Otters tend to dislike and/or fear:
Recognition and approval
Freedom of expression
Fun
Challenges
Flexibility
Being around people
Togetherness
Retrievers at a Glance
Retrievers tend to like:
Security and consistency
Harmonious relationships
Rest and sleep
A few deep friendships
Regular, predictable patterns in daily life
Clearly defined rules and goals
To develop specialized skills
Listen
Retrievers tend to dislike and/or fear:
Unplanned challenges
The unknown
Loss of stability
Being in charge
Conflict
Retrievers tend to dislike and/or fear:
Loyalty to people and programs
Acceptance by others
People who understand them
People with hurts and needs
Sincere appreciation
Seeing how they are helping to achieve group goals
Beavers at a Glance
Key question: How?
Key motivation: "Do it right."
Beavers tend to like:
Information and statistics
Private time
Control of their area
To take their time and do it right
Thinking about all of the negatives of an idea
Clearly defined tasks
Procedure manuals
Assignments that require precision
Clear boundaries of responsibility
Being a part of a group
Beavers tend to dislike and/or fear:
Deadlines
Delegating to others
Making mistakes and being wrong
Criticism of their work
Disorganization
Risks
Sudden changes or surprises
Unclear expectations
Beavers tend to dislike and/or fear:
Recognition and approval of their work
The need to be “right”
People who are accurate