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Birth Order - Understand How It Affects Your Personality
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| Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
"Know thyself" is a powerful principle that leaders, managers and effective people know intuitively.
When you understand your own strengths and preferences you are able to maximize the strengths and weaknesses compensate for any work, either differently or surrounding yourself with different people.
Most of us have a dominant birth order personality that matches the birth of our position. But that personality is influenced by variables such as temperament, gender and other family circumstances. So it is not so much where you are born in your family, but how you function that counts. How a person functions generally correlates with birth position.
Your personality birth order relates to both your working style (ie how you work and what motivates you) and your relational style (ie how you relate people). For many people who work along the ways for lines birth. For example, I am the youngest of my family seven years, which means I am like a functional first-born. So I worked as a first-born (achievement-oriented, ambitious and like to be in control), but I wear as a young (very good at outsourcing to other poor and a decision maker). It sounds complicated, but it is not.
Birth order theory defines four types of personalities and first born, second born, and only youngest. If you were 3rd of six children and circumstances that you or the other functions essentially as one of four above.
The four types of birth order and some of their characteristics:
First born? managers, drivers and types responsible. These people like others to manage but first they need to manage themselves. They like to feel in control and can feel uncomfortable with the feeling of surprise or depth. They are conservative in their outlook, which is both a strength and a weakness. Their ability to focus on a target and their propensity to organize other means they can achieve what they put their mind '.
Their tendency to perfection may mean they can be low risk-takers but they may be around the rock that organizations can be built. Approval of authority is important for this group, it is therefore not expected to rock the boat too much. First born, above all, want to move forward.
Second born? the "people" people, the compromisers, and flexibility for operators. They are likely to motivated by a cause and enjoy working with people. They often choose tasks or even a job that will give them a sense of belonging. Friendships are important for this group to learn to cope and help maintain peace in a group or organization. They often need others to lead but they are the glue that holds together the groups. Relations are important for this group to ensure they are included in all activities. Seconds, above all, put people first.
Only '? calm performance, the finishers, they expect nothing less than the best. This group will raise the bar for everyone around them, nothing but the best will do. Their strength is their ability to work for long periods of time on their own to make great project finishers and strategic thinkers, but they can be secret and do not address many conflicts. The recognition is important for this group. Only ', above all, aim to please.
Youngest? the initiators, ideas and challengers. This group is the creation of living for the moment, the guys who can bring some fun and verve in their activities. Although the message to the first-born is in place to alleviate, it appears that this group must take things more seriously sometimes. Great initiators and actors very impatient, they perservere to get something started, but often are not the greatest finishers. This group will often do something to be noticed sure to take account of their efforts. Youngest, above all, will blow your mind.
What personality birth order do you most closely resemble? Does it match your birth order position? In fact, you probably nodded your head for certain characteristics in each position. But who are you more vigorously nod when playing? This gives you an indication of your dominant birth order personality.
So what's the point? Know thyself and know the circumstances you are working in. There are times when the birth of your personality to take over but there are times when you need May to operate or work as someone in a other position. May this make you feel uncomfortable but you can do.
I have a series of badges? one for each position? which I wear for different occasions and different jobs. Sometimes I need to be more like a firstborn especially when I need to take a lead. But there are also times that I must act as a second born and learn to compromise and be more diplomatic than take a crash and burn approach. When it is time to take caution and cast to the wind I will wear my badge young born.
Birth order knowledge is simple because it is intuitive, but it is also powerful, because Kevin Leman author of the new Birth Order Book maintains, the affects?. "you can reach deep and sometimes disturbing ways years after you think you've grown beyond that."
Michael Grose is a leading authority on birth order and its impact on personality. He is the author of the pioneering book "Why born first rule the world and the last born want change", published by Random House. You can buy this book from the shop at http:// www.parentingideas.com.au. Find out how you can get Michael to help your people the power of their birth order personalities to http://www.michaelgrose.com |
posted by neptunus @ 10:13 PM
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