I have been reading H3 Leadership by Brad Lomenick while we are out of town for spring break and it has been really enlightening.
In the chapter “A Habit of Self- Discovery” Lomenick suggests several different personality tests and recommends reviewing the results side by side looking for echoes.
The first test I did was similar to a Strength Finders test and found that my main talent (according to this test) is “Believing”.
The results showed that
Individuals with the Believing talent can have a solid set of core values by which they choose to live. This talent can enhance ethical standards and integrity, and when presented with alternative paths will tend to choose the ‘right one’.
As I said at the beginning of the year my word for 2016 is “Next” as in just do the next right thing. So that’s was a cool confirmation.
The next test I took was the Myer’s Briggs. I have taken this before, but I always forget what the 4 letters are. It looks like I am an ENFP (extraverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving). Everything I have read about this personality seems to fit my own.
The last one I did was DISC which was also neat. These are my results in a nutshell.
Out of all of these results I realized that I am really high on the emotional strengths and lower on the structured ones. For example some of my highest strengths are being a positive, motivating, harmonious unifier. The things I am the most lacking in are being commanding, responsible, strategic, deliberate, and disciplined.
As I have mentioned before J and I are opposite. When we chose our core values for our family mine was compassion and his was self control. We are apart on love language too. Mine has always been words of affirmation by a landslide and his is acts of service. Acts of service are almost pointless to me. I appreciate them, but they don’t make me feel more loved. I guess we balance each other out.
According to H3 Leadership personality tests are a way to “step outside of yourself and more clearly survey how you’re built.” It’s an emotionless snapshot of you identify, gifts, and passions.
Have you taken any of these tests? What areas do you thrive in the most?
This is fascinating and I definitely want to take some of these tests. My husband went through a career development class and they did the same and it really was interesting to see the areas he sur this is fascinating and I definitely want to take some of these tests. My husband went through a career development class and they did the same and it really was interesting to see the areas he excelled in! I hope you are having a wonderful break my friend!
I have. I’m opposite of you in Myers Briggs, istj. Well almost. I also did a few other tests for work, but I unlike you and your husband have a pretty similar personality to him and we have similar love languages with quality time being our number one. Fun to learn a little more about you.