After testing, I got a report about my "triggers". What do "triggers" mean? Well, in my understanding, they are innate drives influencing your personality. All your behaviors are affected by these triggers. So let's say if you see you as a brand, then these triggers are important essentials forming your brand image.
My primary trigger is "Trust" and the second trigger is "Prestige"; on the contrary, my dormant trigger is "Rebellion". Therefore, according to the analysis, I fall in the Diplomat cell. I am a person who is ambitious, detail-oriented, reliable, stable and uncompromising. Like some other personality tests, most of the descriptions from this test are positive. (Who would be happy to accept negative comments?) So the result interests me in some introspection, which means that I would like to explore more about myself. Then I can see if how I understand myself is similar as the evaluation from the test.
I would like to give 3 characteristics to describe who I am by the examples from my previous work experience.
First, I don't talk a lot and I usually like to think thoroughly before I talk. Working as a sales director in a small company, I was in charge of the annual local and international sales. Therefore, every decision I made affected customers' attitude toward our company and all the policies I set influenced my co-workers' actions on their duties. I always thought that a leader should not talk too much since that sometimes would confuse others and even easily made wrong statements.
Second, I keep all the promises as I can. I used to over-work (even at home) just to satisfy my clients' requests to make sure they would receive their orders on time. So even I have left my previous company, most of my previous customers still keep very good relationship with me. I would feel bad if I did not finish what I had promised. There was one time, one of my subordinates said she would quit. She did not explain why but I knew Taiwanese employees did not always say what they really thought about. So I checked if there had been something wrong. Then I found I had promised to raise her salary for 12% and I had informed the accounting department to do that, but the accounting people just forgot it. So I asked the girl if that was the main reason she wanted to leave and she said partly it was. (Though I did not believe it was "partly", it should be "totally".) I felt very embarrassed and reimbursed her what she should get and gave her a vacation for week with salary. She finally decided not to quit and stayed 2 years more until I left.
Third, I am a cautious person and I tare care over the details. I do not say yes or no when somebody has a request, I tend to say "I am going to check it but I think it will / will not be fine." Then I will try to collect required information before making the decision. I have very good memory, but I understand that not everyone does. Therefore I was very cautious at partnering with other companies. In the beginning of cooperation, people were often very polite and did not speak out what they really wanted. I would like to list all the agreements and send a copy to them after the important meetings. Sometimes I met some clients did not like this serious way, then I would send an email to say "thank you" but simply attache all the points we had agreed. All I did was try to avoid any issues in the future and this would help create longer partnership.
Above all, I feel this test describes my
personality accurately (well, I think it achieves 85%). Even it is not always the case, you can have the chance to explore yourself more. So why don't you also take
the test and see how it will talk about you?
PS. By the way, if you are also interested in reading my Professor's articles, here is the link for the great blog! http://onewomanseye.blogspot.com/
However, I feel my personality have changed a little bit after
coming the States. For example, I found that most Americans like to express
what they think directly, or I should say Americans like to talk and think at
the same time. This is totally different from what it is in Taiwan. In
Taiwan, if you say something wrong without consideration, people will think you
are very rude. Sometimes we would think our idea is not good and others would think it is stupid. But here, everyone's opinion is respected and no one's idea is stupid. I actually like this culture more, since a creative idea often looks rough in the beginning when it is proposed but then proved excellent after more open talks. So this is the part I am working on to change - talk more as I can and do not eliminate any idea in mind even I do not believe others will really like it.
PS. By the way, if you are also interested in reading my Professor's articles, here is the link for the great blog! http://onewomanseye.blogspot.com/
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