Meghan
Meghan's Visual Type™
Who Am I? 01
A quick snapshot view into who a person is.
Back to Table of Contents- I am Expressive
- I am Visionary
- I am Supportive
- I am Ordered
7 Things I Am Good At
I am good at...
- ...making things happen
- ...organizing people
- ...multi-tasking
- ...showing appreciation
- ...communicating my ideas
- ...caring and imaginative problem solving
- ...creating the right setting for people to get along
7 Things That May Cause Me To Get Upset
I may get upset when...
- ...I feel nobody cares
- ...people are treated unfairly
- ...no one is willing to participate
- ...I'm on my own for too long
- ...my actions are misinterpreted
- ...my strengths are not valued
- ...my good nature is taken advantage of
The Top 6 Things I May Need Help With
I may need help with...
- ...asking for help
- ...having a balanced life with time for rest
- ...accepting that I can't solve everyone's problems
- ...being realistic about how much can be done
- ...dealing with criticism and conflict
- ...changing plans if it may cause upset that I feel I am unable to resolve
How to Talk to Me 02
Specific tips on how to better communicate and talk with each person
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Enthusiastic & Insightful
“Let’s do it in a different way”
Motivating Words
- Create
- discover
- reform
- imagine
Meghan responds best to communication when you:
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Show a personal interest
Start by asking how Meghan is doing. Remember that harmony, a positive attitude and an authentic relationship between you is essential.
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Present the vision
Explain how Meghan fits with the vision in a meaningful way. Remember to focus on why what you are talking about is important for human growth and development. Talk about the “higher purpose”. Present options.
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Present the big picture
Talk about concepts and themes and clarify correlations and context. Be associative, not sequential. Avoid too many details unless Meghan requests this.
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Focus on the long-term perspective
Be future-oriented. Talk about new solutions and opportunities for development of human potential – especially in the long run.
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Be open
Acknowledge initiatives concerning new and different ways of doing things. Do not turn down ideas too fast. Challenge the imagination. Ask open-ended questions.
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Make conversation
Avoid talking too much without Meghan being involved. Dialogue is the most important tool for Meghan. Show interest and empathy. Tone down your language.
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Incorporate values
Consider values and needs of people as important data. Allow and invite personal views and idealistic thoughts.
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Give sincere compliments
Appreciate the ideas and unique role of Meghan, and remember to praise contributions to the process and personality not just accomplishments.
Original work by: Mette Babitzkow Boje Tina Brøndum Kristjánsson © Step Research Corporation
Cognitive Super Power - Expanded 03
This section describes your Superpower; your dominant, "go to" behavior that is so natural, fast, and easy to access, you may not even know you have or are using it.
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Social Telepathy
Meghan’s Superpower
- Compelled to help by jumping in to coordinate and organize people toward the common good
- Does everything in her power to talk to each person and act on that person’s needs and wants
- Meghan may sometimes ignore her own desires because she is so busy helping others
- She loves getting to know people and saying just the right thing to support them
- Meghan is typically confirming that someone’s behavior is appropriate to the social situation
Good Day
Effective Motivator
Bad Day
Over-Sensitive Director
Social Telepathy
Meghan understands people to the point of knowing what they need. That is what Social Telepathy is all about. Those with Social Telepathy are very aware of how people are behaving in any circumstance and it is almost impossible for her to ignore any rude or disrespectful behavior, as she understands instantly how it feels to be on the receiving end.
Meghan is amazing at understanding people and social circumstances and then explaining them appropriately. She almost always seems to say the right thing.
Understanding the social contract we all live by with each other is a natural part of who Meghan is. Almost no one understands and places herself in another person's shoes as well as those with Social Telepathy. She may often ignore her own wants and needs in order to accommodate the needs of those around them.
Meghan is so aware of people's needs that she often can't stop responding to the needs and wants of others and can become overwhelmed by overuse of this superpower.
Original work by: Sterling Bates Gene Bellotti © Step Research Corporation
Results for 16 Patterns 04
Shows the self-discovery vote tallies as both patterns and as four letter type codes
Back to Table of ContentsVerified Result
What is a Pattern?
Each pattern represents a set of psychological preferences. From the Jungian perspective, each pattern is a combination of a way of gathering information and a way of making decisions. It is also a description of how people with that pattern balance their mental energy.
Knowing which pattern fits best (your pattern of preferences) gives you insight into what strategies and behaviors are likely to help you succeed. It helps you gain a perspective on your own strengths and weaknesses and gives you power over how to define yourself and your life. You control how you work on developing your strengths. You decide which weaknesses to shore up and minimize the negative impact in your life. Knowing your pattern can be one key to understanding when to stop using your preferred behaviors and change to another strategy to be more successful in a particular set of circumstances.
Each person is unique, so during the Self-Discovery Process (both activities and verification) the goal is to find the psychological pattern that comes as close as possible to accurately describing you. This means that while psychological patterns near the top of the list will likely describe Meghan better, that pattern will also have a few things that don’t fit her. And those patterns near the bottom of the list will likely have very few statements that seem like Meghan. The goal is to find the psychological pattern that feels like the “closest” fit. There will never be a “perfect“ fit.
Why Should You Verify a Single Pattern?
Sometimes people ask what is the point of picking a single pattern that “best” describes your preferences. The whole goal is to help people understand themselves and others SO that they can then learn skills and behaviors to make their lives better. One way to make this more concrete is to compare a pattern of preferences to “handedness.”
- People, in general, have a preference for being left or right handed.
- You can use both hands, but one is more natural and easy, you have a “preference” for it
- If you have to use your non-preferred hand, you can, but it typically requires more work, energy, time and the result doesn’t always look as nice.
- For most people, if you have to carry something heavy, you use both hands.
The same is true of psychological preferences:
- People, in general, have preferences for particular psychological functions.
- You can use all of the psychological functions, but some are more natural and easy, you have a “preference” for them.
- If you have to use a non-preferred psychological function, you can, but it typically requires more work, energy, time and the result doesn’t always come out as nice.
- For most people, if you have something important in your life, you tend to use all the relevant functions, preferred and non-preferred.
In an ideal world, just like grabbing scissors or a mouse that matches your preferred handedness, you want to match the work environment to your psychological preferences. For example, if you do your best thinking alone, then make sure to plan some alone time for critical projects, and if you do your best thinking with others, then make sure to plan some time with others to discuss your critical projects.
Verifying your pattern accelerates the ability to find and choose the behaviors and environment where you can be most successful.
A best-fit and verification process helps solve many of the problems with the accuracy of any self-discovery process. A best-fit and verification process is not only a necessary requirement for the ethical use of many assessments – it is also a great way to help make sure any advice provided will be as accurate and as meaningful as possible. For our reports, we combine each person’s verified psychological likely best-fit with all the data we have on that individual from a variety of other psychological models to provide the most personalized reports and advice we can.
The accuracy percentage displayed for Meghan’s verified pattern is a number Meghan chose to represent how accurately and consistently her preferred pattern described her. It doesn’t mean Meghan is more or less this pattern than other people. It is simply a reflection of how accurate our descriptions and reports are for her.
What Meghan's Vote Tally Means
A Vote Tally is shown for each psychological pattern. The Vote is tallied based on the consistency of choices made by Meghan during the self-discovery activity process. These vote tallies help illustrate several things.
- No one is ever perfectly any pattern
- We are all complicated, unique people
- People, in general, do behave in patterns
- Doing multiple discovery activities illustrates that many of our likes and preferences tend to be consistent
Meghan's Complete Vote Tally of the 16 Patterns
Original work by: Sterling Bates Linda Berens Katherine Hirsh © Step Research Corporation
Building A Better Relationship 05
Build your perfect relationship description
Back to Table of Contents- Meghan wants to be appreciated for the thoughtfulness and compassion she shows to others
- She needs her partner to make a real effort to get to know her and to understand her often spiritual or philosophical nature
- Above all, she needs to be able to express her feelings and have them taken seriously, and she needs to be told how much her partner appreciates the many big and little things she does to make her mate happy
- Meghan feels most appreciated and loved when her partner admires and encourages her creativity, trusts her inspiration, and respects her values
- It's also vitally important that her partner be open and emotionally available to her and that her mate be willing to share themselves completely
- Meghan feels most valued and loved when admired for her creativity, accepted for her uniqueness, and seen as the compassionate person she is
- She likes and needs to hear her partner tell her how much she means to them and then do thoughtful, spontaneous things to demonstrate it
- Meghan feels most appreciated and loved when her partner is patient and supportive and listens carefully
- She needs to be understood and wants a partner who is sensitive to her feelings and respectful of her values
- She also likes to be reassured, often verbally, about how much she is loved
Essential Motivator - Expanded 06
Essential Motivators, your core psychological needs, values and talents as described by Linda Berens
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Catalyst
Meghan’s Essential Motivator
Catalyzing is natural to those who need to have a meaning and purpose to their lives.
It is the means to self-actualization.
- Meghan tends to be gifted at unifying diverse peoples and helping individuals realize their potential
- She builds bridges between people through empathy and clarification of deeper issues
- She uses these same skills to help people work through difficulties
- Thus, Meghan can make an excellent mediator, helping people and companies solve conflicts through mutual cooperation
- If working on a global level, Meghan tends to champion a cause
- If working on an individual level, she focuses on growth and development of the person.
Goals
Unique identity
Stressors
Insincerity and betrayal
Loss of meaning
Lack of integrity
Catalyst
Meghan wants to be authentic, benevolent, and empathic. She searches for identity, meaning, and significance. Meghan is relationship oriented, particularly valuing meaningful relationships. Meghan tends to be idealistic and visionary, wanting to make the world a better place. She looks to the future. She trusts her intuition, imagination, and impressions. Meghan focuses on developing potential, fostering and facilitating growth through coaching, teaching, counseling, and communicating. She is generally enthusiastic. Meghan thinks in terms of integration and similarities and looks for universals. She often is gifted in the use of metaphors to bridge different perspectives. Meghan usually is diplomatic. She frequently is drawn to work that inspires and develops people and relationships.
Needs & Values
Meghan's core needs are for the meaning and significance that come from having a sense of purpose and working toward some greater good. She needs to have a sense of unique identity. Meghan values unity, self-actualization, and authenticity. People of this pattern prefer cooperative interactions with a focus on ethics and morality. Meghan tends to trust her intuition and impressions first and then seek to find the logic and the data to support her. Given Meghan's need for empathic relationships, she learns more easily when she can relate to the instructor and the group.
Skill Set
- Diplomatic Skill Set
- Build bridges between people
- Has empathy
- Strive to unify by understanding and resolving deeper issues while honoring individual uniqueness
- Move to a level of abstraction to see how two seemingly different views are alike and then to choose a symbolic way of communicating the similarity to transcend differences
- Help others harmonize and clarify their values to bring unity to the individual and the group
- Have foresight and vision with implications for developing the people involved, then communicating that vision so it is accepted and followed
- Help others find their path and inspire them to follow it
- Envision and then mentor others to achieve the envisioned potential
Interaction Mistakes to Avoid 07
What to avoid when interacting with this person.
Back to Table of ContentsInteraction Don'ts
More Likely Meghan
Less Likely Meghan
Mobilizer
In-Charge™
Things to Avoid When With Meghan:
- In working with Meghan, avoid a lot of discussion without action
- Meghan prefers not too much talking
- Don't go off the point
- Avoid making small talk before the task has been dealt with
- Stay away from competition with her
Less Meghan
Navigator
Chart-the-Course™
- Meghan dislikes changing the plan or rushing ahead with no plan
- Refrain from getting side tracked in interactions with Meghan
- Avoid invading her space
- Stay away from too much small talk
- When doing something with Meghan, don't jump in without thinking things through
Energizer
Get-Things-Going™
- Avoid saying nothing or being non-committal to Meghan
- Stay away from criticizing her ideas before you have given positive feedback
- Don't show reluctance to participate with Meghan
- Meghan prefers communication that doesn't go too slowly or get stuck on details
- Telling Meghan what to do without involving her is irritating to her
Synthesizer
Behind-the-Scenes™
- Meghan prefers communication that doesn't pressure her to make an immediate decision
- Avoid interrupting her
- Telling Meghan what to do without consulting her is irritating to her
- Don't assume Meghan has nothing to say just because she isn't talking
- Don't overpower her with your style
Original work by: Catherine Stothart © Step Research Corporation