Identifying personal strengths and personality characteristics in yourself and those around you — whether at work, home or play — can go a long way in helping build relationships, said Charlotte Henley of Open Door Consulting.
Henley, in conjunction with the Huron Chamber and Visitors Bureau, will host “True Colors,” a staff morale building event from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Thursday in the Pyle Room at the Huron Campus Center.
Register for the event by contacting the Chamber at 352-0000 or emailing jon@huronsd.com.
“True Colors” helps to address relationships and has a positive impact on staff morale, conflict resolution, customer relations, team building and much more, Henley said.
“True Colors is a personality assessment that helps you discover some of your most powerful traits in your personality,” she said. “It’s a very easy-to-use tool to help you understand yourself and other people’s personality traits.
“There are many personality assessments and they all have wonderful qualities, but True Colors simplifies it in a way that makes it very easy to do, understand and remember.”
The four colors in the assessment are Gold, Blue, Orange and Green.
• Gold is very organized and a planner
• Blue is very people focused
• Orange is a dynamic, enthusiastic motivator and generally a risk taker
• Green is a thinker, they love knowledge and information
“When you contrast these four, in the simplest terms, you’ve got the organizer, the relationship builder, the mover and shaker and the thinker,” Henley said. “Everybody has all four colors in them, but you have colors that are stronger, that dominate hour personality.”
Henley said that once you understand those four types of personalities, you can spot the characteristics in those around you.
“There is someone who is always on time and organized, but you’re Orange — more of a risk taker on the cutting edge, and you show up just in time,” Henley said. “That would annoy a Gold, that is always on time and generally ahead of time.
“Just understanding the traits of each of those four colors helps you know how to work with these people,” she said.
Henley said her own dominant colors are Orange and Green.
“I’m a thinker and a risk-taker,” Henley said. “So I do a lot of research — maybe way too much. It’s hard for me to let go because I haven’t learned everything about this subject, then it drowns me and I get into trouble.
“All those characteristics are in our workplace, our families and our church,” she added. “Wherever people are gathered you will see those characteristics.”
Defining personalities into four specific groupings is nothing new, Henley said.
“These concepts have evolved since Aristotle and Socrates, these are nothing new,” she said “It is scientifically based, so there has been research to support it.”
CRYSTAL PUGSLEY/PLAINSMAN Charlotte Henley of Open Door Consulting shows the “True Colors” personality assessment she will be sharing Thursday from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Huron Campus Center.
