Insights about me

This past June my team at work went through a Discovery Insights Profile exercise.  It consists of a test that we took online.  A few weeks later our results were revealed.  I will spend this week talking about what I learned about myself....

My Personal Style

Gifted with clarity of thought adn articulation, Amy is an excellent communicator and presenter.  Life is an exciting drama waiting to unfold for her.  She tends to have an interest in the new and unusual and is gifted at expressing her feelings.

When she becomes charged with a mission to fufil, once that possibility is recognized, she needs to consider the details and possible options before proceeding.  Amy in interested both in possibilities beyond what is already obvious and in the ways that these possibilities might affect others.  Amy likes to keep a wide assortment of relationships alive and kicking.  Amy is curious for new ideas and insights.  She is an imaginative and creative visionary who is a source of inspiration to most.

Amy is energenic, enthusiastic, responsible, conscientious and persuasive.  She usually has a theory that will explain everything.  She can become the ideal representative of whatever group of people she values. 

Amy enjoys working with complex problems and is unceasing in her pursuit of mastering aything she finds intriguing.  Amy sees possibilities in most situations and can direct others towards making a vision become a reality.  With contagious enthusiasm and a world full of possibilities, she sees so many ideas she may have a great difficulty concentrating on one.  She is extrememly perceptive about the attitudes of others, aiming to understand rather than judge events.  She tends to see the environment as welcoming, challenging, and exhilarating, and if it is not, she tries to create that atmosphere.

Interacting with Others

A creative thinker, Amy is generally warm, enthusiastic and confident of her own abilities.  She makes stimulating company with her witty and interesting conversational style.  She prefers what might be, rather than the reality of what is already.  Errors made by others may upset her and cause her react loudly adn vociferously.  An 'Ideas' person who likes to engage in several tasks at a time, she hates uninspired routine and finds slow moving projects and people extremely difficult to relate to.

She is enthusiastic in helping people make the best of themselves and she is proficient in making lots of contacts.  She is a 'networking' expert.

Decision Making

Amy is inquisitive, versatile, adaptable and resourceful in solving challenging, theoretical problems.  She prefers to make decision based on 'gut feel' rather than on exhaustive and repetitive analysis. 

She is driven to think up many alternatives for a project or system due to her ability to constantly see the big picture.  She is a good, practical judge of character, and tends to use intuition where both people and decisions are concerned. 

Amy's many accomplishments are achieved mainly through determination and perserverance in reaching or exceeding her high standards.  She is good at seeing new ways of doing things.  Amy's natural curiosity for new ideas will bring new and fresh ways of thinking to the group.  Optimistic, spontaneous, creative, and confident, she has an original mind and a strong sense of the possible.  She has excellent long-range vision.

I like to read this part of my profile frequently to remind me what I am capable of.