Understanding Your Leadership Style

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New Jersey Center for the Advancement of School
Counseling
TRUE COLORS for Personalized Learning Plans
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Turn-key Training

• J. Barry Mascari, Ed.D.
• Director, NJCASC at Kean University
• Jane Webber, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor, New Jersey City Univ.
• Trainer for the NJCASC

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Course Objectives

• Assess your own True Colors
• Investigate the differences in the four types
• Recognize the impact of using our true colors
  in work and team settings
• Consider ways to infuse true colors into your
  school counseling program
• Better understand the students in your school
• Have some fun

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Who is here?

• Your name
• Job Title and School
• Reason for being here today
• Two adjectives that describe you

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True Colors A history

• Hippocrates 600BC body fluids/temperament
  sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic
• Ancient Asia earth, wind, fire, water
• Carl Jung 1921 preference for how we function
• Isabel Briggs-Myers 1962 MBTI 16 Types
  introvert/extrovert, sensing/intuiting,
  thinking/feeling perceiving/judging
• David Keirsey 1967 Temperaments guardian,
  artisan, rationalist, idealist
• Don Lowry 1978 True Colors

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Benefits of knowing styles

• Improves communications
• Builds positive self-esteem for self and others
• Creates more effective relationships
• Appreciate and encourage diversity
• Builds effective teams
• Clarifies career direction through
  self-understanding

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Pitfalls of knowing styles

• Pigeonholing one color vs. spectrum
• Losing sight of peoples complexity
• Engaging in expected behaviors
• Using style as excuse for behavior

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Influences on Our Behavior

• Gender roles
• Age
• Race
• Religion
• Socio-economics
• Abilities
• Nation
• Region

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Three people in one

• How we see ourselves
• How others see us
• Who we really are

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The roles we play

• Make a quick list of the different roles you play
  every day
• These may not be roles in which we are operating
  in our preferred styles

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True Colors Sort

• For each row, rank each group of words 4
  most like you to 1 least like you
• Rank the photo cards from 4 to 1
• Fill in the totals at the bottom

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True Colors Spectrum

• Brightest color (highest score)
• Shaded with (second highest score)
• And (third highest score)
• With a pale (lowest score)
• Remember
  
• you have a spectrum of color

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Who is like me? (Primary)

• Orange 35-40
• Gold 35-40
• Green 12-15 (M 70, F 30)
• Blue 12-15 (M 30, F 70)

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Famous people by color

• Orange
• FDR - Michael Jordan - Marilyn Monroe - Elvis
  Presley - Ronald Reagan - Tom Cruise - Billy
  Graham - Henry Ford
• Gold
• George H Bush - Connie Chung - Walter Cronkite

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Famous people by color

• Blue
• Julie Andrews - Princess Diana - Michael Jackson
  - Carl Jung - Richard Simmons - Mother Teresa -
  Oprah Winfrey - Bill Clinton
• Green
• Albert Einstein - Thomas Edison - Bill Gates -
  Abe Lincoln - Martin Luther King Jr. - Gandhi -
  Maya Angelou - Hillary Clinton

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Brightest Color

• Find the table(s) with your brightest color
• Meet fellow color
• What are your values?
• What are your joys?
• What are your strengths how you see yourself?
• What are your needs?
• What stresses you?
• What do you dislike about the other 3 colors?

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Orange sees self as

• Fun-loving, enjoying life
• Spontaneous
• Flexible
• Adaptable
• Carefree
• Proficient, Capable
• Hands-on person
• Practical
• Problem-solver
• Quick witted
• Confident

• Good negotiator
• Do many things at once
• Eclectic
• Can deal with chaos
• Good in crisis
• Curious, welcomes new ideas
• Superior ability to discriminate among options,
  see shades of gray

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Gold sees self as

• Stable
• Providing security
• Dependable, responsible
• Firm
• Always having a view
• Efficient
• Realist
• Decisive
• Dignified, cultured
• Generous

• Executive type
• Strong work ethic
• Good planner
• Orderly, neat
• Good at sorting, weeding out
• Organized
• Punctual
• Goal oriented
• Seeking closure

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Green sees self as

• Superior intellect
• 98 Right
• Powerful
• Creative
• Visionary
• Original
• Eminently reasonable
• Rational
• Complex

• Abstract thinker
• Calm, not emotional
• Under control
• Precise, not repetitive
• Able to find flaws
• Objective
• Seeking justice
• Firm-minded
• Able to reprimand

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Blue sees self as

• Warm
• Compassionate
• Romantic
• Spiritual
• Idealistic
• Willing to work tirelessly for a cause
• Unselfish
• Empathetic

• Affirming
• Caretaker
• Promoting growth, well-being
• Relates current experiences to past experiences
• Likes people
• Sympathetic
• Great communicator

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Brightest color needs

• What needs do you have?

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Orange needs

• Freedom
• Flexible environment
• Challenge
• Humor
• Independence
• Spotlight
• Stimulation
• Excitement

• Expression
• Fun/Play
• Variety
• Applause
• Support
• Change
• Results
• Affirmation

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Gold needs

• Stability
• Order
• To be productive
• Organization
• Expectations Met
• Recognition
• Consistency
• Following of directions

• Consistency
• Loyalty
• Respect
• Rules
• Procedures
• Detailed information
• Patterns
• Completion of tasks

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Green needs

• High achievement
• Mental challenges
• Big picture
• Strategic plans
• Competence
• Facts
• Autonomy

• Brevity in speech
• Recognition for intelligence
• Global concepts
• Time to process
• Being in charge
• Time for reflection

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Blue needs

• Understanding
• Physical touch
• Inspiration
• Warmth
• Intimacy
• Compassion
• Romance

• Harmony
• Affection
• Empathy
• Sensuality
• Approval
• Nurturing
• Recognition

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Brightest color stressors

• What kinds of things will cause you stress?

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Orange is stressed by

• Too much responsibility
• Rules regulations
• Being stuck at a desk
• Abstract concepts
• Reading manuals
• Imposed structure
• Personal criticism

• Following detailed directions
• Routine
• Deadlines
• Inactivity
• Lack of fun
• Lack of variety
• Repetition

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Gold is stressed by

• Incomplete Tasks
• Disorganization
• Irresponsibility
• Changing details
• Lack of direction
• Ambiguous tasks
• Broken promises

• Waste
• Non-conformity
• Lack of structure
• Haphazard attitude
• Too many things going on at once
• People who dont follow through

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Green is stressed by

• Not being in charge
• Lack of independence
• Subjective judgment
• Emotional displays
• Elaborate use of adjectives

• Incompetence
• Small talk
• Routine
• Social functions
• Lack of recognition of their ability

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Blue is stressed by

• Broken promises
• Too much negative
• Not being involved
• Lack of social contact
• Too much conformity
• Clock watching
• Being compared to others

• Conflict
• Lying
• Rejection
• Insincerity
• Completing paperwork as priority
• Placing the system before people

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Who would you ask to

• Set up plans for the holiday party?
• Develop a training program to help secretaries
  deal with parent phone calls ?
• Analyze HSPA data to determine the best way to
  help students pass the test?
• Develop computerized system for logging college
  applications?

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The perceptions of others

• How do you think others perceive your brightest
  color?
• What you DISLIKE about the other colors

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Others may see Orange as

• Irresponsible
• Flaky
• Goofs off too much
• Disobeys rules
• Manipulative
• Scattered
• Not serious
• Not able to stay on task

• Scattered
• Cluttered
• Uncontrollable
• Resists closure or decisions
• Indecisive
• Obnoxious
• Not to be trusted

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Others may see Gold as

• Rigid
• Controlling
• Dull, boring
• Stubborn
• Opinionated
• Unimaginative

• Judgmental
• Bossy, controlling
• Uptight
• Predictable
• Autocratic
• System-bound

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Others may see Green as

• Intellectual snob
• Arrogant
• Heartless
• Doesnt care about people
• Ruthless
• Unrealistic
• Eccentric, weird

• Emotionally controlled
• Cool, aloof, unfeeling
• Afraid to open up
• Critical, fault finding
• Devaluing relational aspects
• Lacking mercy, unfair
• Unappreciative of others
• Stingy with praise

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Others may see Blue as

• Overly emotional
• Bleeding Heart
• Mushy
• Hopelessly naïve
• Too tender hearted
• Easily duped
• Too Touchy-Feely

• Too nice
• Too Trusting
• Smothering
• Stuck in the past
• Groveling
• Fawning
• Soft
• Talks too much
• Pushover

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Experience Your 4th Color

• Move to the table of your palest color
• Meet your fellows
• Choose 4 from the what others dislike about
  list
• Reframe them in a positive manner Whats great
  about

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THE IDEAL ENVIRONMENT FOR MY COLOR

• Describe the ideal classroom or school
  environment for your color
• For yourself as a staff member
• For the students
• Create a 3 minute presentation describing the
  ideal environment

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END OF PART I

• COME BACK FOR WAYS TO IMPLEMENT THE TRUE COLORS
  CAREER INFORMATION

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TRUE COLORS CAREERS

• Integrating True Colors into
• Your school counseling program
• The new Personalized Learning Plan

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Who are they?

• Off task, disturbs others, talks/yells, rude
  moves around
• Chats with neighbors, cries, goes into
  imagination, moody, gamut of emotion
• Critical of others, blames self, whines, afraid
  of not doing well, does others work
• Goes into reflection, reads, works on other work
  they think is more significant, isolates
  themselves mentally, criticizes physically

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Hollands Theory

• Congruence (match)
• Consistency (across types)
• Differentiation (likes dislikes)
• The party
• R-A-I-S-E-C
• Dominance of of 1-2 types
• Most comfortable happiest in their preferred
  environment(s)

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Gottfredsons Theory

• Circumscription (narrowing alternatives vis-à-vis
  self concept)
• Compromise (modifying alternative, settling when
  choice is perceived as unrealistic/inaccesible)
• Premature closure (when lacking self-knowledge)

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Personalized Learning Plan

• Begins in Grade 6
• Is based on a series of developmental activities
• Requires students to self-reflect make
  inferences about themselves their future
• Culminates in a preliminary career decision
  within an occupational family
• If it isnt in writing, it didnt happen

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ANALYZE TRUE COLORS CAREER WHEEL

• Look for similarities to Holland, MBTI
• What ways can this be used at various levels?
• Walk through the True Colors career selection
  materials

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AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

• Think ahead to next year (and beyond)
• How do you see True Colors being implemented into
  a personalized learnig plan AND your 6-12
  program?
• What components should be included in the plan