Blood, Sweat, and Tears:
Benefits of Working with Red and Blue Personality Styles
Leading others can often be challenging, especially when two people present very diverse personality styles. In addition, not all situations should warrant the same type of response from leaders. This paper explores the characteristics of Red and Blue personality categories using the
DISC Model and Hartman Personality Profile, along with benefits and overcoming limitations of the Red-Blue working relationship. Taking the time to learn your own personality style and the style of others can improve your leadership abilities from both a personal satisfaction and productivity standpoint.
The Red Personality
As outlined in Hartman’s book, The Color Code
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Benefits of the Red-Blue Working Relationship
There are several areas where Reds and Blues, although described as being uncomplimentary opposites, share traits that benefit the leadership environment and balance the needs and wants of both personality types. Both behavior styles are fast-paced and like to solve problems (DISC, 2012, p. 20). Although the motivation is ultimately different for a Red individual than it is for a Blue, the goal is often the same for both. Reds and Blues do feel accomplished when they reach mission completion (DISC, 2012, p. 23).
These two highly complex personality types can be controlling of others, manipulative, confrontational, possessive, and demanding. Despite these descriptors, Reds and Blues also share the traits of being extremely responsible, desire to achieve goals, strong commitment to others, and the ability to be great leaders (Hartman, 1998, p. 154-156). Reds and Blues are reliable managers; working together on a project can result in a better end product.
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS: BENEFITS
Colors are used to describe the feeling of who a character is trying to
Furthermore, ethos was noticed in color psychology. Light blue and dark blue colors were observed throughout the entire Hampton Inn & suites website. According to the color psychology website, blue signifies trust and responsibility Color Psychology. Mostly squares and rectangles filled the website.
Blood, Sweat, & Tears Blood, Sweat & Tears were an American group who were known for playing contemporary jazz-rock from the late 60s to the early 70s. They recorded songs which were written by well known rock and folk songwriters such as James Taylor and Billie Holiday. They came together in 1967 in New York City and made a mix of music which included rock, blues, pop, horn arrangements, and improvised jazz. The original members of the group were Al Kooper, Jim Fielder, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Dick Halligan, Steve Katz, and Bobby Colomby.
With this successful experiment, Mr. Griffin found what are to be multiple personalities amongst the two races. They were kind and generous with their own race; yet took on a more condemning and prejudice attitude while he was the opposite race. While even by Mr. Griffin’s own statements, he felt uncomfortable in his own skin, losing himself in character.
The “Seven Transformations of Leadership” written by Rooke and Williams talks about the different leadership style that one follows and how one can improve one’s leadership style or action logic in order to improve their ability to lead. However, in order to improve their ability to lead one need to first understand what type of a leader a person is. In this article the authors explains about the seven type of leadership style that one follows while being a leader. According to the authors “most developmental psychologist agrees that what differentiates leaders is not so much their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management. Rather, it’s their internal ‘action logic’-how they interpret their surroundings and react when their power of safety is challenged” (Rooke and Torbert 3).
Every person has a stronger color out of the four, and that color is the one you have the most traits in common with. When a person knows what their color is, they can draw information about themselves out of it. As mentioned above, the color code consists of four colors; red, blue, yellow, and white. A person with a red personality is motivated by power.
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Lastly, a behavioral theorist would argue that the romantic red effect comes from what we have learned from the media. For example, in literature red is associated with sexuality therefore when people read literature like this, they start to associate red with sex. The same goes for film and TV shows, where red is also portrayed in a sexual way, especially when it comes to clothing like a red dress. A behavioral theorist would say that people learn to associate things from what they read and see in their everyday
Hence, the aim of this report is to reflect over my current personal skills and abilities assessment with a particular focus on self-development to become a management professional in order to fit into the organization and to become successful. 1.1 Personality, Assessment and Evaluations Psychologists have long recognizes the importance of work in our lives and they proposed that, personality play a significant role in all the process of work starting from how people actually perform their jobs and the attitudes they hold about them (i.e. job satisfaction) through the factors that increase or decrease their
The organizational factors include: flexibility, responsibility, standards, rewards, clarity, and commitment. The research shows that the coercive and pacesetting styles have a negative correlations on organizational climate while the other four styles have a positive impact. Thus, except for unusual circumstances where coercive and pacesetting styles might be appropriate, leaders should normally use a combination of the authoritative, affiliative, democratic and coaching styles to achieve success. The best leaders will sense from their emotional intelligence when to use each of these styles. If you are an aspiring leader or a leader who wants to get to the next level of leadership excellence, Goleman’s article is a great primer on how to effectively use different leadership
The American Red Cross is a humanitarian cause that I care about. The American Red Cross was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton. The reason she founded it was because when she visited Europe she heard about the international Red Cross and realized just how United States needed it. Red Cross’s mission is to give aid in national disasters and other serious disasters. It also gives education to needy children and emergency assistance throughout United States.
While reading these fascinating pages about color the thing I found most interesting was that colors are capable of having the control to strengthen and weaken a person. What intrigued me most about this was how they used an example about the color pink. The creator of this article wrote how the color pink has the influence of making people undergo the feeling of calmness. They stated that is best known as the “Drunk Tank Theory”. I find it very engrossing that certain shades of a color can impact the way a person feels.
This might be because of the presence of the different types of personality in the team. Experts in the field of personality thinks that the individuals have stable and long terms traits which affects behaviours at work (Denissen et al, 2011; Gerber et al, 2011). Personality is an effective tool that predicts job performance (Ozer & Benet-Martinez, 2006; Schulman, 2011). Based on the Five-Factor Personality Model (Digman, 1990), the senior engineer seem to have an extravert personality. It states that extraverts have a tendency to be communicative, energetic, and enthusiastic (Goldberg, 1990; Watson & Clark, 1997).
This model states that in this 21st century, it is impossible to rely on one management style to fit all situations (Educational-business-articles.com, 2016). In other words managers and leaders must be flexible, in order to get the best result out of their teams and individuals. In addition, this theory allows management and leadership to be able to identify and accurately diagnose the situation and vary employees’ behavior accordingly to the situation (Yukl and Mahsud, 2010). This will enable management and leadership at CIBCFCIB to select appropriate types of leadership behavior for each type of situation. Moreover, another impact that this theory has on organizational strategy whereby Charismatic leaders at CIBCFCIB can minimize various types of behaviour by increasing competent employees.
If the behavior theory can identify the key determinants of leadership, people can actually train to become a leader. This is the premise of the management development plan. There are many different types of behavioural leadership styles. Each style suggests that the leadership role is based on the leaders’ concern for the people being led and the level of achievement that needs to be