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Many of you have no doubt seen personality inventories that are quite useful in explaining communication styles. TMI USA uses such a profiling strategy in our Putting People First program. We have given animal titles to the four styles, Panther, Peacock, Dolphin and Owl, and they are four of our corners that you see each month. This is the second month of our four month look at a particular test that also breaks people into four categories:
Feelers, Intuitives, and Sensates. We would love to be able to reproduce the test on which this survey is based, so you could take it yourself. It is, however, copyrighted, and the Copyright is owned by the Society of Jungian Analysts of Northern California located in San Francisco, California. The descriptions of the four types are adapted from a chapter written by Harriet Mann, Miriam Siegler and Humphry Osmand, and reproduced in Psychology Today, December, 1972. Osmand and his colleagues were interested to see how people in these Jungian categories experience time in unique ways. If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this article and find it difficult to locate the original Psychology Today article, you can also find it in the book by Humphry Osmond, et al., The Future of Time (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971). One way to conceptualize the four styles is to imagine time as a continuum, or time as the past, present, or future. Each of these four styles finds their natural comfort in one place or another in relation to time. We think you might be able to see yourself in the descriptions, and then better understand your tendencies towards time. We will cover one style each month for the next four months. Feeling Type The Feeler sees time as a circular process; the past manifesting itself in the present, and then again becoming the past. As a result, Feelers are great collectors and filers. They like to reread materials. One of the aspects of the Time Manager that truly appeals to a Feeling type, is the ability to keep records of things with them. They like looking through their Key Areas because it reminds them of what happened. And they tend to carry lots of pictures of pets, family, coworkers and friends in their Time Managers. It's home for them. Feelers are always relating the present to the past. They want to connect the new to old. They like patterns. They are likely to say, "Oh yes, that reminds me...." In fact, data by themselves not make a lot of sense to them unless they can relate the information to something they have experienced or already know about. Reality is experienced in relationship to their own past. Because of their comfort with the past, they are unlikely to feel comfortable in new situations. As a result, they are unlikely to make quick decisions that will change their lives greatly. Setting goals is a serious issue for Feelers, because of the potential for change in their lives. We watch them struggle with goal setting in the Strategic Planning for Results seminar. And we've noticed that Feelers have an easier time with setting up their Key Areas, their Decision Base, if they understand that they are making a road map from where they have been to where they are going. You don't have to say it to a Feeler, they will know that where they are going will eventually end up being where they have been! Feelers tend to be more liberal when they are young and become more conservative as they get older. This is because they have so much more past to manage as they age. And because they have such loyalty to the past, they are slow to change their opinions about anyone or anything. Feelers are definitely more in touch with emotions and feelings. If they are skilful at assessing the emotional tone of an event, they can be very effective leaders. They instinctively know how to influence behavior. At times, however, they read more intent into situations than are there. It is simply inconceivable to them that the whole world does not see events in emotional terms as they do. Feelers have a hard time understanding Thinkers. Thinkers have a hard time understanding Feelers. One of the Feelers real challenges, is to be on time. Because of their focus on emotions and feelings, the clock is easily forgotten in the face of strong emotions. They will overstay their breaks, spend long periods of time on the telephone when they are dealing with an emotional situation, or listening to someone who has an emotional story to share. Urgency in tasks is not nearly so important to them as emotions. Definitely, Feelers are more people oriented than the other types. At times this can be a definite deficit when they are trying to get things done. Please submit your questions to Time Manager Questions and Answers. If you have questions, undoubtedly someone else has the same question. By asking a question, you'll help a fellow Time Manager user become more effective. Please submit your questions to Time Manager Questions and Answers. If you have questions, undoubtedly someone else has the same question. By asking a question, you'll help a fellow Time Manager user become more effective. Janelle M. Barlow, President
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