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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 third 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 are covering one style each month over a four month period. This is the third article. Intuitive Type Of the four types, the least is known about the Intuitive Type, because this is the function that relies on the future. Intuitives attempt to ascertain what is possible. They are more at home with what will be than what is or was. Literally the future is more real to them than is the present. Because they are always looking at what might be, they give the impression of being flighty, impractical or unrealistic. It's merely an orientation to focusing on what is going to happen next. There is little appeal in what has already happened, or what is happening for this type. Organizations tend to undervalue the intuitive, primarily because they tend not to stick with something very long. They are out looking for the next event that take place. But imagine the power for ideas that the Intuitive brings to a team! Intuitives always want to speed up things; they can get very bored with repetition or details. Schedules are bothersome and painful to an intuitive, and many of the ideas we teach in the Time Manager program, Strategic Planning for Results, are looked upon with great skepticism by an Intuitive. This doesn't mean that these ideas wouldn't be helpful; it's just that the natural inclination of the Intuitive is to let the future drive their present. Because of this emphasis on the future, Intuitives skip from project to project and have a hard time completing tasks. Time Management is not easy for an Intuitive. But others will benefit from their inspiration, because the Intuitive is off looking at something new. As a small example of the power of the future to the Intuitive, Humphrey Osmand says that the Intuitive is likely to begin a book, and then stop when they have figured out the ending. The Thinking type would be more likely to start the book, then read the last few pages, to find out how the book ends, and then read the rest of the book. According to this test, I am a Thinking type, and I can tell you that I like to know how movies end. I can almost always identify someone with strong intuition who will say: "Oh, I can't tell you. It will ruin the movie for you." No, it wouldn't! Someone who is both extroverted and Intuitive very likely is a natural born leader. Such a person will make their vision real through the eyes, effort, and ability to complete tasks of others. 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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