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Talents and Skills

Read the descriptions and then rank order your preference for these talents and skills on your worksheet.
 
Empathic Blue: Diplomatic Talents and Skills
Blues have a natural talent to bring people together and help them see each other's point of view. Blues are good at "reading" what other people are feeling. They often can up with a metaphor or an example that will help explain a situation. Blues value getting along and will do everything they can to help others get along as well. They carry around in their heads a vision of what the world could be like if everyone lived up to their potential, and they can be quite passionate about sharing that vision. They are good at helping others but their help is mainly to develop the potential of others. They are good at mentoring, acting as a rolemodel and a resourse for those that are just coming along.
Dependable Gold: Logistical Talents and Skills
Golds are very good at seeing that everyone has the right tools and materials to do the job at hand. They know what is needed and they go out of their way to see that it is available. They care about providing the practical necessities of life for those they have responsibility for. They standardize their world so that things will fit together. They are good at instructing how to use these basic tools. They look to the past to see how things were done before. They don't like "reinventing the wheel." They can see into the near future based on past experience. They are very resourceful at providing basic survival needs like shelter, food and care for their families and communities. 
Analysing Green: Strategic Talents and Skills
Greens are good at foreseeing all the possibilites that affect long-range planning. They can predict what might go wrong and see the details that are needed to be attended to to bring a plan into being. They know how to have a clearcut goal and to think of the means to get there. Their minds are constantly generating ideas to come up with new ways of doing things. Greens are good at organizing people to carry out very complex plans. They are very good at design of both concrete objects and buildings and systems such as computer programs. "If it ain't broke, then break it. Maybe we'll come up with something new."
Action Orange: Tactical Talents and Skills
Oranges are very good at assessing the immediate situation and coming up with a solution to solve the problem right now. They take action and then move on to the next step of the problem. Their solutions will have impact and also be noticed by those around them. They quickly assess the problem from many angles and then choose the action that is best suited to the moment and can utilize the skills of those around them. Their "take charge" attitude allows them to motivate others to get the job done. When confronted by obstacles they are quite willing to move around them when necessary.