{"id":5703,"date":"2016-08-01T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T09:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2016-08-01T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:37:26","slug":"discover-personal-productivity-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/discover-personal-productivity-style\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Discover Your Personal Productivity Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I bet by now, you&#8217;ve taken your fair share of personality and productivity tests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There&#8217;s a lot to be learned from these <\/span>self assessments<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, especially at the workplace. You work with a diverse group of people every day. Each with his or her own preferences for managing time, projects and tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The popular personality test\u00a0going around these days is based on a book,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Work-Simply-Embracing-Personal-Productivity\/dp\/1591847303\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458001006&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=work+simply\">Work Simply<\/a><em>,<\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">by author Carson Tate. Through years of research and testing, Carson developed an<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carsontate.com.\">assessment tool<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">identifying four unique personal productivity styles.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The &#8220;Planner&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Planner is the team member who thrives on organized, sequential, planned, and detailed thinking. Planners\u00a0immerse themselves in the details of a project\u00a0and enjoy using\u00a0calendar and\u00a0project-planning tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Planners\u00a0are<em>\u00a0not<\/em> known for their\u00a0spontaneity or flexibility. Thus, they risk missing out on certain opportunities and creative endeavors. They have\u00a0been known to write something on their\u00a0to-do list that has already been completed, just so they\u00a0can cross it off. Planners\u00a0thrive on schedules and action plans\u2014\u00a0they\u00a0want you to get to the point; they\u2019ll read the fine print later. Planners\u00a0hate wasting time in\u00a0meetings with no focus and no action plans. Their\u00a0emails are detailed, often including bullet points and clearly stated next-action steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How Planners contribute to their team:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Action orientation and practicality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finding overlooked flaws in plans or processes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Organizing and maintaining data and project plans<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The &#8220;Prioritizer&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you\u2019re a Prioritizer, you gravitate to logical, analytical, fact-based, critical, and realistic thinking. You like to increase your\u00a0efficiency by ascertaining how long it will take to complete certain tasks, and accurately plan their completion according to days and weeks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a Prioritizer, you\u2019ve never met a goal you did not like or couldn\u2019t apply laser-like focus to. You also hate idle chit-chat, or sharing too much personal information about yourself. And you like to keep your emails real brief\u2014 just a few sentences or words. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How Prioritizers contribute to their team:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Analyzing data<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Critical analysis and logical problem solving<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Goal orientation, consistency, and decisiveness<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The &#8220;Arranger&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As an Arranger, you prefer supportive, expressive, and emotional thinking. You are the <a href=\"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/blog\/planning-for-change\">ultimate team player<\/a><\/span>a<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> and excel at partnering with colleagues to get work done. You are\u00a0a natural communicator and deftly facilitate project meetings. You hate when people lack that personal touch or rely too heavily on data or facts. Arrangers are talkers; they love stories, eye-to-eye contact, expressing concern for others, and asking questions about the way a project or task helps others. If you\u2019re an Arranger, you have a predilection for chatting online and, when sending emails, a tendency to include lots of people on your cc: line<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How Arrangers\u00a0contribute to their team:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anticipating how others will feel and understanding their underlying emotions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Facilitating team interaction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Persuading and selling ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The &#8220;Visualizer&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you\u2019re a Visualizer, you prefer holistic, intuitive, integrated, and synthesized thinking. You thrive under pressure and are easily bored if you\u2019re not juggling multiple, diverse projects. As a Visualizer, you focus on the big-picture and broad concepts. At times, you have a tendency to overlook details and tend to value the possibilities over process. Your excessive spontaneity and impulsiveness can lead to breakthrough ideas, but can also derail project plans at times. You have probably not seen the surface of your desk in years; emails tend to be long, filled with concepts and ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How Visualizers\u00a0contribute to their team:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Innovation; <a href=\"http:\/\/go.redbooth.com\/carson-tate-sep17\" target=\"_blank\">serving as a catalyst for change<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creative problem solving<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ability to envision the future, recognize new opportunities and integrate ideas and concepts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What\u2019s your personal productivity profile? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you see yourself clearly in one of the profiles above? Or are you more like me, thinking: \u201cHey wait a minute, I see a little of me in <em>all <\/em>these profiles!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The truth Is, you\u2019re a unique individual. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You\u2019re a snowflake, an original.\u00a0And Tate agrees. In fact, she freely encourages you to use these profiles as \u201cguideposts\u201d to help you understand your unique blend of skills. Tate encourages you not to \u201cworry if you find yourself spanning two or more styles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mix it up.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With each of her four personality profiles, Ms. Tate recommends nifty resources, software programs and tools to accommodate each work style. Tate encourages readers not to limit themselves with tools from just one profile but to \u201cTry tools from each, mix and match\u2014it\u2019s about what actually sticks with you in the end that is important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So go ahead, mix it up.\u00a0The important thing is simply to recognize yourself and where your strengths are best\u00a0put to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Getting to know yourself &amp; others\u2014 It\u2019s a good thing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is no one-size-fits-all approach to productivity. Instead, we need personalized approaches. This means employing work strategies that align with the\u00a0cognitive styles of each member on your team \u2014and guiding them\u00a0in a way that suits their unique\u00a0strengths and preferences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What work style assessments have you taken lately? And what did you learn? Share with us below in the comments section<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet by now, you&#8217;ve taken your fair share of personality and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":6339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-productivity","tag-personal-productivity-style","option-evergreen","option-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redbooth.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}