Real Colors
Real Colors
®
Dan Clark, M.S.
Director
Local Government Center
Mary Fran San Soucie
HR Coordinator
MSU Extension
Our Objectives
• Explain theory/history behind Real Colors
• Work through Real Colors Assessment tool
• Work through Real Colors exercise
Exercise #1
HOW MANY F’S ARE THERE IN THE
FOLLOWING SENTENCE?
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF
MANY YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY
COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF
SEVERAL YEARS.
F INISHED F ILES ARE THE RESULT O F
MANY YEARS O F SCIENTI F IC STUDY
COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE O F
SEVERAL YEARS.
#2 HOW MANY SQUARES ARE THERE?
HOW MANY SQUARES ARE THERE?
HOW MANY SQUARES ARE THERE?
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Real Colors
A means to help us better understand human behavior and enhance communication
Real Colors
• A tool to help us build productive relationships
• Productive relationships contribute to our personal success and to the success of our organization.
Real Colors
• Grounded in the personality theory of Carl
Jung
• Validated through research of Myers-
Briggs and Keirsey-Bates
• Works to identify temperaments
Real Colors - Theory
Hippocrates – Four Types
Sanguine, Choleric, Phlegmatic, Melancholic
Carl Jung – Psychological Type
Intuition, Feeling, Body (sensation), Intellect (thinking)
Real Colors - Theory
Myers-Briggs – 16 Type Indicators
ISFP, ISTP, ESFP, ESTP, INFP, INFJ, etc., etc., etc.
David Kiersey – Temperament Types
Dionysian, Apollonian, Epimethian, Promethian
Real Colors
Real Colors Temperament Colors
Gold , Blue , Green , Orange
Real Colors
• Is an understandable way to group people into four personality temperaments
• Helps us learn to recognize, accept and value differences in others
• Helps us, with practice, to work within another color-type
Real Colors
• Complete Assessment
Working with Other Colors
• What words and Actions are favored by the other colors?
Scenario (if time)
• You own a travel agency. A group of
[Blue/Green] [Gold/Orange] Couples have come to our and asked you to create a perfect get away weekend for them.
Money is no object.
LET’S REVIEW
WHAT WE HAVE
LEARNED
What is Temperament?
Temperament (defined)
– The manner of thinking, behaving or reacting characteristics of a specific person
Temperament Theory:
– A way of helping people better understand human behavior
Think of Real Colors as a way of building common ground…..
• To enhance communication
• To “speak the language of others”
• To help us work more effectively with people
• To help us with an enhanced ability to understand how OTHERS process info
• To help us modify our communication style to connect with others.
Real Colors
can help us…..
• Recognize our strengths and the strengths of others
• Build greater rapport with others
• Enhance our ability to understand how others process information
• Recognize different thinking and learning styles of others
REMEMBER!!
Color is not an excuse for behavior!
Learn to speak in the language of the listener
Learn to listen in the language of the speaker
THANK YOU!!
Please contact us with any questions:
Dan Clark, M.S.
Director
Local Government Center
MSU Extension http://extn.msu.montana.edu
Tel: (406) 994-6694
E-mail Daniel.clark@montana.edu
Mary Fran San Soucie
HR Coordinator, MSU Extension
Tel: (406) 994-6648
E-mail maryfran@montana.edu
