The past two days at work I have been in a training. We did a survey last week that determined a profile. The technology of the company is called Emergenetics. I had done something similar when I worked at 3M. To be honest I wasn’t looking forward to sitting in training for a day and a half, but it was actually entertaining and interesting.

I learned that I am a mostly a “blue” personality which is concerned about the bottom line. Blues make decisions quickly. They are very logical. While listening to the various profiles I determined that Rachel is mostly a green personality. Greens like structure. They are very linear. They like guidlines. I determined that Gehrig is mostly a yellow personality. Yellow personalities love ideas and are not concerned with details. The don’t like rules and strucure. One comment that was made was that yellows tend to drive greens crazy. I spoke with the training during a break about this. He suggested that Rachel and I talk about what rules are critical that he follow and which rules we can relax a bit. Otherwise Gehrig will have a hard time trying to live withing the rigid structure and could possibly feel like he lets us down because he can’t live within our standards.

Also I told him how he loved puzzles and blocks and various things to be creative with. The trainer said that is the best thing we could for him is encourage his expressiveness.

I don’t know how much I will use this training going forward, or how much I will remember, but it was interesting nonetheless.