The Impresser

Predominant Behavioral Style

The snapshot of my profile categorized my behavioral style as “The Impresser”. It is interesting to see that because, I don’t think of my behavioral style as being one that is always trying to impress others. It is great to have the assessment to enlighten my perspective on how I may be presenting my self.

The Impresser

The assessment states that the impresser’s primary goal is to win with flair. This is true in the fact that much of what I do in my work involves taking a concept and getting others excited about it to eventually drive more business resulting in increased revenue to the business. I can now see that perhaps the habits that I have developed in the way that I interact and work in the business blends into other areas in my lifestyle and behavior. The impresser is also known to have an attitude the winning is all or nothing. Yes, this is true for me as well. I tend to look at opportunities as a chance to win. I get energy from identifying an opportunity and taking that opportunity and applying action to it. Once the action is applied I cannot relent until the opportunity converts into actual business.

Make It Happen

One of the tendencies that the assessment identified is that my behavior type “Judges others by their ability to make things happen.” I would not say that this is exactly true for me. I am impressed with productive people, given their own individual capacity. But, I believe that I have a strong sense of respect for others. I don’t expect everyone to be mega achievers and I don’t put down or judge one for their own personal limitations. The assessment also mentions that the impresser is motivated to work harder at something when bigger risks or rewards are at stake. I can agree with this statement and I think that this would be true for most people. The bigger the risk the bigger the reward is always something that I have believed in and as I have been involved with high risk endeavors a much higher demand for commitment and time is required. This is something that I do. I do also prefer to work in a group or a team setting. Two (or more) heads are better that one. When I have an idea for something I always present the idea to the team and solicit their feedback to get additional ideas and perspective.

Appearance

The impresser never wants to look bad and, yes, I am definitely guilty of this trait. Decisions that I make many times are influenced by the way that I could be perceived by others. This can be a good and a bad thing. It is good in the sense that if I am concerned about how I look then I should be going about my business in a good way. It is bad in that, you cannot keep everyone happy all of the time and I catch myself trying to do exactly that. I try to accommodate everyone to the point that it can become counter-productive. I have focused on this attribute in the past year to become better at defining what my boundaries are limited to. I do also like things done the best way and much of what I do is find ways to improve operations to maximize performance.

Conclusion

The evaluation was a great tool to find out more about myself. The way that I am perceived by others is something that I often wonder about, but I have not taken the time to personally reflect on how I see who I am. Now that I have this information I can identify areas in which I can improve. It will also increase my awareness pertaining to my actions and how interactions with other people really define who you are and how others perceive you. One significant take away from this assessment is that my personality type tends to underestimate the amount of time that it will take to complete something. Understanding this about who I am will aid in my performance.