How to spot an Orange or SF personality type

You took a True Colors Personality Assessment in a seminar or completed the official on-line version and understand yourself to be an Orange. Or, you took the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and/or Meyers-Briggs assessment and scored a SF type. How can you spot other Oranges or SFs?

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Personality Test Results
• A set of good ears
• Open Eyes

1. I love competition! Recall some of the key characteristics of an Orange or SF before you start observing. This personality type enjoys a challenge, multi-tasking, and showing talents in sports or artistic endeavors like music. Watch them in a crowd and they can be witty, charming, and say inappropriate things at times for fun. At work they are practical problem solvers, flashy, competitive, and are bold. Based on these traits, Oranges tend to stand out.
2. I get easily excited and love to do a variety of things Use your eyes first to observe key characteristics.
   What type of clothes does this person wear? Flashy, colorful and comfortable. Hmm..., could be an Orange.
   What is their mannerism? High energy, excited, constantly moving, like to do physical things and/or to include physically touching.
   What does their office look like? Full of sports memorabilia, family photos doing "action oriented" activities, and/or fun games on the desk or on a shelf. All of these clues could point to an Orange personality.
3. I keep my options open Use your ears...what are they saying and how are they saying it? Oranges love competition and are masters at making conversations lively and without much structure. They tend to bounce from one subject to the next. In fact, they abhor closure...that's right, they like to keep their options open. Think of a crafty fox on the edge of a field who is looking, waiting, and watching to strike the hen house at just the right time. Oranges are like foxes in that they keep their options open until the time is right to shift to another position. And yes, they feel quite fine with that...unlike some other personality types.
4. I'm introverted...most people don't understand that I'm Orange until they get to know me By observing others, we can determine if they are an Orange or not...to a certain degree. You never really know if people are an Orange or not because of how they express these traits. An introverted person, one who gathers their energy from within, tend to show their secondary personality traits to the world and think with their primary traits. So if someone is showing Orange traits, they could be introverted and showing Orange as their secondary personality traits. How do you determine if they are introverted or extroverted? Ask them how do they feel after a social gathering, drained or ready to party more? An extroverted Orange will generally say, "party on dude!" An introvert? "Oh, I'm so drained....I just want to go home and be by myself. Of course, a more accurate way to determine if someone is an Orange or SF is to ask them or invite them to take the test. However, after teaching True Colors for several years, I can accurately spot people's primary and secondary colors with about 90% accuracy. Just think of the applications of acquiring this "Color Watching" skill in business, at home or play!

Tips & Warnings

• Value Oranges for their:
• Ability to operate without detailed instructions
• Most likely of all temperaments to accept change
• Excellent high-energy attitude and problem solving skills
• Fun, freedom loving attitude
• Help Oranges by:
• Providing them flexible structure and few rules
• Making work a fun environment full of physical activities
• Varying the job and multi-tasking them
• Give them a challenge