How to spot a Gold or SJ personality type

The Gold or SJ personality is the most prevalent of all types with about 46% of the adult population professing to be this type. This article will give you tips on how to uncover these golden personalities at work, home and play.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Computer
• Personality test
• Being aware

1. Golds like structure, following policies/procedures, and tradition Observe at work. The Gold or SJ type will arrive to work on time or a bit before and prepared to start work. For those not arriving on time or prepared, expect to receive a critical eye from the Golds/SJs. The type of work they enjoy is structured, predictable, traditional, dealing with numbers, facts, details, and routine. As excellent coordinators, they will serve as resourceful managers of resources. They will be the one's volunteering to lead office picnics and parties. As change implementors, they dutifully will make gradual improvements, however, leading a major change effort requires much more energy from them and some may even suggest they dislike change.
2. Gold's like organized fun...checklists for vacations and play by the rules in games Observe at play. After a hard day of work, Golds/SJs will leave the office after all their work is done. They are very dedicated employees. Golds like organized sports and playing by the rules. They are competitive but not necessarily ultra competitive like the Oranges. If their play takes them on a vacation, they will plan the most cost effective trip, map out the route, develop a checklist of items to bring and then check them off the list once the car is packed. Did I mention the trip will have an itinerary?
3. Security, control, and traditional parenting...no money, no security Observe at home. Golds/SJs prefer traditional family structure. The home is a well organized place. The toilet paper is placed so the flap hangs down for easy tearing and less waste. Kitchen cabinets are arranged in some type of order and with the labels pointing out for easy identification. Toys are put back into their proper place...after all,everything has its place. When scattered all about, it can drive a Gold/SJ crazy. The Gold parent is more authoritarian, develops the rules and enforces them.

Tips & Warnings

• People tend to have one of the four distinct personality types
• The Gold/SJ type are your pillars of the community
• Speak to them one subject at a time and in an orderly fashion
• Introduce change slowly and methodically...give them the desired outcome
• Give feedback as requested...they desire to do things right, the first time and like to keep checking to make sure they got it right
• Although one personality generally dominates, we are a collection or spectrum of all the personality types
• Don't pigeon hole people...personality typing identifies general tendencies...people change and so does aspects of their personality