Work Style & Personality

Tiffany Russell = Blue ENFJ

The RGB Profile and Myers-Briggs type indicators combined best help summarize my approach to leadership and work-style personality. I’ve also used both tools with my team members to help understand an individual’s predisposition to decision making and to best further organizational outcomes while improving team culture.

The RGB Profile by CapacityWare is a work style preference inventory test that helps organizations asses the way individuals make decisions and/or behave in the workplace. While the combination of percentages in the three buckets equal 100%, as a dominant “blue” I tend to imagine possibilities while still staying true to my desire for meaningful numbers and facts for decision-making.

	RED	GREEN	BLUE
Decisions	Made quickly Fact based Relies on experience	Made with hesitation Sees both sides Easily swayed	Made slowly Considers alternatives Implementation
Planning	Resources Focus on present reality Cyclical	Methods Anticipates probabilities People implications	Outcomes Futuristic Imagines possibilities
Relationships	Prefers one-on-one Predictable interactions Accountability	One-on-few Catalysts for connections Creates comfort	One-on-many Focus on potential Synergy
Situational Structures	Policies & Procedures Organized & orderly processes	Few boundaries Prefers clarity of framework	Allows spontaneity Finds structure confining
Activities	Stability Checklists & details Meaningful numbers	People Sharing information Applying concepts	Innovative Creates new & different
Change	Change that tightens	Involved in change	Change that loosens
Leadership	Right thing, right time	Right people, right place	Right reason, right risk

ENFJ: Extraverted Feeling with Introverted Intuition

Source for copy below: Martin, C. (2001). Looking at Type: The Fundamentals Using Psychological Type to Understand and Appreciate Ourselves and Others. Center for Applications of Psychological Type.

KEY WORDS FOR ENFJ

Actively sociable	Enthusiastic
Harmonizer	Expressive
Warm	Idealistic
Empathetic	Possibility Oriented
Insightful	Cooperative
Imaginative	Conscientious
Appreciative	Tactful

ENFJs at a Glance

“ENFJs are enthusiastic, expressive and sociable. They care intensely about people, have a strong desire to bring harmony into their relationships, and bring an aura of warmth to all that they do. Intuition orients their feeling to the new and to the possible, thus ENFJs often enjoy working to manifest a humanitarian vision, or helping others develop their potential. They are at their best when they are winning people’s cooperation with subtle empathetic insights into their needs. ENFJs naturally and conscientiously take action to care of others, to organize the world around them, and to get things done.”

Primary Characteristics

“ENFJs love opportunities to talk with and learn from others, and derive great joy and energy from diving right into the sea of relationships that make up our world. To ENFJs, people are what the world is about. They are warm, enthusiastic, and optimistic people who have a wide range of friends and an active social life. Their sociability is not quiet, but very expressive and fun loving, and they wear their heart on their sleeves.

ENFJs tend also to have exceptional people skills. At their best, they are compassionate and exquisitely sensitive to the feelings and needs of others, and they energetically respond to those needs. ENFJs strive to establish harmony in their relationships, one expression of which is their bias towards cooperation. They are not only cooperative themselves, but win cooperation from others through their empathy and warm caring. Their concern with harmony may at times, however, manifest itself as an avoidance of conflict.”

Supporting Characteristics

“Intuition orients ENFJs to the future, to possibilities, and to patterns, thus their style is both caring and imaginative. They are creative folks who enjoy planning, and they are especially excited by ‘possibilities for people.’ Their preference for Intuition also gives them a more conceptual and global approach to life. Intuition provides support to dominant Feeling by keeping them open to new information, but the dominant force for ENFJs is still their desire to actively bring the outer world into harmony with their intensely felt people values.”

Values and Motivators

“ENFJs make decisions based on personal values and on their very clear sense of right and wrong, which they usually share openly. Conclusions about people are often drawn quickly and with certainty. When an ENFJ decides a person is trustworthy and good, it is a difficult conclusion to dispel; ENFJs prize and embody loyalty. However, it is equally difficult for them to dispel negative conclusions they may draw. They can also at times be frustrated by those who are not as quick to decide and to act as they are.

As a rule, ENFJs are responsible people who like to get things settled and are conscientious in following through on commitments. They like to be involved in many things at once and often pull it off because they are organized. ENFJs can be particularly skillful in energizing people and orchestrating activities to achieve a vision. They are most deeply moved by causes that feed, nurture and support people, and they have endless energy for work that fulfills their humanitarian values.”

Learning and Working

“ENFJs are skilled communicators; they are often masters of the spoken word, but they may be skilled writers as well. Their thought is symbolic and metaphorical, and they look for meaning in everything. They revel in accounts of human events and relationships as found in the theater, in cinema, and in writing, perhaps enjoying the active forms more than the written. In their curiosity about ideas, they often enjoy school, particularly the humanities and the arts. Since ENFJs value creativity, and they often have strong needs for freedom of expression, they are commonly found in careers in the performing and fine arts.

ENFJs are idealists who want and need active people contact in their careers. They orient naturally to the positive in people, and they want to help others manifest their potential. Often deeply concerned with the emotional and spiritual life, they are frequently found in careers where they can attend to issues of growth and human development. Since they look for meaning in words, actions and events, ENFJs can have acute insights into people. They are often group catalysts and may be inspiring and persuasive healers, teachers, motivators, and leaders. ENFJs issue directives naturally, which they see as a way of facilitating group process; with business interests and with their orientation to the future, they can be insightful marketers and natural planners.”

Relationships

“In relationships, ENFJs are friendly, energetic, and emotionally expressive. They exude charm, but may also overwhelm others through too much enthusiasm. Typically generous and hospitable folks, they also value genuineness in their relationships. Though ENFJs can be very tactful, they may at times be experiences as manipulative. They certainly do not intend to be, but their clear perception of ‘the good’ can lead them to make decisions for others and to push others toward what the ENFJ perceives to be the best for that person.

Another danger for ENFJs is that they may inadvertently take on the concerns and responsibilities of others, and in their desire for harmony their own needs may not get met. They express appreciation naturally, and they thrive on both recognition and appreciation; as a result, ENFJs tend to be hurt by indifference. They are very much turned off by criticism and cool logic.”

Growth

“For ENFJs, there is often a certainty in their conclusions about what is the good and right action. Development of Introverted Intuition will help them stay open to new information, particularly about people, and also help them avoid some of the pitfalls of this certainty. With their idealism, ENFJs can have unrealistic expectations about relationships, and they may have too many ‘shoulds.’ Development of Intuition will keep them open to others’ ideas, and help them listen to what others have to say. Development of Sensing will also help them see things as they are, and ways to work out their dreams in the practical world. ENFJs can also grow from learning to acknowledge unpleasant things about themselves and others, and from learning to solve rather than ignore problems, a skill that will come with the development of their Thinking.

Under stress, ENFJs can become rigidly narrow in their perceptions, and become extremely emotional and generally irritable. They may doubt themselves and their abilities, and indiscriminately seek help or advice from others. Under great stress, ENFJs can become exceptionally critical of themselves and in contrast to their usual concern for appreciation and harmony, they can become decidedly critical of others.”