Most everyone has received their personalized Birkman plaques featuring their symbols and colors. Here’s a refresher on what those mean.
DISCOVER YOUR TRUE COLORS
Birkman’s Life Style Grid uses four color codes and four important symbols to reveal:
- Your interests and the kinds of activities you usually prefer (your Asterisk)
- Your usual style – how you behave in normal conditions, your most effective style (your Diamond)
- Your needs – the support or motivation you need from others or from your environment to be effective (your Circle)
- How you react under stress. How your usual style changes when your needs aren’t met (your Square)
PAY ATTENTION TO HOW CLOSE YOUR SYMBOLS ARE TO THE LINES DIVIDING THE COLOR QUADRANTS.
For example, when your Asterisk is close to the line, you may have interests from colors on either side of the line. When your Circle is close to the line, you may share needs with both colors, and so on. The closer your symbols are to the center of the Grid, the more likely you are to be influenced by the characteristics of the other quadrants.
VISUALIZE YOUR OVERALL BEHAVIOR
The Life Style Grid is a visual, graphic representation of your results, based on a model of how people behave in general. The Life Style Grid Report can help you:
Clarify your communication style:
Are you a Direct Communicator, represented by the top two quadrants of the Grid, or an Indirect Communicator, represented by the bottom two quadrants?
Reveal your focus:
Are you Task-Oriented, represented by the left two quadrants, or People-Oriented, represented by the right two quadrants?
Discover how your unique strengths move you toward a distinct personal style:
Are you a Planner (Blue quadrant), Communicator (Green quadrant), Expediter (Red quadrant), or Administrator (Yellow quadrant)?
You can also check out the Birkman Resources page to aid you in reading each other’s plaques and understanding all the personalities and strengths that make up Champion.