Sample Career Portrait Snapshot

Senior Corporate Manager / Executive

Style

Work Type:

My work type is ESTJ and my style is that of a "fact-minded, practical organizer." I like to organize people and projects and make sure that they are completed. My prime focus is on getting the job done. I have always been practical, realistic, matter-of-fact, with a natural head for business and leadership. I like projects where the results of my work and my teamís efforts are immediate, visible, and tangible. I can be tough when necessary, but I am also objective and logical. I am interested in having people around me who are entirely focused on getting the job done. I believe there should be rewards for meeting goals. I also enjoy community activities when they are meaningful and I have an opportunity to make an important contribution.

Career Drivers:

My primary career driver is "managerial influence." My key motivation is to advance up the corporate ladder to higher levels of responsibility, to find opportunities to serve in positions of leadership, to make an increasing contribution to the overall success of the organization, and to have a long-term opportunity for high income and estate-building. I have always worked hard to excel in all three areas of leadership and have an MBA as well as a considerable experience with high level management development courses in analytical competence, interpersonal competence, and emotional competence. My secondary career driver is "power and leadership." I like to win, be successful, overcome obstacles, be the best, be first, beat the competition, and reach for my highest.

(People, Data, Physical, Adaptive):

The skills at which I excel and which I feel have allowed me to be successful include acting assertively, influencing others, delegating responsibility, managing people, and making decisions. The skills that I am currently working on to improve in my worklife include understanding behavior, listening attentively, reading technical information, showing warmth and support, and writing creatively.

I consider the following adaptive skills as a source of strength: being challenge seeking, imaginative, self-disciplined, resourceful, and a risk-taker. In order to round out my executive abilities, I need to be more encouraging of others, tolerant of othersí mistakes, patient, versatile, and expressive.

The following barriers have at times kept me from achieving all that I could and will need to be managed more consciously: all-or-nothing behavior, distrust of intuition, inflexible, sense of lack of creativity, and perfectionism.