Reframing Your True Colors
Green may see self as:
  • Superior intellect
  • 98% right
  • Tough-minded
  • Efficient
  • Powerful
  • Creative, visionary
  • Original, unique
  • Eminently reasonable
  • Rational
  • Calm, not emotional
  • Under control
  • Precise, not repetitive
  • Able to find flaws
  • Objective
  • Task, goal focused
  • Holding firm to policy
  • Seeking justice
  • Assuming things will be done well
  • Firm-minded, able to reprimand
  • Great planner

Others may see Green as:

  • Intellectual snob
  • Arrogant
  • Heartless
  • Don't care about people
  • Ruthless
  • Unrealistic
  • Eccentric, weird
  • Emotionally controlled
  • Ignores people values
  • Cool, aloof, unfeeling
  • Afraid to open up
  • Covers subject from all angles
  • Critical, fault-finding
  • Not on my side
  • Devaluing relational aspects
  • Having limited ability to see obvious differences
  • Lacking mercy, unfair
  • Unappreciative, stingy with praise
  • Nasty, hatchet man
  • Doesn't consider people in plans
Revised: April 17, 2003
Nancy L. Spoolman