Green-Red Introvert
Summary
Gentle and flexible, Green/Red Introverts often hide an intensely idealistic and driven inner self. You judge issues by your personal values and have a quiet stubbornness when it comes to achieving personal goals. Free spirits by nature, you are often unconventional and admire other non-conformists.
Keen and penetrating observers, you have a strong sense of what motivates others. You see life as an unfolding cosmic drama that presents infinite possibilities for humans to grow and develop.
Adaptable and creative, Green/Red Introverts love a challenge, dislike routine and take life as it comes. The ability to quietly and unassumingly influence a constructive cause is deeply satisfying to you. Gifted in communications, most take up writing or the visual arts at some point in their lives.
As big picture thinkers, you are insightful and able to project the trends and pitfalls of the future. You are interested in many areas, focusing in particular on those that impact people and global concerns. Green/Reds are flexible and accommodating to work with as long as their privacy is respected but tend to dislike bureaucracy, which you gleefully battle every chance possible.
Others see you as insightful and you possess excellent listening skills. You display a surprising toughness when your values are challenged. In relationships, you establish rapport by being genuine and non-judgmental. Cool and reserved on the surface, you seldom show the intensity of your feelings, until you know someone well. Despite your high need for empathetic relationships you typically focus your attention on a small group of family members and close friends. You get most irritated by people who are intrusive, controlling and overly critical of others.
Your Natural Strengths
You:
• Explore new possibilities and solve problems in an original way
• Listen carefully to people creating trust and support the development of others
• Understand how underlying emotions impact productivity
• Get right to the guts of an issue
• Can concentrate and work for long periods of time alone
• Work without much supervision
Your Challenges
Your potential blind spots may include some of the following. You:
• Can be too idealistic and ignore bottom line consequences
• Can be too reserved, not speak up enough and appear disengaged. (Few know how much energy it takes to listen, and you listen intently. Your concentration, however, comes across as aloofness. Just throw in a few comments to let others know you’re present.)
• Don’t prioritize and appear disorganized. (You have only one priority a day—sit down and prioritize that day’s activities.)
• Consider your own values superior. (Others may compromise or be more realistic, but your ideals are IDEAL. Once you recognize the strengths of other Colors, though, this tendency will mellow.)
• May miss deadlines because you are a perfectionist. (Being perfect means meeting the deadline. Your boss feels that way, so prioritize that career-important deadline over less important details.)
Your Best Work Environment
You will be most productive and energized when your work culture:
• Is in synch with personal values. Companies that violate your values will soon see you gone. You don’t tolerate this.
• Is democratic and informal. You function best with a minimum of rules, paperwork and supervision. Rank and status are fluid.
• Is supportive and harmonious, fostering cooperation and trust. Backstabbing, confrontation and malicious gossip really irritate, and distract you
• Encourages creativity and idea generation.
• Recognizes individual needs of both staff and clients. Seek companies that encourage work/life balance and high levels of customer service.
• Allows for private space. As an Introvert, your batteries get drained when dealing with people, even if your people skills are superb. You recharge alone. You think and perform better in a private space; insist on one as a condition of employment if at all possible.
• Has a boss who is flexible, does not micromanage, has a high level of integrity and takes a personal interest in your development
Your Entrepreneurial Style
For you goals and plans are changeable, depending on whatever is exciting to you at the moment. Prioritizing is problematic for you, especially when two or more interesting things compete for your attention. You will stick to a goal if it helps you find your deepest possible satisfaction and reflects your personal values. You need a partner of another style, who can ground you in the present.
Greens are less motivated by material gain than other styles. You prefer to provide value and express your creative energies in whatever business situation stimulates you. Sometimes that will be an entrepreneurial venture, most often prompted by a change in employment status, a disagreement with the practices of an employer or need for a family-oriented work schedule.
You will build a loyal clientele, but often think little of sacrificing profit margin to achieve a certain quality of product or service. High customer loyalty and low staff turnover often get a Green enterprise through rough times when other companies fail. Your superior abilities to promote and market also get you noticed quickly, despite the fact that these skills are often underestimated by those more focused on the balance sheet rather than the customer base.
