The post on the Daniel Ofman model that I posted recently explains the Core Quality model very clearly. But it only focuses on personal personality traits, not on those of others. The question is; can we use the Daniel Ofman model for teams? The answer is yes… with a little adaptation, this is certainly possible.
Step 1 – Personal Traits
The first step to use the Daniel Ofman model for teams is to start with a normal model, for your self. Since this process is explained in detail in Identifying your Core Qualities, Pitfalls, Challenges and Allergies with Daniel Ofman, I won’t go into detail here. Remember the complete model:
Step 2 – Pitfall as Allergy
The second step that we’ll take is to identify our pitfall as someone else’s allergy. In other words; something we tend to do which gets on another person’s nerves:
Step 3 – The other person’s personality traits
The final step in this model is to identify the other person’s Core Quality, Pitfall and Challenge. This is done by simply traversing model, starting from the other person’s Allergy, to his or her Core Quality, his or her Pitfall and finally his or her Challenge:
Example
As a final explanation, let me give you an example. This example builds on the previous example, used in the article Identifying your Core Qualities, Pitfalls, Challenges and Allergies with Daniel Ofman:
So, from my Pitfall (being ‘Too Busy’), we can identify that the other person’s core quality must be a Relaxed Attitude. So it is someone who doesn’t easily become stressed. The pitfall for this is Laziness (note that this happens to be my Allergy). From here we can deduce that the other person’s challenge is, in fact, my Core Quality (Proactivity).
Tue, Apr 6, 2010
Entrepreneurship, Self Improvement