This is because every quality comes with a challenge. By practising with that challenge, you turn it into an extra quality that strengthens your other qualities. Daniel Ofman’s core quadrant makes this clear and gives you insight into your core qualities, pitfalls, challenges and allergies. You can use this not only to develop yourself, but also to prepare for performance interviews, for example. The steps below will help you on your way.
Completing your own core quadrant:
Start by filling in a core quality. Think about what others often come to you for, what things energise you and what you are often praised for. Understanding your talents or DISC style can also help you figure out your core qualities.
Consider which pitfall is opposite your quality. What happens when you go overboard with your quality? What are things you do under pressure or stress and what reproaches do you sometimes hear?
Your challenge is behaviour that you don’t show enough yet. This behaviour is the positive opposite of your pitfall. When you practice with your challenge, it can become a quality with which you strengthen your core quality. Often this is behaviour you admire in others.
Finally, you fill in your allergy; this is behaviour opposite your pitfall. It is an exaggeration of your challenge and it is behaviour you do not like to see in yourself or others.
Examples of core quadrants:
Core quality: Decisive
Pitfall: (Too decisive:) Dramatic
Challenge: (Opposite of pushy:) Patient
Allergy: (Too patient:) Passive
Core quality: Modest
Pitfall: (Too modest:) Invisible
Challenge: (Opposite of invisible:) Visible/profiling
Allergy: (Too profiled:) Arrogant
Success!
Within both the Life Design training and the Win at Work training, there is a lot of focus on this core quadrant and how you can make use of it in your work practice.
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