ACTIVITYIMAGE ORIENTATION

Individuals with an Activity Image Orientation (AIO), enjoy working with people, challenging assignments, and a variety of work tasks and activities, which give them the opportunity to �look good.� Their friendly and open manner gains them the respect and confidence of various types of people, and is also helpful in winning them positions of authority.� AIOs make better leaders than �doers� and have the ability to form successful terms from diverse personalities. At times, however, they can be overconfident about their ability to change the position and behavior of others. Using a �hard sell� to foster their point of view, sometimes repels instead of attracts, others to them. For the most part, however, AIOs posses a great deal of poise under pressure, are pleasant in dealing with others, and enjoy the stimulus of challenging work assignments.

AIOs seek prestige as evidence of performance and esteem. They also seek freedom from routine and regimentation. That freedom, however, results in their need to be supplied with analytical data on a systematic basis. Being made aware of the importance of certain routine matters helps AIOs control their natural impulsiveness. Otherwise, their enthusiastic optimism could replace study and logic.�

PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

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INTERPERSONAL STYLE

ACTIVITY

IMAGE ORIENTATION

Potential Strengths and Weaknesses      

Potential Strengths

Enthusiastic

Trusting

Able to verbalize well

Flexible

Friendly

Open

Poised

Confident

Good leader

Forceful

Optimistic

Potential Weaknesses

Decision Making

��� Could become too soft under pressure

��� Could allow emotions to cloud issues

��� May have a tendency to be overly optimistic

Communications

��� May try to oversell an issue

��� May overlook important shortcomings in others

Control of Time

��� May desire environment to change too quickly

��� May overlook �little things� in an effort to save time