Facts and Data

• Provide the energy to get things done
• 2 types: Classic Builder and Express Builder
• 2 different Decision-Making Strategies

The best way to use your energy is to: Do ​​the work you LOVE and LOVE the work you do. The QUALITY of how you use your energy is key.

• Get things kicked-off
• 3 types: Emotional Initiator, Instinctive Initiator, Willful Initiator
• 3 different Decision-Making Strategies

Initiators are here to get things started, “get the ball rolling” and bring new ideas and concepts into the world. Have an incredible gift and ability to act independently, initiate action, and influence others.

• Objective Observer
• 1 Decision-Making Strategy

Evaluators are great in the observer position where they can observe, reflect and share the objectivity of what they see. They need time to reflect. To get an evaluator’s objective opinions, people must be “ready” to hear them and ask for them.

• Need to collaborate with others: “1+1 = 3”
• Need more time to fully absorb and process information because they need impulses from others.
• When they try to process information alone or must make decisions alone, they may feel uncomfortable or incomplete.
• Being with others and discussing with others might help you tremendously to achieve a sense of wholeness – “yes, I have looked at various angles of the information now”.
• So, take your time, discuss with others, allow the information to sink in.
• Spending time in public places (like coffee corners in the office, team gatherings for lunch, etc.) gives you new perspectives and can assist you in the assimilation process.
• And remember, there is a great advantage of your collaborative style: once you have processed the information you usually have looked at it from many different angles and you get it at a much deeper level than someone with an independent assimilation style.
• Your learning potential: be patient and do not feel pressured by the other types. Your own pace is absolutely ok.

• You are designed to synthesize information from a variety of different sources and a variety of different people.
• Similar to a collaborative style you need other people and places as a stimulus – but even more so.
• You very likely feel the most energetic when you move around, work with and interact with a variety of different people throughout your day.
• Working with the same person in the same place every single day feels like imprisonment for you.
• As a consequence, you may have a tendency to be impatient or your actions and decisions happen too soon- which in turn makes you unhappy.
• Your learning potential: You will need patience to synthesize the necessary information for you before taking any action.

• When you have a subjective information assimilation style you are very fixed in the way you process information.
• Your own experience comes into the picture and “dictates” how you process information.
• Other people will have to adjust to your style rather than you adjusting to them. You might appear therefore less flexible.
• You likely have your “favorites”; a few people that you connect to and that you allow to be close to you.
• A forced small group environment makes you feel uncomfortable when you could not choose the members.
• You need TIME: time to assimilate information from and with the right people and at your own pace. Forcing yourself to comply with other’s expectations will have negative impacts on your wellbeing.
• So your key learning: take your time, do things in your pace and do not let others push you or force you.

• As per your design, you take in information in a non-judgmental objective way.
• You share deliberately what you have learned during the information assimilation.
• The process how you assimilate information can be described as sampling, reflecting and evaluating. And it uses the environment you are in on any given day.
• With your ability, you just sense an environment or group objectively.
• You gather information aspects that are physical, psychic or emotional.
• You just “know” who is living authentically and who is not.
• You are wide open like a receiving antenna – allowing everything to pass through you as you objectively evaluate it.