1. Core Quality Business & IT Worlds Kharkov 4 April 2014 Business Process Modeling PhD Olya Zakharova

2. Ofmans Theory 3. Ofmans Theory 4. Ofmans Theory 5. Core Quality A core quality is a specific strength that characterizes you It is a strong and positive personal quality It makes you what you are It is one of the first things people say about you when they are asked to describe you Each person has at least one core quality 6. Examples You are decisive You are modest You are rational More ideas: considerateness, carefulness, courage, orderliness, flexibility 7. Pitfall Your pitfall goes hand-in-hand with your core quality It is the distortion of your core quality when you show too much of it It is the reversed side of the medal, your quality becomes a weakness 8. Examples You are decisive You are modest You are rational Helpful becomes meddling. Careful becomes fussy. Flexible becomes capricious. 9. More eexamples 10. Challenge Your challenge is the positive opposite of your pitfall It is a positive quality that you should show more often It is a quality you often recognize and admire in others This quality is needed to keep your core quality well-balanced 11. Examples You are decisive You are modest You are rational 12. Core Quality & Challenge The core quality and the challenge are complementary qualities. The objective is to strike a balance between the two. If the challenge is underdeveloped, the core quality must be improved to find the balance. Example: It is not necessary to become less decisive, but to develop more patience, resulting in a patient decisiveness without nagging. Or: find a balance between flexibility and orderliness. 13. Allergy Your allergy is the negative opposite of your core quality Most people are allergic to their own challenge recognized in other persons You can get into conflict with people that are in your allergy zone, especially when that person is the personification of that behavior you detest 14. Examples You are decisive You are modest You are rational 15. More examples You are decisive You are modest You are rational 16. More examples You are decisive You are modest You are rational 17. Core Quadrant You can visualize your core quality, pitfall, challenge, and allergy in a Core Quadrant 18. Core Quadrant 19. Core Quadrant 20. Example: Decisiveness 21. Super Quadrant 22. Personal Development 23. Personal Development 24. Interaction between people 25. Relation with others Everybody has core qualities, therefore everybody has pitfalls Your allergy is the other persons pitfall! So if you are allergic to somebodys behavior, consider it as the other persons pitfall. Then try finding the quality behind it. You might be able to improve your relationship with that person 26. Visualize relation with others 27. Relation with others Try showing more of your challenge when you notice somebody is allergic to your behavior. 28. You can bring balance by: 29. Business & IT Worlds 30. Core Quality 31. A core quadrant for an IT person 32. A business person 33. There are two potential clashes 34. The confrontation between the characters 35. Create your Core Quadrant 36. You can start in any part Start an inventory of your strong points and elaborate by defining your pitfall, challenge, and allergy. Have others told you what they often dislike about you? That might be your pitfall. Look for the positive quality behind it and continue by determining your challenge and allergy. 37. Create your Core Quadrant You might already know some of your challenges. Try finding the positive quality behind them and describe the accompanying pitfall and allergy. Is there somebody that immediately pops up in your mind when you talk about your allergies? Try describing the positive things of that person and discover what it says about you. 38. Your Core Quadrant 39. Core Qualities 40. Using your core quadrant Put your own behavior and that of others into perspective Improve your relationship with colleagues Prepare yourself for job interviews Define challenges to improve these qualities, for instance for your personal development plan 41. My Core Quality 1. Responsibility 2. Leadership 3. Perfectionism 4. Creativity 42. Yours 43. E-mail: harizmalife@gmail.com Skype: harizmalife Cell: +38 050 401 33 35 PhD Olya Zakharova