The Earth Green Leader

The strengths and challenges for the Earth Green Manager and Leader Having enjoyed a productive weekend in the garden, I thought it highly appropriate to continue our blog series about personality and how your Insights Discovery Energy preferences impact on your leadership style. What is Earth Green Energy? Earth Green energy is a combination of Introversion and Feeling.  This combination results in an Earth Green Manager or Leader who prefers reflection, harmony and consensus.   With an inward focus, judgements are likely to be value-based and decisions will considered and typically made after long periods of reflection.  They are likely to appear casual and conforming.  Their primary focus is to maintaining harmony and group consensus. Managers and Leaders with an Earth Green energy preference want to achieve goals too and can be very driven (just like the Fiery Red Leader) but if the human cost is too high they will change the goal.       They have a strong desire to be liked and will fear confrontation. Earth Green energy preference can be characterised by the following adjectives: Caring ...
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The Fiery Red Leader

'Be Bold, Be Brief, Be gone!'  That's the motto of an individual who has an energy preference for Fiery Red. What do we mean by this?  Well at Jungle, we recommend that all our Management Development and Leadership programmes commence with gaining a greater understanding of yourself, how you work with others and as such how you might need to learn to adapt and connect more effectively with others.   We know, from experience that this is a key factor in being successful. So to commence this journey of personal discovery we use a tool called Insights Discovery which helps Leaders, Managers and individuals to develop the right interpersonal skills which not only empowers themselves, but can help to transform teams and entire organisations. This post, gives you an insights into the Fiery Red Manager or Leader What is Fiery Red energy? Fiery Red colour energy can be characterised by the following adjectives: Competitive Demanding Determined Strong-willed purposeful Proactive Courageous When getting into a lift and individual who has a preference...
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The Cool Blue Leader

The fundamentals to being an effective leader starts with understanding your leadership style and recognising the impact this has on others, then learning how best to adapt your style to connect with others.    At Jungle we use the simple but very powerful Insights Discovery tool when working with Leaders and Managers. So, join us on a journey of discovery as we take a glimpse into the world of a Cool Blue Manager or Leader What is cool blue energy? Cool Blue energy can be characterised by the following adjectives: Cautious Precise Deliberate Questioning Formal Managers and Leaders who have a Cool Blue energy preference have a strong desire to know and understand the world around them.  They are likely to prefer to think things through before committing to action and are likely to maintain a detached and objective standpoint analysing data and information to ensure that it is complete and accurate before proceeding with making decisions or taking action. What others appreciate about cool blue energy Cool Blue energy is the...
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