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- By
understanding the blindspots associated with your personality type, you can
avoid the common career pitfalls encountered by people like yourself
- You
can also identify your unique strengths, motivations,
and any skills or qualities you may need to develop
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Finally, knowing your personality type helps you avoid the 'square peg in a
round hole' trap, by matching your individual preferences to the right work
and career choices.
 If
you find your Learning Style Profile below an accurate reflection of your
personality, you'll find the ESTJ
(shown left) invaluable as a tool for managing your work life.
Unlike conventional self-help books, the Guide is written specifically for
your personality type, and comes complete with
specific to your needs, for only $29.99.
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Learning Style Profile for
ESTJ
(The Commander)
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ESTJs learn best by experiencing, analyzing and memorizing.
They prefer to learn
in an orderly, systematic way, so enjoy traditional teaching in which tasks and
exercises are presented in a structured manner, and in which there is a formal
relationship with the tutor. They need information to be presented sequentially
and instructions to be given clearly, and dislike ‘loose’ teaching that requires
little supervision or that involves a high degree of independent creativity.
Structured training
programs and courses, and high quality coaching work well for them. Being set
(and achieving) regular targets ensures that they maintain interest and gives
them the feedback they need in order to show them that they are making steady
progress.
They enjoy learning
facts and figures, but may be less good at conceptualising and abstract
reasoning.
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As learners, ESTJs:
- are motivated by
personal achievement, status and recognition.
- prefer to work
towards a clear goal or end-product
- dislike theory,
abstraction or conceptualization and value knowledge that has practical
application
- learn best with
others rather than on their own
- enjoy analyzing
rather than linking ideas together
- are good at
focusing and concentrating
- have a strong need
for evidence or proof when learning new facts
- are unlikely to
explore untried ideas or methods
- may need to learn
to reflect on and summarise what they have learnt
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ESTJs learn best when:
- there is a focused
and structured learning environment
- set challenges or
tasks, and required to solve problems with others
- given positions of
leadership or responsibility, for example leading a team, demonstrating
techniques, giving presentations
- there is plenty of
'hands-on' training or examples, and that they can put into practice what they
have learnt
- they can link what
they are learning to 'real-world' problems
- presented with
logical, coherent arguments
- they respect their
teacher for his/her competence, professionalism and high standards
- encouraged to link
what they are learning to their personal goals and ambitions
- when
responsibility, leadership and thoroughness are rewarded
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ESTJs learn least well and may be demotivated when:
- there is too much
theory, generalization or ambiguity
- creativity,
interpersonal relationships and personal growth are rewarded above initiative,
excellence and thoroughness
- required to work
alone, for example reading, writing or reflecting
- presented with too
many distractions or alternatives
- forced to make
short cuts or do a superficial job
- the learning is
essentially passive, i.e. reading, observing others, listening to how something
'should' be done, taking notes
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With an awareness of your preferred learning style, you can adapt the way you
learn, so that instead of undermining your confidence or frustrating you, it
plays to your strengths and facilitates an enjoyable
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