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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 ESTP
(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 ESTP
(The Promoter)
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| ESTPs
learn best by experiencing, doing and memorizing, and are interested in the
practical use to which they can put ideas.
They collect facts
and are a mine of useful and relevant information. They are quickly bored and
can become disruptive if their energy and enthusiasm is not understood or
properly channeled.
Fresh experiences
excite ESTPs, as a consequence of which they tend to plunge into new subjects,
learning as they go. Variety, sensory stimulation and active participation
maintain their interest, and thus they benefit from short presentations,
’on-the-job’ training that has immediate applications, and practical,
experiential workshops. They need physical involvement and activity to maintain
their attention. Demonstrations and practical examples are of more use to ESTPs
than theory, discussion or reading.
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As
learners, ESTPs:
- are less interested
in theories than in factual and practical information
- are
action-orientated and enjoy personal involvement and participation
- prefer hands-on
training
- like to be
entertained and to entertain others
- are good at
improvising, decision-making and risk-taking
- enjoy competition
- need frequent
breaks that allow for physical movement
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ESTPs
learn best when:
- there is an active
and lively atmosphere, and a wide range of activities to participate in
- set challenges or
tasks, and required to solve problems with others
- there are plenty of
opportunities for co-operative interaction, dialogue and group discussion
- encouraged to set
their own deadlines and targets
- given positions of
leadership or responsibility, for example coaching others, demonstrating
techniques, organising team members etc.
- there is plenty of
'hands-on' training or examples, and that they can put into practice what they
have learnt
- ideas are presented
imaginatively or in an multi-sensory manner, for example using dramatisation or
presentations that include music, video, movement etc.
- they can link what
they are learning to 'real-world' problems
- learning is
experienced as fun, e.g. it includes games, role-playing, experimentation,
plenty of stimulation and interaction, as well as 'free time' for assimilating
ideas
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ESTPs
learn least well and may be demotivated when:
- the learning
environment is dull, un-stimulating and rigid, with few opportunities to
participate
- imagination,
intuition and creativity are valued above ingenuity, involvement and practical
skill
- the learning is
essentially passive, i.e. reading, observing others, listening to how something
'should' be done, taking notes
- the focus is on
academic competition or achieving set goals or standards
- required to work
alone, for example reading, writing or reflecting
- there is too much
theory, generalization or ambiguity
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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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