Working with our Strongest Traits and our Unused Traits. Building Balance and Strength.

This week we are focusing in on behavioural traits. Harrison Assessments identifies 175 traits that provide a profile of those traits that are strong for you, those that are used easily and with comfort, and those which you have not yet given sufficient attention for them to have built strength in their use. Looking at your traits through the Harrison Profiles gives you wonderful insights into how to best use your traits at work, which jobs will suit you the best, which areas to target for development.

The profiles are also very useful for building your own self awareness, and minimising that “Not Known by Self/Blindspot” window of the Johari Windows.

Mentoring your Mind

Written by Anama Morriss, Associate Consultant

Have you ever thought how important your mind is to your life?

Through our minds we create the results in our workplace, care for our families and ponder purpose and meaning in our lives. Arguably the brain is:

the biological base for the mind, and is affected by the mental and physical aspects of our lives.  It is the control and coordinating centre of the central nervous system, and seat of thought, memory and emotion (Collins Concise Dictionary).

Self Awareness: Resilence.

Resilience. What is it?

I went driving today. To the Clare Valley. Great wine country full of quiet. Full of backroads and quirky little eateries. Antique shops and wineries. Gum trees and lorikeets. It is around 1.5 – 2 hours from the city, depending how you drive. Enough time to do some thinking.

It is wonderful watching the vines, full of autumn reds, yellows and oranges, or maybe already bare, gnarled fingers reaching along wires. They have survived the drought. Survived the severe frosts of several years ago. Survived a record hot summer.