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CONTROL IMAGE ORIENTATION
Control Image Orientation (CIO) individuals are highly charged personalities, who are equally at ease in pursuing results and in working with people. Even though they can be quite assertive, still they consider interpersonal relationships to be very important. They are inclined, however, to persuade others toward their point of view, sometimes to the extent of appearing arrogant and too demanding. CIOs like difficult tasks, competitive situations, the autonomy of operation, and challenge toward which they can direct their energies.
Quick in thought and action, CIOs can be impatient with others who do not accomplish tasks as easily as they do. Even so, they are astute in identifying and manipulating other people's motives and directing their behavior toward the desired end. They can be very persuasive and charming in obtaining assistance for time-consuming and repetitive work. However, they sometimes cause others to have conflicting reactions in that they may be drawn to CIOs in some ways, but at the same time, distance from them. In their pursuit to reach the top, they have a tendency to snatch every opportunity on their way to important positions. They may need to be reminded that their ambitions drive and determination can create fear in others, who may find them too overbearing. |
PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS AND INTERPERSONAL STYLE CONTROL IMAGE ORIENTATION Potential Strengths and Weaknesses |
Potential Strengths
Ambitious Self-Confident Forceful Achieve quick results Persuasive Charming Independent Persistent Realistic Well organized
Potential Weaknesses
Decision Making Could permit own ambitions to get in the way Could tend to overlook others in decision making process Could lack verbalization of rationale for decisions Could allow own impatience to impede decisions Could assume too many tasks, inhibiting more relaxed decisions-making
Communication Could fail to adequately describe desired goals Could resist participating in a team Could overstep prerogatives Could become too critical and quarrelsome under pressure
Control of People Could over emphasize others roles and relationships Fear of being too soft could alienate others May lack sensitivity to others concerns May be ambivalent in their treatment of others, causing conflicting sensations May judge others by how much power they project May be too intimidating to others in their effort to control the environment
Control of Time May be too fast-paced toward goal achievement Could be too impatient with slow results, make impulsive career changes
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