But the lines are getting blurred, my conscience won't be heard*

I had to take a personality test the other day at work in preparation for a Leadership conference I have to attend in a few weeks. The first time I took it, I got a horrible response!

Your pattern of responses does not appear to match any of the commonly occurring profiles. Because of this, we are unable to provide a personalized report. We find that this situation occurs less than 1% of the time, and is unlikely to reoccur when you respond to the 28 sets of words or phrases again.

Seriously? I am so weird I can’t be categorized???

So, they made me take it again offering me slightly different choices. This time, I managed to get labeled as a counselor type.

I can’t really go into a lot of detail about it, but basically, these things always make me feel terrible about myself and my future as a leader/manager/whatever. They tend to focus on why your personality type could be bad, which bothers me. Actually, funny enough, one of the traits is that I take criticism as a personal affront (ha! See…it IS me!).

This thing had me nailed pretty much exactly. It was crazy.

I love that one of the traits is that I assume others can find the good in people just like I do. And I try to treat all those around me equally. It also explains why I get so passionate/upset about things I feel are unfair to a group of people or person. (Like my last post).

It was an interesting assessment and gave me an idea of how people probably view me. And it gave me tips on how to change that. 

But, I pretty much like who I am, and I'm not sure I want to work on some of the things they suggested because it makes me feel like I would lose part of who I am (obviously some of the things are good ideas, just not all of them were).  I don't need to be a manager.  I'm content living with mediocrity. 

*Sarah McLachlan