Upon survey completion, PAIRIN invites an individual to discover their top “Qualities.” Qualities are four standout strengths or features of an individual. The Qualities include a respondent's: 1) Top Thinking Style, 2) Most intense Driver, 3) Highest EQ Competency and 4) Leading Virtue Class. Please see below for a further explanation:
Thinking Styles
Thinking Styles are characteristic ways of processing information and handling tasks. This includes: how people acquire knowledge, organize thoughts, form views and opinion, apply personal value, plan, decide, solve problems and express themselves. Thinking Styles are NOT the same thing as thinking ability.
- Cooperative-Practical
- Imaginative-Inspirational
- Intuitive-Conceptual
- Objective-Analytical
Drivers
People are born with certain primary demands such as food, air and shelter. Beyond these biological needs, we also have “felt” or psychological needs which develop throughout an individual’s lifetime. Psychologists have tried to define a universal inventory of needs that could be used to explain virtually all behavior.
One such effort, developed by Henry Murray, outlines a set of psychological needs that—alone or in combination—drive specific behaviors. Murray believed that everyone has the same set of needs, but that individuals experience them in different intensities. PAIRIN’s Drivers are based on Murray’s needs. The three domains (Love, Work & Growth) are derived from the core concepts of Abraham Maslow, Edgar Schein and James Sales.
Love — to interact, connect with & experience care for and from others
- Relationship: Friend
- Supportiveness: Caregiver
- Flamboyance: Stand-out
- Deference: Loyalist
- Support-Seeking: Reliant
Work — to influence outcomes & gain mastery
- Achievement: Ace Achiever
- Personal Power: Director
- Persistence: Tug Boat
- Order: Specialist
- Aggressiveness: Blaze
Growth / Agency — to be all that I can be in life; fulfilled purpose & potential
- Change: Transformer
- Independence: Maverick
- Perceptivity: Searcher
- Vitality: Enthusiast
- Self-Blame: Microscope
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Competencies
The definition of Emotional Intelligence or EQ (first advanced by researchers Peter Salavoy and John Mayer, but popularized by author Daniel Goleman) is the ability to:
- Recognize, understand and manage our own emotions
- Recognize, understand and influence the emotions of others
In practical terms, developing EQ means gaining awareness that emotions drive our behavior and impact people (positively and negatively), and learning to manage those emotions — both our own and others — especially when we are under pressure. The EQ framework has four categories comprising 18 competencies as outlined below.
Self-Awareness
- Emotional Self-Awareness: Self-Attuned
- Self-Assessment: Self-Examiner
- Self-Confidence: Self-Confident
Self-Management
- Self-Control: Calm, Cool, Collected
- Transparency: Glass Window
- Achievement: Ace Achiever
- Initiative: Self-Starter
- Optimism: Can Do Attitude
- Flexibility & Adaptability: Bendy
Social Awareness
- Empathy: I “Get” You
- Organizational Awareness: Group Expert
- Service Orientation: At Your Service
Relationship Management
- Inspirational Leader: Inspirational Leader
- Influential Leader: Influential Leader
- Enriching Others: People Developer
- Change: Transformer
- Conflict Management: Conflict Wrangler
- Cooperative-Practical: Team Player
Virtue Classes
Six broad virtues classifying twenty-four specific strengths that consistently emerge as “good” across history and culture. PAIRIN’s virtues map to Character Strengths and Virtues (Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P., 2004), the work of a prestigious group of researchers who have attempted to create a systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. Their aim was to present a measure of humanist ideals of virtue in an empirical and scientific way.
Knowing your leading virtue class with associated strengths isn’t just interesting information. Research shows that tapping into character strengths can help an individual to 1) Buffer against, manage and overcome problems, 2) Improve relationships, and 3) Enhance health and overall well-being. See more background here.
- Courage: Lover of Courage
- Humanity: Lover of Humanity
- Justice : Lover of Justice
- Transcendence: Lover of Transcendence
- Wisdom & Knowledge: Lover of Wisdom
- Moderation: Lover of Moderation
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