Showing posts with label personality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personality. Show all posts

Friday, December 12, 2008

Holiday Business Etiquette

HOLIDAY BUSINESS ETIQUETTE:

RULES TO LIVE BY (AND SOME NOT TO...)
by Roz Usheroff

The holiday season is upon us and office parties are afoot. Before you celebrate the festivities, there's an unwritten code of conduct that applies to this time of year. We are always on stage when we socialize. Your savvy in knowing how to put your best foot forward -- and not in your mouth -- will showcase the best of who you are. Here's how to get through it without making a faux pas in front of significant people in your life, and how it will set you apart from others.
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The Pratfall

Do: Be careful of the year-end bravado that can lead to disaster. Senior management pays attention to how people handle themselves at corporate events. They might not know your name,but they will remember your face. On the surface, the office party seems to be a well-deserved opportunity to let your hair down with colleagues. However, you may pay dearly for this the morning after and not be able to repair a tarnished reputation if you misbehave.

Don't: Take this opportunity to complain about your work, your boss, or the advancement you think you are entitled to. Don't paint a target for someone to hang on your back.
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Remember that first impressions count and linger... read the rest of this article here

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Roz Usheroff infuses her clients with the strategies and insights necessary to understand the dynamics and subtleties of professional communication, how to make a lasting impact in the marketplace, the art of leadership, and business protocol. Let her share this expertise with you.

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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Handwriting Analysis Expert: Elaine Charal

Handwriting Analysis Expert: Elaine Charal

My guest on my radio show, Business in Motion, on Friday October 10, 2008 was Elaine Charal. She is a handwriting analysis expert.

George Torok volunteered to be examined by her. Below is Elaine Charal's personaliy analysis of George Torok based on his handwriting.

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Handwriting analysis of George Torok
By Elaine Charal, Certified handwriting expert

Does handwriting reveal your personality? According to handwriting expert, Elaine Charal it does. And here is what she divined from George Torok’s handwriting. It is surprisingly accurate.

What do you want to know about George Torok, his character, style, strengths and flaws?

This personality analysis is unedited because you might as well know who you are working with.


Hello, George! Your writing is extremely quick, reflecting your equally quick mind and quick actions. There are no lead-in strokes to any of your words, indicating your direct, straightforward manner of communication: you get to the point, and appreciate it when others also get to the point.

Your script is a form of print-writing (half printing and half writing) that is also well integrated (looks like all the letters belong together). This print-writing indicates your above-average intelligence. Your word spacing is quite wide (where you can fit two or more letters between the words), indicating you need ‘elbow room’ and won’t appreciate being restricted or told what to do: you need quality time to do the things you feel are important. This wide word spacing is also a form of protection: similar to the way the spacing is wide, you’ll hold people and situations at arm’s length until you’re ready for them to come close.

The break-away stroke in the mid-portion of your letter h’s and k’s indicate your initiative: you don’t wait for much, but go after whatever needs to be done. Your open-bottomed letter ‘b’ indicates you love doing things your own way, and, when tradition doesn’t seem to work, you don’t hesitate to blaze a new trail.

Your Roman Numeral Personal Pronoun I’s indicate your self-confidence and your independence. The letter m’s and n’s represent how you think: The most efficient thought processes are represented by writings with a variety of m’s and n’s in the script...your writing has two or three different types of m’s and n’s, making you a very efficient thinker. The deep v-wedges in your letter m’s indicate your sharp analytical abilities: You don’t accept existing information, but want to know ‘why’! The corresponding upper v-wedges in some of your m’s indicates ‘investigative’ ability, indicating you broadcast to others “I’ll do it if I want to, not because you’re telling me’. Put these two v-wedges together and you have your wonderful desire/need to be in control of your life, your destiny and your decisions: very few tell you what to do!

Some of your m’s and n’s ‘ break down’ on your page, especially when you’re writing quickly. This breaking down is called a ‘thread’ writing because it looks as if a spool of writing were thrown to the ground. This threading indicates your creativity, your love of doing things your own way, and your ability to quickly adapt (chameleon like) to people and situations without compromising yourself. Therefore, you get further with people and situations than most because you know the right thing to say at the right time. Many of the portions of your m’s descend, with the lower portion being lower than the first. This indicates your ability to gain the cooperation of others and illustrates your talent with dealing with others.

Your joined i-dots to the next letter, together with your beautiful figure-8 g’s indicate your fluidity of mind: this enhances your communication ability and allows you to ‘flow’ verbally around problems and objections, similar to the way water flows around a rock. This fluidity helps you smooth over difficult situations and/or talk your way into or out of most things. It makes you an excellent troubleshooter, for you can easily change the subject and ease it into ‘smooth waters’ without anyone realizing what you’ve done.

Your signature (representing your ‘public self’) is the same as your text (representing your ‘private self), indicating the George you see is the George you get: You are a very genuine person. Your t-bar in your family name flies above the top of your t-stem, indicating your visionary goals and ability to do long-range planning. This trait stroke can act as a healthy ‘escape’ for you because, faced with a difficult problem, you can project your mind into the future and visualize how wonderfully things will turn out and then, turning your mind back to the problem at hand, things won’t seem as difficult to face and you’ll be able to work your way smoothly through whatever situation was troubling only a short while before. Your t-bar and well as all the lines of your writing move up on the page, indicating your positive mental attitude. The final stroke of your signature flies straight upwards, indicating your ambition and desire to do well, no matter what.

Many of your a’s and o’s (communication letters) are open at the top, indicating your love of sharing your ideas and thoughts with others. Your printed s’s in particular indicate your constructive thinking processes.

Notice the breaks between your letters. These represent your intuitive ability and can be viewed as ‘peep holes to the unconscious’. Your intuitive ability indicates you get good ‘gut feelings’ about people and situations, which, if followed, will never steer you incorrectly.

Your stem-first d’s indicate that you’re broadcasting to others on an unconscious level, “My opinions first.” and are a sign of your strong mindedness.

All your downstrokes are quite straight, indicating your strong determination to succeed. All your lower loops return to your baseline of writing, indicating your excellent follow-through ability: you enjoy fulfilling your commitments.

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George Torok

Host of Business in Motion

Business Speaker


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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Handwriting Analysis Expert


Handwriting Analysis Expert


Elaine Charal is a past guest of my radio show, Business in Motion.

Elaine Charal is a handwriting analyst - or the official term - graphologist. It's a curious buisness. You might wonder what a handwriting analyst does or more importantly "How can a handwriting analyst make a living as a business?"


Handwriting analysis is a hiring criteria used by many companies - especially in Europe. Handwriting analysis can be a helpful indicator of your changing moods. Handwriting analysis can be a helpful tool to help teams work together. Handwriting analysis can be an intriguing mirror for self examination and a powerful confidence builder.

Elaine Charal has taken the business of hand writing analysis to a new level. She offers entertaining hand writing analysis sessions for trade shows, conferences and seasonal parties.


Learn more about handwriting expert and analyst - graphologist- Elaine Charal.


George Torok
Host of Business in Motion
Canadian Business Speaker
Canadian Motivational Speaker

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

One way trip - corporate life to entrepreneur

Corporate life to Entrepreneurship is a one way trip

Curious that I haven’t written about this topic yet. Read this article in the Financial Post by Deena Waisberg if you are considering taking the step from corporate ranks to entrepreneurship and think that you can always go back to corporate life. Be warned!

When talking about entrepreneurship this aspect is almost never discussed. One of the draws of entrepreneurship is the freedom to make your own choices. But everything gained comes with a price. The price of leaving the corporate crowd to become an entrepreneur is that you can’t go back.

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Taste of creative independence sours 9-to-5 job
Point of no return
Deena Waisberg, Financial Post
Published: Monday, April 30, 2007


Everyone has advice about what it takes to become an entrepreneur, but no one talks about the fact entrepreneurs cannot go back to being employees. "Once entrepreneurs get that feeling of freedom, it's in their blood forever," said Dan Sullivan, who has worked with more than 11,000 entrepreneurs in his role as president of The Strategic Coach.

Read the rest of this article.

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After serving 20 years in corporate life I became an entrepreneur. I relish the freedom. Occasionally a corporate job ad catches my eye. I amuse myself by thinking, “At one time I would’ve jumped for that job.” Of course I have no desire to go back and I believe that despite my experience I would have difficulty getting a corporate job. The biggest obstacle is that I would not tolerate working for some one else again. The attitude that is necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur would be catastrophic in the corporate office.

Deena Waisberg’s closing line is good advice to wannabe entrepreneurs dreaming of escape from the corporate cubicle.

“So think carefully before embarking on the entrepreneurial journey. More often than not, it's a one way trip.”


George Torok
Willing Entreprenuer
Host of weekly radio show, Business in Motion

PS: I will never go back to corporate life.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Motivational Speakers at the Learning Annex


Motivational Speakers at the Learning Annex


Many speakers – many different styles of motivational speaking. It was both invigorating and grueling. I’ll talk about the grueling part in another post.

Two days of listening (and at times suffering) to motivational speakers for the Learning Annex Real Estate and Wealth Expo in Toronto, Canada.

Let’s review the keynote speakers.

George Foreman, who spoke for the shortest time - 30 minutes - was clearly the most motivational of the speakers. He delivered his story and related his lessons to us. He was professionally well-polished while still allowing his street-tough character to be present. Read more about George Foreman’s presentation…


Tony Robbins, the most famous motivational speaker, and generally considered the highest paid, claimed that he was not a motivational speaker. Robbins wanted to be known as ‘the Why Guy”.

If he was the “why guy” and not a motivational speaker – why did the audience spend more than half of his presentation on our feet jumping, clapping and shouting stupid things? Why Tony? Why guy?

As a presenter Tony Robbins is very good – no question. Tony eclipsed good. But if he wants to be known as the "Why Guy" and not a motivational speaker, why did he do all this “motivational stuff? Why did he instruct me to shake hands with people who I didn’t want to shake hands with? And why did he use the word “shit” so much? Why?


Donald Trump – clearly the highlight of the weekend, claimed that he is not an entertainer. He is simply a business speaker. Why don’t these speakers see themselves as others see them? Why? Donald is clearly a showman. He is a PT Barnum. He claimed to be paid $1.5 Million for his presentation. We can wonder about the veracity of that claim.

The “Donald” was entertaining. Trump was provocative, offensive and charming. The first two I expected. The last one surprised me.

He told some great stories, dropped many well-known names, admitted some flaws and was completely transparent. He is who he is and makes no excuses for any part of that. That was refreshing and enchanting. You gotta like a guy who says this is me – love me or hate me.

As a keynote speaker, Donald was the most wooden. He stood behind the lectern – occasionally shuffling note pages that he did not appear to use. Yet, it worked for him.

As enchanting as he was in his speech – he really shone during the Q & A period. He dealt admirably with a few good questions, the mostly dumb questions and the clearly publicity-seeking stunt questions.
Read about the Trump Brand…

Three motivational speakers: How do I rate them?
On motivational value - George Foreman was the champion.
On entertainment value - Donald Trump trumped the competition.
For disappointment – Tony Robbins left me asking “why?”

Sir Richard Branson was the other keynote speaker. Unfortunately I missed his presentation. No slight meant to Sir Richard. I wanted to see him but I had to take a business call.


My congratulations to the Learning Annex for arranging such a fascinating collection of keynote speakers.

Watch for more insights from this event on this and my other blogs.


George Torok
Motivational Speaker

Speech Coach for Executives
Host of the radio show - Business in Motion

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Identifying Your Personality Type

Personality Analysis – excerpt from the book, “Leadership from Within” by Peter Urs Bender

The characteristics of human behaviour have been studied for centuries. About 400 B.C., Hippocrates developed a list of what are now called the "four medieval temperaments". Melancholic, Phlegmatic, Choleric and Sanguine. Peter Drucker, Myers-Briggs (based on the work of Carl Jung - who, at a different time, was born in the same city and went to some of the same schools as I did!), and many others have followed in his footsteps, having seen the value of understanding the human personality in more detail.

Some analysts divide our personalities into sixteen or more categories. However, most analyses boil down to four major types, which I will describe shortly.

Similarly, some psychologists use a 20- or 30-page questionnaire to identify your individual personality traits. However, I'm Swiss. I like to do things as simply as possible. So I developed my own personality analysis checklist (based on the work of others), which will take you about five minutes to complete.

The Personality Analysis

Take a few minutes to do the following simple self-assessment. You will learn some fascinating things about yourself in the process. You may also want to compare yourself to others you know - a significant other, your children, or your co-workers. If you would like more information on this, please have a look at my book, Leadership from Within.

On the next page there are a few lists, check those words (or phrases) that describe you best in a business or work situation. Your score will be tallied for each group of words. This test is completely free of charge.

Personality Analysis from Peter Urs Bender

PeterUrsBender.com
http://www.peterursbender.com/quiz/index.html

George Torok, host
Business In Motion