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By the end of this course you will know yourself better than ever! Now it's time to find out how your unique personal style affects your communications and decision-making at work!

Assignment Expectations:
There are FOUR STEPS to this SLP:

FIRST: Go back and take a look at the article from the background readings:

http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/1998/10/a/

You don't have to read the whole article!! Please read from the heading The Organizational Engineering (OE) Paradigm and STOP when you get to The TRIZ / OE "Bi-System."

SECOND: Take your best guess as to your top two "Strategic Processing Styles." Which seems to be your "primary" or #1 style, and which is your #2 style? You know yourself best, so this should be a highly educated guess! <grin>. Read the descriptions of the four styles, and think about it. Which two styles describe you best? Are you more of a:

RS = Reactive Stimulator,
LP = Logical Processor,
HA = Hypothetical Analyzer, or
RI = Relational Innovator?
THIRD: Take a look at Figure 3, and see how your top two styles combine to give you a "Strategic Pattern." See whether the combination of your top two styles makes you a:

Conservator
Perfector
Changer, or
Performer
FOURTH: Please write a 2-3 page essay in which you answer this question:

How do you think your top two "Strategic Processing Styles" and your "Strategic Pattern" affect your communications and decision-making at work?

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Ok to start, I can only use myself as the example. I am the RI. I am an innovator who bores easily, but I can make plans and implement them, especially for change. I create systems for the company I work for now, but I have always one to look at the big picture and come up with conclusions for the best possible ways to do things.

I am a changer and I love to initiate and oversee changes that need to be made and new projects, especially when they are innovative and interesting. I like to talk to people and get their ideas and input. I listen. While this is good, I do not always appeal to their logic. I ...

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