Some things I learned about myself today

My firm is working with a New Business Development company that is helping us identify our strengths and weaknesses etc. so that we can sell more business. It sounds kind of hokey, I know, but I love this kind of stuff.

So I got my assessments back today and here is some things it said about me:

• When a particular project is important to her, she will want to take charge and be in control. [Because really, who else can I entrust it to??]
• She believes in social and economic fairness for all. [I think that's actually in my 100 Things]
• Kalisah will have a tendency to interrupt when others are speaking, because she prefers talking to listening. [I see your lips moving, but all I hear is 'blah blah blah']
• When she is required to attend lengthy meetings, she will be the one who seems bored by it all. [Just yesterday I was in a meeting and I wrote: "Note to self: figure out how to do Xword puzzles on blackberry."]
• Kalisah likes working in an unstructured environment, which provides her with the ability to have many projects active at the same time. [Dude, it's why I got into PR in the first place.]
• Strengths to the team: motivates the team towards its goals by her own need to succeed; sets an example for other team members by the amount of work performed. [If you can't work up to my standards, you're OUT.]
• She will only follow a leader she holds in high regard and displays bold leadership. [God, remember all those old posts at my old blog about my old boss before I took them all down in a moment of Dooce-induced panic?]
• Kalisah can be quite proficient at identifying the weaknesses or failures of a system's inability to perform adequately. [Just ask me...I will SO tell you what's wrong with your system.]
• She will want to do it her way without involvement from others. [Because seriously? There are people out there who prefer to do it someone else's way with lots of involvement from others?]
• Performance Enhancement: Kalisah needs to make an effort to be less judgemental of others [The assessment lady said that some of the things we learn about ourselves we won't change b/c they are just part of our structure and there's no value to changing them. I'm pretty sure this falls in that category.]
• Personal Growth Suggestions: Kalisah may have a tendency to: be thinking of her response, instead of listening intently to the other person when she is talking; attempt humor that may be sarcastic or sardonic. [Probably, I'm thinking about a sarcastic or sardonic response.]
• Communication Builders: When communicating with Kalisah do: speak more rapidly than usual; be relaxed about a certain amount of fooling around; let her be in the spotlight; be aware that she may not be listening all the time. [God, how much easier my life would be if everyone would just do that! Maybe I should have that printed on the back of my business cards.]