Directionality is a valuable tool in helping those who work together in offices, schools, homes, and industry to maximize productivity as they learn to communicate more effectively.

It helps the individual gain insight into his own personality/temperament while coming to better value the personality/temperament of those around him.

Directionality assists both students and faculty members in better understanding different communication styles and behaviors as well as different learning and teaching styles. It helps a parent understand his own parenting and teaching style, and the teaching and learning style of his child's teacher(s).

Directionality Pointers for Presenting:

1.  Introduction to “Colors” Training.  Use key words such as “examining
  communication styles or pathways'.  Use an automobile as an analogy with
  four tires.  Directionality is the name of the instrument being used.  The
  company who distributes Directionality is Synergistic Living of Georgia.
  There is an Assessment Instrument used to determine a profile and an
  Interpretation Instrument which explains the meaning of the profile. 5 MIN
2.  History Lesson.  In 500BC, Hippocrates was trying to categorize people into
  similar types.  He placed them into four classifications: choleric,
  melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine.  In 1940, Karl Jung developed the
  classification further and used the words, psychological types.  Myers-
  Briggs, a mother and daughter team from Florida, coined the word
  temperaments along with David Keirsey who wrote, Please Understand Me.
  Lastly, Lowery used a more user friendly version, True Colors.  Synergistic    
  Living took the idea a step forward and developed Directionality.  5 MIN
3.  Hand Activity.   Ask the class to follow your lead.  First, clasp the hands.  
  Now unclasp the hands and fold them a different way.  Ask how does that  
  feel? Emphasize that each person can do the activity but it feels awkward.
  Second, fold your arms.  Now unfold your arms and fold them a different way.   
  Ask how does that feel?  State again that each person did the activity but it 
  feels awkward.  Lastly, hand out the Directionality assessment inventory.
  Before opening the instrument, ask each class member to write his first name
  on the instrument.  Then ask for each person to switch his pen and write his
  last name.  State that each of us has a dominance with which we feel natural. 
  The activity demonstrates dominance.  Conclude that the purpose of taking
  Directionality is to determine dominance. 10 MIN
4.  Read the Directions for Part One.  Ask a volunteer to read the directions 
  aloud. Emphasize that each person should take the inventory quickly and
  should not try to figure out what the inventory is trying to measure.  If a
  person does not know the meaning of a word, he may ask the teacher or skip
  the word. Remember to choose words that describe who you are, not who you
  want to be.  State that there or no right or wrong answers.  15 MIN
5.  Read the Directions for Part Two.  Ask a volunteer to read the directions
  aloud. Emphasize that no one should describe what a picture means but rather
  what it is a picture of – be literal.  No interpretations.  For example, one
  picture is a gathering of a group of people. Do not describe it as a party.15 MIN
6.  Scoring the Inventory.  After adding the scores from both Part A and B to
  get a Grand Total, ask each person to write his scores on a chart.  Make out a
  chart with “Name” written on the header on the left top and on the right top,
  the letters, “Y---G---B---R.”  Then ask for each person to write their totals on
  the chart.  Circle the highest score.  10 MI7.        Distributing Dots.   Give each
  person a set of colored dots.  Ask for each person to order the dots vertically
  from highest to lowest on their name tag or assessment instrument.  If there is
  a tie, those dotes should be even with each other.  5 MIN
7.     Continuum of Colors.  Ask each color group to come up one at a time and 
  arrange themselves by dominant color from highest to lowest.  Yellows face
  Reds, and Greens face Blues.  Use the entire perimeter of the room.  Stand in
  the middle facing each color group and be consistent that the continuum
  ranges from highest (on your left) to lowest (on your right).  If a person has
  dominant color groups that are tied, ask the participant to choose one color
  group or the other.  As each color is discussed, give the person permission to
  move color group.  Directions:  Ask each color group to describe the arrow that
  represents its color.  The arrows are found on the Grand Total page of the
  assessment instrument.  Move from bipolar opposite colors.  Bipolar opposites
  are Yellow and Red, and Green and Blue.  Key words for each group are:  Yellow-  conservative, traditional, organized, closure; Red- trouble-shooter, negotiator,
  fun-loving, hands-on; Green- logical, analytical, objective, thinking; and Blue-
  communicator, catalyst, sensitive, subjective.  Do not get into a detailed
  discussion.  This discussion leads to the next activity.  20 MIN  

  8.  A Perfect Career.  Divide students into dominant color groups. Give each
   group flip chart paper and a marker.  Note:  for the yellow group tear the chart
   paper in a jagged fashion to see how the group reacts to it when the group
   shares its presentation.  If a group is too large, divide it up into two or more
   groups.  Direction: ask each group to design a perfect career and present
   it's drawings and/or words that the group brainstormed.  After about ten
   minutes, ask for a spokesperson from each group to tape its flip chart paper to
   the wall and report their thoughts on the design of their school to the entire  
   group.  Start with the Reds and then move to the Yellows.  Then, the Blues
   and end up with the Greens.  40 MIN

 9.    Interpretation Instrument.  Hand out the Interpretation Instrument and
   review the characteristics of each color.  Read the quote(s), and discuss the
   behaviors, strengths, what each dominant color needs from others for success,
   and climate, attitude, and relationship (which stands for CAR), and what each
   color needs to feel confident, connected, and contributing.  The analogy to a
   CAR is used because Synergistic Living emphasizes “balance.”40 MIN

 10.  Mixed Color Groups.  Divide into groups where at least one color is in each
   group.  Ask each group to discuss what each color contributes toward an
   assignment.  Give them a task and role-play how each color contributes.
   For example, the group can plan a dance.  How can all the players use their  
   strengths to organize a dance for their entire class(es)?  This is a good
   example of a cooperative learning exercise.  30 MIN

 11.  Polar Opposite Color Groups.  Discuss how each communication style 
   learns best. Ask the Yellows and Reds to group together and brainstorm how
   the other color learns best.  Do the same with the other two colors.
   Emphasize that there are individual differences related to visual, auditory, and
   kinesthetic styles.  Stress that Yellows are good with memory, Reds are hands
   on and active, Greens are theory-oriented and ask why questions, and Blues
   learn best if they like the teacher and are treated special.  30 MIN

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