The first step is to identify what strengths are necessary to accomplish the team's goals. Then, with an understanding of individual personalities, assemble a team with complementary strengths.

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While this is your strongest attribute, it can also be a source of conflict for you because other team members are not nearly as perceptive as you are about people’s feelings, particularly your own. Unfortunately, your team members may seem to ignore your emotional needs, so you shut down.

You are likely to get into conflicts with others who are less action oriented than you. These are typically people who need to do more analysis, or those who you think are more concerned with structure than substance.

You grow impatient when people are not punctual, agendas are blown, and meetings run over presumed closing times. This may lead to conflict by you with team members who continue to miss the objectives or goals set forth.

You may find it difficult to work with your team, particularly if your working together is either highly structured or wandering. The closing down of ideas or concepts too quickly are likely to aggravate you and lead to conflict with those who you feel are closed-minded. You prefer to have limited engagements with teams for this reason.

If allowed to continue, conflicts can escalate into destructive behavior, which is not only disruptive but also very costly. But conflicts can be avoided when people understand their own motivators, and behave in a way that motivates others. Select your color to learn more about how you deal with conflict.

This is particularly true when you are seen as being too sensitive. You may attack by becoming a gossip about others behind their backs. The best thing you can do is talk through it with someone who understands you.

You may even become physical out of frustration. To prevent conflict, you need to be sure that you have some playtime where you can just have fun and be spontaneous.

You are also at risk of overburdening yourself with too many tasks. To reduce these conflicts, you need to be clear to your co-workers and superiors that you are being overburdened with too many tasks or changes in direction.

This is particularly true with personalities who aren’t motivated by the same factors that motivate you. To resolve such conflicts requires that you and others realize there is no one right way and that the conflict is a result of each persons attempt to contribute their best effort.

Why, then is it so difficult for most of us to maintain a healthy lifestyle?
To find the answer to that question we have to look deep inside ourselves to understand what motivates us as individuals.

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As much as you pay attention to others’ emotional needs, you run the risk of neglecting your own. When you feel disconnected from others you may turn to unhealthy behaviors, such as overeating, for emotional satisfaction.

You are most healthy when you have freedom to act. You are emotionally off-center when others place constraints on you. The resulting stress may cause you to seek unhealthy ways to feel more satisfied.

You expect people to do the right thing, and when they don’t you have a tendency to become distraught. Heightened stress levels leave you vulnerable to health and relationship issues.

Unfortunately, your introspection can cause you to ignore your own emotional needs as well as those around you. Blind to the warning signs, you may persist in behaviors that threaten your health and strain those relationships that are most important to you.

Many positive changes in life begin with an improved self-understanding, higher levels of confidence, and a deeper self-appreciation. Those positive changes are exponentially multiplied, when we can apply our self-appreciation to include a better understanding & appreciation of others. These life-changing outcomes are what you can expect to experience, with True Colors.