You're a BUILDER on the Thinking Zone!

Builders are the ultimate collaborative thinker - they enjoy bouncing off ideas with a team first before engaging in their own independent work. They also have a wide grasp of both conceptual ideas and concrete details that make life work best.

As a Builder, you likely have these:

Characteristics

Organized
Composed and level-headed
Tenacious and persistent
Resilient and adaptable

Strengths

Broad, wide viewpoint
Relationally astute
Collaborative team player
Strong leadership values

Weaknesses

May appear indecisive (but truly can see and appreciate all viewpoints)
Can be impatient to get started on a project

In short you are insightful, balanced, and strong!

To be our best, we want to spend 70% of our time and energy in our Thinking Zone. This includes our work.

Does your current role fit as a Builder? Work becomes fun when our work aligns with our Thinking Zone!

Some roles that may align with your Builder Thinking Zone include:

School Principal

Executive Pastor

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

General Contractor

Knowing our Thinking Zone can help us finally understand why certain previous jobs may have been frustrating or boring, while others felt easy and fulfilling. If our Thinking Zone is not aligned with our role, it will lead to frustration and disappointment and eventual burnout or job loss.

Our Thinking Zone can also help us to thrive in our relationships.

The Thinking Zone gives us great insight into why we see eye-to-eye with some people more so than with others. Each of the seven different Thinking Zones process life from either a conceptual or concrete point of view, and begins their thinking from either a collaborative or independent start. Recognizing this can positively affect all our important relationships - from investing in our marriages to parenting with insight; from negotiating with clients to interacting with coworkers; from engaging in friendships to prioritizing ourself.

Hover over the various Thinking Zones below to learn how to best engage them at work:

Rely on Discoverers’ relational awareness and expertise - Set meaningful, significant goals that they can drive towards - Empower them to lead sales or development teams - Trust their process without micromanaging it or them

Trust Adventurers' out-of-the-box processes - Invite their creativity to solve complex issues - Draw on their natural ability to brainstorm the big picture - Give them opportunities rather than specific, detailed tasks

Ask Innovators to strategize a different and better future - Honor their unconventional processes - Grant them freedom to ideate - Create systems to glean from their envisioning without being distracted by details

Rely on Detailers to document data - Task them with handling administrative details - Set up Detailers with specific and tangible goals - Honor their dedication and focus - Trust their insight on task/problem orientation

Trust Protectors to run a specific department or function - Lean on their diagnostic abilities - Draw upon their deep well of expertise and experience - Honor their commitment and loyalty - Empower them to interpret details

Give Supporters the authority to solve complex problems - Set up structures or systems that they can efficiently manage - Grant them ownership over operational pieces - Respect their ability to champion the details to others

Knowing our Thinking Zone is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Figuring out your best specific fit vocationally - as well as how to best relate to others on The Thinking Zone - are just clues that help to answer the elusive and nagging bigger questions of life. Wouldn't it be great to know once and for all who you really are - such as your unique talents, purpose, and vision - and create an action plan to live your best life?

You are made for so much more . . . and we are expert guides who can lead you there.

As Life Strategy Guides, we are trained and experienced in guiding thousands of people just like you to create a customized strategic plan for all areas of life - in just a single day online. The Thinking Zone is just one of many transformational tools that we use with our clients in a Life Strategy Session. Just think:

You can stop second guessing yourself, your giftedness, and your purpose.
You can stop wondering if you're in the right role or headed in the right direction.
You can stop wasting valuable years, resources, finances, and energy spinning life away.

Instead, you can stride confidently through life knowing that you are purposefully aligned in all areas of life - personal, family, career, and community - and be empowered to live out your unique giftedness.

Doesn't a Life Strategy Session sound comprehensive & insightful?

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