You're a PROTECTOR on the Thinking Zone!

Protectors do their best thinking when they can process life in rational, concrete ways rather than generalized data or abstract concepts. Protectors thrive when they are given space to think on their own before engaging others in their thoughts.

As a Protector, you likely have these:

Characteristics

Dedicated and tenacious
Great diagnostic abilities
Reliable and dependable
Thoughtful and careful
Self-directed and attentive

Strengths

Best when responsibility and authority are congruent
Thrives when operating within known systems and structure
Effectively executes on goals

Weaknesses

Doesn't operate well with ambiguity
Unsettled with constant change
Limited by thinking only in practical applications
Tends to worry and be anxious

In short you are important, valued, and downright amazing!

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 Protector? Work becomes fun when our work aligns with our Thinking Zone!

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

Accountant

Civil Engineer

Department Manager

Software Programmer

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:

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

Depend on Builders to handle details while still advocating for vision - Engage their flexible acumen - Entrust them with cross-functional leadership - Empower them to build and manage diverse operational teams

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

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 helpful & hopeful?

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