Month: October 2012

The Waiting is Over! Introducing Color Code’s New Website

At last…the waiting is over. Our new website is launched and we want to walk you through it step by step.

Like everyone who designs a new website we started with the question, “What do our visitors need and how do we provide it?”

First, it was time for a new look. We changed the look and feel to a new and vibrant design with updated and pleasing colors.

But, as everyone knows, beauty is only skin deep. It’s what’s inside that counts—and that means more information, education and application—and it’s all there.

First, when you check out our new home page, you’ll not only see information about each color, but as your eye scrolls down, solutions on applying the Color Code in life, relationships and business.

Bonus Material:

Under PERSONALITY TEST, you’ll see that some things haven’t changed. We still offer this powerful tool free of charge. But, for those who choose to upgrade, you not only will receive the usual 20 page personalized report–unique to you– but you will also receive a whole lot of bonus material–$97 worth to be exact. Included are ebooks specific to your color as it pertains to home, work, and play, audio files of Taylor Hartman explaining the relationship interaction of the colors and how to play life to win. Also included are videos that emphasize the strengths and limitations of your color and how to use that knowledge to improve your life.

The tab, RESULTS still provides you with your color that will help you to begin to understand why you do what you do.

Still curious about the power of the Color Code? Go to the ABOUT tab to find out more and download the free whitepaper entitled The History of Personality Theory and Assessment, that goes all the way back to Hippocrates and the middle ages!

The Color Code STORE has also been revamped and includes some great new products including ebooks on marriage, workplace, sales, and more.

New on the website is the Color Code BLOG. Each month we use our enewsletter to introduce new articles covering every aspect of your life: At Work, At Home, At Play, and an Ask the Expert Column that we encourage you to write in for answers to all of your Color Code questions. We want to hear from you, so please comment on the articles you find helpful, and let us know what other topics you’d like us to write about.

For those of you who are interested in training the Color Code or having us do the training for you, the tab TRAINING CENTER has all the information you need to meet your goals.

Finally, we are excited to include an EDUCATION tab where educators can find both information and valuable tools for teaching Color Code to students in secondary schools and higher education. If you’d like to know more about this new program, please see this month’s blog/enewsletter article entitled: “Color Code Introduces a New Program for Schools”

We encourage you to take the time to explore our new website. And, as an added bonus, we are offering a $15.00 off the Comprehensive Analysis coupon for the first week of  November to celebrate our grand opening! Just click on the comprehensive analysis button and then, when a coupon box appears in the top left side of your screen enter the code: GRNDOPNNG

Also, if you have a Facebook or Twitter account, make sure to “like” or “follow” us as we will be giving out all sorts of free stuff on both sites. This is also a great opportunity to share the Color Code with your friends and find out what color personality they are.

Already upgraded? No worries. You may go back and log in with the email link we originally sent you or the user account you created at any time to access all the new bonus materials free of charge.

Happy navigating!

The Color Code Team

 

Color Code Brings Valuable Teaching Tools to the Classroom

“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.” Benjamin Franklin

There are few things in life that are more rewarding or challenging than educating our youth. Every year teachers are presented with a sea of new faces for which they must create connection and meaning. The students behind the faces represent tremendous variety in their personal histories and family cultures. Even so, teachers must make sense of the students’ individuality as well as create a community wherein they can work together and learn.

We have high expectations for what teachers must accomplish in order to be considered legitimate in society’s eyes. However, none of our expectations can equal those set by the teachers themselves. For many, teaching is their passion and mission in life. They want nothing more than to make a difference in the lives of young people. They have knowledge they want to share and lives they want to touch. They welcome any tools that will assist them in accomplishing their goals. They are eager to make the type of relationship with their students that allow them to successfully teach their message.

GettingITThe new Color Code curriculum, Getting It! helps both high school and junior high school students and their teachers connect with a mutual understanding that enriches both their personal and professional connection.

Getting It! includes a special assessment report geared to the needs of students. In addition to explaining the students’ driving core motive, they will also find helpful study guidelines, possible career choices and much more.  The curriculum is made up of two units each with a 50-minute seat time. The first unit, Getting Yourself, focuses on the students and their own needs and wants, and strengths and limitations. Young people are especially open to discovering new insights about themselves. They feel far less threatened than adults by the prospect of looking inward at their inherent strengths and limitations. They freely challenge each other and seek feedback from their peers about how they are perceived. For many, this awareness is extremely positive because it provides an identity separate from their family and cultural foundations. It frees them to see themselves at their raw, innate core.

I finally felt like I was somebody I could accept. I had tried all my life to be what my parents were like—who they want me to be—and this gave us all permission to like me for who I really was inside.”  -Lisa, California

The second unit, Getting Others, focuses on relationships and how each personality reacts and interacts with others. Young people begin to see peers, parents, siblings, and yes, teachers, as separate personalities with their own specific needs and wants, and not as antagonists.

Both teacher and student bring their personalities (and biases) to the educational experience. Blending personalities and preferences for learning may well be the most daunting challenge yet also the most magical achievement in the entire education process. For example, a Blue teacher who believes that students should always act appropriately and be well mannered may struggle with Yellow students. Yellow teachers, on the other hand, may cause stress for Blue students who are looking for structure and clear directions. Red teachers can be heavy authoritarians that may cause White students to react with passivity rather than challenge the educational leaning process. Neither benefits the other if this relationship is not well understood.

Educators know that their work goes far beyond the classroom and are often eager to make al long-lasting impact with students. They simply must be armed with the tools to do so. Getting It! provides those tools.

Color Code recognizes the budget constraints that most schools face. With that in mind, Color Code has developed a sponsorship-based model for getting the program into the schools at no charge. Businesses in the community will have the opportunity to bring this program into the schools for a nominal fee. In return, Color Code has put together a great sponsorship package that includes banner ads visible to each student as they take the assessment, as well as a complete Color Code training package for their business.

For more information on bringing these tools to your schools, or for sponsoring a school in your area, fill out the form below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask The Expert

Dear Jeremy,

As a Blue father, I really worry about my children taking their schooling seriously while preparing for a future career. That said, are there certain careers that are better fits than others for people with different personality “colors”. I have a Blue son, who is very my like me, a Blue daughter, and a Red daughter. Any insight that you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely, Dan

Dear Dan,

Thanks so much for your question. As a father myself, I certainly understand those types of concerns. We want the best for our children, and we want to be able to guide them and to make sure that they are given the best opportunities in life. I hope that my answer will be helpful to you.

As I begin, you’ll have to please forgive me, because I will need to be a little vague first, but then I will get more specific in terms of which colors are best suited for which types of careers.

So, the vague, short answer is that any of the Colors can do any job. That is really true. You don’t have to be a Red to be a CEO, for example. There are many Blue, White, and Yellow CEO’s in the world. Each Color will put a different spin on the same career and will simply do it a little differently than the next Color.

That said, however, there are different opportunities that each Color looks for in the types of careers that they pursue, and I think it is helpful to explain those dynamics so that you can help each of your children find something that fills the patterns that I am about to explain.

First off, I will begin with the Reds…

Reds typically look for careers that provide them with:

  1. Leadership opportunities.
  2. Opportunities for financial gain.
  3. Things that challenge them/allow them to compete.

If they are to go into medicine, a Red might pursue a specialty such as brain surgery as opposed to opening a family practice for instance. If they were to pursue law, they might enjoy the challenge of the actual courtroom battle as opposed to something more paperwork-oriented, etc.

Now to the Blues…

Blues typically look for careers that provide them with:

  1. The opportunity of working with people.
  2. The opportunity of working with details/aesthetics.
  3. Purpose and meaning.

A Blue might very much enjoy working as an M.D. working in a family practice where they can get to know people and take care of them over time. They could also be happy in the detail/people work involved in banking or accounting, or the aesthetics involved in architecture for instance.

As for Whites…

Whites typically look for careers that provide them with:

  1. More of a technical and/or mechanical focus than perhaps a people-oriented focus (in some cases).
  2. Opportunities for working independently.
  3. Opportunities for using their logical minds.

To continue with the M.D. theme, I always tease Whites and tell them that they would make great anesthesiologists! 🙂

Seriously, though, they like independent work where they don’t feel like people are always looking over their shoulder. Think programming, also practicing law (but perhaps the type involving more written exchanges rather than heated courtroom battles), archeology, etc.

And finally, the Yellows…

Yellows look for careers that provide them with:

  1. The opportunity to use their social skills.
  2. Lots of variety with higher emphasis on using their creativity.
  3. Short term, high-energy projects (as opposed to long term, slow-moving projects).

As a medical doctor, I would think of a Patch Adams type. Someone who is competent, yet personable and playful. Remember, any Color can do any job. Yellows are also good in “compliance” professions (think sales, marketing, advertising, etc.), and almost anything that allows them to lead with their social skills.

With your children, I would ask them what careers they are thinking about, and then have a fair discussion about what those types of professionals do on a day-to-day basis, and whether those daily duties play to that child’s strengths.

It might also be helpful to have them interview people in those roles and ask them whether their job affords them the opportunity to be competitive, or purposeful, or independent, or social, etc. After doing so, I believe that they will either be more – or (perhaps) less – excited about that particular career.

Thanks again for asking such a great question, Dan. I really hope my explanation is helpful to you.

Very best of living,

Jeremy

 

Jeremy Daniel (Core Color: Yellow) has been working with the Color Code since 1998 in various capacities from training in the field personally with Dr. Taylor Hartman to designing customized corporate solutions and new training programs for various industries.  To ask about Jeremy’s training or speaking services, please email and inquiry to jeremy@colorcodetraining.com.