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“Hi I had a criticism of this questionnaire. There are some items where none of the responses applied. I would say that was true on about three or four of these. There should therefore either be a ‘none apply’ or more options, because this will skew results. I think your assessment is correct except that it is wrong on a couple important fronts — about how I am now. This asks questions about being a child, but for someone like myself, who has been on a path of self-development since a young age, the way I was when I was a child is different than how I was as a teenager and as an adult and also from the things I’ve had to overcome. So if you were really going to have this be more accurate, I think you would need to develop a system where you look to see in what ways a person has changed. I went from being so shy I could not even speak to somebody on the phone to being someone who speaks to groups of hundreds of people and in leadership positions. So again, with the White assessment, I believe that’s correct except not in terms of leadership or motivation. I was definitely not a leader and not particularly motivated about anything as a child and that has changed 100 percent. Simply because I have had to work at that and did so through meditation and other spiritual and psychological practices. Just some feedback.”
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Thank you for asking such a well-thought-out question and providing examples of your reasoning. I would love to respond!
We actually have two different assessments that we utilize here at the Color Code. Each of those assessments is used for a different purpose, and I think having an understanding of what those are will help you better understand our methodology.
The first assessment that we use — which is the assessment that you are describing — is the Color Code Personality Assessment. That assessment is designed to identify what we call your “Driving Core Motive” (or “DCM”), which is what we believe is the foundational building block of your personality. We ask you to identify what you were like as a child when taking this assessment, because we believe that your DCM is actually innately present and that it is not learned through the various types of life phases that you so eloquently described.
This is important, because your DCM never changes over time, and it will always influence the way that you think, feel, and behave. It also impacts the types of values that you adopt over time. Understanding your DCM is critically important to developing accurate self-awareness, which further enables you to develop myriad EQ-related skills in life.
The second assessment that we offer is called The Character Code Assessment. The Character Code Assessment performs a different function. It actually measures what you are like TODAY on a regular and consistent basis. In this assessment, you evaluate yourself, and then you ask others to evaluate you as well so that you have an accurate 360 degree look at how you’re coming across right now.
Using both of these assessments in tandem provides the most accurate look at both your innate motives and your learned behavior.
Many people have this same question, and it’s understandable, because most personality assessments on the market are behavioral in nature. You simply answer the questions based on what you are like now and they put you into a personality classification of some sort.
Understanding your behaviors is insightful — which is why we offer the Character Code Assessment. But knowing the motives BEHIND the behavior adds enormous depth and clarification, which is why we always begin with the Color Code Personality Assessment.
Thanks again for asking such a wonderful question, and I hope this response is helpful to you!
Very best of living,
Jeremy Daniel
Training Director
Color Code
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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.
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Great question and great answer. Many who take the personality assessment miss the reasoning behind it as they are usually unintentionally comparing it to other models of assessment. I find that in most cases it is best to be available if possible to help such ones through the process of seeing the assessment for what it’s really going for. Once they understand the Ah! Ha! comes and they now relate well with where they were and now are.
It becomes much easier for them to see the changes for the better or not so in dealing with limitations and strengths associated with their innate DCM’s.