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The Path Elements Profile (PEP). The Personality Tool that 'Get's People.'

Why Path Elements Profile is More Memorable than DISC or Myers Briggs

All assessment tools are useful. All authors of assessment tools have the same end in mind, which is to facilitate human understanding and thus interactions.

Here are the challenges I found with both DISC and Myers Briggs that led me to create Path Elements Profile (PEP).

Both DISC and Myers Briggs are word based, rather than visual. This leads to possible limiting interpretations, both in English, as well as other languages.

For example, if D stands for Dominance, does that mean the ISC personality types don’t know how to get things done, or have equal passion?

With Myers Briggs, the ESTJ nomenclature is cumbersome. What were my words/letters combinations again? Even if I can remember mine, how does that help me understand others whose word combinations I surely won’t be able to easily grasp or remember?

Path Elements Profile benefits:

1. It is short. It can be taught and understood quickly.

2. It is sound. It is a validated and standardized personality assessment.

3. It is simple. Its simplicity is so intuitive that children can “get it.”

4. It is sticky. Because it is visual, it is easy to remember. In a study we did with 900 middle school students, they had an 87% recall of their Path Elements Profile nine months after being given their assessment. This was with no additional training. They also hand a 67% recall of their best friend’s elemental make-up. If you can’t remember your assessment scores, how can you use them?

5. It It is spreadable. Because it is visual, it is cross cultural. Every culture can quickly grasp and apply the concepts, without awkward word translations that can shift or even change the meaning.

If you are not convinced, try it for yourself. Which tool are you using?

Laurie Beth ~ Wind-Fire Profile

Dear Friends,

As a 69/69 Wind/Fire on our Path Elements Profile (PEP) assessment, I am well aware of my need and desire for “Fast Results.”  This is my leadership style, and most of the time it has served me well.  I am also very aware that water is very low on my leadership style skill set, which means I am not naturally attuned to the greater benefits of listening, and being still, and reflecting, and taking time to let things find their own shoreline.

So, I have made a conscious decision to spend lots of time on or near the water.  I left the deserts of Phoenix to move back to San Diego.  I go to the beach at least four to five times a week, if only to eat lunch overlooking the water.  This photo was shot from a two hour mid day  kayak trip.

I am facing the La Jolla Caves, (which I have also explored on a full moon guided  kayak excursion. Every stroke of my paddle revealed liquid phosphorescent “gold.”)   The flash in the water before me is that of a sea lion.

It is amazing how creatures who look so awkward on land can be so graceful in water…when they are “in their element.”
I hope that as a Leader you will be aware of when you, and others, are in, or “out” of their element and respond accordingly.

Happy kayaking and Blessings as you lead this week,

Laurie Beth

Elemental Balance: Fire, Earth, Water, Wind

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