Your Style

 

Your Style

 

Your style is what others see. Like the color and the way a vegetable grows, we see the outside characteristics and behaviors of a person. We see your hair, your style of dress, the way you stand and present yourself. Then there is the seed inside that contains the core characteristics you were born with. As you learn more about yourself and how outside influences affected the way you grew, you might also get a sense of your inner self. The real you that you want to further develop. Personalities are complex and the source of numerous studies and theories that don’t fit with our simple vegetable analogy. The Vegetable Personality Styles™ can look from the outside in as a tool for conversation as you share and talk about your personality styles with friends, family, and colleagues to better understand each other. The analogy is an easy way to have fun learning about yourself and how to connect with others.

 

How do you show your colors? (pull out for Intro)

a.    Worksheet: Exploring Your Style

Your style is the way you express your strengths and values in your environment. When your values compliment your natural strengths, you are more likely to feel esteemed for being you. Your natural strengths are what you are born with and your values are what you develop along the way.

Your style is a combination of all of the things that make up and affect your personality including your culture, gender, age, and environment.  

“Your style includes your personal strengths, values, and character.” Vegetable Personality Styles

·      Your style is the way you react in a given environment.

·      Your style is what others see in your dress, behavior, mannerisms, and personality. 

·      Your style provides resourcefulness and resilience in the face of challenges.

 

Knowing your values and strengths allows you to present your best self in any situation, from improving your self-esteem, building supportive relationships, casual social networking, and formal interviews.

Key Aspects of Your Style:

  • Strengths, values, and character
  • Reactions to different environments
  • Resourcefulness and resilience
  • Personal presentation (dress, mannerisms, behavior)

Take the Color Your Style quiz and explore the descriptions to discover where your energy and passion lie.

Personality Styles quiz

Your personality style is shaped by your culture, experiences, and values. It influences how you interact with the world and how others perceive you.

Everyone has different opportunities because of economic factors, gender, physical abilities, discrimination, age, etc. The environment you live in is uniquely yours. No one else brings the strengths and values to your environment that you do. Things change. That is why each child grows up in a family that is unique to them. Every child in that family has a different parent because the parents are growing and changing with each child, and each child’s relationship and interaction with the family if different. 

Reasons you may not see your Color Style:

§  You are a rainbow of colors, and you may not see one color as brighter.

§  You may have been successful using more than one color.

§  Your style may not be valued by family, culture, or media.  

§  Lack of opportunity to develop your natural strengths.

§  Conflicting beliefs and values make it difficult to appreciate your natural strengths.

§  Strengths not being valued by family, culture, or media.

 

Ways to strengthen your Color:

·      Share this quiz to find friends with a similar color style. Plan activities of interest together.

·      Print the Vegetable Personality Cards and ask friends, family, or close colleagues how they see you to get a better understanding of the style you project. Does that feel like you? 

·      When you are working on a job, task or creative project, notice how your body feels. Are you energized? If you are tense or exhausted, you may not be working in your strengths. 

·      Find projects or activities to work on that bring you energy and joy.

·      Find people to work with on creative or volunteer projects who make you feel good about yourself.

 

 

 

 


 

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