Core Qualities

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Adapted from

• Core Qualities

Femke Gordijn
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A Core Quality is

• The specific strength of a person
• usually taken for granted
• Characteristics that belong to you, which you
  have not learned

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Core Qualities

• Determination
• Receptivity
• Persistence
• Flexibility
• Courage
• Loyalty
• Care

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With the core quality comes the distortion

• too much
• Strength becomes pitfall

Core Quality
Pitfall
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A distortion is too much of something good

• too much
• Strength becomes pitfall

Determined
?
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A distortion is too much of something good

• too much
• Strength becomes pitfall

Determined
pushy
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With the Pitfall comes the Challenge
Determined
pushy
?
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With the Pitfall comes the Challenge
Determined
pushy
Patience
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Core Quadrant
Core Quality
Pitfall
Allergy
Challenge
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With the Challenge comes the Allergy
Determined
pushy
passivity
Patience
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Four Entries

• Core Quality your specific strength
• Pitfall the label people put on you
• Challenge what you would like to have
• more of
• Allergy what you find difficult to
• handle in other people

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Core Quadrant

• Core quality Pitfall
• Allergy Challenge

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Core Quadrant
Flexible
Laisser-faire
rigid
structured
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Core Quadrant
Self-confident
arrogant
submissive
modest
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Context Core Quadrant
environment
behaviour
skills
paradigms
qualities
Self