Theorist

Beth wants knowledge and to be competent, to achieve mastery. Beth seeks expertise to understand how the world and things in it work. She is theory oriented. Beth sees everything as conditional and relative. She is oriented to the infinite. She trusts logic and reason. She wants to have a rationale for everything. She is skeptical. Beth thinks in terms of differences, delineating categories, definitions, structures, and functions. She has a hunger for precision, especially in thought and language. Usually Beth is skilled at long-range planning, inventing, designing, and defining. Generally she is calm. Beth fosters individualism. She frequently gravitates toward technology and the sciences. She tends to be well suited for engineering and devising strategy, whether in the social sciences or physical sciences.

Needs & Values

Beth's core needs are for mastery of concepts, knowledge, and competence. She wants to understand the operating principles of the universe and to learn or even develop theories for everything. Beth values expertise, logical consistency, concepts, and ideas and seeks progress. She tends toward pragmatic, utilitarian actions with a technology focus. She trusts logic above all else. Beth tends to be skeptical and highly value precision in language. Beth's learning style is conceptual, and she wants to know the underlying principles that generate the details and facts rather than the details alone.

Skill Set

• Strategic Skill Set
• Think of and explain all the possible contingencies and influencing factors and then design processes for achieving the objectives
• Abstractly analyze a situation and consider previously unthought-of possibilities
• Look at the relationships between the goals and the means for unintended consequences
• Identify ways to improve and make progress relative to long-term goals
• Integrate ideas into cohesive theories and design processes that strategically meet the wants and needs of others
• Implement a vision of the future—conceiving of a way to be in the future as well as the action steps needed to get there
• Generate and share a multitude of ideas and possibilities for action
• Mobilize and coordinate the actions of others to implement a strategy

Synthesizer - Behind-the-Scenes

Beth's theme is getting the best result possible. She focuses on understanding and working with the process to create a positive outcome. Beth sees value in many contributions and consults outside inputs to make an informed decision. Beth aims to integrate various information sources and accommodates differing points of view. She approaches others with a quiet, calm style that may not show her strong convictions. Producing, sustaining, defining, and clarifying are all ways she supports a group's process. Beth typically has more patience than most with the time it takes to gain support through consensus for a project or to refine the result.