Color Worksheet (.pdf)
Here is a colorful activity for you to try with your students, and they in turn can share it with their families and friends. This exercise requires no preparation and yet is interesting, thought provoking, and FUN! It is just one of over a dozen activities in a free booklet, Riding the Rapids, students can pick up at the campus career center. The survey defined below is based on the True-Colors system. This color based personality assessment provides students an opportunity to identify their primary color traits and reflect on how personality impacts relationships in social, family and workplace settings. This exercise is part of discovering more about who we are and how our personalities influence career decisions.
- Ask a few questions about personality assessments and what ones they are familiar with; why they are valuable; how business organizations use them.
- Explain that today students are going to do a color personality survey meant to give them insight into how a personality tool could be used and the value of these instruments. This color personality survey is a quick instrument but students can find more comprehensive instruments at the campus career center.
- Pass out the attached worksheet and review with your students the three parts to the worksheet. First, students read the four color descriptors and decide on the color description that best suits them. Second, students do the Who Am I exercise, to reinforce their understanding of the color descriptors. (Answers: orange, blue, green, gold) Third, students form color groups with other students who share the same predominant color and come to a consensus on three characteristics they share in strengths, stressors, and career interests.
- Bring the class back together to see what each group discovered. Then discuss the value of understanding different personality traits.
Suggest your students visit the campus career center and find out the variety of personality and career assessment tools available to them and the procedure they should follow to set up and take these inventories/tests. In addition, suggest that they pick up a copy of Riding the Rapids. This free booklet is filled with fun and interesting family activities to develop conversations around career topics. It is available in Spanish and English.
This activity provides students an opportunity to consider their personality traits and how they are alike and different from others. It provides them exposure to a simple personality survey and an opportunity to try out and reflect on the value of this kind of information in relating to people in the workplace, in their families, and in social situations.
Today's personality tests are less about comparing your expected performance to others' and more about discovering the things about work that motivate you.
Personality Tests: Back With a Vengeance, Fast Company