ABOUT CORE QUADRANTS

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Monique Michiels & Marijke Goedemé
• Daniel Ofman(NL), ir.
• Organizational development (management)
and personal development
• 1993: "Inspiration and quality in organizations“
• core quadrants

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 CORE QUADRANT
CORE QUALITIES are the specific These qualities can be a PITFALL if you
strengths that define someone's exaggerate. This will deform your
characteristics. They make you to what qualities making them a weakness.
you are. These competencies are the first
positive complements people will give
you when you ask about it. For example
that you are a very creative, very patient
or very decisive person.

Besides core qualities, everyone also has
pitfalls. When someone else exaggerates
in a certain quality, this can cause
irritation. Your response is called an
allergy. Suck an ALLERGY has often to do
with a quality of yourself.
What do you need to do to cope with the
qualities of others such that it causes no
irritation by yourself? This is called the
CHALLENGE.

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determination pushiness

passivity patience

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 How can you discover your core qualtiy?

MODEST INVISBLE

ARROGANT PRESENT ONESELF

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 Flexible Fickle

Rigid organized

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Determined Pushy

Passive Patient

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 You will fall in love with your
challenge. You will marry your allergy.
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determination pushiness

passivity patience

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 The things you are allergic to with others,
are often an excess of good behavior, of
which you need some yourself.
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Quiet good Indecision
analyzing

Impulsive Decisiveness

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 What you need is exactly
what you don't want.
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 Modest Invisible

Show oneself,
Arrogant
profile oneself

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Create your own core quadrant
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Create a behavioral quadrant
out of the others
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 DOUBLE QUADRANTS
explains a lot
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 Modesty Invisibility
Modesty

Confident Arrogance Show yourself

Self-effacing simplicity
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Core quadrant application:
an example
Student sends a mail to the teacher:
"... Student sends a mail: "... I would like to react to
our conversation of this morning. I have two
important questions. If I talk to you I feel that you
have a very bad experience with our Department, I
really feel that you have no confidence in our staff
and you have doubts about the commitment of our
nurses or the quality of our care. It would be nice to
clear this out, this doesn't feel good... "

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 Much self Uncertain
reflection

Too confident
Confident Conviction
(not asking
questions)

Uncertain Self-
reflection
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A conversation between teacher and student. The double
quadrant is discussed with the student. ... Student emails the
same evening: “Thank you for the enlightening conversation.
Very nice that you too have shared a part of yourself. That gives
a lot of confidence. It also creates space to continue. And Yes, I'm
going to think about it, not putting too much attention to my
strengths but also show my lesser qualities some more, my
doubts, my insecurities. I'm going to try to offer others some
more space. It is never too late to learn, every day we learn new
things, I have learned a lot again. I'm going to take it into
account as well as in school and at work and at home."
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 Decisive Pushy

Passive
Patient

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