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Guiding Your Kids' Careers: How Knowing Your Personality Style Impacts Achievement, Success and Relationships - Workshop Highlights
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Color Q - Workshop |
The Financial Women's Association ("FWA") and the BNY Mellon Women's Initiative Network's ("WIN") FWA Committee hosted more than 70 BNY Mellon employees, FWA members, and their children, age 16 through college, for an interactive session on "Guiding Your Kids' Careers: How Knowing Your Personality Style Impacts Achievement, Success and Relationships." The event was held at BNY Mellon on April 20, 2011 and was co-sponsored by the WIN's FWA Committee and the FWA's new committee, Men's Alliance. A networking reception followed the workshop.
Shoya Zichy, creator of the award-winning Color Q Personality System, and three other leadership and organizational development experts, led two simultaneous workshops. The objectives of today's workshops are to "define [your] innate strengths and potential blind spots," and to "highlight your ideal work environment," said Jimmy Fisher, one of the four workshop leaders and a Training Consultant with CQ Learning Systems.
The "Red" Team Workgroup |
Following a short, fun, self-scoring assessment, individuals participated in an interactive exercise that highlighted their strengths and contributions, whether in a personal or a professional setting. The workshop also provided insight to participants as to how they might work well as colleagues and family members with different personality strengths, and provided insight into professions that would target their strengths. Different personality types were put into teams, and the various teams enjoyed lively debates about their various strengths. After the event, parents and their children commented that they now understood a bit better their relationships with each other, based on their personality types, and on whether people are primarily introverts or extroverts. Some parents commented after the event that it provided them a unique opportunity to 'hang out' and get to know their teenage children better; other kids told us that they were now considering additional career choices that they had not thought of before.
The Color Q system is currently used by over 40,000 people worldwide to enhance personal and corporate productivity. More information can be found on the following website: colorqpersonalities.com/
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