Calling all carrots (one of the Life Lenses™ self-assessment)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Human resources, Training & development
God is in the details (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Do you love to create systems? Do you notice details that other miss? Do you have an uncanny ability to focus? Do you not like to leave things undone?
If so, perhaps you’re a carrot or know someone else who is a carrot, one of the 8 Life Lenses™.
Carrots are good finishers, they don’t like loose ends. Carrots relax by organizing things and creating systems. Look in a carrot’s desk and you’re likely to find a place of systems. Look at their filing system and it’s likely to have a detailed plan behind it. Able to peek into their closet and you’re apt to see …. yes, a system – dress pants go here, casual pants there, long sleeve shirts here…. you get the idea.
Imagine a carrot growing in the ground. It doesn’t have a wide view but rather a detailed focus view. That’s its strength.
I grew up with a carrot mother, in fact to this day she still alphabetizes her spices.
Does that notion make you go, ‘hmmmm, I can see the merit in that’? Or does it make you shudder? If the latter, my guess is you’re not a carrot. Stay tuned for the carrot’s opposite, the mountain, in the next blog.
Life Lenses™ is an interactive, self-assessment tool designed to identify the invisible lenses that you wear, the lenses that colour your perspective and shape how you see the world. Life Lenses™ teaches you how to see yourself, understand others and makes communicating easier than you ever imagined it could be.
Life Lenses™ will be available online shortly. Are you ready to see clearly?
- Sign up to receive more information about the global launch
- Stay tuned for more blog posts that detail each of the Life Lenses™
- Read another blog post that summarizes all the Life Lenses™
Tags: feedback, learning, life lenses, self-assessment, training & development
September 20th, 2010 at 9:47 am
I feel like I am carrot Lee-Anne. Cant wait to take an online assessment to know about my lens.
September 20th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Hi Ragu- yes, knowing how gifted you are at details my hunch is you’re a carrot too. Let’s raise our glasses in a toast to the carrots of the world!
September 20th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Awesome! I actually thought you were directly talking to me ha! ha! Can’t wait to do the online assessment.
September 21st, 2010 at 10:23 am
Thanks Isabelle- so great hear you’re interested. So the carrots spoke to you did they? They’re quite compelling in their love of systems and details I have to say. Here’s to carrots!
The Life Lenses online assessment will launch globally in Paris at the Women’s International Networking conference Oct 8. Stay tuned! Merci.
September 30th, 2010 at 10:41 am
I have just rearranged all of my spices!!!….just kidding. MOM
October 1st, 2010 at 10:18 am
Hmmm really? I can imagine you doing that in your ever focused, every lovely way 🙂 Your spices are a thing of beauty
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