This document discusses core qualities, pitfalls, challenges, and allergies. It explains that a core quality is a strong, positive personal trait, while one's pitfall is the distortion of that quality taken to an extreme. The challenge is the positive opposite of one's pitfall, representing an area for growth. Allergies are negative traits that are the opposite of one's core quality. These concepts are illustrated using a "core quadrant" diagram and examples of decisiveness. Understanding one's own core qualities and those of others can improve relationships and professional development.

1. Core Quality
Business & IT Worlds
Kharkov
4 April 2014
Business Process Modeling
PhD Olya Zakharova

2. Ofman’s Theory

3. Ofman’s Theory

4. Ofman’s Theory

5. Core Quality
• A core quality is a specific strength that
characterizes you
• It is a strong and positive personal quality
• It makes you what you are
• It is one of the first things people say about
you when they are asked to describe you
• Each person has at least one core quality

6. Examples
• You are decisive
• You are modest
• You are rational
More ideas:
considerateness,
carefulness, courage,
orderliness, flexibility

7. Pitfall
• Your pitfall goes hand-in-hand with your
core quality
• It is the distortion of your core quality when
you show too much of it
• It is the reversed side of the medal, your
quality becomes a weakness

8. Examples
• You are decisive
• You are modest
• You are rational
Helpful becomes meddling.
Careful becomes fussy.
Flexible becomes capricious.

9. More eexamples

10. Challenge
• Your challenge is the positive opposite of
your pitfall
• It is a positive quality that you should show
more often
• It is a quality you often recognize and
admire in others
• This quality is needed to keep your core
quality well-balanced

11. Examples
• You are decisive
• You are modest
• You are rational

12. Core Quality & Challenge
The core quality and the challenge are
complementary qualities. The objective is to strike
a balance between the two. If the challenge is
underdeveloped, the core quality must be improved
to find the balance.
Example:
It is not necessary to become less decisive, but to
develop more patience, resulting in a patient
decisiveness without nagging.
Or: find a balance between flexibility and
orderliness.

13. Allergy
• Your allergy is the negative opposite of
your core quality
• Most people are allergic to their own
challenge recognized in other persons
• You can get into conflict with people that
are in your allergy zone, especially when
that person is the personification of that
behavior you detest

14. Examples
• You are decisive
• You are modest
• You are rational

15. More examples
• You are decisive
• You are modest
• You are rational

16. More examples
• You are decisive
• You are modest
• You are rational

17. Core Quadrant
You can visualize your core quality, pitfall,
challenge, and allergy in a Core Quadrant

18. Core Quadrant

19. Core Quadrant

21. Example: Decisiveness

22. Super Quadrant

23. Personal Development

24. Personal Development

25. Interaction between people

26. Relation with others
• Everybody has core qualities,
therefore everybody has pitfalls
• Your allergy is the other person’s pitfall!
• So if you are allergic to somebody’s
behavior, consider it as the other
person’s pitfall. Then try finding the quality
behind it. You might be able to improve
your relationship with that person

27. Visualize relation with others

28. Relation with others
Try showing more of your challenge when
you notice somebody is allergic to your
behavior.

29. You can bring balance by:

30. Business & IT Worlds

31. Core Quality

32. A core quadrant for an IT person

33. A business person

34. There are two potential clashes

35. The confrontation between the characters

36. Create your Core Quadrant

37. You can start in any part
– Start an inventory of your strong points
and elaborate by defining your pitfall,
challenge, and allergy.
– Have others told you what they often
dislike about you? That might be your pitfall.
Look for the positive quality behind it and
continue by determining your challenge and
allergy.

38. Create your Core Quadrant
– You might already know some of your
challenges. Try finding the positive quality
behind them and describe the accompanying
pitfall and allergy.
– Is there somebody that immediately pops
up in your mind when you talk about your
allergies? Try describing the positive things
of that person and discover what it says
about you.

39. Your Core Quadrant

40. Core Qualities

41. Using your core quadrant
• Put your own behavior and that of
others into perspective
• Improve your relationship with
colleagues
• Prepare yourself for job interviews
• Define challenges to improve these
qualities, for instance for your personal
development plan

42. My Core Quality
1. Responsibility
2. Leadership
3. Perfectionism
4. Creativity

43. Yours

44. E-mail: harizmalife@gmail.com
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PhD Olya Zakharova