Thursday, October 28, 2010

Does Your Team Have The HOTS?

I recently read about the HOTS concept in the One Minute Millionaire (see my review here). HOTS stands for:

Hare - Creative Types, but bad at follow-through.
Owls - Planners and go-getters.
Turtles - Cautious Types who point out issues.
Squirrels - Details oriented person who get the job done.

(Want to know what kind of "animal" you are? Try this quick test and feel free to share if you agree or not in the comments).

The theory is that for a team of any kind to create success, the more balanced it is in these kind of personality types the better. Too much of one thing is not good. Each animal type one has it’s own strengths to leverage to make the team successful. For a more in depth description of the different animal type, check out this link. Then I invite you to take the quick quiz to see what kind of animal you are here. Interestingly enough, I am definitely a hare. I love ideas, brainstorming, creative challenges, out of the box thinking, etc.

What's also interesting is that while I am a hare, my wife is a turtle. While I love nothing then to brainstorm creative ideas (I find this fun), Jobina enjoys finding and pointing out potential problems in everything I come up with! We grappled with this early on in our marriage and while it was initially discouraging for me, I have come to peace with it. I now see it as an added challenge to come up with ideas that she can't easily crush - then I know they have some real potential! When I chose to see her "pointing-out-the-flaws" nature as a good way to make my idea generation even better then I became much happier. Interesting stuff! If you'd like to see how to apply this theory to your team, check out this chart.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Mark!
I generally hate filling out self-evaluation quizzes, but i was curious so i did it. I came out a Hare as well, and while i agree with some of it, i don't think that everything applies to me. I wish that someone would fill it out for me, then i would be more confident of the results!

At the youth leaders' convention in pinawa a couple of weekends ago someone evaluated my personality; intro- or extroverted and all that, and i came out ENFP. I thought that was pretty accurate. Anyway, see you this weekend!

Eric

Lindsey Dueck said...

I am a turtle, and I think I agree with it mostly.

I have noticed that as we are doing renovations at work. Someone will come up with an idea, and I will immediatley think of all the possible problems with that situation. I like do very much like order.

Jobina said...

Being a turtle has at times come in very handy...when I worked at the highschool the Teacher I worked with would come up with an idea and I would think of all the flaws, namely, all the ways that the students could cheat. Then he would decide if he would still go with it or not and what precautions to take. I worked out pretty well.

Dayna said...

i came out as a hare, which didn't surprise me at all after your short explanation... but i found the longer version in the results a little extreme... like maybe i'm only 3/4 hare? and also, it said one of the strengths is that hares aren't afraid of failure. and i still am... sometimes.

Melissa said...

My results came up with a squirrel but i am definatly part turtle...much to my hubby's dismay most times... so i think i am a squirtle

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