Core Belief Profile 5
The Analyst Elephant
Core Belief Profile 5
The Analyst Elephant
Core Belief Profile 5
The Analyst Elephant
Role Description
The Analyst is the wise person who is highly observant and reflective. They use their observing and thinking as a way of ensuring an emotional separation from others and relationships. They tend to have a lifelong attachment to knowledge and value understanding highly.
Analysts have a special attraction to the secret and unexplained. They are described as maintaining an emotional distance from others, protecting their privacy, not getting involved, doing without and getting by on a minimum.
Analysts withdraw into intellectualism because they use this to protect themselves from intrusive demands and from being drained of their resources. Thus they become private and self-sufficient. The underlying assumption is that personal and physical resources are in short supply.
Analysts try to preserve their resources by becoming private and self-sufficient, while limiting their desires and accumulating a great deal of personal knowledge. They seek security by withdrawing from people or situations that are perceived as threatening.
The intellectual domain.
Facts.
Analysis and compartmentalised thinking.
Intrusions or demands on them.
Strong feelings, especially fear.
Intrusive or demanding people or circumstances.
Feelings of inadequacy and emptiness.
Observing from a detached stance.
Learning all there is to know about a subject.
Thinking and analysing in advance.
Dampening and reducing feelings.
Self-containment, withdrawing, conserving.
Maintaining sufficient privacy, boundaries and limits.
Prefers to maintain an observer role; doesn’t want much direct attention or participation, especially at the beginning.
Attention moves to principles, concepts and systems. Researched content is favoured over anecdotal or hearsay content.
Likes to hear other people’s experiences without a demand for personal contact.
Needs time to absorb and review new material.
May be listening well without showing much personal reaction (great Poker face)
Do provide the CBP5 with insider information. They love it. They want that special piece of knowledge that will provide them with extra insight. It is the mental equivalent to the Three’s competitive advantage.
Do include as much supporting data as you can since the CBP5 will delight in the details. What you find as extremely trivial may be the central fact for them.
Do appreciate that CBP5s find meetings very difficult. Provide them with as much information before the meeting as you can: what is to be discussed, who will be there, what needs to be decided and what will be required of them (this final issue is the most crucial)
Do allow, if it is at all feasible, the CBP5 to make decisions following the meeting, not during it.
Do be direct, precise, concise.
Do allow a CBP5 to be, and feel, prepared for a meeting. Therefore give them plenty of advance warning about anything.
Do make a private space when you are meeting with a CBP5, particularly if it is about a sensitive issue. Shut the door and hold the phone calls. Create a safe, bounded physical and emotional space in which the two of you can interact.
Avarice (greed for wealth / material gain)
Detachment
Don’t pry - Appreciate that a CBP5 absolutely requires privacy.
Don’t stray from the normal and agreed upon topics since the CBP5 may come to experience even normal questioning as cross examinations.
Don’t try to get a reaction from them. This won’t occur.
In work you must collaborate to succeed. Try to find production-oriented people so that you can bring your ideas to life.
Look for feedback on your communication style. While it may feel that you are offering helpful ideas or facts, others may perceive you as being a condescending and arrogant know-it-all.
Don’t always play it safe and hide.
Get out of the habit of thinking about what you are going to say while another person is talking. Instead, listen to what they are saying.
Assess your plans to see if you have considered the human factor at all.
Recognise that there is a difference between secrecy and privacy.
While it is appropriate to keep a great deal of yourself private, there is no need to keep everything secret.
Try to monitor the message that others are taking from your silences.
Learn to spend a little.
Be intentionally impulsive.
Whenever you are generous with what you have, you nourish yourself.
