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CREATIVITY UNDERSTANDING DECISION-MAKING PERSONAL SPIRIT

Professional Development Edition4D-i PORTFOLIO

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Bob Wiele, 2008

Our OneSmartWorld MissionMake the world a smarter, better place.

Our OneSmartWorld VisionHelp people, teams and organizations everywhere succeed by learninghow to think better and work smarter together.

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PAGE 1 Bob Wiele, 2008

Hello

Welcome to your membership in the OneSmartWorldcommunity of learners. We are all people who want

to succeed by learning how to use the 4 dimensions of

our total intelligence/TI our creativity, understanding,

decision-making and personal spirit.

This 4D-i Professional Development Edition report is your

passport into OneSmartWorlds TI system. It will give you a

solid foundation on the 4 dimensions. It will show you how

you can leverage your strengths and expand your skills.

The 4D-i is an assessment for learning. It is not a test.

There is no pass or fail, no right or wrong profile. We

designed the 4D-i to help you deepen your understanding

of yourself and to give you a simple compass to guide your

learning and development.

The 4D-i is one of 3 integrated tools in the TI system, alldesigned to help you build practical skills in how to think

better and work smarter with others everyday. Thinking

is a skill. Like all other skills, high quality thinking can

be learned with proper, deliberate practice. As you learn

to use all 21 thinking skills, the more adaptable you will

become to different people and tasks. You will make better

decisions. You will be more successful in your relationships.

We hope you will use this 4D-i profiler, the online coach

and SAM, your Smart Agenda Manager, to take your

performance to higher levels in everything you do.

If we can all learn to think better and work smarter together,

each of us can contribute to making the world a smarter,

better place for us all.

Bob Wiele, Founder and President, OneSmartWorld

Welcome to Your 4D-i Professional Development Edition Profiler


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The 4D-i is based on 4 key dimensions of total intelligence creativity, understanding, decision-making and personal spirit.

To make the system simple to use and easy for you to remember,

each of the four dimensions is represented by a color and shape.

The three colors of a traffic light red, yellow and green are

the simple code for the first three dimensions in the model.

Red: the red octagon stop sign is the symbol for the decision-making dimension. Use the 6 strategies in this dimension when

you need to determine the real problem, come to conclusions,

develop proof in an argument, and make decisions based on

logic, experience, your values or your gut instinct.

Yellow: the inverted yellow triangle is the symbol for theunderstanding dimension. Use the 6 strategies in this dimension

when you need to gather information, develop comprehension,

gain clarity, get organized, conduct analysis, show empathy and

compassion for others, or express your feelings.

Green: the green circle is the symbol for the creativitydimension. Use the 6 strategies in this dimension when you need

to generate fresh ideas, develop options, create alternatives, seekinsights, or come up with breakthrough solutions.

White: the white diamond is the symbol for the personal spiritdimension. Focus on this dimension when you need to improve

your outlook, increase your energy, gain courage, strengthen your

resilience, feel more in control and take initiative.

Each of these three dimensions has a cool head/left brain side,and a warm heart/right brain side. These s ides in each color,

are referred to as mindsets. Each of these mindsets contain

specific thinking strategies which you can draw upon and use

everyday. The fourth dimension, Personal Spirit - represented by a

white diamond - is your catalyst for personal empowerment, action

and impact.

How to Interpret Your Results

Your results show the relative stength, in percentiles, of yourpreferences, not your abilities, when compared to other people.

A high number means a high preference - you like to use it

more often than others do. A percentile score of 75 simply

means that you like to use this more than 75% of other people

do. In your 4D-i profile there are 5 levels of profile results:

High Preference a strong preference for using this dimensionor strategy in the top 16% of the population.

High Average you prefer to use this somewhat more than mostpeople do, in the 66% to 83% range.

Average this means that your result is pretty much the same asthe rest of the population.

Low Average this means that you prefer to use this less thanmost people do, in the 17% to 33% range.

LowPreference a low preference for this dimensionor strategy. This puts your usage in the bottom 16% of thepopulation, significantly lower than most other people.Althoughyou may be competent in it, you clearly do not like to use it,

The 4D-i: The Four Dimensions of Total Intelligence

compared to others.


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Hello

Welcome to the 4D-i Professional Development Edition profile. When

you completed your 4D-i online questionnaire, your responses were

used to create a personalized profile that is truly unique to you.

This 4D-i profile shows how you like to use different thinking

strategies to operate in your world every day.

This graph shows your results in each of the 4Ds or four dimensions.

This is a brief summary. The rest of your 4D-i profiler will provide you

with in-depth information on your results. Make sure you consult your

profile online for more analysis and coaching tips.

The 4 Dimensions of Total Intelligence: Your Results Highlights

Results Highlights

Your Overall Style:

Your Preferred Mindsets Profile:

Your Strongest Personal Spirit Success Factor is:

Your Overall Style:

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The 4D-i is unlike any other profiling tool. Designed as an assessment for learning, it is based upon 4

dimensions of total intelligence, with a set of 21 thinking strategies, which anyone, with practice, can

acquire. It will help you learn how to develop all your thinking skills, not just the ones you currently prefer.

This 4D-i Professional Development Edition profiler contains:

Detailed information on your results, including your most preferred dimensions and strategies

Advice on how to capitalize on your strengths and expand your capabilities

Two different personal learning planners to enable you to achieve your goals

You have online 24/7 interactive access to your profile. Smart people are always looking for ways to

improve by working not just on their strengths, but on the skills that they avoid or find difficult. Select

specific strategies that you want to learn to use and improve. Print out personalized self-development

coaching tips.

Your own SAM, the Smart Agenda Manager, is a unique web-based planning and problem solvingtool, designed for you to use everyday. It will help you better manage your time, relationships and all

your meetings.

You can access your 4D-i results 24/7 by logging on to www.onesmartworld.com. Here, you can view your

interactive results, email your profile to co-workers, clients, family and friends, or print a customized PDF

of your Professional Development Edition profile.

The OneSmartWorld Total Intelligence System

Your OneSmartWorld TI system delivers 3 practical web-based applications for our members:

COACH

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The First 3 Dimensions: Creativity, Understanding & Decision-Making

Thinking style is a lens through which we view the world. Everyone has such a lens, and

it colors the way we interpret the events in our lives. Your thinking style is what causes you

to respond emotionally to events, so its your thinking style that determines your level of

resilience your ability to overcome, steer through and bounce back when adversity strikes.

CREATIVITY UNDERSTANDING DECISION-MAKING

- Karen Reivich, Ph.D and Andrew Shatte, Ph.D, The Resilience Factor

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Dimension 1: Creativity

Green is the color code for creativity. Creativity in this system means the generation of a wide variety of options, ideas,

alternatives and fresh ways of approaching difficult situations and everyday challenges. This dimension works in two very

different ways. Creative thinking (cool green) is an active way to generate new ideas and options. Your creative intuition(warm green) produces Aha! types of insights.

...we now have an economy powered by human creativity. Creativity is now the decisive source of competitive advantage.

- Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class

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Developing Creativity: Your Six Success Strategies

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Generate many ideas and a wide range of

analysis or decision-making.

Brainstorm Ideas: options prior to

Challenge Assumptions: Questioning assumptions, the status quo and accepted

wisdom in order to create new ideas, options or fresh ways of dealing with theproblem at hand.

Reframe Problems into Opportunities: Creating new ways of looking at a

problem or situation and generating new opportunities and ideas by shiftingthe approach, angle or way of thinking about it.

Envision Possibilities: Creating mental pictures or imagining what ifscenarios about future possibilities or solutions.

Get Into the Flow: Being fully immersed in creative thinking; toleratingambiguity and conflicting information/feelings; refraining from decision-

making, anticipating the arrival of a better idea.

Flash of Insight: Knowing without conscious reasoning and producing insightsand hunches

High Average Preference

Your score indicates that you have a high average preference for brainstorm. This means youlike to generate ideas as a way of dealing with challenges and as part of your overallproblem-solving process. You like to deal with a problem by coming up with a wide variety ofideas, solutions and alternatives.

Low Average Preference

Your score indicates that you have a slightly lower than average preference for using challengeas a creative thinking strategy. This means that you may use it some of the time, but are notcomfortable in using it as one of your most preferred. Your score may be appropriate for thetype of work you do or tasks that you carry out, especially if you live or work in a moreroutine environment. Use challenge as a creative thinking strategy when the old way just isn'tworking or you need innovative and creative approaches into a situation.


Your score indicates that you have a lower than average preference for reframe. This means thatyou use it some of the time, but tend to prefer to work within the accepted interpretations ofa problem. You may miss out on useful alternative solutions to existing problems by acceptingthe first impression or interpretation of an event.

High Preference

You score a preference for envision that is much higher than most people. Keep up the goodwork. You like to use your imagination to speculate on what might or could happen. You canoften picture the future in your mind's eye. You are comfortable using envision as one of yourkey creative thinking strategies for planning and problem solving.


You have a lower than average preference for flow. You have some tolerance for ambiguity anduncertainty. Overall, you prefer to take action sooner than later, rather than wait and see.


You have a lower than average preference for using the flash of insight strategy to generateinsights and ideas. You likely listen to your hunches and intuition once in a while but not ina consistent manner.


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Dimension 2: Understanding

Yellow is the code for understanding. In this dimension, you achieve a sense of fulfillment by spending the time and effort

needed to gain a complete understanding of the situation, problem or relationship that you are in. Your analytical thinking

(cool yellow) leads to an in-depth understanding of facts and situations. Your compassion (warm yellow) leads to an in-depthemotional understanding of people and their needs.

The biggest mistake is believing that there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation or a relationship.

- Deborah Tannen, You Just Dont Understand Me

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Developing Understanding: Your Six Success Strategies

Scan the Situation: Survey the environment, person or situation to gather asmuch information as you possibly can.


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Scan the Situation: Survey the environment, person or situation to gather asmuch information as you possibly can.

Structure Information: Organize information, data, people, resources and

processes in meaningful and systematic ways.

Clarify Understanding: Sharpen the understanding of a situation by gatheringinformation and asking questions.

Tune-In to Feelings:Sensing and connecting with the emotional dimensionsin a situation, other person or group.

Empathize with Others: Showing kindness, caring, compassion, tolerance

and deep understanding for anothers thoughts, emotions and situations.

Express Feelings: Selecting and using the appropriate emotional and verballanguage or communications method to get the true message across to the

receiver.


Your score indicates that you have a low average preference for Scan. This means whenconfronted with a problem or challenging task, you like to put limited effort into gatheringinformation about what you are facing. As a consequence, you may make decisions, solve problemsor take action without fully understanding the complete picture. Without proper information asa foundation, the quality of your decisions can suffer. Scanning, a key strategy forunderstanding your world, is about gathering as much information as you need and placing thingsin context. By collecting as much information as you can, you get a more comprehensive pictureof a situation or issue and this understanding can lead to better decisions.


Your score indicates that you have a high average preference for structure. You probably knowhow to bring order to chaos quite readily and know how to organize information, systems andprocesses to maximize effectiveness and efficiency.


Your score indicates that you have a high average preference for clarify. You enjoy asking manyquestions to gain increased depth and clarity of understanding about a person or situationbefore making decisions or taking action. Keep up the good work.


You scored Low Average in tune-in. This means that you do not like to put too much effort intotuning-in to all the subtle emotional complexities of a situation or relationship. This meansthat sometimes you may miss noticing or picking up on subtle emotional cues, body language orthe vibes of a situation when problems or pressures arise. This can lead to misunderstandings,misreading a situation or missing out on what is really going on.

High Preference

You scored much higher in empathize than most people. This means that you know the importanceof taking time to put yourself in other people's shoes when you have to solve a problem or areunder pressure. With a high score in empathize you value, listen to and tolerate other people'scircumstances and viewpoints. Others feel you appreciate them. People feel you understand andlisten to them. Beware of too much empathizing with everyone in every situation. Althoughyou're an excellent listener and very supportive, sometimes you need to express your ownvalues, beliefs and opinions.

Low Preference

You scored much lower in using the express strategy than most people. This means that you donot like to put much effort into thinking about how to get your message across to other peopleor an audience. As a result, you may find it difficult to get your point across to certainpeople or groups who think or feel differently than you do. Conversely, you may be accustomedto holding back or reserving your true feelings or thoughts, preferring to use other strategiesto deal with the challenges you face.


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Dimension 3: Decision-Making

Red is the color code for decision-making. This dimension is where you harness all the creative ideas generated in green

and the in-depth understanding gained in yellow, to make the best decisions. This dimension highlights three very different

decision-making methods: your critical thinking (cool red) leads to practical, logical conclusions. Your beliefs based decision-making (warm red) focuses on using your beliefs and values to decide. Gut intuition (also warm red) is used to make quick

decisions, in the moment, using your gut instincts.

Our success in all the roles we play student, worker, boss, citizen, spouse, parent, individual turns on the decisions we make ...

the ability to make smart choices is a fundamental life skill.

- John S. Hammond, Co-author, Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Decisions

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Developing Decision-Making: Your Six Success Strategies

Get to the Crux: Determining the essence or most critical aspect of a problemor situation in order to take action.


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Get to the Crux: Determining the essence or most critical aspect of a problemor situation in order to take action.

Conclude: Reach a logical decision or resolution about what is the best way

to proceed.

Validate the Conclusion: Posing tough questions to eliminate inferior options andpoor quality information in order to critically assess and ensure the best decision.

Rely on Experience: Relying upon and using past experience to guidedecision-making and problem solving.

Values Driven: The strategy used for making decisions based on yourpersonal core beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong.

Trust Your Heart: Listening to your heart and your feelings as a guide formaking decisions about what to do.

High Preference

You have a much higher preference for using the crux strategy than most people. You like toavoid wasting time and enjoy focusing right on priorities and what matters most. You like toquickly get to the heart of the matter and determine what matters most. A no-nonsense person,you strip away any non-essentials or less important aspects, zeroing in on what is important.


Your score indicates that you have a lower than average preference for using the concludestrategy. This means that you use it some of the time to make decisions but your style is notto rush into making a decision or taking action. You like to wait, especially if it means moreideas and information that could result in better decisions. Meeting deadlines and makingdecisions under pressure may be difficult for you.

High Average PreferenceYour score indicates that you have a high average preference for validate. You probably like toput things to the test to make sure that they measure up to your expectations. Keep up the goodwork. You like to objectively weigh the pros and cons and eliminate inferior options, ideas andinformation before proceeding. You are comfortable demanding proof or evidence before makingdecisions.


Your score indicates that you have a high average preference for using your past experience asa decision-making strategy. You like to rely on past learning and your experiences to makedecisions about what to do. You don't like to make the same mistake twice and are good atspotting reoccurring patterns or trends.


You have a low average preference for using values driven as a decision-making strategy. Youlikely prefer to see more than one side of an issue and do not feel particularly strong one wayor another. You like to strive for compromise, or focus on creating a unique solution ratherthan choosing a side and taking a strong stand.


You have a low average preference for using the trust your heart strategy in making decisions.You may prefer to make decisions based on facts or logic, rather than trust your feelings andhunches. You are hesitant to trust your heart, although you may sometimes listen to it.


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Thinking and Feeling Styles: Your Profile

Cool Head: Thinking

Warm Heart: Feeling

Balanced

together the result is incandescence.

- Thomas Lewis, M.D., Co-author,

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the heart and the brain - like charged particles of opposing polarity - exert their pulls in different directions. When they are brought

These results come from your 4D-i responses in 25 of the paired choices that

offered a thinking strategy vs. a feeling strategy.

In the 4D-i, a 'cool head' simply means you have a preference for relying more

on left brain type thinking strategies when dealing with people, challenges o

tasks. The 'cool head' in the 4D-i is made up of the 11 thinking strategies in the

three 'cool' mindsets: creative, analytical and critical thinking.

A 'warm heart' simply means you have a preference for relying more on right

brain type emotional strategies to deal with people, challenges or tasks. The

'warm heart' in the 4D-i is made up the 7 emotional strategies in four 'warm'

mindsets: creative intuition, compassion and the two emotion-based types of

decision-making - beliefs-based and gut intuition decisions.

This means you prefer to use a relatively equal preference and comfort in using

both thinking and feeling strategies to deal with people, challenges or tasks,

without a significant preference of one over the other.

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Cool HeadYou like to rely more on your head than your heart when you have to figure things out and make decisions. You prefer to deal with lifes challenges,problems and other people by thinking through what to do.

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Reliance on the Use of Intuition: Your Profile

Skilled decision makers know that they can depend on their intuition, but at the same time they may feel uncomfortable trusting

a source of power that seems so accidental.- Gary Klein, Intuition at Work

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Intuition is an emotional gut instinct type of intelligence that can be relied

on to deliver two very different spontaneous results - creative, Aha!

insights -or- quick, in the moment, decisions.

In our research developing the 4D-i, intuition emerged as a unique

cluster of three emotional or warm strategies.

Two of the emotional strategies are from the 'warm' green, creative

intuition mindset. These two strategies, flow and flash of insight,

produce sudden, spontaneous ideas. The third strategy in the intuition

cluster comes from the decision-making dimension, specifically the

'warm' red gut intuition mindset. The trust your heart strategy is your

gut intelligence at work - a rapid short circuiting of rational thinkingdirect, immediate gut level guidance on what to do orthat provides

not to do.

Intuition is a powerful capacity for direct knowing. It can bypass traditional

thinking processes and produce a clear breakthrough idea or a direction

on the best way to proceed. Like other capacities, it can be developed, often

by learning to listen to your inner voice and instincts, and writing down what

spontaneously arises from within.

Average PreferenceYou show a similar level of reliance on your intuition as others do. For best results in complex situations, see if you can use both high qualitythinking and your intuition to guide you in your idea generation and decision-making.

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The 4D-i Total Intelligence System of Thinking and Emotional Strategies

Thinking:These are the three mindsets that keep you cool under pressure and giveyou an objective way of thinking through challenges and problems.

CREATIVE THINKING 4 Strategies

ANALYTICAL THINKING 3 Strategies

CRITICAL THINKING 3 Strategies

Feeling:These are the four mindsets that make use of your feeling-based strategies toguide your communication, problem solving and decision-making.

CREATIVE INTUITION 2 Strategies

Compassion 3 Strategies

BELIEFS BASED 1 Strategy

GUT INTUITION 1 Strategy

The 4D-i is a portfolio or toolkit of essential strategies for figuring out how to solve problems and deal with people. The first three dimensions of

creativity, understanding and decision-making each contain a set ofthinking strategies and feeling strategies to produce their outputs.

Use these four strategies to produce creative ideas:

Use these three strategies to produce clear understanding of situations:

Use these four strategies to produce practical, logical type decisions:

Use these two strategies to produce creative insights:

Use these three strategies to produce understanding of others:

Use this strategy to make beliefs based decisions:

Use this strategy to make quick, intuitive type decisions:

Cool Head

1. Brainstorm ideas2. Challenge assumptions3. Reframe problems into opportunities4. Envision possibilities

1. Scan the situation2. Structure information3. Clarify understanding

1. Get to the crux2. Conclude3. Validate the conclusion4. Rely on experience

Warm Heart

1. Get into the flow2. Flash of insight

1. Tune-in to feelings2. Empathize with others3. Express feelings

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The Fourth Dimension: Personal Spirit

PERSONAL SPIRIT

-Martha Graham, Pioneer of modern dance

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into

action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if

you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.


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Dimension 4: Personal Spirit

Personal Spirit is the 4th dimension of your total intelligence. Personal spirit is the source of resilience and high performance.

It is based on 3 inter-related key success factors your outlook, sense of control and initiative.These are as vital to your health

as they are to your success at work and the relationships you have.

The 2 bars in each graph show your results 2 different ways

the white bar shows your result in percentiles, like the rest of the 4D-i.

the white striped bar shows your raw score - how you choose to see yourself. The higher your score, the more positively you see and rate

yourself on the 24 items in the personal spirit section of the questionnaire. All 3 factors can be strengthened with deliberate practice.

Use your results constructively to strengthen your personal spirit. Choose a more optimistic outlook on life. Overcome

helplessness and take control of what you can. Take positive initiative to achieve your goals.

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Your Outlook

A belief that an optimistic, constructive approach to life enables you to find the positive, hidden potential and meaning in any situation, task or person.

Your Outlook, whether positive or negative, predicts how you experience life and what you get back from it. If you choose to have an open, positive and optimistic

outlook, then you will likely experience life and other people as engaging and cooperative. If you choose a closed, negative and pessimistic outlook, then you will

likely experience situations as problems and people as difficult to deal with. A consistently positive outlook is life enhancing, while a persistently negative outlook

will undermine you.

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Your Sense of ControlA belief that you can exert personal control, through your own efforts, to impact on an outcome.

Having an optimistic and constructive approach to life coupled with a strong sense of control empowers you to take charge of your life. Your own sense of control is

a key to high performance and health. When you start to feel helpless and overwhelmed by all of lifes complexities, regaining and maintaining a sense of being in

control is vital for your personal well-being. Taking small daily steps to deal with difficult issues will strengthen your sense of control.

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Your InitiativeA belief that you should go above and beyond conventional boundaries, to do what it takes, to complete important tasks and assist others.

Taking initiative is one of the defining characteristics of high performers in every field. It often requires a fearless courage to act where others would not. People

with high initiative make things that need to happen, happen. They take responsibility to get things done, even when it isnt their job. Initiative is a driving force in

life success and in business innovation. People with initiative push the envelope and do what it takes to achieve high quality results for others.

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Personal Spirit: Your Inner Source for High Performance

Personal spirit is the diamond dimension in your total intelligence profile. A diamond, like your life, is precious. The research on successful, happy

people consistently refers to the importance of the 3 key success factors in being happy and successful. The impact of your outlook, sense of control andthe willingness to take initiative will change your life. Tapping into your personal spirit is a vital when dealing with adversity.

How Are the Personal Spirit Results Compiled?

The 4D-i instrument contains a separate section on personal spirit. Instead of offering paired choices, it asks you to rate yourself on 24 positively worded

items. These items define the 3 key success factors in personal spirit: your outlook, your sense of control and your level of initiative. The more strongly

you agree with the positive statements on personal spirit, the higher your raw score results will be, and the positively you see yourself. The more you

disagree seeing your self as having a negative outlook, with little ability to take action that will impact your life, the lower will your self rating be. The

higher you rate yourself, compared to how others rate themselves, the higher your percentile results and vice versa.

Where Does My Personal Spirit Come From?

Personal spirit seems to come from a combination of your genetic make up, your life circumstances and the approaches you have developed over time to

cope and get through life. While your personal spirit can fluctuate on a moment-to-moment basis, depending on how you react to what going on around

you, it is a powerful force that pulls you forward when the going gets tough. The good news from the research on human behavior and performance, is

that anyone, with the right motivation and the willingness to practice, can strengthen their personal spirit. For more on this see page16 of this report.

Can Personal Spirit Be Strengthened?

Absolutely! Personal spirit is as much about what you do, as it is about what you are. Like fitness levels and weight, your level of personal spirit comes

from accumulation of the moment-to-moment and daily choices you make in how you decide to respond to and deal with lifes challenges. How you

respond to reading your own 4D-i results can be a sign of your personal spirit in action. If you choose to openly engage in using the 4D-i results to

deepen your understanding of yourself and use it expand your capabilities, then you demonstrate personal spirit, regardless of how low or high your

results are.

Since the 4D-i is designed as an assessment for learning, the intent of the TI system is to give you a practical portfolio of mental strategies and a set of

tools. In personal spirit, you can develop the confidence and competency in taking control over your life or challenges, bring a constructive outlook and

make things happen. Do this and you can be on your way to significantly increase the quality of the impact you make and the success you achieve.


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Your Total Intelligence: Summary of Your 4D-i Results

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are

you not to be?-Marianne Williamson, lecturer & author


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Your Portfolio of the 18 Success Strategies and 3 Success Factors

THE 11 THINKING STRATEGIES

Critical ThinkingGet to the Crux: Determine the essence or most critical aspect of a problem, issue or situation in order to take action.Conclude: Reach a logical decision or resolution about what is the best way to proceed.Validate the Conclusion: Pose tough questions to eliminate inferior options and poor quality information in order to critically assess and ensure the best decision.Rely on Experience: Rely upon and use ones past experience to guide decision-making and problem solving.

Analytical ThinkingScan the Situation: Survey the environment, person or situation to gather as much information as possible.Structure Information: Organize information, data, people, resources and processes in meaningful and systematic ways.Clarify Understanding: Sharpen the understanding of a situation by gathering information and by asking questions.

Creative ThinkingBrainstorm Ideas: Generate many ideas and a wide range of options prior to analysis or decision-making.Challenge Assumptions: Question assumptions, the status quo and accepted wisdom in order to create new ideas, options or fresh ways of dealing with the task at hand.Reframe Problems into Opportunities: Create new ways of looking at a problem or situation by shifting the approach, angle or way of thinking about it.

Envision Possibilities: Create mental pictures or imagine what if... scenarios about future possibilities or solutions.

THE 7 EMOTIONAL STRATEGIESBeliefs BasedValues Driven: Make decisions based on your personal core beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong.

Gut IntuitionTrust Your Heart: Make decisions based on your personal core beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong.

CompassionTune-In to Feelings: Sense and connect with the emotional dimensions in a situation, other person or group.Empathize With Others: Show kindness, caring, compassion, tolerance and deep understanding for, and a connection with others.Express Feelings: Select and use the appropriate emotional and verbal language or communications method to get the true message across to the receiver/audience.

Creative Intuition

Get into the Flow: Tolerate ambiguity, conflicting information and feelings, while refraining from decision-making, waiting for a better idea or option.Flash of Insight: Know intuitively without conscious reasoning and/or produce insights and hunches.

PERSONAL SPIRIT: THE 3 KEY SUCCESS FACTORSYour Outlook is a personal disposition and an active process of experiencing the world, founded on the belief that an optimistic, constructive approach to life and its challengesenables one to find and harness the positive hidden potential and meaning in any situation, task or person.

Your Sense of Control is a personal disposition and an active process, founded on the belief that, despite difficult circumstances, one can exert personal control, through onesown efforts, to impact on an outcome or achieve an objective. It does not mean controlling others.

Your Initiative is a personal disposition and an active process baesd on the belief that one should attempt to go beyond conventional boundaries, if necessary, to do what it takesto complete important tasks, achieve goals and to assist others to solve their problems.


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Results Summary By Numbers:

4 Dimensions of High

Performance Results 7 Mindsets Results Success Strategies and Factors Results

Brainstorm Ideas

Challenge Assumptions

Reframe ProblemsCreative Thinking

Envision Possibilities

Flow

Creativity

Creative Intuition Flash ofInsight

Scan the Situation

Structure InformationAnalytical Thinking

ClarifyUnderstandingTune-In to Feelings

Empathize with Others

Understanding

Compassion

Express Feelings

Get to the CruxConcludeValidate Conclusions

Critical Thinking

Rely on ExperienceBeliefs Based Values Driven

Decision-Making

Gut Intuition Trust Your Heart

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Key Personal Development Tips:

Capitalize on Your Strengths Expand Your Capabilities

Envision PossibilitiesYour tendency to create mental pictures of future possibilities is a powerfultool for planning and problem solving. Your reliance on developing 'what if'scenarios lifts you out of the details to find better solutions by lookingforward, not backwards. Be in the present as much as the future. Choose thisstrategy to make models, draw pictures and formulate alternative creativesolutions for future success.

Empathize with OthersYou have a strong preference for connecting and empathizing with other people.You appreciate what others are going through. You can put yourself in the other

person's shoes and have a deeper understanding of how they are feeling. Makesure you turn empathy into actions. This is a powerful strategy when there ischange or uncertainty. You can be a valued friend to others when they areexperiencing work or life struggles.

Get to the CruxYou have a strong knack for zeroing right in on the crux or heart of an issue.This is an excellent critical thinking strategy to use when there is a lot ofconfusion or when time is tight. Use it when those around you can't seem to getgoing. Use it to focus on what the real issue is to help yourself and otherssave time and effort. Don't overuse it . Use it to get down to what matters mostbefore making important decisions.

Brainstorm IdeasUse your strong preference for generating ideas and options as a powerfulresource in solving any problem or dealing with challenges. Tune-in to othersfirst, to ensure they need your ideas more than they need your understanding.Think of your ideas as a valuable gift to others or for teams when they areblocked and unable to resolve a problem. Find people and places that appreciateyour many ideas.

Express FeelingsUncork your emotional bottle. Your feelings are as legitimate as anyone else'sare. Express your feelings openly and honestly. Do it in a way that buildsunderstanding. Avoid dumping your feelings on others. Express your feelings in acontext of mutual respect. Do it in a way that makes it easier for others tounderstand what is important to you. Feelings are essential to building deeper,more powerful relationships.

ConcludeFocus your attention on coming to closure and making decisions. Use thisstrategy to get results. There is a time to shift your focus to action. Stop

gathering information, being nice, generating options or waiting to see whatwill happen. Ask yourself: 'What is the most sensible conclusion? What should bedone?' Come to more conclusions. Force yourself to bite the bullet and make adecision.

Challenge AssumptionsChallenge assumptions all the time. Improve your results in problem solving byquestioning and challenging how things are currently done. Get outside the boxto generate fresh ideas. Take a step back. Don't be afraid to challenge thesacred cows. Take a risk. Question the underlying assumptions that you andothers have taken for granted.

Use your values more often to ensure you get what you want. Use your own valuesand beliefs to keep you on the right track so that others don't take advantageof you. Get clear on what is important to you. Know what you personally want andbelieve is worthwhile. Tap into the power and the passion of what you caredeeply about. Use that passion to fi re up your dreams and to power your actions.


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Frequently Asked Questions:

Who Developed the 4D-i and the OneSmartWorld Total Intelligence System?

Bob Wiele, founder of OneSmartWorld and author of Smart for Life, has been the driving innovative force in the development of total intelligence andthe industry leading 4D-i. Drawing upon 35 years of experience in people development and organizational change as well as the work of many leading

practitioners, Wiele and his team developed the 4 dimensions of high performance, the system of strategies, the 4D-i ,as well as the practical process

management tools in the SAM, the Smart Agenda Manager.

Why was the Total Intelligence System Developed?

Life and business are increasingly global, complex and fast moving. Standard psychological instruments had several major provided not much than

personality snapshots. In 2000, Wiele decided to focus on helping people, teams and organizations succeed by developing their peoples thinking skills

and team problem solving processes. The belief is that we now live in an intelligence economy, not a knowledge economy. It is how well people can

think, solve problems, communicate and work in teams that are more important than simply how much you know..

Wiele gathered a top team of organizationalpsychologists, database developers, web designers, consultants and graphic artists. He recruited a wonderfulThe goal was to develop an easy to use, operating system for thinking and working smarter that enterprises

The focus was on integrating profiling people and group processes for getting work done, all off the same platform. The solutions

clients had brought to us 1. leadership development: how to develop skills that leaders will need for problems they

performance: how to select and build high performing teams that get results faster; 3. smarter meetings: how to enable

meetings and get more done; 4. rapid innovation: how to accelerate innovation and 5. human capital management:

an entire enterprise at the fingertips of everyone.

What research supports the 4D-i? Is it reliable?

The 4D-i is a scientically developed, statistically based, reliable measurement instrument.The 4D-i is based on over 35 years of research by BobWiele and his inter-disciplinary team, into the roots of intelligence, success, high performance and health. The original scientific esearch on the 4D-

i instrument was conducted in 2000-2001, by Jackson Leadership Systems, organizational psychologists. Lyz Sayer, PhD, lead the revisions of the

instrument in 2004 . Standard scientific research protocols were used throughout the development and the test/retest of the 4D-i .

significantly revised in 2004 to improve both the input and the profiler output. The current version was revised in 2008, with a new set of

based upon over 12,000 recent users.

group of innovative, early adoptor clients.

worldwide could use.

had to address 5 core needs that

have never experienced; 2. team

teams to stop wasting time in bad

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Achieving Success: How to Expand Your Capabilities

...the central method for achieving a happier life is to train your

mind in a daily practice that weakens negative attitudes and

strenghtens positive ones...the mind must be developed by you

alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to

reap the results.

-The Dalai Lama, Author, How to Practice, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate


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How to Be Great: 7 Key Practices to Achieve High Performance in Anything You Do

1. Deliberate practice Not all practice makes perfect. You need a particular kind of practice deliberate practice to develop expertise. When

most people practice, they focus on the things they already know how to do. Deliberate practice is different. It entails considerable, specific, andsustained efforts to do something you cant do well or even at all. Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you cant do, that

you turn into the expert that you want to become.

2. Deliberate thinking experts not only use deliberate practice, they also think deliberately. The thinking process is no more left tochance than isthe conscious and deliberate practice of the skill. Experts think well and approach each challenge as unique. Work in all 4 dimensions. Continually tap

into the white of personal spirit to stay focused and positive during adversity. Deliberately go to yellow to analyze and understand the situation; go to

red to determine the crux of the problem; go to green to explore all options and shift to red to come the to best conclusion.

3. Daily hard work - you cant get great or to really good at anything without regular, sustained hard work and sacrifice. You have to put in the miles.You may decide that world class expertise is not the level you want. But the reality is that hard, disciplined work is an essential aspect of higher level

skill development and high performance results in every field.

4. Passion the fire in any high performer is a passion for what they are doing. This passion is a personal choice for pursing what you choose to do.Passion is the fuel you need to do the hard work and put in the time to achieve the knowledge, competence and results in the area you want to be great in.

5. Perseverance the willingness to keep doing something and pursuing a goal despite obstacles. High performers dont quit early. Perseverance is astate of mind. It is the heart of personal spirit. To become a high performer, you need to keep on keeping on, and not give up when you face hard challenges.

6. Self discipline - the ability to stay focused, act deliberately and refrain from doing things that subvert or distract you from what you need to do toachieve your goal. Self discipline is as much about what you dont do as it is about what you do choose to do. Plan the work. Work the plan. Dont wobble.

No excuses. If you slip, get right back on track.7. Positive outlook - optimism is a common characteristic of all high performers. Reframe challenges into learning opportunities. Use optimism topersist on your path and get through the problems and inevitable roadblocks you face.

The Making of An Expert, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2007, K.Anders Ericsson et al.

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Your Get Smarter Action Planner: Part One

Smart people, like high performers in every field, aren't simply satisfied

by knowing their preferences and their strengths. High performerscontinually want to improve. They walk the walk and put in the effort to

get better. How? By carefully targeting the skill areas they need to build

up and then systematically developing the competence and confidence

they need to succeed.

Reflect on your 4D-i results. Set your goals to get smarter in all 4

dimensions and develop your total intelligence. Use your 4D-i results to

select targets on the mindset or strategies you want to develop.

Step 1. Read over the list on this page and note your results.

Step 2. Assess your own current skill level for each item (not yourpreference) by putting in a dot in:

Column 1 - NEEDS IMPROVEMENT

Column 2 - OK - DEVELOPING SKILLS

Column 3 - ALREADY SKILLED

Step 3. Join the dots across the 3 columns to create a jagged line of your

current skills and interests in further improvement.

Step 4. Select 2 or 3 priorities for personal skill development from the

list. Make a check mark on the ones you selected in column 4.

YOUR PORTFOLIO OF SKILLS

Critical Thinking1. Get To The Crux

2. Conclude

3. Validate The Conclusion

4. Rely On Experience

Beliefs Based1. Values Driven

Gut Intuition1. Trust Your Heart

Analytical Thinking1. Scan The Situation

2. Structure Information

3. Clarify Understanding

Compassion1. Tune-In To Feelings

2. Empathize With Others

3. Express Feelings

Creative Thinking1. Brainstorm Ideas

2. Challenge Assumptions3. Reframe Problems Into Opportunities

4. Envision Possibilities

Creative Intuition1. Get Into The Flow

2. Flash Of Insight

Personal Spirit1. Your Outlook

2. Your Sense of Control

3. Your Initiative

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Your Get Smarter Action Planner: Part Two

Once you know what you want to work on, now you can develop your plan. Write the 3 priorities you selected in My Targets and complete the exercise.

My #1 Target

Why is this useful to me:

My barriers to change:

What I commit to do to develop this skill:

My #2 Target




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Believe It to Achieve It: Your Advanced Personal Success Planner

The Believe It to Achieve It system is a powerful personal change management system. It gives you a repeatable template to use whenyou want to expand your capabilities and achieve a consistent level of personal high performance. Use it to align your inner world of whatyou believe, think and feel with your outer world of actions and the results you want to achieve. Start with clarifying your intention. Thendescribe in detail what the successful results look like.

The next phase involves inner alignment what do you need to believe about yourself to achieve the outcome? Next, describe how youneed to feel. Choose powerful positive words and feelings to direct your emotional state. Finally, write down the constructive self-talk youneed to repeat to yourself to keep you in positive alignment.

The final phase of the planning is to actually script the phrases you need to say and then describe the actions that you must take to alignyour outer world with your inner world and your deep intention.

For more information on how to use the Believe It to Achieve It system, read chapter 7, Achieving Success, of the Smart for Life book, by Bob Wiele.

Expanding capacity requires a willingness to endure short term discomfort in the service of long term reward.

- Jim Loehr and Anthony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement


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Your Believe It to Achieve It Planner

Use this planner whenever you have a significant challenge and you want to harness your total intelligence to perform at your best. Complete Step 1: Set

Your Intention first. Next, jump ahead and complete Step 7: Achieve It. Next, complete Steps 2 through to 6.

Step 1. Set your Intention: Everything starts with intention. Describe in detail what your overall desire is. Get in touch and write downwhy you are doing what you want to do.

Step 2. Believe It: List your own I believe... statements - the key, positive, empowering beliefs about yourself and your commitment toyour intention, that you will need to support the achievement of your desired results.

Step 3. Feel It: Write down your own powerful and positive I feel... (terrific, confident, passionate, courageous, deeply committed)statements. These are the feelings that you need to choose to be in the right emotional state.

Step 4. Think It: Describe clearly and specifically the positive, constructive self-talk phrases you will say to yourself, particularly underpressure, to reinforce your beliefs and support your intentions. Identify any negative self-talk you tended to use in the past and commit toreplace it with the positive self talk.


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Your Believe It to Achieve It Planner

Step 5. Say It: Identify the actual words and phrases you will use publically, with other people, to reinforce your commitment to theachievement of your goals.

Step 6. Do It: Make a list of the specific action steps you commit to. List the small steps and the big steps. Be specific. Make a plan to getstarted. Set a timeline what you will do today, tomorrow, in the next 3 days, week...

Step 7. Achieve It: Start with a detailed description of what successful achievement looks like. Describe success as clearly as you can. Usethe present tense and positive language, as if success is already in place for you..

You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As in your intention, so is your will. As is your

will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your world.- Anonymous


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The 4 Dimensions of Total Intelligence: A Portfolio of Essential Skills

CREATIVITY UNDERSTANDING DECISION-MAKING

PERSONAL SPIRIT

3 DIMENSIONS

7 MINDSETS

18 SUCCESSSTRATEGIES

CREATIVETHINKING

CREATIVEINTUITION

ANALYTICALTHINKING

COMPASSIONCRITICALTHINKING

BELIEFS BASED

3 SUCCESSFACTORS

GUT INTUITION

1. BrainstormIdeas

2. ChallengeIdeas

3. ReframeProblems

4. EnvisionPossibilities

1. Get IntoThe Flow

2. Flash ofInsight

1. Scan TheSituation

2. StructureInformation

3. ClarifyUnderstanding

1. Tune-in ToFeelings

2. EmpathizeWith Others

3. ExpressFeelings

1. ValuesDrivenDecision-Making

1. Get to theCrux

2. Conclude

3. Validate theConclusion

4. Rely onExperience

1. Trust YourHeartDecision-Making

Your Outlook Your Sense of Control Your Intuition

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