SIMA Snap Shot Report for Scott Rich

People ManagementSIMA® Snap Shot

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Scott Rich

SIMA®

Snap ShotS U M M A R Y O F Y O U R U N I Q U E N E S S

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT • 14440 Dellwood Rd. N. • Stillwater, MN • 55082 • (651) 351-7214


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Welcome to your SIMA® Snap Shot Report

Your work of reflection and writing as well as your Snap Shot Interview show strong “patterns”of unique motivations. Your Snap Shot Report summarizes the key thematic elements andexplains them in a useful manner for application into your work and life.

The Nature of Motivated Patterns

Critical to understanding the significance of your Pattern is comprehending it’s pervasive nature.Based on tens of thousands of individuals, we have found that a person’s Motivated Pattern is:

ENDURING Your Pattern emerges early and remains constant throughout life. We have seenno evidence it can be changed, added to or subtracted from in its fundamentalcharacter. Values and lifestyle can and do change, but your essence as describedby your Pattern does not. This does not mean your Pattern is static. In fact, it isprobably the central area for growth and development. What you domotivationally in small measure as a child, you do largely as an adult, preciselybecause of development within the design of your Pattern.

IRRESISTABLE Regardless of environment or circumstance, your Pattern will express itselfsomewhere in your life. If your work will not permit its expression, you will pourout these rich gifts into your non-work life. Use of your Pattern is the essence ofmeaningful life and work to you.

If your job in any way accommodates your Pattern, you will perform that job inaccordance with your Pattern and not with what an objective examination of thejob indicates (e.g., an innovator will innovate; a doer will continue to perform thedetails; a person who seeks recognition will concentrate on what gets attentionfrom others).

INSATIABLE You will never satisfy your motivation in a final way, regardless of how often youhave had a chance to express it or how many achievements you haveaccomplished.

EXPLANATORY Once you read the Pattern of a person, you begin to understand why theyperform as they do and where that person finds joy and frustration. Manyindividuals do not even have the words to describe why they work and move inthe way they do, while others have a higher awareness of their system of gifts andmotivations. Regardless, your Pattern explains your reactions to the worldaround you as well as what you are truly working to accomplish through yourefforts.


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Areas Not Covered by your Snap ShotYour Snap Shot describes essential motivations that have been, and will consistently be, truethroughout your life. By understanding your Snap Shot, you can accurately predict how youwill perform in the future, and you can target those situations, environments, and relationshipsthat provide a “good fit” for you.

It is important to recognize that your Snap Shot does not address the degree to which youpossess the following qualities, nor does it take into account the fact that you are likely todevelop within each of the these areas:

PROFICIENCY The level of skill expected or required for any particular role,responsibility, project, or task.

CHARACTER The ability to act appropriately and with integrity regardless ofcircumstances.

MATURITY The ability to appreciate others for who they are and to treat them withrespect, regardless of differences.

COPING SKILLS The ability to successfully handle stress, change, opposition, or adversity.

DISCIPLINE The ability to complete present tasks that hold future - rather than merelyimmediate - rewards.


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SIMA® Snap Shot Overview

We have been working with people's 'stories' for over forty-five years. During that time wehave analyzed over forty thousand 'stories' looking for the structure and pattern in each one.These are the stories of people describing things they have done which they have enjoyed anddone well. Your story is the latest one of these. We have found that from all of the contextsand particular experiences that people have shared with us it is possible to see a 'structure' ineach person's story, to see a 'pattern' in each person's achievements.

We want you to see the consistencies in your behavior. We want you to see a system in theway you work.

Behind each of your achievements there is a structure to your motivation. The SIMA® SnapShot process describes your strengths as a whole. The picture painted of your strengths is asynthesis of the consistent themes in your life. Your strengths work together predictably so thatover time it is possible to observe a pattern in your behavior. Your pattern is unique. You aremotivated in ways that are distinctive to you. Your strengths are not mere random, haphazardcollections of things you may or may not use. You are a complex system with abilities thatwork in harmony with each other.

The pattern of your behavior is a working whole that has a structure. There are five importantfacets to this structure.

1. Your pattern is focused. Throughout all motivation you have an underlying drivingpurpose, a 'reason' for doing all that you do. You find satisfaction when you are engagedin specific processes, complete a certain kind of outcome, or results. This is called yourMotivational Result. Understanding how this 'essence' pervades all yourachievements, and seeing how it works dynamically, is a key to understanding yourmotivation. An example of such a drive might be the motivation to 'make things work',or 'solve problems' or a motivation to 'be in charge'.

2. Within your motivation there is an interest, a concern to move into a particularRelationship with others, or Role. This aspect of your motivation explains howyou work best with other people, or what role with other people suits you most - it's away of describing how you like to be with others. Examples might include: being in adefined role, being 'the captain', as part of the team, as a liaison, as the representative oras the catalyst.


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3. When pursuing your motivational drive, you consistently use certain Abilities. Theseabilities are different from mere capabilities you might also have. There are many thingsyou 'can' do, but what we are describing is what comes most naturally to you or whichyou consistently enjoy doing. These describe what you love to do. They are ones youengage whenever you have the opportunity. You do not tire of using them. Theseabilities describe the 'how' of your motivation. These strengths we call your motivatedabilities. Examples include: organizing, planning, building, influencing, designing, leading,communicating, etc.

4. Your motivation is engaged by using your abilities you prefer working with but alsounder certain conditions, or in particular contexts, or in a specific environment. TheseCircumstances describe the situational components of your motivation. Examplesmight be: working to a deadline, having a clear goal, using something as a 'jumping offplace', where there is 'potential', in a team context, if there is a chance to save money,etc.

5. You are motivated to engage all the other pattern components principally withcertain selective Subjects or Elements. These are the 'things' you areinterested in and enjoy working with in your life. Examples might be: ideas, information,people, money, material things or visual subject matter.


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SIMA® Snap ShotMotivational Summary Statements for Scott Rich

The following statements are intended to give insight and definition to the key themes fromyour overall achievement writing and interview. Review these simple bullets and then take alook at the next page that has all of the elements of the your uniqueness laid out for discussionwith your People Management consultant.

• Your motivational Result is satisfied when you can follow “your” processand methods of development to build, form and develop a tangible responseor result that confirms your impact.

• Your motivational result also has an element of the power focus. Thisdrives you to “keep at it” until you have mastered the steps of preparationand development.

• The role you were created for is one that is truly “designed” to get effortsstarted. By virtue of your motivated leading ability, people want to followyou. You do that in a way that organizes and starts the necessary steps ofany effort. You, as a moving force, are a “force” that persuades, promotesand initiates activities. You are flexible in your style, and are able to behighly adaptive and improvisational in your approach. In short, you are ableto lead in a way that “moves” with the situation.

• You are highly motivated to do the “front –end” learning and evaluatingnecessary to get things started. You carefully research, ask questions, read,and watch others to figure out the best way to impact the group orindividual.

• You are also able to interpret and understand concepts and ideas othersfind too complex or obscure. Given time to prepare and analyze, you cansee the common thread in the concepts (and scripture)that others cannot.

• All of the learning, evaluating, and preparing is typically “done in your head”or on paper. You are working through ideas, concepts, knowledge andyour faith in a way that takes time and is a method that helps give you thestructure needed to make sense of it all. You work hard to pull it alltogether, blend all your thoughts in a way that will be unique and impactfulto the team, the church, or the individual.

• You are highly strategic. You are able to see the steps needed toaccomplish the result you want, and you will do what it takes to get theright steps in place at the right time.


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Scott Rich

THE ROLE I AM BUILT TO PLAY:Leading, Organizing Moving Force

I prefer to be managed by:Initial Support

THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MOTIVATE ME:

I get started by:Needs, causes, challenges

Recognition factors that are important to me:Audiences, responseEnvironments or structures that motivate me:GrowthPreparation timeOutdoorsStructure, step by step processApplication of effort to serve others, support thecause or visionTangible resultsDifficultiesParticipative. supportive team

MY MOTIVATED ABILITIES ARE:

I Learn and Take in Information by:Learning in various ways: observing,listening, trail and error, memorizingInvestigating by surveying, asking questionsand researching

I Evaluate, Draw Conclusions by:Analyzing, deciding by pros and cons, andinterpreting what others find complicated

I Prepare by:Organizing by structuring and integratingPlanning by strategizing, arranging andpracticing

I Take Action by:Physically doingCreating by WritingDeveloping by growing, adapting andblending

I Work with Others through:Overseeing by coordinating and leadingInfluencing by initiating, motivating,promoting, involving, nurturingCommunicating by explaining, writing, publicspeaking, preaching

I AM INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH:

Intangibles: Values, ideas, thoughts, concepts,knowledge, expertise

Tangibles: Physical

Data: Logistics, Words, information

People: Groups, Individuals, societies,relationships

Mechanisms: Strategies, tactics, anglesSystemsMethods

THE PURPOSE OR RESULT I SEEK TO ACHIEVE:

I seek to build, perfect and develop ideas, people, and organizations to make an impact for God’sKingdom that display tangible results and response.(Focus Areas: Process, Change Agent, Power)

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SIMA® Snap ShotSIMA® CHARACTERISTICS OF MOTIVATIONAL RESULTS

BY FOCUS

FOCUS ON PERSONAL PERFORMANCE, COMPARISON TO OTHERS

• Wants to reflect some distinctiveness• Wants to be seen and heard• Wants to develop and demonstrate superior competency• Enjoys competition• Usually enjoys some form of recognition

FOCUS ON PROCESS INVOLVED

• Interest in stages of growth or process• Process is enjoyed as an end rather than merely a “means to and end”• Interest in planning, organizing, gathering resources• Wants to be involved from start to finish, step by step, through each stage

FOCUS ON DEFINED PURPOSE, EFFORT OR GOAL

• Will push forward tirelessly to the end or completion• Needs well defined objectives• Snags and delays are frustrating• Prefers structured, well-ordered environments• Wants tangible results or objective verification

FOCUS ON OBJECT OR EFFECT ON OBJECT (CHANGE AGENT)

• Wants to impact people, situations, objects or environments• Usually has ability to evaluate• Looks for ways to change, improve, exploit, restore• Aimed at tangible, visible results• Needs to be in an environment open to change

FOCUS ON POWER, CONTROL, AUTHORITY

• Wants to exercise control over situations, people, self, things or knowledge• A tenacious will, doesn’t give up• Looks for ways to gain or keep the upper hand• Looks for challenges, tough problems, nothing easy or routine• Wants to be in positions of authority


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Motivational Result:

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Motivated Abilities: My Role:

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SIMA® Snap ShotKey Notes I Want To Remember


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SIMA® Snap ShotKey Notes for Career Ideas for Scott Rich

• A theme in your motivational pattern has to do with your desire to gaincomplete command of a skill, subject, procedure, technique, or process. Youwant your knowledge, execution, or control over the intricacies and detailsinvolved to be excellent. As you consider new possibilities and changes inyour career, look for situations and responsibilities that include lots ofchallenge and a requirement to bring this excellence at what you do. Avoidthe kind of routine that fails to require any special skill or learning.

• Although you will seek to exert your shaping influence and make your markunder any circumstances, there are some situations you should definitelyavoid. In general, tasks and roles that isolate you from results or productstend to frustrate your motivation. Again, you want to be in a position to exertyour shaping influence. Stay clear of support roles where you functioninvisibly, behind the scenes or where your work blends indistinguishablywith a group. The requirement to work mechanically in a prescribed mannerand to carry out a boss's directions down to the last detail will also tend tofrustrate you. You should also avoid project involvements where it is likelythat outside interference will alter or disrupt the plans you have laid out.

• In general, you should seek assignments, tasks, and responsibilities whereyou can roll up your sleeves and get your hands on tools for building; penciland paper, willing people and their talents, concepts and ideas, new churchesor organizations. Although your development efforts tend to be executedthrough the help of other people, you want a position that allows you directinvolvement in the building, developing, and forming processes.

• Your chief desire is to initiate the idea, plan, or activity, then move whereveryou can to bring the vision to some kind of fulfillment and completion. Avoidcareer involvements where your official position hampers movement, wheredepartmental lines are strictly drawn and getting things changed or startedmeans vaulting roadblocks at every turn.

• Seek career involvements where your gifts as a leader will be put to use. Youshould have some access to at least some of the decision making process inwhich policies and plans are formed. A position that allows you freedom tomove around across departmental lines would also lend itself well to the wayyou relate to others.

• Look for opportunities that allow you to work with initial support of amanager at the outset of an effort, and then allow you the freedom todetermine your own methods, strategies and discretionary control over yourarea of responsibility.


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SIMA® Snap ShotMapping My Motivation and My Context

On the boxes below, write down the areas of good fit and serious misfit.

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A - Represents those requirements of the job/role that you are not motivated to do but whichyou have to do in order to carry out the role.B - Represents those aspects of your motivation that are required for the job - what we call"good fit" (remember we are aiming for 70% good fit).C - Represents those aspects of your motivation that are not required for the job. Here your'coping strategies' consist of doing what you love outside work.

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C. Aspects of who I amthat I am unable to use inthe role - Poor Fit for me(because I can't use these strengths inthe role)

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