Conscientious Style is one of the five main personality traits any human being can have. This trait pertains to a person’s level of purposefulness.
Every human being who posses the conscientious style as a personality trait find themselves on a spectrum. They are either too purposeful or less purposeful. A person is either focused or flexible on their purpose.
Conscientious Style
If you have this style as a personality trait, you are often lead by his/her conscience; you are exact and meticulous; you believes that proper preparations are what get the job done; you are generally well organized; you are sometimes overly prudent; you keep your promises and believes that others should as well; you have a strong desire to successfully complete things; you are often seen as someone with high standards; you like to plan ahead; you desire to get things done correctly; you like to be around people who are neat; and, messiness is usually more troubling to you.
P.S. If you know me, I am certain that you will be pointing your finger at me. This is because, conscientiousness is one of my personality traits.
Characteristics of a person who has the Conscientious Style
A person with this style is analytical, careful, fact driven, precise, maintains high standards, and is systematic. Basically, the person values certainty over guesses. The person is someone you will need in a multidisciplinary team. This is because they are classified as “anchors of reality”. They have an understanding of and know the difference between facts and fiction.
Although people with this personality trait are thorough, they are however also flexible. This is because they are even tempered and do not assert their high standards on others. This approach can be linked to the fact that they consciously gather and assess information (or data) before taking actions.
To reiterate, people with this personality style are motivated by standards of high quality, limited social interaction, detailed tasks, logic, and organization. They use their head and heart to guide their motivations. Based on these, you will find these people doing tasks and duties that they can take from start to finish to ensure completion. Procedures and routines are practical to them.
Potential Challenges
People with the conscientious style needs clearly defined boundaries for tasks and relationships. For tasks, they give their utmost best to ensure tasks are completed efficiently, even the ones not assigned to them. For relationships, they love hard. On one hand, they don’t hide who they from those they love. On the other hand, they hides their feelings so as not to offend people they love. They don’t like to argue. In addition, they need procedures and methods for everything.
If you know anyone with this personality trait, kindly congratulate them on my behalf. Also congratulate yourself for having them as your family or friend or colleague. They value you more than you know.
