A SCIENCE OF THE PERSON
The New Psychology
PROCESS SUMMARY
What we accomplish through the System for Identifying Motivated Abilities(SIMA) is a definition of the essence of individuals: their personality; their 'ways'; their m.o.; their heart and mind. The Process tracks years of lived experiences where from time to time, people intensely pursued what they enjoyed doing and did well. In each of these instances, they repeatedly used some or all of a certain pattern of motivated abilities working with particular subject matter, and within certain situational requirements and relationships, in order to achieve one consummation of unsurpassed personal worth. This Pattern appears literally to be embodied in their soul.
What is so valuable about the process is that it gathers up anything and everything which recurs whenever an achievement was experienced. Need for structure; kind and level of risk; triggering circumstances; time for preparation; new or unique requirements; being visible; exploitation of potential; chaotic environment; kind of boss; variety; difficult conditions; need a goal; need to have a standard; need to get results; finished product critical; pressure and deadlines vital; start from scratch; start from a model; head-to-head competition; come from behind; work by myself; work with a team; work by myself until good enough to work with a team; persist until job is done; persist until the applause; persist until you see the solution.
STRUCTURE AND CONTENT
What has been clearly revealed in our rigorous phenomenlogical research of over 50,000 people, one-at-a-time, is that each person has been defined; gifted, empowered and purposed to fulfill a predetermined design……….. which we characterize as a Motivational Pattern of Giftedness….which five parts and several hundred elements emerge organically and are classified as follows:
PART 1- A Central Motivational Thrust or Outcome the person is motivated to achieve. This section consists of 30 items organized under these clusters:
- A process of some sort; like pioneering, building, realizing a concept
- Exercising or possessing dominion and power: like being in charge or acquiring things; overcoming; comprehending and mastering
- Making an impact on an object: like shaping, gaining response, extracting potential
- Achieving a defined purpose or goal: like meeting the test, fulfilling requirements, bringing to completion
- Seeking to stand out in comparison to others: like excelling, being unique, gaining recognition.
Part 2 - A Group of Motivated Abilities the person is motivated to use. This section consists of 85 items organized under exact powers indigenous to each person; how he/she...
- Acquires data, knowledge, information
- Determines worth, soundness, meaning
- Abstracts or envisions what doesn't exist
- Creates or develops
- Determines the job to be done
- Prepares to get the job done
- Gets the job done, personally or through others
- Informs or influences others
Part 3 - Certain Subject Matter and Mechanisms the person is motivated to work with or through. This section consists of 40 items organized under these categories:
- Intangibles
- Tangibles
- Data
- People
- Sensory
- Mechanisms
Part 4 - Situational Circumstances of motivational significance. This section consists of 62 items occurring under one or more of the following:
- What triggers the achievement?
- What results are sought?
- What factors keep the person striving?
- What structure/definition is necessary?
- What recognition factors are important?
- What working conditions or environment are critical?
Part 5 - Particular Way of Operating With Others. This section consists of 34 items plus 22 modifiers gathered under these foundational relationships:
- Contributors
- Influencers
- Managers & Leaders
- Relationship with Supervisor
THE DYNAMICS OF SIMA
- A person's Pattern of Giftedness is a system of motivated behavioral elements which defines the essence of the person, and which is greater than the sum of its parts. Each element enables and constrains all the other elements. This system captures all of the sustained motivated behavior of which the person is capable.
Organic: The Pattern functions regardless of whether an individual is aware of it.
- The Pattern of a person emerges in childhood and remains consistent in its essential content, structure and dynamics throughout the productive life of that person.
Stable: It remains fundamentally the same throughout life.
- Although growth and development of the person within the parameters of the Pattern are practically unlimited, the emergence of motivated competencies outside those parameters has not been observed in the achievement history of any person studied.
Purposive: The Pattern drives toward a unique, desired purpose or payoff.
- The Pattern is irrepressible and works to exhaust the potential for its expression in any job or situation occupied, and being amoral, can be used for good or evil
Dynamic: It describes the person in full motivated flight.
- The Pattern inheres in the nature of each person and is not the result of a developmental process. Effectively, a person comes into the world with the focus, drive and capability to follow and fulfill a destiny.
Holistic: The Pattern describes the whole person in action.
Useful: It contains practical strengths of value to those served.
Predictive: The Pattern describes detailed future behavior.
- Affective responses and feelings are triggered and colored by a person's Pattern.
- Learning and other cognitive functions are effectively channeled by the Pattern. Not only what a person is motivated to learn but how and why; also alone, with others, and with or without a teacher, are determined by the Pattern. What is true of learning is true of conceptualizing, and planning, and organizing.
Conative: Willingness to make decisions and take action is determined by the Pattern.
- Environment is not an efficient cause for a Pattern, although it plays a critical role in its expression.
- In matters of style of living, dress, relationships and personal communications, a person's social behavior is anticipated by the Pattern.
THE POWER OF SIMA
The core distinction of Motivational Pattern is based on the repetitive past performance of the achiever. Every conclusion relies on recurring, demonstrated performance which gives it the unique power to comprehend, explain and predict behavior. Widely accepted by researchers studying the human condition, the aphorism is believed even more robust when past behaviors are identical or closely similar to future behaviors.
Alone among all those seeking to understand qualities about people is our focus on the individual person, completely unique to SIMA®.
- SIMA accesses the heart, mind and will of a person by identifying an inborn Pattern of motivated competencies which determines and drives performance and results.
- This Pattern defines the only means and power within the person for accomplishing anything of significance.
- Because the Pattern is both stable and irrepressible, it predicts how the person will attempt to perform in any position.
- Information generated is empirical or objective in nature. Since our process is based on the person's actions, conclusions are based on demonstrated performance; the person either did/did not do what is desired/notdesired. There is very little gray.
- Patterns answer performance questions before the fact about whether the person… is motivated to lead or to manage (and they are quite different); makes timely, risky decisions; needs structure or can abide ambiguity; gets the job done in spite of; is creative; comfortable with abstract thinking; keeps a close eye on critical indicators; confronts failed promises; handles conflict….and so on.
- Patterns answer performance questions after the fact about why such inability or indecisiveness in making decisions; or not confronting a subordinate; or in failing to anticipate a likely onslaught by aggressive competitors; or the overrun on budget and time table for the construction project; or the spiking of level of grievances under new supervision; or the tired proposals to becoming more competitive.
- Solutions to problems caused by emotional reactions are readily diagnosed because people have so much emotionally invested in fulfilling their Patterns. Whether it involves neglect, anger, conflict, noses out of joint, repeated excuses, absenteeism, depression, too much pressure, lack of recognition, critical attitudes, or confusion about expectations, the first step is to see where the Pattern has been ignored, abused, misplaced or defied.
- Performance mysteries can be solved about individuals by referring to their Pattern. For examples: Why did he do so well before he came to headquarters? Why do those two always knock heads? What happened to the golden boy after he was put in charge? Why does she sell so much at such a low margin? The former CFO seems confused as the new COO. Why has the very successful city sales manager bombed out in charge of New Product Development? The analysis and solutions to all of these performance mysteries? Consult their Motivational Pattern of Giftedness.
Copyright 2007 Arthur F. Miller
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