Arranger is obviously, it's an Executing theme. It's about
I think what are the words that I think describes
Arranger is "productivity". It's about getting something done and so in that way
it's kind of like Achiever, but it's different in that it's not just about
getting things done by individual effort. It's getting things done by
orchestrating and coordinating and
facilitating to some degree, the work of others. I think it's a collaborative
kind of productively that Arranger often kind of executes.
Some other words that I think are kind of critical besides "productivity",
another word that I think really fits the Arranger theme is "multiplicity".
It's really about people who, in a sense, like the variables, all of the different
pieces and parts. And the pieces of the productivity puzzle
for an Arranger can certainly be people, it can be kind of process,
different kinds of ways of doing things. It can be different kinds of products.
It's all of the different pieces. And so it's really trying to put that
puzzle together to kind of really build productivity.
So it's really, it's productivity. It's multiplicity.
I think it's also "flexibility". That's another word that I think.
It's this ability to kind of flex. It's not fixed.
It's more fluid in nature. It's not settled. It's always willing and able
to change and to adjust, and to arrange, and rearrange, and to think and rethink
The "re" word seems to be something that's certainly a part of it.
And then I think that, the other thing that I think kind of makes Arranger
what it is, it's "interactive". And I think that's where that
"collaborativeness" comes from. It's kind of involving and interacting with
other people to get things done.
I have really liked to clarify things and if you've ever been in any of the
programs that I've taught, and followed me in some of the writing I do,
I'm always trying to kind of compare and contrast themes to kind of build
character. And I think this is a kind of a fun one to do. Just to get clear about
Arranger is by kind of comparing and contrasting it to other themes, and so
we've already started this. Comparing and contrasting Arranger to Achiever.
Arranger is really about collaborative productivity,
whereas Achiever is more about personal productivity.
It's more about the diligence of the individual,
whereas people with Arranger get stuff done with
and through other people. There's a real collaborative part to that productivity.
I think you can also compare and contrast Arranger and Strategic.
And Mara, I know that you've got both of those two themes, and so you might
be able to talk about this a bit more later.
I think Arrangers are often people who kind of juggle multiple realities.
Jim Collison also has Arranger as one of his top five and I was talking to him
this morning. And he's a guy that often has multiple irons in the fire.
He's juggling flaming balls, I guess that might be what you could say.
But, so it's really... Arrangers juggle multiple realities, and people with
Strategic really sort through multiple possibilities. These are imaginary things.
Arrangers are dealing with reality. It's what's going on in the moment.
And it's kind of real time juggling as opposed to imaginary.
You can also compare and contrast Arranger with Adaptability.
Because I think they have some things in common. I think both Arranger
and Adaptability are themes that are comfortable with change.
The difference is that people with Arranger are a bit more about,
to some degree, creating change, being kind of the source of change
in a team or an organisation. Whereas people with Adaptability are more likely
to react and respond and to some degree to go along with change.
It's really, I think people with Arranger have a bit more
control over change or influence over change.
You can also kind of compare and contrast Arranger with Discipline.
I think Arranger, because we often use the word "organized", I think it's even in
our definition about Arranger, there's something about organized. But I
think it's a different kind organization.
I think the person with Arranger has
more fluid real-time planning, is how I describe it.
It's kind of, to some degree, planning and organizing
on the fly, in the moment, a bit.
Whereas, people with Discipline are more what I would call fixed pre-planning.
It's: they plan it and then they do it. Whereas, people with Arranger are kind of
doing those two things kind of simultaneously.
They're kind of almost like spontaneous and more real time.
Maybe that's enough, kind of, comparisons and contrasts here.
I also want to talk a little bit how you know
Arranger can be affected by the other themes
that are related to it. There are some themes that moderate
Arranger, kind of, to some degree complement it. There are other themes
that might actually intensify it
and kind of take it to a higher level. I think a theme that might
that actually could moderate Arranger would be Harmony.
I think Arranger, I think Harmony might to some degree stabilise, help
in the stabilizing of emotions that could be affected by changing, by changes.
People with Arranger often change things and there are often emotional implications
to change. And a person with Harmony, that Harmony could to some degree
help stabilize the kind of fluctuating emotions that come with change
that they bring.
I think another theme that could moderate Arranger could be Focus.
There might be some people that have high Focus and
high Arranger or they have Arranger and
they have a partnership with someone that has high Focus.
I think to some degree, Focus could bring a more singular
direction to this kind of flexible and changeable approach.
So Arranger might look a lot different if you had Focus in your top five.
Themes that actually might intensify Arranger would be a theme like
Individualisation. So people with Arranger are interested in the right fit
for the role. I want to get the work done so I want to get the right people in the
right role to get the job done. People with Individualization want to get
the right the person in the right fit for the person. So it's a fit.
Both of these themes, I think are about fit.
Arrangers are interested in finding fit because it's going to maximize
productivity. People with Individualization want to kind of
find the right fit because it's going to maximize to some degree the engagement
of the person. And then finally, maybe another theme that might intensify
Arranger could be Includer. I think Arrangers by nature involve people.
It's about, it's interactive and it gets people involved, and I think if you add
Includer to that it makes it even broader involvement, making sure
everybody is involved in this process, or in this project, or in this team.
So those would be some examples.
In terms of the frequency of themes, of this particular theme,
14 percent of our database have
Arranger in their top five. So it's not the most frequent, it's not the least
frequent. It's kind of in the middle.
But basically you know one out of, or 15 out of every 100 people
have Arranger in their top five.
Also I think it's kind of interesting to think about what theme, kind of,
is most likely paired with Arranger and it's Responsibility.
If people have Arranger, they are often going to have Responsibility.
And Mara I think you're, that's why we had you on the show (Mara: Guilty!)
People have that as well. The theme that is least likely and again
sometimes this is not quite as helpful but Arranger and Command
seem to be a bit more diametrically opposed.
I think in some ways they both have a controlling element to them but I think
to some degree the control of Command is probably a little more intense and
a bit more independent than I think Arranger so that might make some sense.