Which Color is Your Pen?

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Which Color is Your Pen?

Discover your unique style of thinking and creativity in our engaging quiz, "Which Color is Your Pen?" Answer insightful questions about your approach to brainstorming, problem-solving, and communication. Are you a visual thinker, a pragmatic doer, or an analytical planner? Find out!

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I’m in a brainstorming session in a conference room that has a big whiteboard. I want to:

Go to the board, pick up a pen, and start drawing circles and boxes.

Try to decipher whatever is already written on the board.

Go to the board and start writing categorized lists.

Add a little clarification to what’s already up there, to make it clearer.

�Forget the whiteboard. Come on here, people, we’ve got work to do!"

I hate brainstorming sessions.

Someone hands me a complex, multipage spreadsheet table printout. I first:

Glaze over, put it down, and hope it will go away.

Flip through the pages letting my eye wander across all those numbers to see if something interesting—anything—pops up.

Read across the top of the columns or down each row in order, looking to identify the categories.

Select a row and column at random and follow them to the data cell, then look for similar (or different) data results in other cells.

Look for the largest or smallest values I can find, then trace them back to identify their categories.

Flip back and forth between sheets and zero in on the important patterns that I saw right away.

Someone hands me a pen and asks me to sketch out a particular idea. I:

Ask for more pens, preferably in at least three colors.

Just start sketching and see what emerges.

Say, “I can’t draw but...,” and then make a horrible stick figure.

Start by writing a few words, then putting boxes around them.

Put the pen on the table and start talking.

Say, “No, thanks, I can’t draw,” and leave it at that.

On my way home from a big conference, I run into a colleague at the hotel lounge, and he or she asks me to explain more precisely what my organization does. I:

Grab a napkin and ask the waiter / waitress for a pen.

Pick up three packs of sugar, lay them on the tabletop, and say, “OK, this is me...."

Pull up a page from my PowerPoint—a really good page—and start describing it.

Explain that “there are three things we do....”

Buy another drink because we’re going to be talking for a while.

Say it’s too complicated to explain well, but ask him/her the same question.

I see a bumper sticker on a car that reads VISUALIZE WORLD PEACE. I:

Try to imagine what peace must look like.

Imagine John Lennon's glasses.

Repeat those words to myself, kind of rolling them around: “World Peace."

Imagine what this tells me about the owner of the car.

Think: "Whirled peas."

Roll my eyes and murmur, "That's so Miss Universe."

If I were an astronaut floating in space, the first thing I would do is:

Take a deep breath, relax, and take in the whole view.

Try to spot my house... Or at least my continent.

Start describing what I saw.

Wish I had a camera.

Close my eyes.

Find a way to get back into the spacecraft.

Which Color is Your Pen?

Which Color is Your Pen?

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