The Builder’s Primary Core Value: Power
A Builder’s primary core value is Power. Power is personal energy used to make a positive difference. Builders contribute by being effective and achieving results. They use straight-forward speech and bottom-line thinking. They look for quick, simple approaches that let them decide, move forward, and lead others into action.
The power of a Builder inspires action in others. It gives team members a sense of well-being and confidence. When a Builder is charged with a short-term mission, they create an unstoppable force of visible activity. The presence of this constructive power in any organization produces visible and measurable results.
How Power Helps Builders Contribute
Power helps Builders contribute to the team in essential ways. Power provides them with decisiveness and spontaneity, which is especially important for short-term projects. Power gives them emotional strength that inspires their teams to never give up.
Since urgency is a prime motivator, and power itself uses few words, you may find Builders impatiently answering questions or commanding others somewhat abruptly. These behaviors are due to the Builder’s core value of Power. The Builder’s drive to take action in alignment with power-based strategies influences every decision, judgment, and action they take.
When power is the motivation, the Builder’s attention is not on relationships and feelings, not on observation and assessment, not on low risk and data collection—the attention is on throwing all personal energy into a task to make something significant happen.
Faith: The Builder’s Catalytic Value
The Catalytic Value of the Builder is Faith. Faith is the intuitive trust that “I know what to do now, and I will know what to do next. My power is sufficient.”
For Builders, faith means having confidence in knowing what to do intuitively, right now, and trusting that they will know what to do after they make the world a different place through their actions. This is why Faith is called the Catalytic Value for the power-based person.
The balancing catalytic value of faith operates like a guiding force: “I know what to do. I will get the results I intend. I will know what to do next.” When Builders maintain a strong sense of faith, they can channel their power effectively and achieve remarkable results.
The Spiritual Nature of Builders
Builders have great faith in their own power. They have no inherent desire to control others—not any more than people with other core value profiles. Their quick intuitive response to almost all circumstances tends to put Builders in a leading position and causes others to feel compelled to follow their actions. The intent is simply to get things done, now.
Only Builders truly identify with Power, not because they are the only people who do anything, but because Builders, more than any other core values type, value action and results before all other primary motivating values.
Builders are the craftsmen, project managers, and risk takers in this world. They commit themselves totally to their assignments and generate respect, expectation, and confidence in others. Builders will present themselves as workers, commanders, reliable allies, and protectors of others.
Builder Self-Respect
The Builder’s self-respect is founded in the tangible evidence of applied personal power. Their self-worth will deflate only when they feel powerless, when they are not allowed to act, or when they perceive that their personal power is not currently being valued or applied to worthy tasks.
The Builder’s catalytic value of faith encompasses faith in the basic goodness and ability of others, faith in the goodness of action, and faith in the effectiveness of striving to create and being productive. Builders act because they believe that by acting there will be a guaranteed reward.
The rewards Builders value most are the sense of accomplishment and the respect of others. The Builder does not look primarily for justice or mercy, only effectiveness and results. Every action must receive an equivalent reward. When faith remains constant, encouraging continued positive action, the Builder becomes an almost unstoppable force for achievement.
Builders in the Workplace
Builders assume whatever role is necessary to help build bridges, win conflicts, and increase the success of all endeavors. They lead by example and by command. Their style is to take immediate action and apply their personal energy to create a desired result.
Builders take the aspirations of Merchants, the ideas of Innovators, and the facts from Bankers and through personal energy produce results. Their learning style is “Decide and Do”—they make gut-level decisions and take action. They want to make things different, now, and experience their own power in real-life situations.
Many Builders are much more refined than the stereotype suggests. They have learned to use more diplomatic language, and they usually have strong balancing values in the Merchant, Innovator, or Banker strategies which cause them to be what is called a “refined Builder.”
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