While these personality types are certainly broad categories, I find them very easy to remember and communicate. This is extremely beneficial when dealing with family members, employees, and/or people in general. Knowing their temperaments can make the home, work environment, meetings, and projects run much smoother.
Listed below are the characteristics of each temperament and how they line up with Galen’s and the DiSC for comparison:
![Lion Temperament](http://weirdblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/lion.gif?w=450)
Strengths– Visionary, practical, productive, strong-willed, independent, decisive, leader
Weaknesses– Cold, domineering, unemotional self-sufficient, unforgiving, sarcastic, cruel
![Otter Temperament](http://weirdblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/otter.gif?w=450)
Otter (Sanguine/Influence)
Strengths– Outgoing, responsive, warm, friendly, talkative, enthusiastic, compassionate
Weaknesses– Undisciplined, unproductive, exaggerates, egocentric, unstable
![Retriever Temperament](http://weirdblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/retriever.gif?w=450)
Strengths– Calm, easy-going, dependable, quiet, objective, diplomatic, humorous
Weaknesses– Selfish, stingy, procrastinator, unmotivated, indecisive, fearful, worrier
![Beaver Temperament](http://weirdblog.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/beaver.gif?w=450)
Strengths– Analytical, self-disciplined, industrious, organized, aesthetic, sacrificing
Weaknesses– Moody, self-centered, touchy, negative, unsociable, critical, revengeful
Often you’ll find that people have a primary character type and a secondary type. Take a look at yourself. Which one is your primary and which one is your secondary? Some naturally go together and make for a wonderful set of strengths. Also, be sensitive to the weaknesses in yourself and in others.
You can discover your personality profile by going to my previous blog from last Monday. You can also find this link on our church website for North Raleigh Church of the Nazarene.
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