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Shadow One of your Middle Grounds is the Mentor Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can coach and develop others.
Mentors are people who like to come alongside you and develop you to be your best. They hone who you are, fanning the flame of your ability. Mentors build into you and help you realize your potential. They coach and guide you to help you discover your whole self. As trusted allies, they are friendly faces who encourage you to grow, develop and change.
All these Mentor qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
One of your Middle Grounds is the Administrator Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can be good with tactics, details, and following the plan.
Administrators help establish the plan and then follow it as it is laid out. They like policy and structure, and are good with details and budgets. Administrators focus on management and tend to be averse to taking risks. They are good with procedures and like to follow the rules.
All these Administrator qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
One of your Middle Grounds is the Catalyst Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can be an innovator.
Catalysts are people who will challenge you, and so take you to new ground. They innovate and experiment in life, motivating you to change. Catalysts seem to light fires under people, spurring them on to unconventional or entirely new methods. They can be revolutionary, stirring up people. As trusted critics, we know their words are speaking truth as they speed up change in our lives.
All these Catalyst qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
One of your Middle Grounds is the Relational Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can be a great team builder.
Relationals are people who are motivated by harmony and see the team as crucial. They want people to be whole and healthy, and so are good team builders. Relationals highly value grace and mercy, and can be quite loving and warm. People deeply matter to them. Decisions are guided by deep-seated values and personal connections to others.
All these Relational qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
Your Shadow is in the Overseer Pattern. It will be a challenge for you to see the big picture or work concepts as a guiding force. While Overseers like to work on strategy, aligning people with their right places to work, your work and interaction with others will have a different emphasis (depending on your Sunlight Pattern). Thinking in terms of vision and the horizon will be hard work for you, but can be done.
You can develop your Overseer skills through education, on the job training or life experience. Using your Overseer skills can bring satisfaction if you have developed this weaker area into a “Middle Ground.” However, you will tire faster when using your Overseer skills, and these skills will be the first to under-perform when you are tired or in a crisis.
The Shadow is like using your non-dominant hand to sign a check. While a few people out of ten thousand are ambidextrous, most people are not innately able to do the same functions with both hands. Through education, on-the-job-training, or the school of hard knocks, you may get fairly good at your Shadow function. Yet, this is like comparing a gifted athlete to a highly trained one. The gifted athlete who hones his or her ability will always be a better athlete—throwing farther, running faster, having more endurance, etc. In this way, you may be trained in your Shadow, but it is not your area of giftedness.
One way to confirm your Shadow is to have another person take the People Patterns Indicator on you. A spouse, co-worker or subordinate will have insights about your habits and gifts that you need to see!
