Herrmann International - Glossary of Terms

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Glossary of Terms

Monday, 23 July 2001

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analytic: Breaking up things or ideas into parts and examining them to see how they fit together.
artistic: Taking enjoyment from or skillful in painting, drawing, music, or sculpture. Able to coordinate colour, design, and texture for pleasing effects.
conceptual: Able to conceive thoughts and ideas - to generalise abstract ideas from specific instances.
controlled: Restrained, holding back, in charge of one's emotions.
conservative: Tending towards maintaining traditional and proven views, conditions, and institutions.
creative: Having unusual ideas and innovative thoughts. Able to put things together in new and imaginative ways.
critical: Exercising or involving careful judgement or evaluation, e.g., judging the feasibility of an idea or product.

detailed: Paying attention to the small items or parts of an idea or product.
dominant: Ruling or controlling; having strong impact on others.
emotional: Having feelings that are easily stirred; displaying those feelings.
empathetic: Able to understand how another person feels, and able to communicate that feeling.
extrovert: More interested in people and things outside of self than internal thoughts and feelings. Quickly and easily exposes thoughts, reactions, feelings, etc. to others.
financial: Competent in monitoring and handling of quantitative issues relating to costs, budgets, and investments.
holistic: Able to perceive and understand the "big picture" without dwelling on individual elements of an idea, concept, or situation. Can see the wood as contrasted with the trees.

imaginative: Able to form mental images of things not immediately available to the senses or never wholly perceived in reality; able to confront and deal with a problem in a new way.
implementation: Able to carry out an activity and ensure fulfilment by concrete measures and results.
innovating: Able to introduce new or novel ideas, methods, or devices.
integration: The ability to combine pieces, parts and elements of ideas, concepts and situations into a unified whole.
intellectual: Having superior reasoning powers; able to acquire and retain knowledge.
interpersonal: Easily able to develop and maintain meaningful and pleasant relationships with many different kinds of people.
introvert: Directed more towards inward reflection and understanding than towards people and things outside of self. Slow to expose reactions, feelings, and thoughts to others.
intuitive: Knowing something without thinking it out - having instant understanding without need for facts or proof.

logical: Able to reason deductively from what has gone before.
mathematical: Perceiving and understanding numbers and being able to manipulate them to a desired end.
metaphorical: Able to understand and make use of visual and verbal figures of speech to suggest a likeness or an analogy in place of literal descriptions, e.g., "heart of gold."
musical: Having an interest in or talent for music and/or dance.
organised: Able to arrange people, concepts, objects, elements, etc. into coherent relationships with each other.
planning: Formulating methods or means to achieve a desired end in advance of taking actions to implement.
problem solving: Able to find solutions to difficult problems by reasoning.
quantitative: Oriented towards numerical relationships, inclined to know or seek exact measures.

rational: Making choices on the basis of reason as opposed to emotion.
reader: One who reads often and enjoys it.
rigorous thinking: Having a thorough, detailed approach to problem-solving.
sequential: Dealing with things and ideas one after another or in order.
simultaneous: Able to process more than one mental input at a time, e.g. visual, verbal, and musical; able to attend to more than one activity at a time.
spatial: Able to perceive, understand and manipulate the relative positions of objects in space.
spiritual: Having to do with spirit or soul as apart from the body or material things.
symbolic: Able to use and understand objects, marks and signs as representative of facts and ideas.
synthesizer: One who unites separate ideas, elements or concepts into something new.

technical: Able to understand and apply engineering and scientific knowledge.
teaching/training: Able to explain ideas and procedures in a way that people can understand and apply them.
verbal: Having good speaking skills; clear and effective with words.
writer: One who communicates clearly with the written word and enjoys it.