Empowering people through

Core Qualities
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Peter Hill!
CFM Consulting Ltd.!

Theory of Core Quali/es

Core Quality

Pitfall

Allergy

Challenge

www.coachingformore.co.uk

Core quality tool

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Was developed by Daniel Ofman !

Can be used to discover, and give
tremendous insight, in who you are and
what your core qualities, pitfalls,
challenges and allergies are in life. !
Core qualities can be made visible in a
core quadrant. !

Core Quality
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A core quality is a specific strength that

characterises you!
It is a strong and positive personal quality!
It makes you what you are!
It is one of the first things people say about
you when they are asked to describe you!
Each person has at least one core quality!

Examples qualities
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You are decisive!

You are modest!
You are rational!

Pitfall
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Your pitfall goes hand-in-hand with your

core quality!
It is the distortion of your core quality
when you show too much of it!
It is the reversed side of the medal, your
quality becomes a weakness!

Creating the quadrant

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Core

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Quality!
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too much!
Pitfall!

Strength becomes pitfall!

Other examples
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Core Quality

! Pitfall!

Decisive
Modest!
Rational

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!Forcing!
!Invisible!
!Distant!

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A distortion is too much of something good

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Determined
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too much!
?!

Strength becomes pitfall!

A distortion is too much of something good

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Determined
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too much!
Pushy!

Strength becomes pitfall!

Challenge
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Your challenge is the positive opposite of

your pitfall!
It is a positive quality that you should
show more often!
It is a quality you often recognise and
admire in others!
This quality is needed to keep your core
quality well-balanced!

With the Pitfall comes the Challenge

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Determined!

pushy!

?!

With the Pitfall comes the Challenge

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Determined!

pushy!

Patience!

Allergy
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Your allergy is the negative opposite of

your core quality!
Most people are allergic to their own
challenge recognised in other persons!
You can get into conflict with people that
are in your allergy zone, especially when
that person is the personification of that
behaviour you detest!

Core Quadrant
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Core Quality!

Allergy!

Pitfall!

Challenge!

Core Quadrant
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Pitfall!

Allergy!

Challenge!

Core Quadrant
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Determined!

Passivity!

Pushy!

Patience!

Four Entries
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Core Quality

!your specific strength!

Pitfall

!the label people put on you!

Challenge!

!what you would like to have!

! more of!

!what you find difficult to !

!handle in other people!

Allergy
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Core Quadrant
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Core quality

!Pitfall!

Allergy

Challenge!

Core Quadrant
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Flexible!

rigid!

Laisser-faire!

structured!

Core Quadrant
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Self-confident!

submissive!

arrogant!

modest!

 Each individual has positive qualities.

Searching for these positive traits and
strengthening them is called
empowerment. !
Ofman's theory on core quadrants
presents a method for identifying and
strengthening each individual's positive
characteristics. !

More on this subject?

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In English:!
Core Qualities Daniel
Ofman!
ISBN-13:
9789055942404!
ISBN-10: 9055942405!