Color Code - White

Strengths

As an individual

• Quiet, reflective, and peaceful
• Sincere and genuine lifestyle
• Appears to accept life comfortably
• Patient with others
• Kind to animals and people
• Blends into all situations

Limitations

As an individual

• Boring because detached
• Takes passive approach to life
• Unresponsive or note openly excited about experiences
• Has problems becoming intimate
• Bashful and unsure of self
• Easily manipulated into changing plans
• Ambivalent about direction and goals to pursue
• Often lazy and unwilling to take responsibility to self
• Resists making commitments

Developing Positive Connections with White

Do's

• Be kind
• Be logical, clear, and firm about the content you present
• Provide a structure (boundaries) for them to operate in
• Be patient and gentle
• Introduce options and ideas for their involvement
• Be simple and open
• Acknowledge and accept their individuality
• Be casual, informal, and relaxed in presentation style
• Look for nonverbal clues to their feelings
• Listen quietly

Don'ts

• Be cruel and insensitive
• Expect them to need much social interaction
• Force immediate verbal expressions; accept written communication
• Be domineering and too intense
• Demand conformity to realistic expectations/behaviors
• Overwhelm them with too much at once
• Force confrontation
• Speak to fast
• Take away all their daydreams
• Demand leadership