EXAMPLE OF A REFLECTED BEST$-$SELF PORTRAIT

The following is an Example of a RBS portrait constructed after examining the feedback from $20$ eople. Each person provided three examples of the participant at his best. The participant xamined the $90$ examples, categorized them, and then wrote the following RBS portrait.

When I am at my best, I tend to be creative. I am enthusiastic about ideas and craft bold visions. I am an innovative builder wholperseveres in the pursuit of the new. I do not waste energy thinking about missed opportunities or past failures nor do I take on the negative energy of the insecure or worry about critics.

I stay centered and focus on what is possible and important. I use frameworks to help me make sense of complex issues. I can see disparate ideas and integrate them through "yes and" thinking. So I make points others do not readily see. In doing so$,$ I frame experiences in compelling and engaging ways. I paint visions and provide new ways for people to see. I use metaphors and stories to do this. I find the stories in everyday experiences, and people find it easy to understand them. The new images that follow help people to take action In helping others, I try to empathize with them and understand their needs. I give them my attention and energy but I allow them to be in charge.

In exercising influence, I try to enroll people, not force them, in new directions. I invite people to work with me$.$ I use dialog to help people surface their ideas, and then I weave them together with others until we create knowledge in real time. I ignore symptoms and focus on the deep causes. I help people and groups surface the darkest realities and the most painful conflicts. From these emergent tensions comes the energy for transformation. I liberate people form their fears and help them embrace new paths. In all of this I try to model the message of integrity, growth and transformation.