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A tip for success: Know your color

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  • By Staff Sgt. Samantha Krolikowski
  • 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs
FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. --  The Airman and Family Readiness Center is now offering a course that teaches Team Fairchild to understand and adapt to their peers True Colors.

The Airman and Family Readiness Center offers a True Colors course, based on a personality identification model, to help unit members understand personalities come in a rainbow of colors. The program's four colors are gold, green, blue and orange. The colors are used to differentiate the four personality styles of everyone's True Colors. 

"The purpose of True Colors is to apply appropriate and true personality principles and characteristics in all kinds of circumstances," said Christopher Marble, the 92nd Force Support Squadron Airman and Family Readiness Center section chief. 

Recently, the A&FRC conducted a three-day True Colors course for a few Fairchild Airmen.

"True Colors enhanced my understanding of my own thought processes and helped me to better appreciate the unique perceptions of those with whom I serve," said Chaplain (Capt.) Jeff Solheim, 92nd Air Refueling Wing Protestant chaplain.

A blue person is described as someone who is there for friends when they are needed, while gold describes an individual who has a solid work ethic and is always on time. Green portrays someone who uses logic and wisdom, while orange is generally a person who seizes the moment and is very active.

"Understanding someone's personality (color spectrum) honors their unique voice, thus inspiring their maximum participation and contribution," Solheim stated.

According to Don Lowry, the True Colors creator, True Colors is a way for people to understand each other, communicate, embrace diversity and maximize differences in aiding the mission and combatant commanders.

"Successful people know who they are and what their True Colors are," Lowry added. "When you know what your core values and needs are and feel good about them, you can perform at your highest potential in every area of life. And when you share a working, mutual understanding of others core values and needs, you have the basis to communicate, motivate and achieve common goals with utmost dignity, efficacy and mutual respect." 

"I absolutely recommend this class to all Airmen at Fairchild," Solheim said. "It helps participants better understand themselves, their fellow Airmen, and consequently function in a more cohesive manner as a group."

The training is held at the Airman and Family Readiness Center and workshops can be arranged on a case-by-case basis.

Call the A&FRC at (509) 247-2246 for more information.