Officer (RME-D)

Officers enjoy being around and engaging with other people, and as goal-oriented pragmatists bring a “let’s get it done” attitude into the room. Not ones for spending time weighing many different theoretical positions, they generally try to avoid assumptions, thought experiments, and speculating about grand “what-ifs.”

This type simply isn’t drawn to imagining all sorts of different possibilities, theories, or worlds different from their own. Officers are down-to-earth and feel much more comfortable operating with things closer to their immediate lives and experiences. Rather than wallow in abstractions and grand philosophy, they search for hard facts and reliable information.

Officers don’t guide themselves with a theoretical viewpoint, and instead, base their views and decisions on evidence obtained through practice – and their sensible reasoning. They value the tried and true, especially what’s been shown to work reliably through their use or that of trusted people. Sticking to these “best” practices helps them ensure success.

While this type isn’t prone to depart from well-established notions and practices to experiment with new ones, they can be persuaded. They just require reasonable evidence – or at least a solid plan that ensures the risk is minimal. Officers dislike spending time and effort on something that doesn’t deliver and then having to start over, and they see such diversions as having wasteful negative consequences.

Officers like solving problems in practical ways to ensure things run smoothly. They’re very organized, preferring to plan and prepare in advance with initiative and foresight. Officers enjoy teaming up on a goal, bringing organization, attention to detail, and a focus on efficiency to the team. They look to uphold stability and optimize the chances of success by employing tried and true methods and standards.

Others can count on this goal-oriented type to meet any objectives placed before them with intent firmness. They value reason and objective assessment, sometimes even at the expense of other people’s feelings. This isn’t because they feel contempt for others’ emotions, but rather deep abiding regard for a factual stance that makes practical sense.

However, Officers are prepared to compromise, especially when working among others they respect. Their primary motivation is reaching goals, and they understand it’s not always up to them alone to decide how things will be done. Even when they think their approach is the best option, they won’t stubbornly insist on it to the detriment of the overall progress they value so highly.

Whether in personal or professional realms, Officers value individuals taking responsibility and ownership of their actions, and they strive to do this themselves. This type doesn’t make commitments lightly, following through on their promises and appreciating those who do the same. Most comfortable when following a clear path, Officers often view their lives as progressing through phases and try to accomplish specific goals in each of them.