{"id":126,"date":"2017-03-10T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=126"},"modified":"2018-12-05T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:27:39","slug":"the-profiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/the-profiler\/","title":{"rendered":"The profiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaina Love \u201979 is a builder-transformer-healer, but she\u2019s more interested in what <em>you<\/em> are.<\/p>\n<p>A leadership and talent management consultant, Love has spent the last decade building her own psychometric tool and administering it to more than 10,000 employees across the U.S. She calls it the Passion Profiler, and she uses it to identify people\u2019s strongest \u201cpassion archetypes\u201d (things like altruist, teacher, or healer) and through those, helps her clients better understand themselves and their jobs.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<header>Love Notes<\/header>\n<p><strong>Builder. <\/strong>Builders have a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, work tirelessly to reach goals, and are known for getting things done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transformer. <\/strong>Transformers identify and embrace possibilities for improvement and growth in business, the environment, themselves, and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Healer. <\/strong>Healers have a passion for creating peace in turmoil and repairing broken relationships or broken spirits. They help others successfully navigate pain.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The idea came from personal experience. As executive director of human resources for Merck in the early 1990s, she was shocked when her boss hinted that Love might be next in line for vice president of human resources. More than that, she couldn\u2019t believe she wasn\u2019t more excited about the possibility.<\/p>\n<p>When she still couldn\u2019t muster more enthusiasm a year later, Love left her job to try something new. But a nagging question followed: how could the company have held on to her?<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, she began interviewing people from different industries, asking them about finding purpose and passion in their work. With the data she collected she began to identify 10 passion archetypes. Now those pillars (creator, conceiver, discoverer, processor, teacher, connector, altruist, healer, transformer, and builder) form the base of her Passion Profiler.<\/p>\n<p>Love has gone into prominent organizations with her profiler\u2014General Electric, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense. Using responses from her advanced survey, she distributes passion reports that show people their strongest archetypes and unpack their motivations, vulnerabilities, and strengths. The reports help employees and employers understand themselves and each other, which ultimately leads to better teamwork and more engaged workers, she says.<\/p>\n<p>One of her favorite examples involved a chief financial officer. As Love prepared to hand back profile results at his company, she noticed the CFO was \u201can outlier; I got the feeling people looked at him as the guy who always said no.\u201d But his profile results included \u201cconceiver\u201d\u2014a rarer archetype indicating someone who thrives at innovation. Love says the CFO\u2019s team realized they\u2019d written him off as \u201ca bean counter\u201d when really, he could help find the creative solutions they needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuddenly they\u2019re asking his opinion and he\u2019s offering it,\u201d she says. \u201cI got notes from him afterward about what a big difference [the profile] made for him personally and professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now Love wants to take her message beyond the office. She\u2019s working on a book about \u201cpassionality\u201d and hoping her passion-defined archetypes become a full-fledged movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to rival or exceed what Myers-Briggs has done,\u201d she says, referencing perhaps the most famous personality assessment. \u201cI want this to be something that people around the world know about and benefit from.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaina Love helps employees link their passions to purpose, allowing their organizations to thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":49,\"y\":39}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-back","tag-alumni-profile"],"thumbnail":"<img width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-200x300.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-73 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"object-position:49% 39%\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-1120x1680.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-280x420.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-320x480.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-640x960.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-1400x2100.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-1536x2304.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-828x1242.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-720x1080.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-360x540.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love-4x6.jpg 4w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/03\/Alaina-Love.jpg 2667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>","catString":"The Back","issue":"Spring 2017","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}