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WBU prof uses scriptures to create personality inventory tool

Studying personalities has always fascinated Dr. Linda Hutcherson. As a longtime classroom teacher, then a school counselor, she said knowing the various personality types can be extremely beneficial, especially in school or work settings where a multitude of types are featured.

But when Hutcherson, who has been a professor of education at Wayland Baptist University for the past 10 years, went in search of a personality inventory that was based on the Bible, she came up short. Her solution? Create one of her own.

Hutcherson has been familiar with inventories that measure and categorize personalities for many years, first as a counselor at Canyon Junior High school and then as an education specialist with the Region 16 Education Service Center where she trained districts and teachers on various programs, including the True Colors personality inventory.

In her role at Wayland, she uses the various inventories with her own students, many of whom are studying to be future teachers in public schools, in order to point out the variances in people and how it can play into teaching a classroom of students.

"The first thing we need to understand as teachers is the personalities of our students and their learning styles," she said. "It helps us build a community of learners, and it also helps people accept one another and our differences."

But when asked to do a workshop on this trend for a women's retreat at her church, Harvest Christian Fellowship, she found that all the personality inventories were lacking in one specific area. While most of them boiled down to the four main personality types, none had any basis in Scripture, and that was one area Hutcherson felt strongly about.

"I wanted us to be able to define ourselves through Scripture, and accepting ourselves is important before we can accept others," she said. "We can see ourselves perfectly through the eyes of Jesus. Once we do that, we can function so much better with each other."

Hutcherson decided that the best course of action would be to develop an inventory of her own, using Scripture that helped define personalities and strengths. She started with the passage in Isaiah 61, a prophecy about the coming Messiah, who describes him as one who has come to "proclaim freedom to the captives" and trade their mourning for gladness. Verse 3 has one specific passage that became central to Hutcherson's research: "They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor (NIV).

12 Most Valuable Personality Traits of Top SEO Consultants | 12 Most

I’ve been dancing around, playing in and practicing search engine optimization ( SEO ) for over a decade now. In a prior life, I also managed one of the larger SEO teams in the country. During that assignment, I had the pleasure of thinking very strategically about the roles within our team ; how to divide responsibilities between roles and what function each of those people performed within the enterprise.

This level of organizational planning led to a marked increase in staffing, which meant a good deal of hiring . As we hired into all those roles (we nearly doubled the size of the team in under three years), I was forced to really think about and appreciate the many facets of great SEOs. Given all that experience, I thought I’d share with you my view of the 12 most valuable personality traits of top SEO consultants. It is exceptionally rare to find all 12 of these traits within one person. Nevertheless, the best SEOs have a healthy blend of the following:

Like it or not, SEO can be a fairly technical endeavor. One must study and understand the multitude of factors that search engines take into account when ranking pages and other assets for a certain phrase. A great SEO must also know enough about HTML, CSS, web servers, domain names and more to understand the impact of mistakes (and how to diagnose those mistakes).

Good SEOs know more than just the technical stuff, although technical understanding can take you a long way. Great SEOs also understand the art and impact of human desire. They know what makes someone click on a search result and they think through why it makes sense to try to drive traffic to this page instead of that page. They understand the impact of navigational flow and site architecture. That doesn’t come purely from the technical side of the brain.

The day an SEO stands still is the day they die. Just like sharks, constant forward movement is a necessity in the SEO world. Great ones constantly poke, prod, experiment and try to deconstruct complex algorithms that change a reported 200+ times a year. Some SEOs even try to think ahead and understand where the search engines are LIKELY to go by reading everything from tea leaves, to patent applications. Yes, really – patent applications.

One of the best aspects of digital marketing is that EVERYTHING can be measured. Not everyone is wired to fully take advantage of this characteristic of the digital space. The very best SEOs are! Not that they are going to be able to measure everything themselves (though some absolutely can). At a minimum, they need to understand what can be measured, how to get their hands on the data and work collaboratively with data hounds to get the info they need to make informed decisions. Most importantly of all, they need to know when to “call bull-shit” when a data analysis comes back and doesn’t quite pass the sniff-test.

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