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“ I am a self-centric person and respond to my environment from my own immediate desires and perceive criticism as personal attack”

  • Self-protection: alert for personal attacks
  • Desire for immediate gratification
  • See live as zero-sum game
  • Wins for self in any way possible
  • See live as zero-sum game
  • Interpersonal relations seen as exploitative for their needs

Key words

Self-Protection

Ego Strength

Main Focus

Gratify own immediate needs, short term wins

Awareness Level

Quality

Gratify own immediate needs, short term wins

Development Stage

3% (pre-conventional)
  • Hostile Humore
  • Set Short term horizon
  • Rejects feedback
  • Manipulative for self-protection
  • Glamourizes power and sexuality
  • Assigns blame to others
  • Reacts to feedback as attack
  • Take matters in own hands
  • Never admitting own mistake

Frame of Mind Profile Card

Opportunist

Opportunist leaders take advantage of opportunities as and when they arise, often at expense of others

Opportunist is one of the eight developmental stages of the Framework for Adult Leadership Development.

Tools: Opportunist Profile Card (PDF)
What Is Your Developmental Stage?
Opportunist

Opportunist

Diplomat

Diplomat

Expert

Expert

Achiever

Achiever

Redefining

Redefining

Transforming

Transforming

Alchemist

Alchemical

Unitive

Unitive

Don't Know Your Developmental Stage?​
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