The advantages of identifying and understanding your...IgnitionTheme

Your ignition theme helps you to “get going”. It tends to stimulate your thinking, feeling or behavior. This “ignition” or “spark” could be linked to ideas, actions or feelings. This specific theme acts like a starter that energizes you, and gets you going. It might be intentional or unintentional. The more you understand the dynamic of this Ignition Theme, you understand how to leverage it best for your own performance and energy.

To help you identify your Ignition Theme, ask questions like:

• Is there a specific theme that tends to “kick in” and help my thought, feelings or behavior get into action?
• Is there a specific one of my Top 5 themes that I know I need in order to get started?
• Which one of my Top 5 themes seems to energize me?


Why it helps to understand my Ignition Theme

Should you identify and understand how your Ignition Theme functions, you will be able to leverage it at the right moments and at the right time. This is not only beneficial in order to use it when you need to start and ignite, but also when to avoid using your ignition theme because you need to relax. Stimulating your Ignition Theme at night, for instance, could lead to not being able to sleep.


FAQ’s on Ignition Themes

• Can your Ignition Theme change over time? - Yes, just like with your Core Theme, this theme is dynamic and not static.

• Can my Ignition Theme be lower than my Top 5? - Yes, and it often is. It is then advisable to explore other themes with your Talent Guide in order to discover a possible theme.

• Could I have more than one Ignition Theme? - Although you might think it is possible, usually what happens is that another theme reacts to the Ignition Theme immediately. This is theme dynamics in action.

• Does everyone have a specific Ignition Theme they could identify? - No. Not all people can identify with an Ignition Theme concept, and therefore it must never be forced.

• Can my Ignition Theme be the same as my Core Theme? - Absolutely. This actually often happens.

• Are certain Talent themes more prone to be Ignition themes than others? - Yes. The most common Ignition Themes out there are themes like Activator, Achiever, Competition, Focus, Discipline, Maximizer, Command, Strategic, Learner and Positivity - although any theme could be one. Can you think why these are common Ignition Themes?




- By Dries Lombaard, C.E.O. Africanmosaic

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