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How I Can Be a Better Outdoor Leader Using Carl Rogers’ Three Core Conditions Dave O’Brien Carl Rogers is famous for noting three core conditions that are essential for counseling people. These are defined as empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard. Utilizing, practicing and being mindful of these skills when talking to individuals can be very important in helping people fight through tough times. As an outdoor leader, one of my big goals is to be able to help people work through and end up on the good side of something that might seem bad. Because of that, honing in on these three attributes is going to be essential for me to be an effective leader.                                                     ...
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Behavioral and Personality Inventories in Outdoor Recreation For this blog post, I will be sharing information about different types of behavioral and personality inventories and see how they could be used in the outdoor recreation field. In order to begin comparing behavioral and personality inventories, I should first define “behavior” and “personality”. This will allow us to focus in on which part of the human condition we are really trying to understand with each style of test. The human condition is so varied and complex that being as specific as possible will help outline what these subjective tests are trying to convey. According to People Styles At Work and Beyond by Robert Bolton & Dorothy Grover Bolton, behavior is defined as “what a person does” and personality as one’s “beliefs, thoughts, motives, values, attitudes, feelings, etc. as well as behaviors”. They also try to explain how their inventory is different than “many” others because theirs is a behavioral invento...
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