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Section 18
Action Plan for Analyticals

Table of Contents | NCCAP/NCTRC CE Booklet

Check characteristics of staff member whom you feel may be an Analytical.
Behaviors Exhibited by Analyticals
______ 1. Precise, orderly, and systematic in facility and personal life. Desk is neat, shoes lined up in closet
______ 2. Conscientious: avoid antagonizing others.
______ 3. Usually does not take social initiative
______ 4. Weighs all alternatives
______ 5. Risk taken out of the problems
______ 6. Avoidance of anything that will threaten security, job routine, or is a new idea. Gets upset when residents’ rooms are switched. Wary of any changes made
______ 7. Gets mileage out of existing ideas.  States, “It’s always been that way”
______ 8. Change threatens altering the environment; disturbs one’s equilibrium, state of balance that most persons automatically seek to maintain with their surroundings at all times.

Check characteristics of staff member whom you feel may be an Analytical.
Motivators for Analyticals…
______ 1. A sharing of responsibility.   
______ 2. Predictable behavior by the department head. Supportive leadership that will show the way to get the job done.
______ 3. Being on time, being organized
______ 4. Stating the facts, using numbers whenever possible.  “At 10:00, when Effie returns from breakfast. I would like Wendy, her CNA, to give her her yarn winding at least one time per week.”
______ 5. Referencing examples from the past when this has worked

How to build a teamwork relationship with Your Analytical

Motivational words to use with an Analytical
Check the words you feel most appropriate for the staff member you listed above.
______ 1. Efficiency (cost effective)
______ 2. Your experience (We’ve done it before)
______ 3. Relate to the past
______ 4. If a new idea, stress long-term benefits. (Best for future as well as now)
______ 5. Changing to a new diet
______ 6. Facts: why they are good
______ 7. Risk-taking is out.  State, “Here’s what likely to happen…”
______ 8. Stability (Here’s the plan and we’ll stick to it)

Approaches to use with an Analytical
Check the approaches you feel most appropriate for the staff member you listed above.
______ 1. Prepare “case” in advance. Build credibility listing pros and cons
______ 2. Present specifics. “For 10 seconds Effie had a smile on her face,” rather than “Effie had fun.”
______ 3. Be accurate, realistic.
______ 4. Provide solid, tangible practical evidence.
______ 5. Time to verify reliability of your ideas; they won’t be rushed
______ 6. Answer any questions detailing how change will affect them individually.

Don’t do the following if you want the Analytical in your facility to become a Team participant
Check the don’ts you feel most appropriate for the staff member you listed above.
______ 1. Don't be disorganized
______ 2. Don’t rush the decision- making process.
______ 3. Don’t be vague
______ 4. Don’t use someone’s opinion as evidence, use facts.

Potential Trouble Areas
- Organizational changes
- Management changes, a new superior;
- Changes in work methods and procedures and new policies
- Job restructuring, task responsibilities are added or taken away
- New technology and new equipment.