S + I · one of the twelve blends

Si personality type (The Cheerful Anchor)

The Cheerful Anchor looks after people and keeps the mood light.

The Cheerful Anchor is reliable and warm, and keeps the team steady when things get hard.

Si is one of the twelve blends in the WiredType model. Steadiness leads, and Influence is close behind. People also write this blend as SI or S/I. The Is blend, in which Influence leads, is a different type. This page describes the Cheerful Anchor. If the Cheerful Anchor is your type, you will likely recognize yourself in it. If you live or work with a Cheerful Anchor, it shows what the Cheerful Anchor is wired to do and how to work well together.

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Traits of the Cheerful Anchor

This section covers what drives the Cheerful Anchor and what the Cheerful Anchor works to avoid, then the Cheerful Anchor's main strength, main weakness, motto and signature animal, from WiredType's profile of the Si type.

What drives the Cheerful Anchor

  • The Cheerful Anchor wants everyone at work to feel looked after, so a week after a coworker's surgery they ask how it went.
  • They want their coworkers to start a long day in good spirits, so the night before they text the group, "Come hungry, I'm bringing muffins."
  • The Cheerful Anchor wants their friends easy with each other, so when game night turns tense they offer the gentle joke that gets everyone laughing.
  • They like a plan they can keep, so on the 1st of each month they set aside $40 for birthday cards and small gifts.
  • The Cheerful Anchor wants to be the one people can count on, so they pick up a call at 11 p.m. and stay on until the caller feels better.

What the Cheerful Anchor works to avoid

  • The Cheerful Anchor can fear sudden change at work, like finding their schedule rewritten overnight with no one telling them.
  • They can fear a quarrel splitting their family, so when their two sisters stop speaking three weeks before Thanksgiving, they lose sleep over it.
  • The Cheerful Anchor can fear being taken for granted, and it stings when they stay late at work for the fourth time in a row and nobody offers to take the next one.
  • They can fear having no time left for themselves, and on Sunday night they see that every evening next week already belongs to someone else.
  • A month without a call from anyone weighs on the Cheerful Anchor, who can fear losing touch with the people closest to them.

Superpower (main strength)

When a group goes quiet, the Cheerful Anchor notices the one person who has said nothing and asks that person by name, "What do you think?" so one more voice gets heard.

Kryptonite (main weakness)

The Cheerful Anchor asks everyone how their week is going. When someone asks back, the Cheerful Anchor says "I'm fine," and the thing they need goes unsaid.

Motto

“I'll check on whoever went quiet today before I call it a night.”

Signature animal

The dolphin is smart and social, protects its pod and brings play to the group.

How the Cheerful Anchor works with each style

Each section describes what tends to happen between the Cheerful Anchor and a colleague of one style, and gives a line the Cheerful Anchor can say. If you are that colleague, read your own style's section.

DSi and D (Dominance)

A D-type colleague asks the Cheerful Anchor to speak up sooner than feels natural. The D-type moves fast and speaks bluntly. The D-type decides in the meeting while the Cheerful Anchor is still weighing the options. The D-type's feedback arrives without the kind words the Cheerful Anchor would add first, so it can sting. What the D-type gives is clarity. The D-type says exactly where the Cheerful Anchor stands. That spares the Cheerful Anchor the guessing that quietly wears them down.

What the Cheerful Anchor can say to a D-type colleague: “I need a little time to think before I answer. Can I come back to you tomorrow at 10 with my honest view? My first answer tends to be the polite one, and I want to give you the real one.”

ISi and I (Influence)

The Cheerful Anchor and an I-type colleague both care how people are doing, and the difference is pace. At the Monday meeting the I-type pitches three new ideas while the Cheerful Anchor is still finishing last week's plan. The I-type gets the room excited about the newest one. The Cheerful Anchor makes sure everyone feels included, down to the quiet person by the door who has not spoken yet. The shared care makes this pairing easy most weeks.

What the Cheerful Anchor can say to an I-type colleague: “I love this idea, and I want it to happen. Can we take ten minutes now to pick a date and decide who does what?”

SSi and S (Steadiness)

With another S-type colleague, work feels comfortable fast for the Cheerful Anchor, and neither one pushes. The two read each other easily. That ease helps the work, and it also lets problems sit. A doubt both hold about a deadline can go unsaid through weeks of Monday check-ins. The comfort is good for both, and their best work also needs some honest disagreement out loud.

What the Cheerful Anchor can say to an S-type colleague: “Can we each name one thing about this that worries us? I'll go first. I'm unsure the date we picked works.”

CSi and C (Conscientiousness)

The Cheerful Anchor and a C-type colleague both work at a measured pace, and the two spend that time on different things. In the Tuesday budget meeting, the C-type checks row 14 of the spreadsheet while the Cheerful Anchor watches who has gone quiet. Each catches what the other misses. The C-type finds the formula that double-counts travel. The Cheerful Anchor notices the new analyst stopped talking after slide two, and asks for that analyst's view.

What the Cheerful Anchor can say to a C-type colleague: “I appreciate how carefully you checked this. I also want people to feel good about it. Can we spend ten minutes on Thursday at 7 planning how we share it so everyone comes along?”

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