Personality Profiling

Metaprograms are the unconscious filters or pre-dispositions that influence our understanding, decision-making and actions.

Using Metaprograms we can, for example, discover whether a person initially tends to look for areas of agreement or difference, whether they tend to be self-motivated or require external input in order to take action; the strategies they use to feel convinced, and whether they prefer 'big-picture' summaries or detailed explanations.
Understanding your preferences will help you to:

• increase your understanding of yourself and others
• understand your preferences for learning, thinking and communicating
• improve relationships with friends, colleagues and partners
• minimise or avoid conflict at college, work and at home
• prevent misunderstandings
• reduce disagreements
• influence and motivate others
• improve teamwork and group effectiveness
• increase the impact and effectiveness of your communications

Metaprograms may differ across contexts. They are patterns of behaviour, not types of people. They are systematic and habitual, and we do not usually question them if they serve us well. You will notice other peoples' Metaprograms both through their language and their behaviour. Because Metaprograms filter experience, and we pass on our experience through language, certain patterns of language are typical of certain metaprograms.

New Oceans research has discovered there are some sixty Metaprograms that we unconsciously use to filter our perception. The New Oceans Personality Profiling Process has reduced this large set to a set of fundamental Metaprograms that can predict how someone will behave in a given context.