CAMP CASEY, South Korea — A Category 5 hurricane strikes and it’s up to a small group of leaders to guide a town out of the disaster.

Some immediately make lists of assets and plan out every second.

Another person takes a minute to consider the task before them and what it means in the greater scheme of things.

How the diverging approaches of each person involved in such a scenario come together will ultimately determine the plan’s success, said organizers of the Four Lenses workshop at Camp Casey on Tuesday.

Linda Rieth, Installation Management Command Korea’s chief of military personnel, says she hopes to expand the workshop’s reach to better show servicemembers how different personalities interact.

Rieth has held the workshop four times and says that many who take the class — including some of the most skeptical — have breakthrough moments.

"Those are the folks that have been saying, ‘Oh, that’s why I’m not getting along with this person,’ " Reith said.

Each of the roughly 25 participants began the morning by filling out the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment.

Each category — and how strongly a person identifies with them — produces different sets of strengths and weakness, as well as a different way of accomplishing various tasks.

Some people are much harder to categorize because their answers put them close to a 50/50 split on the different personality types.

"They can see from different angles," Reith said. "Some people with higher scores may have difficulty considering another person’s perspective."

Following the test, participants separated into gold, green, orange and blue groups based on subsets of the results that measured temperament. After learning more about their traits, the groups mixed into four teams and took on the hurricane scenario.

The gold group tended toward sensing and judging. Reith estimates that 75 percent to 80 percent of the military fits into the gold group, which highly values structure.

"Some of that is adaptive, where people learn to be gold because of the training that they have," Rieth said.

The orange group, which is sensing and perceiving, often values excitement and benefits from nontraditional learning.

They have the hardest time adapting to a military lifestyle, Reith said. They may adopt traits aligned with a gold personality if they want to please their superiors and remain in the military, she said.

When people with differing personality temperaments conflict, asking each other to help them understand why they think differently can be a very effective way of opening up a constructive dialogue, Reith said.

Participant Bae Dong-soo fit in the green intuitive/thinking group and noticed he felt more comfortable with others like him.

Bae, the garrison community relations officer, wants to bring the test home to his wife and daughter, whom he believes view life differently than he does.

"This workshop also gives some additional tools to communicate with [co-workers]," Bae said.

Sgt. Maj. Shirley Moore of the intuitive/feeling blue group said she already felt comfortable communicating with other people before the workshop. But she noted that many who have trouble seeing eye to eye with supervisors, co-workers or others in their daily life could benefit from the course.

"This can open people’s eyes to the way other people think," said Moore, of the 2nd Infantry Division’s personnel section.