Team Building: How to Find Double Birth Orders

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Team members with double birth orders can have a devastating effect on a team. Single birth orders the Only, firstborn, second born, third born and fourth born all have both positive and negative aspects. When a person has a double birth order they have 2 positive and 2 negative personality characteristics. Fellow team members will have great difficulty working with these people.

There Are No Bad Birth Orders

One may think that there are bad birth orders.  This is not the case. There are not Bad birth orders just differences.  Its understanding the differences that can make you and your team’s life less stressful and more productive. Double birth orders can be very good for a business if you know how to use their special talents. Letting them work alone on projects and not on a team will be beneficial.

Double Only Birth Orders

Each of the single birth orders can be paired with an Only birth order when there is a space of at least 4 years between any child both above and below their order of birth. The possibilities are: One/Only, Two/Only, Three/Only and Four/Only.

The Only birth order amplifies, intensifies, and magnifies the personality characteristics of the individual birth order.  The greater the distance between the two birth orders the greater the personality fluctuation. The One/Only will have far less personality fluctuation then the Four/Only.

Double Ordinal Birth Orders

These birth orders occur when there are four of more years between groups of siblings.  When this happens the second group is more like a second family of children.  The oldest has to operate like a firstborn but they also have their own numerical number of birth.

They could be the second, third, fourth, or fifth birth. Numbers such as 2/1, 3/1, 4/2, 2/3, 4/1 are the most common.  Just like the Only double birth orders the greater apart the numbers the greater the difference in their personalities.

Double Birth Order Questionnaire

How to find the Double Birth Orders on your team. This simple questionnaire will reveal the “real” birth order of your team member.

Answer the following questions to find if you have a  Double Birth Order  

  1. How many siblings are in your family? (include steps and halves that you lived with) LIST THEM
  2. What is your number?  (count from oldest to you)
  3. Were you the  FIRSTBORN and your next sibling was four or more years younger? no, proceed to #4 yes, add an ONLY # to your birth order and stop here.
  4. Did you have any siblings older than you with handicaps or died before you were 16yrs old? no, proceed to #6. yes, move yourself up 1 B/O# for each death or severe handicap.
  5. Did the death or handicap of the sibling older than you create a gap of 4 or more years between you and your next oldest sibling? no, proceed to #12 yes, proceed to #6
  6. Is the sibling who is immediately older than you, older by 4 or more years? no, proceed to #7 yes, add a Only # to your B/O#  and proceed to #11
  7. Did you have 2 older siblings?  Where was the 4 or more year gap between ages?  no, proceed to #8 yes, Between 1&2?   Add a #2 to your B/O# proceed to #12 yes, Between 2& me?  Add a #1 to your B/O# proceed to #12
  8. Did you have 3 older siblings? Where was the 4 or more gap between ages?  no, proceed to #9 yes, Between 1&2?    Add a #3 to your B/O# proceed to #12 yes, Between 2&3?    Add a #2 to your B/O# proceed to #12 yes, Between 3& me?  Add a #1 to your B/O# proceed to #12 9
  9. Did you have 4 older siblings? Where was the 4 or more year gap between ages? no, proceed to #10 yes, Between 1&2?    Add a  #4 to your B/O# proceed to #12 yes, Between  2&3?   Add a  #3 to your B/O# proceed to #12 yes, Between  3&4?   Add a  #2 to your B/O# proceed to #12 yes, Between  4& me?  Add a  #1 to your B/O# proceed to #12
  10. Did you have 5 older siblings?  Where was the 4 or more year gap between ages? no, proceed to #11 yes, Between 1&2 Add a #4 to your B/O# proceed to #1 yes, Between 2&3 Add a #3 to your B/O# proceed to yes, Between 3&4 Add a #2 to your B/O# proceed to yes, Between 4&5 add a #1 to your B/O# proceed to #1 yes, Between 5& me add a #2 to tour B/O# proceed to #12
  11. Do you have an immediate younger sibling no more than 3 years younger?  no, proceed to #12 yes, add a #1 to your B/O#   (remove the ONLY number)
  12. Is your next younger sibling more than 4 years younger? no, nothing changes yes, replace any secondary # with an Only number to your Birth Order number.

The following people have Double Birth orders that odd the Only Characteristic: (0)

Sylvester Stallone Sean Connery Monica Lewinsky
Bill Clinton Judge Judy Mick Jagger
Jon Bon Jovi Barack Obama Bernie Sanders
Britney Spears Ellen DeGeneres Jerry Springer
Jennifer Aniston Brian Williams Howard Stern
Adolf Hitler Robin Williams Suzanne Somers
Oprah Winfrey John Wayne Valdimir  Putin
Eli Manning Dr. Phil McGraw Billy Carter
Honey Boo Boo Paul Ryan Ted Cruz

The following people have Double Birth orders with only Ordinal Numbers: (1,2,3,4)

Walt Disney Donald Trump Khloe Kardashian
Will Smith Robert Kardashian Harry Reid
Princess Diana Kim Jong-un Glenn Beck
Jeb Bush Marco Rubio Katie Couric