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People ask us all the time, "What personality style is most suited to leadership or managing others?"
Our experience shows that there's not one style best-suited for leading others, but when specific competencies are accompanied by specific personality traits a magical combination is created and a real leader emerges. So ask yourself, "Do Your Leaders Have Personality?" - and does it matter?!? |
| Do Your Leaders Have Personality? | |
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Talent Magazine asked this question in the March 2010 issue and introduced the topic by saying: "The foundation of corporate leadership is shifting. Personality - how a person thinks about himself or herself and how others think about that person - is increasingly thought to impact business success. Assessments can determine what type of leader an individual may be or may become."
The article highlights the facts that:
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Employers want to know what kind of employee someone will be
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Does an employee's personality fit the demands of the job?
- Are the employee's values consistent with the company's values?
"Leaders who emerge based on expertise and behavioral capabilities help to develop collaborative cultures that allow their companies to reap the benefits of an increased level of employee engagement in critical business practices."
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| What Assessments Can Benefit Your Understanding of Personality? | |
| Our favorite and most beneficial assessment is the DiSC Profile. DiSC is a model of human behavior that helps people understand "why they do what they do." The dimensions of Dominance, influencing, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness make up the DiSC model and interact with other factors to describe human behavior. This leads to understanding personality and leadership effectiveness.
Whether using the Everything DiSC Workplace, Management or Sales Profile, an individual will learn so much about his/her own behavioral style, about others' styles and how to interact to maximize relationships - as a leader or as a co-worker.
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| If You Want to Improve Your Career Game... | |
"What should people do if they want to improve their career game? They will need feedback on their habitual ways of dealing with other people, or the interpersonal moves they typically employ in their efforts to both get along and get ahead," says Robert Hogan, founder of Hogan Assessment Systems, in the same Talent Magazine article.
360 degree assessments collect and provide that insight and feedback on performance...
With our 360 software, 20/20 Insight, you can collect 360-degree feedback for leaders (or any employee), measure the effectiveness of your training and development programs, conduct customer satisfaction surveys, and much more - all with ONE software package. You'll find a complete SYSTEM that includes both assessment and development. You get tools that help people practice a new skill until it becomes ingrained. Later, you can use the software to measure whether performance has improved - to make sure your training and development programs stick.
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| Take Action | |
| Understanding one's own personality and behavioral tendencies are crucial to leadership success. It comes back to the question. "What personality style is most effective for leading or managing others?"
There isn't one answer to that question, but leadership, personality and understanding yourself are inextricably connected.
Take action and make a difference to your organization's leadership now - call us or do the online research at our website to learn more about:
Christine Johnson
President/CEO
ALD, Inc.
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