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Understand personality traits, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and leadership impact. Analyze competencies like self-awareness and relationship management to improve communication and productivity.
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Emerging Leaders Program Module 1: Building Your Self www.cheurfire.com
Objectives • Define personality and understand the importance of studying personality • Identify the benefits of personal development and increasing self-awareness • Understand personality assessment results • Analyze how you communicate and work with others using your type and strengths • Identify others’ types and strengths and develop strategies to work with those with similar and different preferences to yours cheurfire.com
What is Personality? • Enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that characterize a person1 • External traits – observable behaviours • Internal states – thoughts, values and genetic characteristics inferred from behaviours • Behavioural tendencies • Nature or nurture? 1 McShane, Steven L., and Sandra Steen. Canadian Organizational Behaviour. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2009. Print. cheurfire.com
Why Study Personality? • Identifies what motivates you and others • Determines how others perceive you • Analyzes how others react to your personality • Understands where others are coming from • Analyzes how you react to others’ personalities (and how you should react) cheurfire.com
Personal Development • Improves self-awareness and identity • Helps leverage strengths and minimize weaknesses • Assists with achieving goals and fulfilling aspirations • Builds human capital • Enhances quality of life • Increases productivity, innovation and quality cheurfire.com
Emotional Intelligence1 Relationship Management Managing other people’s emotions Highest Social Awareness Perceiving and understanding the meaning of others’ emotions Self-management Managing our own emotions Self-awareness Perceiving and understanding the meaning of your own emotions Lowest 1 McShane, Steven L., and Sandra Steen. Canadian Organizational Behaviour. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2009. Print. cheurfire.com
Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI)1 • Self Awareness • Emotional awareness • Accurate self-assessment • Self-confidence • Self Management • Emotional self-control • Transparency • Achievement • Adaptability • Initiative • Optimism • Social Awareness • Empathy • Organizational awareness • Relationship Management • Developing others • Change catalyst • Conflict management • Influence • Inspirational leadership • Teamwork & Collaboration 1Hay Group cheurfire.com
ESCI1 • Most common competencies • Achievement orientation • Teamwork • Organizational awareness • Least common competencies • Emotional self-awareness • Influence • Coach and mentor • Conflict management • Inspirational leadership 1Hay Group cheurfire.com
Self-Awareness Why focus on self-awareness? cheurfire.com
Emotional Self-Awareness EI Emotional Self-awareness cheurfire.com
Leadership Impact cheurfire.com
Johari Window cheurfire.com
Johari Window cheurfire.com
Self Awareness cheurfire.com
Self Awareness Influenced by… • Self-enhancement • Promote and protect our positive self-view cheurfire.com
Self Awareness Influenced by… • Self-verification • Affirm our existing self-concept (both good and bad) cheurfire.com
Self Awareness Influenced by… • Self-evaluation • Self-esteem, self-efficacy, and locus of control cheurfire.com
MBTI–- Quick Background1 How we take in information How we make decisions JUDGING PERCEPTION Sensing Intuition Thinking Feeling 1 Source: Slideshare. Author unknown. cheurfire.com
Extraversion or Introversion E I cheurfire.com
E-I Exercise In your groups, create 3 questions that will give you better insight into the opposite to your preference (E or I). Elect a spokesperson who will ask the questions to the other group. cheurfire.com
E-I Exercise Observable behavioural differences between Es and Is? cheurfire.com
Extraversion Preference • Attracted to outer world • Aware of surroundings • Enjoy meeting and talking with new people • Friendly, verbally skilled, easy to know • Often speak out • May NOT be aware of what’s going on inside cheurfire.com
Introversion Preference • Attracted to inner world • Aware of inner reactions • Prefer interacting with people they know • Often reserved; harder to get to know • Quiet in meetings; may seem uninvolved • May NOT be aware of outer world around them cheurfire.com
Dealing with the Opposites cheurfire.com
Sensing or INtuition S N 3 1 2 cheurfire.com
S-N Exercise Look at the following picture for 1 ½ minutes, in silence, and then be prepared to share with the group what you think you have been looking at. cheurfire.com
S-N Exercise Description differences between Ss and Ns? cheurfire.com
Sensing Preference • Prefer to take in information using their five senses –sight, sound, feel, smell, and taste • See and collect facts/details • Practical and realistic • Take one step at a time • Specific and literal • Live in the present • Prefer reality to fantasy cheurfire.com
INtuition Preference • Focus on meaning, associations, & relationships • See patterns, connections, and meanings • Conceptual and abstract • Start anywhere; may jump around • Speak in general, metaphorical terms • Live in the future and possibilities • Prefer imagination to reality cheurfire.com
Dealing with the Opposites cheurfire.com
Thinking or Feeling T F cheurfire.com
T-F Exercise Imagine you have been invited to a party with your partner or a close friend. Your partner/friend arrives, ready for the party, and you look at what they are wearing and say to yourself “On no! Are they really going to wear that?” What do you do and say in these circumstances? cheurfire.com
T-F Exercise Response differences between Ts and Fs? cheurfire.com
Thinking Preference • Use logic to analyze the problem • Assess pros and cons • Focus on the facts and principles • Good at analyzing a situation • Focus on problems and tasks – not relationships cheurfire.com
Feeling Preference • Use personal values to understand situation • Focus on the values of the group or organization • Good at understanding people and their viewpoints • Concentrate on relationships and harmony cheurfire.com
Dealing with the Opposites cheurfire.com
Judging or Perceiving J P cheurfire.com
Exercise Imagine you all work in the same PC and you are in charge of planning a holiday gathering. In your respective groups, plan the gathering. cheurfire.com
Exercise Planning differences between Js and Ps? cheurfire.com
Judging Preference • Makeplans and follow them • Get things settled and finished • Prefer environments with structure and clear limits • Enjoy being decisive and organizing others • Handle deadlines and time limits comfortably • Plan ahead to avoid last minute rushes cheurfire.com
Perceiving Preference • Respond resourcefully to changing situations • Leave things open, gather more information • Prefer flexible environments • Dislike rules and limits • Tend to think there is plenty of time to do things • Often rush to complete things at the last minute cheurfire.com
Dealing with the Opposites cheurfire.com
A Prayer for All of Us ISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41.23 am est. ISTP: God help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive. ESTP: God help me to take responsibility for my own actions, even though they're usually NOT my fault. ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if You need some help, just ask. ISFJ: Lord, help me to be more laid back and help me to do it EXACTLY right. ISFP: Lord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don't mind my asking). ESFP: God help me to take things more seriously, especially parties and dancing. ESFJ: God give me patience, and I mean right NOW. INFJ: Lord help me not be a perfectionist. (did I spell that correctly?) INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta ENFP: God, help me to keep my mind on one th-Look a bird-ing at a time. ENFJ: God help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest. Do you mind putting that in writing? INTJ: Lord keep me open to others' ideas, WRONG though they may be. INTP: Lord help me be less independent, but let me do it my way. ENTP: Lord help me follow established procedures today. On second thought, I'll settle for a few minutes. ENTJ: Lord, help me slow downandnotrushthroughwhatIdo. cheurfire.com
StrengthsFinder 2.0 • 34 themes • Classification of talents TALENT X Investment = Strength cheurfire.com
StrengthsFinder 2.01 • 6 Times as likely to be engaged on the job • 3 Times as likely to have excellent quality of life CHALLENGE: We spend more time trying to fix our shortcomings than developing our strengths. CHALLENGE: We romanticize overcoming our shortcomings. (E.g. Rudy) 1 Rath cheurfire.com
“Swimmer’s Body” Illusion cheurfire.com
StrengthsFinder 2.0 You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be a lot more of who you already are. - Tom Rath cheurfire.com
StrengthsFinder 2.0 Caveat: You can overdo your strengths. cheurfire.com
StrengthsFinder 2.0 1 1 Kaplan and Kaiser, HBR cheurfire.com