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4 Factors That Affect Your Leadership Style

Jan 17, 2023 Comments

Did you know that your type of person affects your leadership style?

When I say, type of person, it means it is the core of who you are. It drives certain attributes and challenges as well.

In the FREE workshop that I will be launching, you will be able to identify your type, and you will learn how to utilize your type to become a great leader.

But for today’s video, I want to focus on a certain component of this which really drives leadership style and teamwork- the component of passive or active and negative or positive.

The passive type is more content with the way things are and thinks that there is no need for change if things are going well. Active types, however, always see the need to change and improve things.

Negative types see the glass as half empty or tend to be more pessimist. They see what is not going right whether it is a physical process or ideas. This would also affect how they approach others about the change they want to make, and a positive passive type may see their approach as aggressive or threatening.

Positive types tend to see the glass half full and are optimists. They seek change and improvements but would approach others in a more diplomatic and positive way. Thus, people would tend to perceive them as less aggressive and more diplomatic.

Learning the Types of People approach is a powerful way to know yourself better and to understand others. It provides in-depth knowledge of the core motivation, qualities, and fears of people.

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How To Break Free From Your Fears

Jan 10, 2023 Comments

Fear is one of those things that can seem like it’s holding you back—the only problem is, you might not even know it’s there.

Identifying your fear related to your type can be a powerful way to deal with it and move toward your goals. It can also help you understand what’s holding you back in the first place.

So, what are some of these fears?

Some types of people are afraid of ineffectiveness for example. While it has some positive effects, such as reaching the goal or accomplishing the task immediately, if you are afraid of ineffectiveness, you might tend to be pushy, especially if you are a manager. You might be too authoritarian to your direct reports because you want to get things done immediately or in your way. Others might think that you are too bossy or too dominating.

You can’t remove your fear related to your type. It’s inborn in all of us. But you can control it!

Fear is a powerful thing, but it doesn’t have to hold us back from acting or achieving our goals!

That’s why I am launching my FREE Workshops on Types of People that will help you identify your motivation, your fear, and how you can work on your fears, utilizing them to become more effective.

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Understand Types of People for Improved Knowledge of Self and Employees

Jul 09, 2014 Comments

In this video and article I will talk about the various types of people and how this impacts leadership and employee behavior.

In my last video and article I spoke about how to have employees become more creative so they can contribute better ideas for continuous improvement. I mentioned that the first component to that is to understand the different types of people and how each type views change. Change is an important element of creativity and continuous improvement.

Everyone is unique, no two people are the same. This is true for our DNA, our personalities and our type. We have often heard the expression, he or she is not my type said to us by a friend. But what exactly does that mean?

There are six classic types of people and many combinations of types. So no two types can be the same. What is similar is the core tendencies of each classic type.

The basis for the classic types is rooted in our dominant intelligence. There are three intelligences that each human being processes, the physical or instinctive intelligence,
the emotional intelligence and the intellectual intelligence. Some practitioners of neuroscience calls them the three brains.

The basic difference between people starts with their dominant intelligence. A person who is dominated more by the physical or instinctive in physical intelligence2 telligence is more focused on physical beauty and pleasures and on performing tasks with force and determination.

The emotional types are heart centered people and see life through their emotions. They tend to want to help others and promote happiness. They make good listeners and are highly empathetic.

The intellectual types use their intellect first to interpret situations and people and define their preferences. They tend to like to express their ideas and opinions of which they have many and are prone to do a lot of research and analysis.

Just from these brief descriptions you might already have a new perspective on yourself and your team of employees. The better you understand someone’s dominant intelligence and type the easier it is to work with them.

Each type has their strengths and weaknesses depending on the situation, relationship and task at hand. To improve one’s effectiveness in working with others and performing tasks well, each person needs to become better balanced in all three intelligence’s. This means
using a good balance of your intuition or physical smarts, your intellectual thinking and your emotions. When all three are in good balance one can be highly effective in their relationships and task execution.

I learned about this types of people approach from my former colleague Fritz Glaus. Fritz wrote a book about this and also developed a leadership and team development training program that incorporates the six basic types methodology. In the book CrazYZoo, KnowThyself Made Easy, the reader gets involved by making a choice about himself before the start of the story and another one as he progresses through it. He discovers himself by taking on the role of one of the animals in the story. It is a simple yet highly effective method of learning about oneself and about others. You can download the book from this link for $5.

I will talk more about the types of people approach to self-knowledge in future videos. For now I encourage you to observe yourself and others to determine which of the three intelligence’s is most dominant and how it affects your behavior and relationships.

Stay in touch by subscribing to this channel and share your thoughts as well. Here is the link to the last video about employee creativity I mentioned earlier.

How to get employees to be more creative and drive continuous improvement

Jun 25, 2014 Comments

Continuous improvement and creativity go hand-in-hand. Entrepreneurs and business owners are typically creative people in the business sense and usually craft their businesses from an idea. It often takes a lot of trial and error to develop a winning formula for your business. Even though there are best practices that can be followed from a business strategy and management perspective, each business has its own personality and thus there is really no cookie-cutter approach.

As businesses grow and take on more employees. The business owner can no longer be involved in every aspect in detail of the business. He or she must rely on forward thinking employees who care enough about the business to want to make improvements.

There are three key components that affect the ability of employees to be creative, and continuously improve how they do things.

The first component is their human type. Certain types of people enjoy change and other types prefer keeping things as they are.

The second component is the level of self esteem and self confidence of the person. The higher these elements are in the employee, the easier it is for them to take risks and try new things.

The third component is the culture of the company, based on the leadership style of the business owner and top management. It is not enough to expect people to come forth with suggestions for improvements. The business leader must create a platform for people to engage in continuous improvement discussions so they can draft well thought out proposals to management.

In fact, the essence of teamwork is not only to have the right synergy among team members in order to execute well on a project. Equally important is for team members to be able to meet together and find opportunities for improvement that will keep the organization more nimble and effective.

Even the types of people who don’t like change, often have good ideas for how to improve things. They’re usually reliable dependent workers who you know will perform their tasks in a consistent fashion.

To have all employees contribute to continuous improvement business leaders simply need to organize regular problem-solving or continuous improvement meetings that uses a structured approach that is efficient and gets everyone to participate.

Business leaders can also raise people’s self-esteem and self-confidence by coaching them to do more challenging work and then giving regular positive feedback.

The more that the business leader delegates responsibilities and decision making. The more people will fill engaged and committed to the business and will want to ensure the company success.

If management is going to encourage employees to contribute their ideas for continuous improvement management must act on these ideas or let people know why they can’t. Even with all the new applications for sharing information amongst employees and management, is still in some ways, just like the old suggestion box. People do not see their ideas taken seriously. They will just develop a poor attitude towards management and the attempt to have them participate in idea generation.

In today’s global economy is imperative that every organization utilizes all its resources to continuously improve and find new ways to do things. If your competition is doing it. And you’re not. You are to big disadvantage and risk becoming insignificant to your clients.

Everyone can improve something every day that does not require approval from management. It could be just how customers being served to learning a shortcut on a computer program that will save time. We just need to have the mindset to want to improve and look for opportunities that are all around us.

Stephen Goldberg