Three Tools One Goal: Understand Your Blind Spots
Creating leaders within an organization can be boiled down to two words: blind spots.
Each of us has blind spots to how we interpret information, draw conclusions, and take action. Effective leadership programs awaken individuals to their strengths and preferences, and at the same time, build understanding and respect for their coworker’s strengths and preferences. Behaviors from others that were once seen as different and negative can be understood as alternate and complimentary.
Our experience showed that no one approach gave us the tools we needed to help our clients identify and manage their blind spots. The solution was a layering of three respected curriculums, each based on sound science and proven practical application:
Kouzes and Posner: The Leadership Challenge
MBTI: Meyer’s Briggs Assessment
Emotional Intelligence from Talent Smart.
By bringing together the strengths of these tools, over a relatively short period of time, teams were given the tools, vocabulary and behaviors to better manage change, create accountability and solve problems. The complimentary roles of personality assessment, emotional intelligence and leadership behaviors pulls off personal blinders and puts works on the path to be leaders.
