Psychologist, Pete Lindsay presents at the 2017 Supporting Champions Conference discussing his work with Mark Bawden at Mindflick who have developed a tool for improving performance by understanding one’s performance preferences.

0:25 The importance of understanding personality preferences in order for us to perform to our optimum

2:10 None of us are perfect!

2:26 Timing, finding the right time to deliver the right intervention in the right way

3:38 Gathering resources so that you can focus on the impactful intervention

4:53 Character comes before competence

5:27 When interviewing, we ask, “Are the candidates passionate, hungry, humble do they want to learn, are they socially smart?”

6:49 To be successful you need to be contextually sensitivity

7:56 Know me, know method, know foibles

8:34 Two lenses, two metrics of personality profiles. How do you make your decisions and where do you get your energy from?

9:30 FLEXing your style, how to effectively work with others

9:59 People change across contexts, the extent of the power of context is 70:30

10:17 Personality can change with volitional effort

14:15 We all have blindspots, when played in the wrong context they can be a weakness

15:14 How do teams perform well in volatile environments?

16:33 Building psychological safety

17:42 The importance of influencing other practitioners, influencing with integrity

19:15 Differences allow us to be more agile and flex our style

19:51 Pig Wrestling - pigs are problems, never wrestle with a problem!

20:38 Tackling the wrong problem

21:11 Premature evaluation problem! That one intervention is vital, so take the time to clean up the problem before launching the intervention.