Sketchy Ideas

By Sketchy Ideas Show

Sketchy Ideas is a video podcast where Michael and Brad illustrate and debate concepts surrounding leadership, business, and personal achievement in a way that'll make you think twice before you imple... more

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January 21, 2021Sketchy Ideas Episode 26: CYA Choose Your Assessment
2:20 Intro to topic
CYA = Choose Your Assessment
Personality assessments

Do they work

How can they benefit you?

Virtual working will force people to dive deeper and work harder
4:11 How Michael helps his clients
Important things to look for when choosing the right assessment
Context - current state and constraints

Goals - where do you want to be that’s different than right now

Readiness - are you ready to work with the results

“Personality tests are often misused” -M

“Different assessments give you different data” -M

Preassess yourself to make sure you’re even ready to take an assessment
AKA are you in the right mindset

“Assessments are useless if you don’t have an end goal in mind” -B

“I ain’t talking about the roaring ’20s, I’m talking about the 2020s.” -B
In regards to the willingness to improve

What is the need you have, and how are you measuring that need?

“Begin with the end in mind.” -B

Ding...DIng...Ding... Brad had a perfect metaphor
Going into the grocery store while hungry, buying a bunch of groceries, and getting home and realizing you can’t do much with what you have.

Is the assessment dead?
Overused

Oversimplified

Does it still have the same impact it once had?

“There is value to a well-chosen and well-applied assessment” -M
10:50 So what’s next?
Growth Readiness assessment
If you’re a business owner or an HR leader this can be a good start

11:41 Why SPEARity uses growth readiness assessments?
They looked at the patterns
Organizations have visions, missions, goals, plans, and strategies
They are not true (they’re theoretical because they are future-focused)

But what happened? The real data and results

“You can trust your gut as long as you calibrate it” -M
Calibrate the future thinking ideas against the real behaviors to close the delusion gap

Often times, delusion is optimistic

Humans are terrible at estimating how long it will take to do something
The closer to the real result, the lesser the delusion gap

We always underestimate

14:05 Johari window
Box from top left → top right → bottom left → to bottom right
Open, Blind, Hidden, Unknown

About you (Michael)
Open: Brown hair, caucasian male

Blind: Things you know that I don’t

Hidden: Things I know that you don’t

Unknown: Things that haven’t been explored, no one knows

17:20 Moving on.. kinda
People are aspirational and great at goal setting and effort, but there’s often a gap in planning
19:40 Are you ready?
Context: A business owner or HR leader

Goal: Grow or scale
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33min
January 21, 2021Sketchy Ideas Episode 25: Personality Assessment - Good, Bad, or Ugly
5:50 Topic Intro: Personality Assessments
Everyone has probably taken a personality test online

Buzzfeed personality tests (Random tests that determine an end result based on your answers)
Which flower are you?

Which Disney princess would you be?

7:15 Most known personality tests
Meyers Briggs

Kolbe

DISC

Endotype
7:40 History of assessments
“We as humans need to classify as many things as possible” -B

Archeologists label bones instead of calling them thing 1 and thing 2

“Things with a label are easier to sell” -B (because it’s tangible)
8:30 Value of labeling
Nomenclature + Taxonomy = Categorization

“Functionally, it makes it easier to know what we’re talking about” -M

Classification has some GOOD things (GOOD *Check*, BAD, UGLY)

“Classification creates the fight or flight response in your brain” -B
Dangerous things (animals, natural disasters, etc.)

10:15 Michael explains DISC
“DISC is to personality assessments as ZOOM is to video conferencing” -M

DISC is mostly used in the workplace

“DISC assessments might not solve your problem, but might make you feel better for a while.” -M

Theoretically, if we can better understand ourselves and understand the people we work with, that should solve all of our problems.

Personality tests can be
A survival tool

A team builder

DISC seems to be the assessment that people use as a crutch or a box.

Using your personality test results as a way to justify or dismiss your actions can result in some BAD behaviors (GOOD *Check*, BAD *Check*, UGLY)
14:00 Conative vs Cognitive
(Gear) Conative is how your mind works when it’s at work (How you work with the world)

(Brain) Cognitive is how your mind works while at rest (How you understand the world)
15:00 Meyers Briggs
One of the oldest personality assessments

This works because it is based on tropes
Types of characters to create a team

Works together to create interesting dynamics

Do people still use Meyers Briggs?
Yes, but most people nowadays compare themselves to a pop culture reference
AKA Harry Potter (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, & Slytherin)

The four houses most likely correlate to the 4 personalities of the Meyers Briggs assessment whether JK Rowling meant it or not

18:48 Using personality tests as a crutch
People think “Once people have been defined, they believe that’s what they are” -B

People change
22:10 Context and environmental inputs
Humans have two sets of needs: personal and interpersonal
If you arent around other people, your personal needs rule

22:50 Run through of Good & Bad
Good = put in context
Being intentional about how they are applied and the frequency of them being reevaluated

30:00 Labeling
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33min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 24: New Year, Same Me?
Brad and Michael go through their ideas behind New Years Resolutions and why they may be best to skip this year!
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47min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 23: Behind the Whiteboard
Today, Michael takes you behind the whiteboard and explains his setup and the tools you need to create a successful one yourself!
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18min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 22: The Care and Feeding of Your Launch
Today's episode is a case study of the successful launch of Pet Rock in 1975!
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34min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 21: Crazy Concepts
Today, Brad and Michael will explore some of the "crazy" (or "so-crazy-it-just-might-work") business ideas that they have run into!
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39min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 20: Transforming Your Brain (With Cyrina Talbott)
In today's episode, recorded live, Brad and Michael had guest Cyrina Talbott on to help translate her business model and how she can explain it to others.
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44min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 19: COVID Classroom
Even better than the real thing!
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39min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 18: Performance Analysis
Brad and Michael will be going over how companies build out their process and frameworks for training!
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44min
January 21, 2021 Sketchy Ideas Episode 17: Debating Our Differences
Brad and Michael talk about how different generations are working/living differently.
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35min

FAQs about Sketchy Ideas:

How many episodes does Sketchy Ideas have?

The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.