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  • Sketchy 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

                                          • Full Show Notes Here

                                          33 min
                                        • Sketchy 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

                                                                              Full Show Notes Here

                                                                              33 min

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