Transformational Leadership: From the Insight Out

Transformation Tip: “You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

This week’s talent: WOO

Intrinsic needs:

• To meet new people 
• Something to win people over to 
• To be appreciated and understood as a strategic networker.  
  • You’ll also want people to get back to you and tell you how their intro follow-up went.

Potential blindspots:

• Others may view you as shallow and insincere because you connect with people quickly and then move on. 
• You may have a tendency to reveal yourself and trust others too quickly. This may cause more reserved people to step back from a relationship.
• Because you operate easily in social settings, you may not understand why more people can’t do it as well. 

Transformation Application: Thank a WOO person for introducing you to someone.  Let them know how it went. Also, If you need some strategic contacts to help move something forward, find a WOO person.

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Transformation Tip: “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives” - Jackie Robinson

This week’s talent: Significance

Intrinsic needs:

• Feedback from a caring leader to know that you are heard, valued, and recognized
• To be acknowledged that you are making a difference
• To be seen as competent and professional

Potential blindspots:

• Because of your strong Significance talents, people might perceive you as overly concerned about your reputation and success. 
• Sometimes you might mask your vulnerability or come across as overly controlled, and this can make it difficult for others to know how to support you.

Transformation Application: Are there people in your life who exhibit the Significance of talent?   Go tell them that you appreciate them.  They will thrive off of that. 

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Transformation Tip: “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” - Norman Vincent Peale

This week’s talent: Self-Assurance

Intrinsic needs:

• Freedom to act independently 
• To be in an environment where you can be bold and confident 
• To follow your “gut” 

Potential blindspots:

• Your confidence in making the right decisions might make you feel like you don’t need to consult anyone else. 
• Because you usually sound like you know what you’re talking about, whether you do or not, others might be nervous about questioning you. 

Transformation Application: The next time you need to decide, think through the options, then go with your gut.

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Transformation Tip: Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude. - Ralph Marston

This week’s talent: Maximizer

Intrinsic needs:

• To be able to focus on strengths and excellence 
• Freedom to excel 
• To be in an environment that encourages growth and quality 

Potential blindspots:

• Your desire to exhaust all possible outcomes can frustrate those who want to come to a suitable conclusion and move forward.
• You might be disappointed when a project or initiative falls short of your definition of excellence. 

Transformation Application: What’s an action plan you have to develop one of your strengths and make it even stronger? Don’t have a plan, find a maximizer or a coach

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Transformation Tip: “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

This week’s talent: Competition

Intrinsic needs:

• The opportunity to regularly compete and win
• Feedback/information to compare yourself with.  (What’s the score?)
• Pick jobs/roles where your performance can be measured. 
• To be on a winning team
• Take time to celebrate your wins.

Potential blindspots:

• Be careful not to let your competitive spirit get in the way of your relationships. 
• Winning at all costs isn’t winning; it’s self-defeating. 

Transformation Application: If you achieved a level of excellence in an area, go find someone who’s even better than you and see what you can learn from them.  Talk, join them on a project, work alongside them.

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Transformation Tip: “How well we communicate is not determined by how well we say things but how well we are understood.” – Andrew Grove, engineer, CEO

This week’s talent: Communication

Intrinsic needs:

• To process/think/learn “out loud”
• Frequent opportunities to speak and/or to write
• A collaborative sounding board(s), and objective feedback

Potential blindspots:

• Because you are naturally verbal and instinctively share your thoughts, you may not realize when you are monopolizing a discussion. 
• Remember that your words are not always enough to motivate others. 
• Be careful to not judge bad or even mediocre presentations

Transformation Application: If you’re going to give a presentation, your natural tendency will be to shoot from the hip, because you’re gifted.  But, practice and prepare, and it will be that much more effective.

If you’re not a communicator but need to present, go talk to a communicator they’ll help you get it nice.

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Transformation Tip: "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand." —Gen. Colin Powell

This week’s talent: Command

Intrinsic needs:

• Strong leaders to follow 
• Clear direction and priorities 

Potential blindspots:

• Your decisiveness and presence can be intimidating, whether you intend them to be or not. 
• Because you speak with authority, you might be used to getting the final word. 
• Some obstacles don’t need to be confronted, they need to be circumvented.

Transformation Application: Next time you want to say something, do it in the form of a question.

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Transformation Tip: Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. – W. Clement Stone

This week’s talent: Activator

Intrinsic needs:

• To act…now! 
• To have others join you 
• To be in an environment that allows you to “activate” 

Potential blindspots:

• Sometimes you might charge ahead and act without a solid plan. 
• You’re most likely not a great “finisher.” 
• The force of your urging people to take action might make them feel overwhelmed and pressured to act before they are comfortable. 

Transformation Application: Identify one project you’ve been putting off, and go take the first action step (which is NOT thinking about it”).

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Transformation Tip: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

This week’s talent: Strategic

Intrinsic needs:

• To be part of the decision-making process
• Time to “muse” until the related patterns  and issues emerge for you
• Freedom to make mid-course corrections
• Freedom from, “But we’ve always done it that way.”

Potential blindspots:

• When working with others, sometimes they may misinterpret your strong Strategic talents as criticism. 
• Because you evaluate patterns and pathways so quickly, others might find it difficult to follow or understand your thought process. 
• You may get frustrated when others don’t see the way forward as quickly or easily as you do. 

Transformation Application: The next time you’re trying to explain your strategy, illustrate it with pictures (like a flowchart). 

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Transformation Tip: “Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." — Leonardo da Vinci

This week’s talent: Learner

Intrinsic needs:

• Must always be learning
• Opportunities to share new knowledge
• Freedom to learn in areas that are of interest 

Potential blindspots:

• You place a high value on learning and studying and may tend to impose this value on others. 
• You love the process of learning so much that the outcome might not matter to you. 

Transformation Application: If you learned something new this week, go tell someone about it.  But make sure you do it in a way that they understand.

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