Dave joins us on the podcast to chat about why it is vital to know how your personality (and others) works so that you can continue too improve your communication skills, your knowledge of yourself, and your ability to grow. He walks us through not only our selves but also our team.

Where to find Dave:
- Linkedin
-His Website

Transcription below:
[00:00:00] Dave: [00:00:00] it's developing yourself and. And the idea that we can't grow, we can't expect others to grow. We can't expect our team to grow if we don't grow.  

Keerstyn: [00:00:36] welcome to the podcast  Dave, we are so excited to have you here. Do you want me to just give us a brief, background of how you got involved in your work and then what you do now?

Dave: [00:00:43] Sure. Yeah. so yeah. Thank you for having me. I, I've been in leadership roles for all of my adult life and, and it was probably about 10 years ago or so, where I really started turning a corner and getting more intentional about how to. Lead others [00:01:00] organizations and bring resources to them and got connected to John Maxwell and his leadership group and his team.

and, And so it just, it evolved from there to be able to really go to the next level of helping individuals and teams and organizations to find the success and the results that they're looking for and what I've found and what I've come to believe as you and I were talking before it re it really, my focus really is on the people side of things, of developing people, our greatest appreciable asset.

It doesn't matter what you sell. It doesn't matter what your organization's all about. Doesn't matter where you're located. It doesn't matter how many people you have. The one common denominator is that people are our greatest appreciable asset. And so I have found that to be the sweet spot of my leadership focus is to help individuals and teams and organizations to develop their people.

[00:02:00] Yeah, 

Keerstyn: [00:02:01] absolutely. So you said about 10 years ago, you became a little more intentional about your leadership. What were some of those things that really struck you when you started to be intentional? 

Dave: [00:02:13] Yeah. I, what I found was. a lot of people, I just stumbled into it. Like I said, I've always, you've been involved in leadership in some way, shape or form, but I really got involved with a lot of local businesses through chamber of commerce and what I was finding, it was just this common need that people had to learn and to grow about themselves.

And so I was really looking for. It just seemed that the door was just really opening up to be able to help people in that realm. My focus is, as I said, is not really on strategy. Like I, I'm not really like a business strategist. I'm not great at helping somebody along those lines, as much as it just comes down to the people thing.

I've spent my whole life developing and [00:03:00] working with people. And so that's really where the doors seemed to open up. Yeah. 

Keerstyn: [00:03:05] So what are some of those things that you do to help people get on the road to development? I'm sure at the very beginning, what does that look like? 

Dave: [00:03:14] when I, when people ask what I do, in the simplest terms, in three words, it's I speak a train and I coach I'm a speaker trainer and coach.

and so the. the model that I typically use in whatever venue that is or whatever, that, whatever the, the framework of where that speaking training or coaching may develop is I've always used like the baseball diamond analogy, which I really like is the idea like you start off first base is developing the leader within you.

it's developing yourself and. And the idea that we can't grow, we can't expect others to grow. We can't expect our team to grow if we don't grow. So it all begins with ourselves. It's discovery. we do a lot of [00:04:00] stuff with discs, personality profiles to help you figure out what are, where are your strengths?

How are you wired? And then w move that to second base, which is about developing your team. If you can develop yourself, I think you'll be better equipped to develop your team. And so the focus there is how do you take the vision that you have as a leader, as a business, to grow it from me to we, where more people they get it and they understand, and they want to.

They want to go where you're going and that's the team side of things. and when you can develop yourself and you can develop your team, then organizations and companies are really just a collection of teams. It's a team of teams. And so that's the third base is then helping organizations on a wider macro level to develop themselves that way.

and then what I say, th then the home run, of course, Baseball diamond isn't complete without home base. So the home run for [00:05:00] me and my perspective is to help individuals and teams and even organizations and even communities to move beyond success, to significance. And I think to me, that's what home run is when you are then using your gifts and your talents and your abilities and your experiences.

To make a difference beyond yourself. It's not, it goes beyond just making a dollar and it's about making a difference. And, and I think that's something that is, that I have found is just a common thread that I think is just inherently wired in all of us that we all have that want that desire somewhere deep, that we want to make a difference.

It's that legacy talk what's gonna. Outlast me after I'm gone. what difference have I really made? what imprint have I really made on the world? And, that's the, you asked, what's the, where do you start? yeah, that's where you start. I think that's the trajectory around those 

Keerstyn: [00:05:57] bases.

Yeah. Yeah, [00:06:00] absolutely. So you mentioned disk in there and I would assume that every part of that uses disc in some way. 

Dave: [00:06:07] Yeah, of course. Yeah. 

Keerstyn: [00:06:09] Do you want to explain this a little more for our listeners? 

Dave: [00:06:13] So yeah, just goes into the, basically it summarizes, everybody puts you into a predominant. We all have.

Different dope elements of our personality, that, how we react to things, how we make decisions, how we respond to pressure, how we deal with other people. And. And so the four parts of that personality go are important for us to understand, what am I a domineering kind of person?

And am I an inspiring kind of person? Am I a little bit more of a steady, I just kinda to keep things happy and moving along. Am I more of a compliant person where I. I like things to be done. And the focus is there. and the truth of the matter is that we are all a combination of all of those, but you [00:07:00] most likely have one or two that are the dominant side.

So it's important for us to understand that about ourselves. So that does come into play in. In base and first base is figuring out, how am I wired? you have to know how you are wired. You have to know yourself. If you want to grow yourself, if you want to grow other people all around you.

And so then the definitely then that moves toward the second base is not just how here's, how I'm wired, but now I've got to find out how are the people around me wired. And that becomes critical when it comes to. One of the number one problems that teams deal with is communi...