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Topic 5 - Making Personality Useful

The final step in understanding the mind is exploring the ways that people are dissimilar. Not everyone’s mind works the same way, and understanding the key differences in personality is a transformative tool that can help you better connect with people, heighten your self awareness, and maximize your mind’s range.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the ways people are different, and wrestle with accepting just how big differences can be

  • Dive into the history of how people have tried to measure personality, and where the Big 5 approach that we use sits in the overall timeline of personality measurement.

  • Learn how much it matters to choose the right people and get people into the the right mindset for work by seeing that people are just as important as structure in business.

  • Gain insights and start charting a personal plan based on your CORE profile.

what this will help you do

  • Create a shared vocabulary for discussing how people think and how we can best match personalities to work and the challenges we face

  • Maximize self awareness and self regulation so we can have more range and succeed in a greater variety of situations

  • Learn how to help other people become more flexible, versatile, resilient, and capable by understanding their personalities and range.

 

How people have tried to measure personality (Psychometrics)

People have been trying to understand and measure personality for over 200 years. In the last 20 years, we have had significant breakthroughs that brought about an approach called the Big 5. This is widely known as the best current way to measure and describe personality, and is used by universities and researchers globally as the primary approach to psychometrics.

 

The “Building” metaphor

Once we understand that people have different personalities, we can see why so many companies struggle to get the results they are hoping for. Building anything great requires two skills, and in business, the importance of the second key skill is vastly underestimated. As a manager, having both of these skills transforms your ability to build a peak performance team and operation, and as a manager with the second critical skill of building, you will see things most people miss.

Key Take-Aways and Points to Ponder:

  • Designs are important, but materials might even be more important

  • What type of material am I? How does that influence how I bring designs to life?

  • What types of materials do I have on my team? What state are they in?

  • How can I best use this metaphor to improve our team’s performance in key ways?

 

Getting started with your profile

There is no better way to start learning personality than by starting with yourself. You’ll learn the vocabulary and structure of personality, how it affects you, and explore the full set of insights that can also help you better understand and describe other people, too.

Leveraging your profile to find concrete ways to grow as an individual and manager can make the journey of your personal growth and pace of learning much easier to navigate.

Key Take-Aways:

  • You and everyone around you have range. Not everyone uses their range.

  • Are you great at describing yourself to other people? Try to develop a precise and accurate vocabulary that makes you more understood.

  • What kind of experience are you? Many people have never considered this question. Learn how to see yourself from other people’s perspective and you will discover eye-opening quick wins that can change the game for relationships and collaboration.

  • Do you really understand other people and how they are so different from you? It can help to dive deeper into another person’s mind to understand how they think and how that should affect the approach you take with them.

  • Every aspect of personality comes with at least a few risks. Have these been affecting you through your life? Finding a few wins here can save you a lot of time and energy.