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Peanut Butter & Chocolate Webinar
Bruce Griffiths M.S.
With colleague Rob Toomey at TYPECOACH (www.typecoach.com) we recently co-hosted a live webinar on the powerful diagnostic combination of two talent frameworks, i.e., personality and performance models. OSI's Polaris® Competency Model provides one lens through a library of skillsets that describe necessary performance dimensions at work (how you actually show up in your role). The TYPECOACH dynamic personality assessment provides insight into a participant's personality profile (i.e., extroverted or introverted, planful or spontaneous, etc. - who you are). In the webinar we explored how personality creates headwinds, tailwinds, and cross currents to performance at work. Participants were asked to discuss how personality might influence two important competencies, Problem Solving & Decision Making and Organizing & Planning at work.
We've always appreciated the ATD quote that "Development without diagnosis is like planting cut flowers!" So the deep diagnosis of first personality, then the translation to performance (competencies), provides an absolutely necessary starting point for personal development. You must know where you are to chart where you're going. And the combination of these two frameworks can provide that clarity.
Weblink for the Webinar:
https://vimeo.com/941954301/cb868567fc?share=copy
Leadership & Creativity Webinar
We've also recently collaborated on a PODCAST with creativity guru Sura Al-Naimi (https://www.hihellosura.com/) during which we discussed our Polaris® Competency Model in the context of leadership development. The PODCAST did a deep dive into the Creativity competency as it supports one of the three fundamental, costumer facing, values needed in most organizations, namely Quality, Service, and Innovation. Creativity fuels innovation, so it's an important ingredient in talent management systems, especially when selecting and developing roles with creative responsibilities.
Creativity does present an organizational conundrum. While imagination and innovation are definitely needed to stay on the leading edge (e.g., how is AI impacting your organization?) not every role needs Creativity listed in the job description (e.g., think Airline Pilot, as I, for one, would like my aircraft commander to stick to protocols and procedures!). So knowing when and how to feature the Creativity competency is very important.
But in general the divergent thinking that Creativity allows a leader is an essential ingredient in both Decision Making and Strategic Thinking, where paradigms must be challenged and new solutions surfaced.
Weblink for the Webinar:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hihellosura/episodes/From-Manager-to-Mastermind-Unlocking-Your-Leadership-Superpowers-with-Bruce-Griffiths-e2i2j1h
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