21: Your Strengths and Blind Spots, with Susan Gerke
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2012
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Susan Gerke: GO Team Resources
Our personality preferences influence every relationship we have, including those where we lead and coach. I welcome special guest and Innovate Learning senior facilitator Susan Gerke to discuss our strengths and blind spots in this episode.
Susan and I discussed the spectrum of directing vs. informing language. Here are a few of the resources from Susan:
Go Team Resources
The I in Team* by Susan Gerke
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching skills for leaders. This is episode 21, airing on January 16, 2012. |
| 0:08.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to coaching skills for leaders. |
| 0:20.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills so that they can help others achieve their maximum potential. |
| 0:27.0 | Whether you're a season leader or you're leading people for the first time, |
| 0:31.0 | improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly, the success |
| 0:36.1 | of others. This week's topic is your strengths and blind spots. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Coaching Skills for Leaders. |
| 0:48.0 | My name is Dave Stahoviac, and I'm coming to you from Innovate Learning Studio here in beautiful Orange County, California, |
| 0:56.0 | and I am excited to have you back this week to continue our series on personal leadership. |
| 1:01.0 | And one of the important lenses to look through when we're personal leadership and the importance of focusing on ourselves first. |
| 1:10.6 | So we can lead well is understanding our own personality type and our own |
| 1:17.1 | personality preferences and I'm very excited this week to have been able to |
| 1:21.9 | interview a guest who is someone that I have a tremendous respect for and is just an expert when it comes to personality types and team dynamics and that's my colleague and dear friend Susan Gerky and |
| 1:36.0 | Susan is someone who just is a master at these tools and so rather than spend time telling you about the tools myself I |
| 1:45.8 | wanted to bring her in and provide some additional perspective and so the |
| 1:49.6 | interview following here I sat down with Susan just a couple of days ago and had a chance to talk with her about some of the personality dynamics, |
| 1:57.7 | why we should care as leaders about these things, and then we also look at the spectrum of directing and informing and that'll make more sense as you listen to this interview. |
| 2:06.4 | So sit back, relax, and here's my interview with Susan Gerky. |
| 2:19.0 | Susan is the president of Gerky Consulting and Development and is also a senior facilitator for Innovate Learning. |
| 2:26.0 | And Susan is a dear friend of ours and she is in addition to running her own business, |
| 2:31.0 | really someone that I see as an expert on personality |
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