46: Personality Preferences and Decision-Making
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2012
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We all make decision as leaders, but we don’t all make decisions the same way. Our personalities influence what becomes important and prominent in our decision-making. In this episode, I explore the two dichotomies that help explain how we make decisions. Then, I discuss strategies leaders can use with folks who have preferences for each dichotomy in order to understand how we can make better decisions.
Thinking preference
- Analysis
- Objective
- Egalitarian
Tips for leaders who prefer thinking:
- Watch out for over-analysis
- Listen to how people feel about the situation
- Know that you can’t always be perfectly objective – consider the other side too
How to lead those with a thinking preference:
- They are going to want data
- Coach them if they might appear cold to others
- Watch out for impact on one person
Feeling preference
- Impact on people
- Values-based (my work – what inspires me)
- Individual considered
Tips for leaders who prefer feeling:
- Spend time to consider the data in your decisions
- Know that the business work tends to understand “thinking” better
- Watch out for getting to tied into one person or cause on a decision
How to lead those with a feeling preference:
- Discuss how decisions will impact people
- Coach them to consider data in their decisions and explanations of their decisions
- Talk in terms on decisions and values
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Coaching for Leaders. This is episode number 46, airing on July 16, 2012. |
| 0:08.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Coaching for Leaders. |
| 0:17.0 | This is these show for leaders who want to improve themselves so they can better engage and develop others. |
| 0:26.0 | Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, |
| 0:30.0 | improving your leadership skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others. |
| 0:36.0 | This week's topic, personality preferences and decision making. |
| 0:41.0 | While everyone decision-making. Well hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Coaching for Leaders. |
| 0:48.0 | My name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm coming to you from our studio out here in Orange County, California and a special |
| 0:56.2 | welcome if this is your first time listening and this is really a show about how you can develop yourself so that you can engage and develop others more effectively. |
| 1:11.6 | And I've had many times in my career as a trainer and coach |
| 1:15.4 | where people have shown up into a room either to meet with me personally or to show up for |
| 1:20.7 | a class or to show up in some type of training event and they have |
| 1:25.3 | walked in with the expectation that they would receive a whole bunch of |
| 1:30.3 | great tools ideas, tips, resources to change other people. Well I have news |
| 1:37.8 | for you, most of you who listen to the show already know this, but you can't change anyone else until you change |
| 1:45.1 | yourself. |
| 1:46.1 | And in fact, that's the best way to change others is to change yourself first and develop |
| 1:51.6 | yourself first. And this show is really focused on doing that for all of us and helping |
| 1:58.2 | all of us to become better leaders, to make better decisions, and to understand ourselves better so we can best lead and develop others. |
| 2:09.4 | And today we're going to be continuing the series on personality preferences and how we can lead as |
| 2:17.6 | effectively as possible by understanding our preferences around personality. |
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