47: How Your Personality Deals with the World, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2012

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

Everyone interacts with the world differently, but there are two broad ends of the spectrum that can help us understand how we see the world and how we can support those that we lead. In this episode, we’ll look extensive at the judging-perceiving personality type preference and how appreciating both sides can help you to understand and lead others more effectively.

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Judging preference

Organized
Scheduled
Planned
Energized by planning

Tips for leaders who prefer judging:

Not everyone will have planned things out as well as you have
Watch out for micromanagement
You’re going to need to be flexible with the real world

How to lead those with a judging preference:

Get them in the room when doing long-term planning and scheduling
Coach them if they get too caught up in their planning
Help people recognize when they need to be flexible

Perceiving preference

Spontaneous
Adaptable
Flexible
Energized by deadlines

Tips for leaders who prefer perceiving:

Be careful not to change directions too many times on people
There are huge advantages to giving people more time
Remember that you can (and likely will) drive those with a judging preference nuts

How to lead those with an perceiving preference:

Coach them if they aren’t trending towards making decisions
Tap into their strengths when things need to change direction quickly
Let them be flexible in the workplace (workday, schedule, timeline)

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0:00.0	You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 47,
0:04.0	earring on July 23rd, 2012.
0:08.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.
0:14.0	Welcome to Coaching for Leaders.
0:20.0	This is the show for leaders who want to improve themselves so they can better engage and develop others.
0:27.0	Whether you're a season leader or leaving 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, how your personality deals with the world.
0:48.0	Well, hello and welcome back to another episode of coaching for leaders. My name is Dave Stahoviac, and I am being joined today by the esteemed Bonnie Stahoviac, who is back here in studio to talk about the fourth and final personality dichotomy that we've been looking at over the last few weeks so Bonnie glad to have you back.
1:05.7	Thanks for having me back and for those of you who haven't heard Bonnie on the show before or
1:09.7	joining us for the first time you can learn about her at coaching for leaders.
1:13.6	dot com forward slash bony and of course you can learn about coaching for
1:18.8	leaders just by going to our website coaching for leaders dot com and if you are joining us for the first time,
1:24.8	I am so glad to have you here with us.
1:26.9	And we are in the, actually getting toward the end now
1:30.3	of our series on personality and how as leaders us looking at personality
1:36.8	helps us to understand how we can more effectively lead others and help
1:42.1	them to engage and develop themselves.
1:45.0	And so we've been looking at this over the last few episodes and we've been loosely using the model
1:50.0	from the Myers-Briggs type indicator which is originally from Carl Jung's research into personality over a hundred years ago.
1:57.6	And today what we're going to be looking at is how we all deal with the world. Now this is from specifically the
2:06.4	MBTI, the Myers-Brigs type indicator. If you're familiar with MBTI you may
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