Prepare Your Leadership: Personality

Hello. Hello. Happy Monday. Give it till about 1201. See if anybody joins here. See by the title, we're talking about personality today, kind of in the workplace, overcoming personality as well. I'll first start and talk a little bit about the history. Personality has been around for thousands of years, dating back to hippocrates and Galen, who first established four personality traits of Sam Gwynne, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic. Now, more recently here in the 20th century, Freud came up with ego and id and his personality viewer personality.

Carl Jung was one of the first to come out with the big five. Personality traits which are very popular today, like openness to experience, acceptance, extroversion, conscientiousness and emotional stability, or which is opposite of neuroticism. And so Apa, which is probably the most widely accepted psychology standards, they define personality. Hi Alec, how's it going? Talking about personality. Personality is defined as enduring characteristics and behaviors that comprise of a person's unique adjustment to life.

So it's really the view of our lens that we see life through. This can include way more than just the big five. It can be interests, what drives and motivates you, your self concept, more of the abilities and emotional patterns as well, defining kind of how you regulate emotions. It's very unique to you and that lens that you view life. And we've all kind of probably done personality assessments in our lives, so we have a general understanding of who we are. The role of personality in the workplace, though, has numerous factors.

And you look at the research, there's a lot out there about how personality can affect us. It can affect us, how we communicate, collaborate, how we handle stress and conflict as well. It also shows relates to how we are, our job performance as well. More conscientious people have been shown to be better at your career. I'm sure Alec, working with tech and coding and that stuff, you have to be very conscientious, very detail oriented to be successful in your job. Or if you're not, you have to come up with a lot of steps to check yourself.

And also stuff like extroversion has shown to relate to better sales performance. And extroversion is related to perceptions of leadership. It doesn't relate to if you're going to be a successful leadership, but people think you are more fit to be a leader if you are extroverted. And I can go on a whole nother livestream about how that is flawed, but. So yeah, personality can really affect how we work, but it also can be a derailer as well, it doesn't always lead to good things. Looking at personality through the Hogan view of it, they have a whole section called the Hogan derailers, personality derailers.

And these are usually traits or strengths that are overused or used inappropriately, which can hinder your performance in relationship. Hi, Jules. Welcome. Talking about personality, and we talked about the positives. Now we're kind of getting into how it can be a derailer in the workplace. So this could be, like, over controlling. So if you're very high in conscientiousness, very detail oriented, if under stress or not really keeping yourself in check, this might lead to, like, micromanaging, resistance to change, kind of being risk adverse, not wanting to take chances, really wanting to keep the same pattern over and over again.

So how can we overcome our derailleurs? Well, first you have to know your derailleurs, and that's by taking a personality test like the MBTI. Or like, if you can get your hands on a Hogan, you can take the disc. There's a lot out there. I'll talk a little bit about that too, later about doing this activity. So it's first figuring out which personality is and then becoming more self aware at work. Where are you? Wow. On vacation. Jules, that sounds fun. Thank you for joining on your hike. So, yeah, figure out your personality, be more aware and regulate that as well.

So. And I'm sure a good way to regulate and get those. The resources back to deal with personality traits that might become derailers is to go on vacation and hiking, relaxing. That's very good. So I challenge you to take a personality test. Figure out your personality, think about your strengths and what might become derailist or something that is overused. And then I encourage you to then reflect on this. Think of a situation where personality might influence something at work. Or is there a common thing where, let's say you're high in acceptance?

Then does that mean that you kind of just listen to what you're told and never ask questions? So just throwing out there, figure out what your personality traits is and think about how that can affect your work. So personality traits dates back thousands of years, kind of shapes who we are. So it's very important to figure out what our personality traits are and be more aware of them and use them in leverage at work. And also figure out what might be the derailleurs at work. So that is personality here on a Monday.

Jules, I hope your hike is going well. Hope there's good weather, and I hope to see you back next week. Keep on. We have JC on here in about 20 minutes. And you can check the whole calendar right here on the app. See you, everybody.