478: How to Explore Personality, with Bonni Stachowiak
Jul 6, 2020
The hosts tackle the complexities of balancing strengths and weaknesses in leadership. They critique the strengths movement and stress the importance of self-awareness and personal vision. Insights into effective personality assessments like Myers-Briggs and StrengthsFinder are shared. The discussion also emphasizes creating a comfortable atmosphere for authentic podcast interviews. Additionally, ethical storytelling in healthcare and education is explored, highlighting the need for vulnerability and curiosity in leadership.
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StrengthsFinder Results and Competency
Understand that StrengthsFinder results reveal relative talent rankings, not absolute competency measures.
Avoid assuming someone is universally competent in a strength just because it's ranked highly in their results.
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Addressing Weaknesses
Acknowledge and address weaknesses, especially as a leader.
Use StrengthsFinder to identify potential blind spots and develop strategies for improvement or delegation.
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Bonni's Futuristic Strength
Bonni Stachowiak hesitated to use her futuristic strength when leading a new team, fearing micromanagement.
Recognizing her unique strength within the team, she leveraged it and boosted team confidence.
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The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide
Bonni Stachowiak
This book offers practical strategies and tips to help higher education professionals efficiently manage their work and use various technologies and productivity tools. It addresses challenges such as managing asynchronous content, streamlining communication, grading productively, and keeping course materials current. The guide draws on productivity principles from authors like Stephen Covey and David Allen, and provides actionable steps for improving personal productivity in academic roles.
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
Listener Questions
Joseph asked our opinion about this HBR IdeaCast on StrengthsFinder: Stop Focusing on Your Strengths
Matt asked about using personality assessments when coaching an athletic team.
Mike wondered the best way to approach conducting internal podcast interviews of employees.
Resources Mentioned
Brené Brown: The Call to Courage (Netflix special)
StrengthsFinder training for individuals and teams* (use code CFL10 for a 10% tuition discount)
Blubrry podcast hosting*
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