Leading Self

This assessment, designed by Gallup, helps people identify their talents. Gallup research proves that people succeed when they focus on what they do best. When they identify their talents and develop them into strengths, people are more productive, perform better, and are more engaged. Note: there is a small fee required to take this assessment.

Saboteurs are your invisible agents of self-sabotage. They represent your brain’s automatic mental habits with limiting beliefs and assumptions about how to handle life’s challenges. You can learn to meet your challenges by activating a different voice and region of your brain that performs far better while producing positive feelings like curiosity, empathy, creativity, and peace, with a laser focus on action.

PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient) measures the relative strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur). PQ is the most widely used measure of mental fitness. Independent researchers have validated this measure to be the greatest predictor of how happy you are, and how well you perform against your potential.

Find out what is important to you by taking a Personal Values Assessment. The Personal Values Assessment, created by the Barrett Values Centre, is a simple survey that takes just a few minutes of your time and provides a wealth of information about why you do what you do.

Gaining access to your own insight isn’t difficult; you simply need to commit to reflecting on a daily basis. Based on Nancy J. Adler's research and many years of work with global business leaders as a consultant and international management professor, she recommends the simple act of regularly writing in a journal:

The quality of self-awareness requires self-reflection. Self-reflection is the act of setting aside time, ideally every day, to quietly and honestly look at yourself, first as a person and then as a leader. As with most good habits, commitment and practice help us to improve.

Self-reflection and introspection are important psychological exercises that can help you grow, develop your mind, and extract value from your mistakes.

Becoming self-aware almost always requires help. As Kroger CEO David Dillon learned when he lost an election, it’s not always your opinion that matters. To realize your potential, it is important to understand how the person you project into the world is received.

How well do you know yourself? How deeply do you understand your motivations? The charge, “Know thyself,” is centuries old, but it has never been more important.

Self-management is a fundamental requirement for empowering both people and organizational success in the knowledge economy.

In high-functioning individuals, these two skills work together in an endless cycle: Self-Awareness—“I know what I’m feeling or thinking or believing”—followed immediately by Self-Management—“My feelings or thoughts or beliefs don’t drive my behaviors; I can choose how I act.”

Shirzad Chamine shows Stanford students how his research on positive intelligence can help them achieve their full potential for professional success and personal fulfillment.

This animation brings to life the 'Movie' metaphor; one of Dr Peter Fuda's seven metaphors for leadership transformation. It describes processes of self-awareness and reflection, which allow a leader to ‘edit’ their performance, and direct a ‘movie’ in line with their leadership vision. Often, leaders find themselves in their own version of Groundhog Day, living the same reality day after day with the same result. After many visits to the editing suite, leaders can hone their reflective capacity, and eventually, learn how to slow down their movie. From this place of stillness, leaders can draw upon past learnings, and their ever expanding repertoire of tools and strategies, and choose a better response – in real time.

At the core of a world-class leader is a high level of self-awareness. Therefore, becoming more self-aware helps to improve your effectiveness as a leader. What are you proud of, and what do you wish you could do better? How can you incorporate our talents, skills, knowledge and experience into improving our leadership impact? In this GET YOUR MIND ON, Lori educates us about these essential components to build a stronger core.

In this lecture, discussion guide, and practice video package, Marcus Buckingham explores strengths-based management and leadership. This resource is made available through leanin.org.

Working hard but not improving? You're not alone. Eduardo Briceño reveals a simple way to think about getting better at the things you do, whether that's work, parenting or creative hobbies. And he shares some useful techniques so you can keep learning and always feel like you're moving forward.

Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says Guy Winch. But we don’t have to. He makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.

Brené Brown studies human connection—our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.

Katherine Lucas is an extrovert — but to her surprise, her cheerful smiles and warm approach gave others the impression that she was less intelligent and lacked leadership skills. Lucas identifies different types of extroverts and argues that the workplace needs them all.

The first step to cultivating self-reflective awareness is knowing what it is and explicitly valuing it. Once it is explicitly valued, there are several ways one can foster it.

Organizations benefit more from leaders who take responsibility for what they don't know than from leaders who pretend to know it all.

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. Even though medical institutions have designated “leadership” as a core medical competency, leadership skills are rarely taught and reinforced across the continuum of medical training.

Topics include: attitude of health personnel, physician executives, leadership, and character. 

Medicine can be a very rewarding career but it is also a very demanding profession. As this guide shows the hazards to physician health are wide ranging – from poor nutrition to problems with finances to stress management – these are the issues that can and do affect all physicians at some stage in their careers.

Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart. The best news is that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility.

Often leaders know that right action is important, but have little (if any) understanding of what prevents them from acting in accordance with their intentions. In this important book, leadership expert Richard Daft portrays this dilemma as a struggle between instinct (elephant) and intention (the executive) using the most current research on the intentional vs. the habitual mind to explain how this phenomenon occurs.

Written by the creators of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R), this book explains the essential personality types and their practical significance in your daily life; in school, at a job, in a career, or in your personal relationships.

This book assists with personal understanding of how to identify, name, assess, and act on one’s values in the workplace. While set in a business context, much of what is discussed is relevant for health care. Several of the appendices are quite useful for summarizing key points in the book and for offering tools/questions for self- and team-exploration of values.

Responding to the growing demand for leadership that is both competent and principled, Antony Bell offers an easy-to-grasp, workable framework that gets to the heart of what defines greatness: knowledge, skills, and talents combined with the inner qualities of a leader that drive noble actions.

I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You teaches us how to overcome our natural inclination to judge difference in order to recognize and celebrate it, even across generational and cultural divides.

Introduction to Type® and Leadership offers a unique Leadership Map that helps leaders chart their own course to becoming even more effective.

Adopting a personal view of bioethics by examining the physician, this book discusses character formation, ethics, professional character, and other concepts. It also addresses the interpersonal aspects of physicians and the importance of character.

In Mastering Leadership, Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams argue that in order for organizations to generate extraordinary results, leaders must first transform their values, emotional intelligence, and decision-making systems. To that end, the authors provide an integrative framework, known as the Universal Model of Leadership, designed to help leaders evolve both their competencies and their consciousness. They assert that only by changing their worldviews can leaders create and sustain groundbreaking organizations.

People are drawn to and influenced by leaders who communicate authentically, connect easily with people, and have immediate impact. So how do you become one of them? How can you learn to "own the room"? This book will help you develop your leadership presence.

In his popular Stanford University lectures, Shirzad Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment. His groundbreaking research exposes ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs.

Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Learn more about this important assessment and the personality types associated with it.