Leadership and Personality Profiling

What does ths involve?

Polaris Coaching uses a number of tools and approaches to help you to better understand your thinking and behaviour so that you can improve your effectiveness.

Two of our primary resources in which our coaches are accredited are outlined below.

Human Synergistic LSI 360 degree feedback tool

This is based on the idea that in "order to understand and change behaviour, we must first examine the feelings and thoughts that underlie and motivate everything we say and do.

The LSI model was developed to assist individuals in identifying and understanding their thinking patterns or styles and self concept i.e. how they see themselves.  Using this information, LSI participants can elect to change the way they think about themselves and others, and in turn improve the effectiveness of their behaviour." (Human Synergistic)

Management Research Group Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA)

Also a 360 degree feedback tool. The LEA is a performance enhancement system based on the premise that in order for individuals to improve their leadership skills, they must first understand what their needs are.

The LEA process begins with an objective diagnosis of strengths and weaknesses and provides feedback on developmental needs and strategies for improvement. The LEA defines leadership in terms of 22 specific behaviours. These are divided into 6 functions:

Creating a Vision                                                                    Following Through

Developing Followership                                                        Achieving Results

Implementing the Vision                                                          Team Playing

 Myers Briggs Type Indicator Tool

The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® (MBTI^®) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people’s lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment.

"Perception involves all the ways of becoming aware of things, people, happenings, or ideas. Judgment involves all the ways of coming to conclusions about what has been perceived. If people differ systematically in what they perceive and in how they reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ correspondingly in their interests, reactions, values, motivations, and skills."

In developing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator [instrument], the aim of Isabel Briggs Myers, and her mother, Katharine Briggs, was to make the insights of type theory accessible to individuals and groups. They addressed the two related goals in the developments and application of the MBTI instrument:

The identification of basic preferences of each of the four dichotomies specified or implicit in Jung’s theory.

The identification and description of the 16 distinctive personality types that result from the interactions among the preferences.”

Contact us  today to discuss how developing a better understandng of your own thinking, communicatio style, strengths and weaknesses can lead to higher effectiveness in your career.