Yesterday I rose with the larks and enjoyed a scenic rail trip to attend a leadership course. It was all very interesting, for all sorts of reasons. I met a really nice bunch of people keen to explore their leadership potential.
Prior to the course all participants were asked to complete an online evaluator to provide some pyschometric assessment. I apparently am the type who puts the PSYCHO in psychometric testing. According to the documentation my areas for development leave me one step away from Hitler. The scary thing is that much of the analysis I found spookily accurate.
So, do I embrace these flaws/failings/areas for development and aim to rectify them or toss the results in the bin with nary a backward glance? Ooh, the dilemma!
Giving the session the benefit of the doubt I explored my 'fiery red' dominance.
I found myself sitting between a 'sunshine yellow' and an 'earth green'. In essence, my type is a bit of an egomaniac who likes to show off [ I suspect my Witters support this claim], the sunshine yellows are airy fairy types who like to party, the earth greens spend all day hugging people and the cool blues are detail obsessed geeks. Well, this isn't EXACTLY how the trainer described our types but my type like to be right so just accept what I say. OKAY????
The day somewhat deteriorated into each group of like labelled individuals opting to exaggerate their perceived stereotype so that ultimately we were all laughing at the obligatory group generated Post It identity statements.
Secretly though I suspect we all loved the good parts but feared the bad parts might actually have more than a grain of truth to them. While we were all publicly flicking halfheartedly through the analysis we may have been privately devouring the results like locusts.
Or again, that might have been just me.
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