“Getting beyond your own narrative helps you widen your outlook, cleans up your perspective, and softens your heart.” Steve Graves shares about the importance of being a thoughtful leader. “It’s true that glamorizing the past can leave you longing to go back rather than forward. But ignoring the past can be just as dangerous. Knowing…
Personality Tests
3 Risks of Personality Tests
As I recently wrote, utilizing a personality test with the team you lead can foster a greater appreciation and communication among team members. But there are some cautions. Here are three ways we can misuse personality tests: 1. Justify unhealthy approaches. One pastor joked about the proclivity of tests to justify a person’s unhealthy behavior…
3 Ways Personality Tests Can Enhance Your Leadership
A pastor once commented, “Why doesn’t anyone repent after taking a personality test?” His sentiment was that someone could take a test and use the test to justify their jerkish behavior as being “strong-willed” or their passive behavior as being a “processor.” It is not an uninformed comment, as you have likely seen people wrongly…
Links for Leaders 10/28/16
Working for a boss younger than you, lowering leaders’ frustration, and more.