Sunday, November 29, 2020

Do you know enough about your colleagues?

 Let us study our colleague’s working personalities?

It is better as a Team member we understand our colleagues better.

Observe all the team members at your team and try to discover how each one’s dominating personality is.

We have to appreciate the way individuals have developed into it. Let us align with the style.

The Inspector: Serious, formal, and proper. This personality type places considerable emphasis on tradition and old-school values. Patience, hard work, honor, and social and cultural importance are all cultivated by the Inspector. They are reserved, calm, quiet, and noble. These traits result from the combination of Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging. They appreciate a systematic life. They like matters to be well-organized and pay a considerable deal of attention to detail. When things are in disarray, people with this personality type may identify themselves as incapable to relax until they have set everything straight and the work has been completed.

The Counselor: This personality type oozes creative imagination and magnificent ideas from every pore. They have a distinct, usually subtle, way of looking at the world that is not consistently realized. This personality type will never accept anything at the surface level or withhold to countenance a better way to approach problems. While they are introverted by nature, individuals with this personality type are capable to establish strong, meaningful connections with other individuals. They enjoy helping others, but they also need time and space to rejuvenate.

The Mastermind: They are are true introverts. This personality type tends to be relaxed, reserved, and comfortable in their own company. They are generally self-sufficient and choose to work alone than in a group. Socializing significantly drains the energy of this personality type, causing them to need to recharge. They are more attentive to big ideas and theories. When examining the world, they frequently question why things happen the way they do. Uncertainty is the enemy of the Mastermind. They shine at developing plans and strategies for every probability.

The Giver: They are eternal people-pleasers. They are extroverted, idealistic, charismatic, vocal, highly principled, and honest. This set of traits ensures that they can generally associate with others of varying backgrounds and personalities. They rely more on intuition and feelings, occupying more in their imagination than the real world. This can be troublesome, for the individual themselves and those around them. They have wonderful people skills and are often expressed as warm, affectionate, and supportive. Not only are individuals with this personality type great at encouraging other individuals, but they also derive personal satisfaction from serving others.

The Craftsman: This personality type is generally defined by rationality and logic but is also able of spontaneity and enthusiasm. People with such personalities are results-oriented. When there is a problem, they choose to rapidly understand the underlying cause and resolve some type of solution. They are generally described as quiet, but with an easy-going attitude towards others.

The Provider: This personality type is thoroughly social, born of a need to interact with others. This desire to make others happy usually results in popularity for the provider. They generally tend to be the cheerleader or sports hero in high school and college. Later in life, they advance to revel in the limelight. They are primarily focused on organizing social events for their families, friends, and communities. They expect their kind and giving ways to be acknowledged and appreciated by others. They are sensitive to the needs and feelings of others and are good at responding and providing the care that individuals need. They want to be liked by others and are easily upset by unkindness or indifference.

The Idealist: This personality type prefers not to talk about themselves, especially upon first meeting a strange individual. They prefer spending time alone in quiet places. This personality type can become lost in their imagination and daydreams. This sometimes leads to the type of people drowning in the depth of their thoughts, fantasies, and ideas.

The Performer: They are an Extroverted, Observant, Feeling, and Perceiving personality, and are generally seen as Entertainers. Born to provide amusement and distraction to others and to monopolize the limelight, They love to hold court in a group. They are thoughtful explorers who enjoy learning – and sharing what they learn with others. They live for the company and typically have strong interpersonal skills. They are cheerfully and fun, and will never decline the opportunity to be the center of attention.

The Champion: This personality type is profoundly individualistic. Champions are not followers and care little for the status quo. Instead, they aim toward creating their structures, looks, actions, habits, and ideas. They do enjoy the company though – assuming it is the “right” company – enjoying strong intuition when it comes to themselves and others.

The Doer: They live for social interaction, drawing strength from feelings and emotions. They enjoy logical processes and reasoning, provided this does not stand in the way of freedom in thought and deed. Theory and abstracts will not retain the attention or interest of a Doer for long.

The Supervisor: They set a great deal of emphasis on traditional values. These include organization, honesty, dedication, and dignity. This personality type believes thoroughly in doing what they believe is right and socially acceptable. People with this personality type enjoy spending time with other individuals. They have strong verbal skills and interacting with others helps them feel energized.

The Commander: Their Primary concern is to focus on and managing external circumstances with logic and discipline. Once this has been achieved, intuition and reasoning take effect. This personality type will always relish the opportunity to take charge. They live in a world of possibilities, often viewing challenges and obstacles as great opportunities to push themselves. They have a natural gift for leadership and never shirk from making decisions. Options and ideas will be quickly yet carefully examined.

The Thinker: They are highly respected for brilliant theories and unrelenting logic. This makes sense, as this personality type is arguably the most logical of all. People of this personality type lack interest in practical, day-to-day activities and maintenance.

The Nurturer: This personality type is constantly ready to give back, and any generosity received will be returned threefold. The people and things an ISFJ believes in will be upheld, and supported with enthusiasm and unselfishness. This makes this among the warmest and kind-hearted personality types. Harmony and cooperation are important to them, and this type is likely to be sensitive to the feelings of others.

The Visionary: This personality type relishes the opportunity to discuss theories and facts in extensive detail, needing little encouragement to set the world to rights.

The Composer: They are fun to be around and very spontaneous. This makes them the appropriate companion to tag along with an activity, planned, or unplanned. They look to live life to the fullest and embrace the present. This ensures they are always keen to encounter a new experience or make a discovery.

Once you figure out your team members better, it would be easy to get along with them.

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Agile Thought Webnairs: 23rd October 2020

 


My session with BBA and BCA student

 Today I had a session with 70 students from BBA and BCA stream. my topic was Product Development Strategy. It was an interesting session spending time with students and answering their curious questions. 

Uploaded the presentation here
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Monday, November 16, 2020

Farmer Family Performance appraisal in a Village!



Once upon a time there was a farmer, his name was Panduraja!


He has 5 children, Jhooti, Bheema, Arjoona, Nakooola, Shooyaya!

Some of them are educated, some are only matriculation pass!

They had multiple acres of farming land. They have a large house with ponds and many domestic animals to looks after. Initially, they had a struggling life but over a period of time, they stabilized themselves.

But the Farmer Panduraja was in worry! Every year they discussed how they should share their profit. They have their own family but they reside together on the same premises. Most of the initial year they had a quarrel and tussle with the money distribution.

They had an expert professional friend who also happens to be their distant relatives and well-wisher. His name was Kris, who is a Ph.D. in Agriculture and professor HOD in a nearby college.

Every year this is a nightmare challenge for Panduraja,

How can he distribute the profit among his children so that they stay motivated and energized.

They should not break up their property and leave the premises where they reside together.

Panduraja often chats with Kris. Kris recommended using the Bell curve system to distribute wealth and profit.

Kris read that somewhere, and they tried for a few years. But it did not work out as it created a quarrel and division among his children.

All his children are working for a common goal. Their proficiency is different, and core competencies are diversified.

Nakooola was remarkably talented at selling the crops, milk, eggs, and poultry meat.

Jhooti was excellent at cultivating lands and growing crops.

Bheema takes care of distributing the cattle, goats to the city, and buying and selling those.

Shooyaya was taking care of the farming, fishing, and exporting fishery commodities.

Jhooti also was taking care of the account part with his father and track the balance sheet.

Everyone is contributing to some of the other aspects and occasionally when crops fail but other services take care of their profits.

All the five brothers do daily standup and monthly progress with the Panduraja.

They reskill themselves as the market changes, need changes. Ther wife also takes care of the textile and other handlooms, handmade items e.g. pottery, etc.

The million-dollar question is how do Panduraja distribute the prosperity which will cause everyone happy?

Kris comes out with One team approach where there will not be any bell but team outcome with impact-driven measurement. They have to increase the outcome and strengthen the bottom line. Based on the numerous feedback mechanisms from various stakeholders, the final amount will differ. Their fundamental wealth distribution calculation is more or less fixed, the % variation of wealth distribution is not substantial. There will be a special monitory award for exceptional performance.

e.g. once there was a bumper production of Mango and Nakoola could export mangoes abroad with his contact at a special price. That attempt has fetched significant profit, and he got special monetary gain. Due to crop failure one year, everyone takes the loss amount, but due to the fish & poultry market, they could all get the benefit of this.

They watch out on a periodic basis and manifest on what they should promptly do to minimize the damage and maximize the profit.

So with the Kris guide, Panduraj could able to balance the equal distribution of wealth looking at the performance award one was doing better to expand the business outcome. Special recognition of monitory distribution happens when such spike benefits happen when the performance was done by going beyond the defined boundary.

This ownership model was working fine with the farmer family.

Now, Panduraja extended such a model with other families of the village. It motivates all the family members to put in their finest effort as they are merely gaining the profit. If they suffer a loss, it is absorbed by the other gains avenues. Now it has been one decade they are following this model.....

This Self-driven, Self-organized, shared purpose, outcome & impact, Value generation, one team-driven mindset enabling them to maximize the profit margin. Shareholders are also happy as they get their due service.

Do you think there is no conflict, no dispute, it is always there, but they are resolving all these to stay relevant in the market.

After Panduraja died, they keep Kris & their mother as their final authority to take the final call for any decision making. It was a democratic approach, but decision-making was taken by the Kris and their mother based on the data.

Friday, November 6, 2020

High Performance Team Skills?





What are the key skills we should watch for when we coach for a team?


From a lot of research, it has been inferred that a team to arrive at a high-performance state, exhibits many remarkable skills among team members.

When we coach a team, we can fine-tune those skills. We can watch for the present state of these skills and we can highlight to the team members to enhance those on many distinct occasions.

These skills will facilitate the team to function better. There is an intrinsic drive to upgrade these skills, as these skills will make those individuals stronger individuals in a process.

The team will traverse through many challenging assignments, but these skills will polish through better teamwork.

The team members can measure themselves at definite intervals how well they are performing against most of these skills.

They can determine actions to advance these skills.

Though it is not so easy to radically transform these skills in a short span of time but with devoted effort, we should seek to enhance these.