Janine Schindler, MCC
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Last month I was a facilitator of a coaching roundtable at a
conference where Chuck Martin author of “Smarts” was the keynote
speaker. For years I have been using the DiSC behavioral assessment
to help individuals and organizations understand their areas of
strength and opportunities for development. Chuck Martin underscores
in his book the importance of aligning your strengths with the jobs,
tasks, or teams that best use those strengths presents a winning
combination.
As we move into summer with opportunities to kick back and enjoy
the longer days, casual work attire and weekends out of doors, I
like to leave you with something to reflect on. Here are the twelve
brain-based executive skills that Chuck Martin has identified as
critical for decision making and regulation of behavior:
- Self-Restraint. The ability to think
before you act. It is the ability to resist the urge to say or do
something to allow time to evaluate the situation and how a
behavior might affect it.
- Working Memory. The ability to hold
information in memory while performing complex tasks. It involves
drawing on past learning or experience to apply to the situation
at hand or to project into the future.
- Emotion Control. The ability to manage
emotions in order to achieve goals, complete tasks, or control and
direct behavior.
- Focus. The capacity to maintain
attention to a situation or task in spite of distractibility,
fatigue, or boredom.
- Task Initiation. The ability to begin
projects or tasks without undue procrastination.
- Planning and Prioritization. The
capacity to develop a road map to arrive at a destination or goal,
and knowing which are the most important signposts along the way.
- Organization. The ability to arrange
or place according to a system.
- Time Management. The capacity to
estimate how much time one has, to allocate it effectively, and to
stay within time limits and deadlines. It involves a sense that
time is important.
- Defining and Achieving Goals. The
capacity to have a goal, follow through to the completion of the
goal, and not be put off or distracted by competing interests
along the way.
- Observation. The capacity to stand
back and take a birds-eye view of yourself in a situation and to
be able to understand and make changes in the ways that you solve
problems.
- Stress Tolerance. The ability to
thrive in stressful situations and to cope with uncertainty,
change, and performance demands.
Once you determine your own set of executive skills, you can
benchmark those against any given task, situation, or even a job
which might explain why you are succeeding or not, and what the
future may hold. You can also identify the strengths of others
allowing you to fit better, manage better, build more effective
teams and better match people to the right jobs.
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