We all contain the personalities of Champion, Critic and Brat. Your path to success, mediocrity or failure depends on which personality dominates. So, how are you perceived?
Be aware that Monkeys see/Monkeys do. Your leadership style sets the company/team culture and determines the bottom line.
Take the Champion, Critic and Brat test below.
Assess yourself and then have others assess you.
Champion – We know who we really are and what we’re capable of doing, being and becoming.
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Critic – Sum total of every overt and covert negative message, injunction or put down we have ever experienced. The critical parent in us who judges, scolds, keeping us off balance and in doubt about ourselves.
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Brat - Most destructive of all three, and the one most visible in our internal dialogue. Has an opinion about everything and thinks it should be in charge. The egomaniac in our brain or gut. Must always tell the truth, doesn’t know about appropriateness or diplomacy.
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To learn how to turn critics and brats into creative champions
Please email me at lblumsack@zokainstitute.com.
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Complete Definition of Champion, Critic and Brat
Champions
- Listen carefully to staff and customers
- Are flexible
- Solicit feedback, comment and advice
- Fully understand the competition
- Have a clear target market
- Know the value proposition
- Believe in relationship building
- Insist on regular scheduled weekly two-way communications with all members of team intra and inter-departmental.
- Are not afraid to admit mistakes, lacks, oversights, attitude, guidance, and poor communications.
- Make sure everyone delivers on the contract
- Are consistent
- Establish clear focused goals and rewards
- Have standards
- Deliver the company message
- Fully support the teams
- Utilize collateral sales and marketing materials
- Use customer management systems
Critics
- Blame everyone else
- Can’t accept responsibility
- Have to be involved in every decision in the process.
- Have to be involved in every step in the sales process
- Have to comment on every step in the process
- Can sell better than anyone else
- Judge
- Scold
- Create doubt
- Berate
Brats
- Have been in this business longer than anyone else so they can’t tell me what I should do
- Can do it my self, better than anyone else even if I don’t have the time to do it
- Always knows what needs to be done
- Tell it like it is even if it isn’t diplomatic or appropriate
- Have to be truthful even if it isn’t diplomatic or appropriate
- Can’t differentiate feelings and fact
- Have his/her own agenda
- Are Disruptive
- Are Belligerent
- Must be heard
- Respond viscerally, emotionally, intellectually, not to what is real
- Have the only solution
Zoka Institute is a creativity and leadership consulting and training firm dedicated to drive a company, its leaders and its employees to the creativity tipping point to compete more effectively in the global marketplace.
To learn how to turn human capital into creative capital please email me at lblumsack@zokainstitute.com.
Click here to go to the website.
Regards,
Larry
617-489-1933