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Executive Competencies Assessment | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
Have you ever struggled to identify the competencies required to be effective in your role? This is a common and serious problem for executives. To address this, we have researched the best models in the industry and designed a system for assessing executive...
read moreTurning Assessments into Results | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
Executives embrace taking numerous assessments because they desire to understand their strengths and weaknesses. While that is great, many lose track of the assessments they have taken and the lessons learned. Track Results to Get Results Having a central repository...
read moreA Personality Assessment for Executives | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
Last week, we talked about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as an example of a popular but perhaps unscientific self-assessment. So, what if you told me you liked the idea of a personality assessment, but wanted something you could rely on in a business setting?...
read moreShould Executives Take the MBTI? | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is perhaps the most popular self-assessment in existence. It measures your preferences in four categories and places you in one of 16 possible personality types. Pros and Cons of the MBTI The MBTI is not a perfect assessment. It...
read moreExecutives Need Qualitative Assessments | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
You may already be acquainted with the Johari Window. [Johari Window graphic: https://solidleaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JohariWindow.jpg] If not, here’s a quick overview. You have four different kinds of strengths and weaknesses. Some are visible to...
read moreAre You a SOLID Leader? | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
Are you a SOLID leader? Ask yourself these five questions: S. Serve Do you desire to be of service to others? O. Order Are you adept at bringing order out of chaos? L. Lead Are you skilled in influencing others? I. Integrate Do you integrate...
read moreWhy You Succeed | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
We’ll keep this post short and sweet. Answer this question: What are the top 5 reasons for your success thus far, that will continue to be reasons for your ongoing success? Download our complimentary ebook Eliminate Executive Blind Spots and write your list down in...
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Are Leaders Made or Born? | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
There are markers of a leader. The answer to the age-old question, “Are leaders made, or are they born?” is simply “Yes.” Leaders Are Born There is clear scientific evidence of genetic predisposition for leadership. In a 2004 article published in the International...
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Improving Emotional Intelligence | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
In the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves contend that emotional intelligence, or EQ, predicts 58% of job performance. Their Emotional Intelligence Appraisal also happens to be our favorite assessment for measuring EQ. Assessing and...
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How to Leverage Strengths as an Executive | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
In our last post, we discussed one of SOLID’s go-to assessments, the DiSC. The DiSC is an excellent tool for understanding behavioral styles—both your own and those of others—but no one instrument will give you a complete understanding of yourself. And that brings us...
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Understanding Others’ Behavioral Styles | SOLID One-Minute Coaching™
At SOLID, we use a wide variety of tests and assessments. However, we have our favorite go-to instruments, and one of the best is the DiSC. What Is the DiSC? The DiSC is a behavioral style assessment that measures your “preferred behavior,” and it has been...
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Execution: Driving Action
Driving Action is an essential competency SOLID identified as one of the most critical to executive success. We categorize it as an Execution competency within our 5-categories of executive competency model, which is explained and downloadable at the end of this...
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