What do you think of when you think of personality profiling? Is it a useful business tool or a fun way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon? Have you tried to use personality profiling in your workplace? In this episode of the Oh For Food’s Sake podcast, we talk to our lovely friend and Leadership coach Donna Ward-Higgs about how she uses personality profiling to help teams to understand each other and achieve their goals more effectively.
What do you think of when you think of personality profiling? Is it a useful business tool or a fun way to spend a rainy Saturday afternoon? Have you tried to use personality profiling in your workplace? In this episode of the Oh For Food’s Sake podcast, we talk to our lovely friend and Leadership coach Donna Ward-Higgs about how she uses personality profiling to help teams to understand each other and achieve their goals more effectively.
Donna tells us about her career journey and how it led her to setting up her own business as a coach specialising in Learning and Development, helping teams use emotional intelligence to work better together. She walks us through some theories of how teams operate (or don’t!), then explains the role of personality profiling and unpacks how having a facilitator can help to guide your team through their profiles. She answers some key questions for us, like if you can use your personality as a reason to dodge tasks at work and whether our personalities change over time. Tune in to find out how to get to know yourself better and how to use your personality to be happier and more productive!
We’d love to hear some of your personality profiling stories in the workplace or at home! Have you ever had a personality profiling workshop? How did it go for you? Did it change the way that your team works together? Get in touch and let us know! You can reach out to us via our Facebook or LinkedIn page. You know we always want to hear from you!
Timestamps
[0:46] Welcome to the podcast, Donna!
[2:22] Donna’s squiggly career journey from retail management to training in the non-profit sector via a burnout
[6:10] Why Donna set up her own business
[8:11] What are we talking about when we talk about personality profiling?
[11:07] Belbin’s theory of team roles and team dynamics
[13:24] Why team profiling is important regardless of the size of your business
[15:02] Forming, storming, norming: The team development cycle
[17:28] “Surrounded by idiots”: Why a diversity of personalities helps a team to thrive
[20:07] Can you use your personality profile as an excuse to skip tasks?
[25:10] How understanding your personality type can help your career
[26:45] “Dynamic, not static”: How personalities change over time
[30:50] Why happy people work harder
[34:38] Task focus vs relationship focus: Succeeding at work
[36:50] Donna’s take on using DISC in the food industry
[41:07] Best practices on personality profiling in the workplace… And at home!
[47:37] Why do you need a facilitator for your company’s personality profiling workshop?
[50:10] The services that Donna offers and where to get in touch with her
[51:47] Donna’s key takeaways on personality profiling
Links and Resources
Our previous episode with Simon Allison
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