Who Are You?
What makes you who you are?
Our personality is what people experience when they interact with us. Most people have made their mind up about us within 7 seconds.
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Whether you are leading a team, attending an interview, meeting new people or even looking for love, how you come across to the people you are interacting with, particularly during those first few seconds and minutes has a huge bearing on your ability to build strong lasting relationships, gain peoples trust and influence people outcomes.
Have you ever found it difficult to build a relationship with someone? Maybe you have come out of an important meeting or interview feeling that it went badly because you couldn't seem to connect with the attendees? Well this may just be the seven second rule working against you.
Remarkably, very few people do anything to understand their own personality, unaware that strong factors within their personality may be very helpful to them or may be preventing them from achieving their goals. It is important that we do not lose sight of our authentic self, but it is also important that we present the very best version of ourselves when we are trying to achieve goals. Think about the preparation we go through prior to attending an interview, we might brush up on past work history, research the company and role we are interviewing for, dress in our best business suit. Prior to leaving the house, we would definitely spend some time looking in the mirror making sure that what the hiring manager sees is the best physical manifestation of ourselves that we could possibly present. So why would we not pay the same attention to the most important part of what we are offering to the interviewer, our personality?
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Can we change our personality?
In short, no, our personality is who we are, it is shaped through a mixture of genetics and experiences - and why would we want to change who we are? We are all unique. It is this uniqueness that makes us so fascinating and makes relationships so rewarding. Whilst some factors of our personality can change slightly over time, overall who we are generally remains with us for life.
What we can do is understand the factors that make up our personality and understand how these factors may help or hinder us in any given situation. For instance, in career planning, it would be useful to understand how a certain line of work may fit in with our personality. Someone with a strong preference for change and innovation may not be best suited to a career that is driven by well established prescriptive processes. Someone who is dominant, may find that they feel uncomfortable when asked to compromise on their ideas, or be led by someone who they do not respect. An interviewee who is reserved, may need to implement strategies to build rapport upon meeting their interviewer. An understanding of the factors that make up our individual personality enable us to be aware of why we perform in the way that we do in certain situations and adapt our behaviour accordingly.
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How we can help.
The integralhr self development programme is designed to help you plan a development path taking into account your individual personality factors. Using highly developed and class leading psychometric tools, our skilled and qualified practitioners will guide you through your personalised career development report, helping you to set a development plan that recognises your personality and the impact that this will have on your chosen path. You will receive a copy of your report together with a hard copy workbook. You will also receive telephone or Skype coaching sessions where you have the opportunity to discuss your goals with one of our experts who will also help you to interpret and understand your report.
Interested?
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"Now, as Seth Godin says, you can choose yourself. You can do almost anything you want. And you don't need to wait for someone else to discover your talents. The only thing holding you back is you. And your willingness to try.
You may not become the next Michelle Obama. And that's OK. That's more than OK.
Because you can be the first you."
-Michelle Obama