Understanding your KnowingMe™ report.
The Starting Point – What is the value of the KnowingMe™ report information?
The KnowingMe™ report, is a comprehensive, living document that enables you to better understand and believe in yourself. Great personal and professional leadership starts with knowing who you are and what you are meant to do in the world. Because people are unique and complex, career direction and life purpose can seem elusive or challenging to grasp. The KnowingMe™ report helps to unravel the puzzle pieces and absorb fact-based information that reveals the person you are designed to be. To benefit most from the experience, it is best to move slowly – interact with the report, stop and think, write notes, and record action steps. Allow the information to penetrate and have a meaningful impact on your life choices.
Career Value Areas Videos
Societal Change
Theoretical Discovery
Strategic Decisions
Human Development
Entrepreneurial Challenge
Production Efficiency
Artistic Creativity
Natural Appreciation
Motivational Energy
Going Deeper - How do I effectively read my MCS Chart?
Before You Start
When reading your MCS Chart, it is important to note that there is no good or bad code. Everyone is unique and will have highs and lows in the nine CVA Charts. High simply means that particular CVA Chart is a higher preference for you than other CVA Charts and low means less of a preference. High preferences are areas you likely perform easier and better and afford you more fulfillment, enjoyment and impact. When the MCS Chart is low, that area likely requires more energy and effort on your part and therefore is not your preference.
Mission Competency and Style bars are all in the HIGH range.
-Very high talent area; what you see is what you get.
-There is a consistency regarding the important value of the CVA.
Mission Competency and Style bars are all in the MEDIUM range.
-Denotes an average ranking and evokes a neutral response.
-Characterize CVA as having a “sometimes” or “maybe” application.
Mission Competency and Style bars are all in the LOW range.
-Area simply a low ranking of preference and natural talent.
A-Frame – HIGH Competency, LOW Mission and Style.
-Reveals a strong hidden ability.
-Apply this skill set as leverage for maximum performance across major CVAs.
-It is not a main driver of behavior or readily seen by others.
U-shape – HIGH Mission and Style, LOW Competency.
-Behavior is intense in Style due to strong motivator in Mission.
-Will need to leverage other high Competencies across the chart to deliver results in this area.
LOW Mission and Competency, HIGH Style.
-Low motivation/drive and lesser talent in this area.
-This may cause confusion as others will perceive capability and assign challenging tasks that are of little interest.
-Behavior is exhausting; one must leverage other high Mission and Competency areas on the chart to achieve results.
HIGH Mission and Competency, LOW Style.
-Talent is hidden due to low Style; no one sees motivation and talent.
-Tension between personal intent and exhibited behavior.
-This could result in missed opportunities as drive and ability are unnoticed by others.
LOW Mission, HIGH Competency and Style
-Energy draining requires an external drive.
-Need to apply high Missions that appear in other CVAs to stay motivated.
Observe and Interpret Patterns Across CVAs:
Human Development and Motivation Energy
-Both are all about building relationships and helping people, yet in different ways.
-Motivation Energy is motivating, encouraging, and cheering on others to take action.
-Human Development is about nurturing and caring for others, obtaining closeness through great compassion, and coming alongside in times of trouble and distress without an agenda.
Artistic Creativity and Entrepreneurial Challenge
-Both are about invention and innovation.
-Entrepreneurial Challenge is action-packed trailblazing, vision casting, harnessing fierce energy, drive, and determination to make things happen; risk-taking is exhilarating.
-Artistic Creativity is more thoughtful, cerebral, and contemplative, exhibiting a passionate pursuit to design and create newness, often for the sake of beauty.
Societal Change and Motivational Energy
-Both are about communicating with intensity and purpose.
-Societal Change is deeply influential and passionate messaging that triggers a compelling change of heart in others.
-Motivational Energy is more entertaining and energizing, igniting in other’s motives to take actionable steps that ensure positive forward movement.
Theoretical Discovery and Production Efficiency
-Both are about details, processes, tasks, meaningful and predictable results.
-Theoretical Discovery is more about research and discovery to find answers that solve complex and difficult problems.
-Production Efficiency is more action-oriented, putting the details into the process, implementing the solution, and achieving repeatable results with quality and consistency.
Societal Change and Strategic Decisions
-Both are big-picture problem solvers and influencers.
-Strategic Decisions is focused on planning and executing business activity that delivers against strategy and expected results.
-Societal Change is committed to impacting society at large for the greater good, making a difference, and changing the world.
Strategic Decisions and Entrepreneurial Challenge
-Both are about making the future happen.
-Strategic Decisions does it through strategizing, planning, and decision making, through achieving long-term business results by managing people and leveraging resources.
-Entrepreneurial Challenge does it with an energizing force of risk-taking, hard-driving, and relentless, deliberate action; challenges and obstacles just make it more exciting.
Production Efficiency and Entrepreneurial Challenge
-Very different functions that have dynamic tension.
-Entrepreneurial Challenge thrives on chaos and will move mountains to create new products, processes, and innovations of all types without much regard for production and implementation.
-Production Efficiency thrives on stability and order by coming behind the new “invention” to create repeated processes and procedures that make it available for consumption.
Natural Appreciation and Human Development
-Both protect people and build environments that promote peace and tranquility through established cultural practices; being high in both CVA’s has advantages.
-Competency in Natural Appreciation affords superior listening and intuitive insightfulness that reads people and understands their needs; this compliments the Human Development talent that excels at having compassion and finding solutions to help people balance their lives.
Natural Appreciation and Strategic Decision
-The advantages of competency in both deliver superior decision-making.
-Strategic Decision includes a strong ability to look at a wide range of issues, build plans to solve problems and make appropriate decisions to move forward.
-Natural Appreciation folds in the ability to intuitively observe the issues at a deeper level, put the pieces of the puzzle together, and see the broader impacts of strategy, thereby improving key decision-making acumen.
Motivational Energy and Natural Appreciation
Regarding high Style in these two areas, they are opposites; high in Motivational Energy is extroversion that finds energy from external sources; high in Natural Appreciation is introversion that relies on internal, quiet regeneration for energy
What is Style and why is it so vital to leadership and life?
-Style or “personality” is typically set by the age of five or six in most children.
-Style can be visualized by considering two sides of a coin; one side is how you believe you behave or how you relate to others; the opposite side of the coin is how other people see or perceive your behavior.
- Additionally, it is like an iceberg; one only sees the very top of the iceberg or external behavior, but underneath is the complex mass of experiences, emotions, intelligence, world view, family influences, character traits. No one can really know another in full personhood, nor can we fully understand ourselves; it is a life-long journey of growth and development.
-Style includes positive qualities that can potentially balloon into problematic areas; for instance, kindness has the potential to become an issue of being needy; extroversion could lead to dominating conversation. Otherwise said, an unguarded strength is a double weakness.
-People always have a choice regarding how to behave: something happens, and we decide how to respond. The key to effective leadership is to become keenly aware of responses and make choices that produce desired results and preserve relationships, thus building trust and unity among others.
How does the KnowingMe™ report help to understand and manage Style?
-Study the Style bars on the chart; what are your top three? Ask others to describe your Style. Examine typical behavioral “hot buttons” that trigger negative responses.
-Further, there are three areas of the report that provide significant insight about the ways and means to manage your Style and improve your choices of behavioral responses. They are Education Keys, Key Traits and Caution Areas, and Team Insights.
-Read and consider all this information carefully. Share your report data, seeking the input of those who know you well. Take time to complete the Action Plan, particularly the areas related to Style.