Notes from Sandy
Reach and Trust
What’s next? What’s possible? Where is the growing edge? How can I play there? These are the questions that motivate me and make me want to grow and that fuel my creativity. This is not the path that all artists take but it seems to be mine. The spark for this...
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Sometimes Simple Works Best
When people ask me what I do and I mention assessments such as the MBTI, I get a variety of reactions. Some people’s eyes glaze over as they say “You what?” Obviously they have never experienced a personality assessment other than possibly a quiz in a magazine they...
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Top 7 Considerations to be a “Follow-Up” Ninja
Follow-up is critical to your reputation and to building and maintaining relationships with your clients, customers and colleagues. “But I’m so busy” you groan “I don’t have time to do all that follow up.” Well I’m afraid this is one of those “You can’t afford not to”...
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How Failure to Follow Up Can Undo Your Reputation
How much time and effort do you put into promoting yourself and what you do? Add to that the amount of time you spend on the business you have contracted to deliver. Between the promoting and delivering are a myriad of steps that require attention…returning phone...
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Core Motivation Gets You Out of Bed and Going All Day
Why am I talking about “desire” on a blog that has much of its content to be dedicated to the MBTI? Personality assessments are tools. The way I like to use them – they are tools to use as a lens to open a conversation or inquiry. The purpose of the exploration being...
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Delegating May Require a Dose of “Good Enough”
At some point in the development of your business or career the amount of work coming across your desk or in your in-box will require new strategies and delegating can be well worth the effort to let go of something you have done “forever”. This week I was a visitor...
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The Reiss Desire Profile explains where my attention goes
Speaking of the Reiss A desire in the Reiss Desire profile is synonymous with motive – a reason to instigate behaviour. Aristotle first instructed us that motives are divided into ends and means. Means are the steps that we take for getting what we want. They are...
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At some point in the development of your business or career the amount of work coming across your desk or in your in-box will require new strategies and delegating can be well worth the effort to let go of something you have done “forever”. This week I was a visitor...
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Introversion and Social Acumen
On the heels of the APA’s, American Psychiatric Association’s, proposed changes that would negatively impact our perception of Introversion, I was asked if Introverts (INFP specifically) can be highly functioning in social situations? The answer is a YES in capitals....
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Taking and Applying the Reiss Motivation Profile
The Reiss Desire Profile can be taken as an online assessment that results in a report that looks at 16 core motivational tendencies. (For an overview of the research behind this profile and a brief description of the 16 desires have a quick look here) There are...
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