Customized Pyschometrics Workshop

To meet the school’s needs for behavioral diagnosis, staff deployment and leadership development, OTi crafted a customized certification program. Over two days, participants were given an in-depth understanding of DiSC, equipped to administer, interpret and train using DiSC and DOL (Dimensions of Leadership), brought to an understanding of shared leadership approach and explored individual behavioral styles and leadership strengths and limitations.

One excellent question asked during the program was “Is there an ideal leader?”

For years, we thought there was a formula for making a person a good leader. We have learned that is not true. Research has discovered that leaders come in almost as many forms as there are people. A lot of the ideas we grew up with are myths. Thus, there is not a lot one can say about the leader traits a person should have.

If there is not a set of traits that defines an effective leader, then we have no standard for judging whether a person is strong or weak in a leadership role. Leadership, in fact, is about the qualities of a leader-follower relationship that make people want to follow another person. People lead when others choose to follow them.

“Leadership is a reciprocal relationship between those who choose to lead and those who decide to follow.” Kouzes & Posner:   Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, 1993

Dimensions of Leadership Profile emphasizes on shared leadership—every individual is strong in some focus of attention and dimensions of leadership. According to the situational needs, each one ought to step forward and lead.

How to choose your contributions:

1. Perceive the situation.

2. Evaluate your Dimensions of Leadership in terms of this situation.

3. Choose to lead or follow.

4. Identify contributions and specific action steps.