Is your personality limiting your success? The answer might very well be yes, if the opportunities we decide to engage with do not align with our unique personalities.
While many think that their success is solely hindered by having the right plan, or their mindset, or plain simple luck, all of which are very valid reasons, many fail to see that in the combination of personality traits that are unique to us lays the blueprint of our success.
If the opportunity you are trying to succeed at does not align with your natural strengths, abilities, behaviors, you are more likely to encounter resistance, difficulty and failure. Thus if there is a mismatch between your personality and the opportunity you chose to venture into, then yes your unique personality will limit your success in that opportunity, solely because you were not designed for that opportunity. Thus one of the keys to success lies in discovering the opportunity that matches your personality.
Personality and Personality Traits
Personality is a person's characteristic thoughts, feelings and behavior, and the thoughts, feelings and behavior which is typical of the individual is his/her personality traits. To give you a clear idea of the many different kinds of personality traits in the context of your career choice, here are a few examples of personality traits- adaptive, analytical collaborative, committed, courageous, creative, decisive, detail-oriented, emotionally competent, friendly, hardworking, relationship oriented, trustworthy, visionary, positive, enthusiastic, listener, persistent, self-aware, self-confident and self-disciplined.
The above list of traits are just some traits out of many, some of which may describe you and some which may not, however these traits, whose combination is unique to you is your blueprint to success, if they are matched with the right opportunities.
Having understood this, we can now see why, if not matched properly with the right opportunity, our personalities will limit our success. In this statement alone is the dire importance to discover one's personality traits.
Discovering Our Personality Traits
This discovery of one's personality can be assisted using personality assessments that are designed to reveal a better understanding of our personality. Unearthing these traits without aid will at best bring a few traits to the surface, that too with great effort and thought. Assessment tools bring to your awareness the aspects of yourself that you never knew of, that could smoothen your transition from a state of resistance in a path that you are not designed for, to a state of success in a path or opportunity that fits your traits perfectly.
Achieving Greater Success
Well simply put, when you do the things that you are anyway good at, instead of tasks that you find difficult and are resistant towards, you achieve great efficiency with least effort and resistance, accelerating greater success effortlessly and quickly. Simply playing your strengths on the field allows you to perform tasks with ease, natural competence and consistency.
In conclusion, most people who have little to no idea about the personality traits unique to their personality end up pursuing opportunities which are complete mismatches or are completely out of alignment with their natural strengths and in that sense it is safe to say that personality, if not matched with the right opportunity, can limit success in your life.
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
I would like to share the top 6 problems facing CEOs this year, and how you can overcome them.
Fewer CEOs are Confident in Revenue Growth
In the aftershock of global recession, the aim of many companies was to streamline and improve productivity to increase output and decrease cost. Now that the economy is moving on, Leaders must shift their focus to finding new ways to expand in a positive way.
In the new economy, more and more Leaders are focusing on organic growth for their organisation rather than revenue growth. By focusing on their customers and more effective operational models, they are positioning themselves to compete in the era of social media - where every single "bad" experience can become a major debilitating event.
Democratization of Leadership Decisions
Gone are the imperial days of CEOs making company decisions in ways that dismiss the board. The board is not a necessary evil, but an active think tank that has hand in the direction and transparency of the entire company. Rather than allowing this shift to be a struggle, CEOs must embrace this as their best opportunity for collaboration ever.
Organisations Don't Have Direct Control of Their Brand
If the current economy has taught us anything, it's that every organisation needs to control their brand, but embrace transparency. Understand you cannot directly control the image your customers and employees (or ex-employees) paint, but you can work hard to build loyalty, encouraging them to paint a beautiful one.
Technology Has Disrupted all Industries
Leaders cannot ignore technology and it's disruptive powers across all dimensions of business. Social media, mobile devices, the Cloud, and more are changing the way customers interact and do business so quickly that only the most agile businesses are going to be able to keep up. Constantly adapting to the new norms in market behavior is soon to be mandatory for your business to survive.
Talent Immobility Damages the Organisation's Workforce
In the talent pool for any organisation, a challenge is emerging. Less and less talent is willing to move for the jobs they are offered. While many companies still cling to the old model of on-site employees, they are strangling their workforce and depriving it of much-needed new talent and ideas. It's time for more organisations to look into the possibility of remote workers in some sectors of their business. This is not business of the future any longer - it is the business of NOW.
Leaders can No Longer Control Their Environment
The typical idea of a CEO is based on an old, ineffective model. CEOs can no longer control their environment in today's marketplace, and they must learn to Lead by influence and collaboration. Collaboration with their board and employees will shorten the gap and make their company the agile ship it has to be.
In talent as well as in Leaders, the critical skills are communication, collaboration, creativity, flexibility, and innovation. Breeding these in an already-established workforce may sound impossible, but it is much easier than you may think. What it requires is a decision to embrace these changes by the CEO, and the distillation of the company vision so that EVERYONE understands it. You cannot afford to have a confused workforce in the world of today.
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