Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Peer-to-Peer

Let's take a look at this sample report you can receive when you order a Birkman Report with InAccord. How do you come across to your peers? This report is just one of over seventy-five others, including "Your Relationship with Your Wife," "Your Relationship with Your Parent / Guardian," and "Your Relationship with Your Child."
"JOHN SMITH"

Your Relationship with Your Discovery Partner

The following personal statements are generated by your answers to The Birkman® Method questionnaire:
A Discovery Partner is someone with whom you have agreed to share this part of your journey, at least for a period of time. For the purposes of dialog, a Discovery Partner is a peer or an equal, even though you may come from different parts or levels of your organization. Most products from Birkman International are suitable for use by Discovery Partners.

When you're at your best
  • You prefer to be direct and straightforward with your partner
  • You prefer to take a more organized approach to your work with your partner
  • You like brisk discussions, and you don't mind disagreeing openly with your partner when you and he or she see things differently
  • You like to feel that a significant result of your work with your partner is that you both strive to be the very best you can be
  • You like discussions with your partner to be energetic and forceful
  • You tend to have high expectations of yourself and your partner. You may well see the work you do together as being a work in progress, rather than as an exercise which can be "completed successfully"
  • You enjoy dealing with more than one issue at a time and moving from one to another in your discussions
  • You enjoying exploring more unusual and complex matters with your partner 

What you need
  • You prefer your partner to be direct and open with you
  • You need to feel confident that the relationship between you and your partner is private
  • You need to feel that your partner will not be afraid to discuss openly any differences in opinion between you
  • You need to feel that you and your partner are addressing issues of real importance, and that you are both committed thoroughly to the work you are doing
  • You need to feel that you have your partner's full attention when you are talking about serious matters
  • When your partner expresses unusual or unorthodox opinions, you can find it stimulating even if you don't agree with them 

Things to work on
  • You can sometimes be too forthright
  • You may be inclined to use your one-on-one time with your partner as a substitute for interacting with others at a more social level
  • You may sometimes become too domineering and over-assertive with your partner
  • Your underlying competitiveness can make you feel impatient if your partner talks at length about abstract values
  • You can sometimes be unrealistic in what you expect of your partner and of yourself
  • You can become too distracted by secondary or outside issues instead of concentrating on the main point
  • Sometimes you can be tempted to do or say unusual things, and then underestimate the extent to which this may trouble your partner 

File No. BX6396 • Presented by Birkman International, Inc. • info@inaccord.co
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