Ken Keis - Personality and Purpose
What's your personality like? Today, we are discussing how your personality and your purpose effects your business team, customers, staff, and so on. Ken Keis is a bit of an expert when it comes to personality. He is keen to help others:
"Increase [their] capacity to make a difference!"
So then, how do you increase your capacity to make a difference?
Personality and purpose in business
It's a good question. Research on development is increasing on such things as mindfulness, self-awareness, emotional intelligence and so forth. Kens' business works on helping people to be conscious, awake and aware. In other words, self-aware. The real question is, what do we need and want? It's something we don't often have the answer to. Graham, Kevin and Ken have all come out of corporate and this question needs answering - what do you need and want? When you set up a small business, you set it up to serve your strengths and your purpose. This is calculated through asking this question of personal needs and wants.
When Ken wrote the book, "why aren't you more like me", he was wondering how he could create a really deep awareness about "who I am, what my strengths are and then make intentional decisions on my business, my team and my vision".
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The idea is, you don't create a small business from a self-centred point of view but a self-honouring point of view. You play to your purpose.
So, personality is one thing to think about as part of thinking "this business starts with me". Because really, your business is you and then you expand out from that and think what that means for everybody else. How do you hire the right people? How do you put the right people in the right seats, doing the right things?
Another thing to think about is the personalities of who you hire? Graham has recently hired Ellie - someone who is completely opposite to him. She's a young female.
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By using other people's differences, you can progress the business; they may compliment the business or address issues you as the creator do not. These are all strategies to think about.
Leadership and work environments
Kevin points out that he couldn't work under a Chief Executive who wouldn't listen to feedback or allow the challenging of management decisions.
Now, there is a shift, as Ken suggests. The challenge is that most people are not equipped to be in management positions despite their being promoted there. So, it may be your tenacity hat has caused you to be successful, but when promoted it comes to how can you bring out the best in others.
A lot of times, leaders get into these management positions and haven't been skilled and people haven't challenged them because of things happening and it just perpetuates itself.
One question to ask is, how conscious, awake and aware, and how do you view your self and is that how others view you? 95% of people say that they know themselves and how they view their selves is how other people interpret their presence. However, only 10% of people do actually see their selves in the same way as others see them. This shows self-awareness isn't as acute as is needed; self-awareness is the meta skill for the 21st century.
For the business environment, self-awareness can be found through actively engaging with feedback and also seeking it. This can help increase the capacity of others.
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Self and others: finding the middle ground
Now, we've just discussed being true to ourselves (effectively) and now we're talking about how to consider and facilitate relationships with others. How can you serve your own needs and yet be seeking to serve others? If there is a tension between the two, how can you optimise personal situations without 360 degree-awareness?
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