Federal Leadership Development Council

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Federal Leadership Development Council

• Cognitive Styles and Leadership
• LT Will Brooks

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Introduction

• Cultivating Winning Attitudes
• Goals
• Learn your dominate cognitive style
• Understand strengths, challenges, and motivators
  of each styles
• Apply this knowledge to your leadership style

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Agenda

• Take test to understand your traits
• Review characteristics of each trait
• T Otter
• E Lion
• A Golden Retriever
• M Beaver

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Test

• Take Test
• What is your dominate trait?

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T Otter

• Skills
• Naturally persuasive/influential
• Risk Taker
• Thrive on Change
• Open/direct/outgoing

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T Otter

• Challenges
• Pushy
• Restless/Struggle with managing multiple
  priorities
• Tend to dominate / need to listen more

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T Otter

• Motivators
• Respect
• Recognition (reinforce good behaviors)
• Desire to be creative

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E Lion

• Skills
• Practical
• Bottom line oriented
• Very, Very direct
• Goal oriented
• Economical
• Accountability

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E Lion

• Challenges
• Overly stubborn (need to flexible)
• Overly critical
• Overly insensitive

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E Lion

• Motivators
• Control/Responsibility
• Like people who try dont make excuses
• Technology
• Mastery
• Play to Win

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A Golden Retriever

• Skills
• Team oriented/ Glue
• Caring individuals
• Desire to help people
• Save things
• Incredible memories when it comes to people

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A Golden Retriever

• Challenges
• Too other oriented
• Too indecisive
• Cant say No

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A Golden Retriever

• Motivators
• Need to earn respect of others and be liked
• Want closeness/ to see others as friends/family
• Want coaches/teachers/mentors
• Motivated by kindness
• Very Auditory

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M Beaver

• Skills
• Mysterious/complicated
• Need to be right and on time
• Need rituals/routine
• Planners/organizers/exacting/precision
• Calm/cool under pressure
• Introverted/reserved
• Good listeners/thinkers and doers
• They watch everything you do! And they dont
  forget
• Follows rules/policies/procedures

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M Beaver

• Challenges
• Trouble trusting people/thinks others incompetent
• Hard to get to know
• Perceived to be slower at projects
• Perceived as overly perfectionistic
• May shutdown when upset

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M Beaver

• Motivators
• Want to work with other who strive for excellence
• See excellence as a habit
• Want independence
• Usually most successful working with their own
• Love info/ they want the details
• Better able to de-stress alone

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Summary

• Learned your major trait
• Learned new approaches for working with others

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Questions?
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Where to Get More Information

• Cultivating Winning Attitudes
• Rockhurst University, Continuing Education Inc.
  (1-800-344-4613)
• James A. Westrick jwestrick1_at_mindspring.com