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The StandOut assessment measures how well you match 9 Roles and reveals
your primary Role and secondary Role. These top two Roles are the focal
point of all your talents and skills. They represent your instinctive way of
making a difference in the world.
StandOut helps you accelerate your performance by showing you actions you
can take to capitalize on your comparative advantage.
Your top two Roles may not be how you see yourself. Instead they capture
how you show up to others. They pinpoint your recurring reactions and your
behaviors. They are your edge at work.
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Your Greatest Value to the Team:
1. TEACHER
2. STIMULATOR
3. CREATOR
4. PIONEER
5. EQUALIZER
6. CONNECTOR
7. PROVIDER
8. INFLUENCER
9. ADVISOR
THE DEFINITION:
You begin by asking, "What can he learn from this?" Your
What can he
focus is instinctively toward other people. Not their
feelings, necessarily, but their understanding, their skills,
learn from this?
and their performance. You see each person as a work in
progress, and you are comfortable with this messiness.
You don't expect people to be perfect; in fact, you don't want them to be perfect. You
see the possibility in imperfection. You know that imperfection creates choice, and that
choice leads to learning. Since you are energized by 'others' growth, you look for signs
of it. "Where was this person last month?" you ask yourself. "What measurable progress
have I seen?" You create novel ways to keep track of people's performance and
celebrate with them when they reach new heights. You ask them a lot of questions to
figure out what they know and what 'they don't, how they learn best, what is important
to them, and what journey they are on. Only then can you join them at the appropriate
level and in the appropriate way. Only then can you help them learn.
Instinctively people know that you care about them, and that your caring is
genuine. They get it. They feel it. They never doubt it. And this certainty frees
them. They can experiment, and reach, and fall, and fail, and then reach again. And
you will still be there willing them to keep reaching.
You don't give up on people. No matter how much they struggle, you keep
believing that they will find a way to move forward, and to improve.
You are intrigued by "the process"--the process of other people's learning and
growth. You aren't impatiently waiting for the big-bang breakthrough. Instead you
are content to see small increments of growth that happen every day. The
"getting it" can be more exciting to you than the "got it."
You are also intrigued by the process of the activity. You revel in breaking
activities down into their discrete parts, and then showing others how to do each
discrete part. You want others to understand the "how," the "method," and when
you can show others the "how," you are delighted. This, in your view, is where the
real learning happens.
You give other people choices. You allow them to make their own decisions. You
realize that choice is the mechanism for learning, for growth. You say, "You
decide, then come back and tell me what you decided, and why." You are a natural
delegator.
You know that people can learn only from where they are starting, so you ask lots
of questions to determine their starting point. You listen very carefully. You watch
closely. Any small action or reaction could be a clue about where to "join" them in
their learning journey.
Your "start-by-listening" approach makes others feel heard, and safe. For you, it is
the source of vital information about their learning styles, their personalities, their
understanding. You use this information to tailor what you are teaching so that it
fits each person--you individualize.
You want to get on people's level. You want to engage in their world, see people
in their "natural habitats," and better understand their realities This achieves three
things: 1) it shows them that you know them; 2) it shows you the world from their
perspective; 3) it gives you the raw material you need to give them good ideas for
how to get better.
You are a learner yourself. Because you love the process of "getting it," you sign
yourself up for classes so that you can feel yourself "getting it." This is a constant
part of your life.
Your dedication to constant learning is not just for you. It also serves to equip you
with new ideas and techniques that you can use to help others. Consequently, to
others you seem wise, an unending source of knowledge, experiments, and ideas
that might help them grow.
Whenever others run dry--of ideas, or of self-belief--they return to you. You seem
strong, patient, understanding, and yet always expectant.
THE DEFINITION:
You begin by asking, "How can I raise the energy?" You
How can I raise
are acutely aware of the energy of each person, or of the
whole room (even if the room is a virtual one), and you
the energy?
feel compelled to do what you can to elevate it. You do
this with your outlook--you are an instinctively positive
person. You do this with your actions--you take a seat at the front of the room, you
raise your hand to ask questions, you call upon others to contribute and volunteer. You
do this with your humor--the smile in your voice. Because you are an energy-giving
person, other people are attracted to you. The world beats them down, but they know
that in you they will find the power to lift themselves back up. You aren't soft and
gentle. On the contrary, you challenge people to unleash their own energy, and you
become impatient when they refuse to do so, sucking your energy from you and
generating none of their own. But, still, others will continue to be drawn to you because
they sense that, at heart, you cannot help but be encouraging. They sense that your
natural reaction is to celebrate all that is good in them, to illuminate their strengths, and
shine a light on their achievements. Even on your darkest days, you know they are
right.
You are an emotional person. Sometimes these emotions take you on a roller
coaster ride, but in the end they lead you back up. Your emotional tilt is always
upward.
You derive your strength from other people. You sense their feelings and you can't
help yourself: you are compelled to engage these emotions in some way and lift
them up. Others call you fun, excitable, and, on your best days, inspirational.
You are a natural host. Not of parties, necessarily--though you may be. But you are
the host of other people's emotions. You feel responsible for them, for elevating
them. You are an emotional turnaround expert.
You make your presence felt. In any room, you are present, focused, a force. The
meeting doesn't really start until you walk in; the energy sinks when you walk out.
You have a magnetic quality. People's emotional "bucket" empties out. You, they
realize, are a natural bucket-filler. And so they are drawn to you.
You like gatherings. Since you feed off energy, the more people at a meeting or
event, the more energy there is, and the more energized you feel.
"All the world's a stage" to you. You are acutely aware that other people are
looking at you, and are affected by you. So you pay attention to your appearance,
your demeanor, how you "show up" in a room.
When at an event or meeting, you pay attention to all aspects of the "show." You
like picking the theme, the gifts, the colors, all the elements that can inspire people
and help them have a great time. You'll dress up in the costumes. You'll take the
lead in the activities. Whatever it is, there you are, ready to go at the front of the
line.
You are exuberant. You can get carried away by the emotions of the moment.
When you are teaching or training or selling, or anything really, you tend to go "off-
script." You break free from the prescribed material and allow people to follow
where their excitement and enthusiasm lead. "When people are excited they learn
more, create more, achieve more," you think. "The curriculum will just have to
catch up with us."
In this section of the report, your top two Roles are combined to
give you even more specific advice on how you can win at work.
You'll learn your greatest value to your team, suggestions on your
career advantage, and get individualized content on how you can
be more successful in the workplace.
"I'm a constant learner. For me there's something energizing about the process of
getting to a point where I excel in a new skill. Recently I took classes to learn how
to..."
"I like getting into the "nitty gritty" with people, seeing the world through their
eyes. Customers, colleagues, friends--I think I can truly help them only if I have
seen their perspectives."
"I don't think you can teach all people in the same way. Instead I'm always looking
for how each specific individual's mind works, and what motivates each unique
person."
"I'm at my best when getting people excited about what they are about to do.
There was this time when…"
"I'm incurably positive. I believe you can find the good in virtually any situation,
and I'm determined to be the one to find it."
"Some of my best times are when I can get people together so we can rally
ourselves and cheer ourselves on."
Because you see what each person can become, you can't rest
until you feel that you've done everything within your power to
remove any friction from people's growth and development. You
will do whatever it takes to keep the momentum going, to keep
the energy up, to prime the pump. And you do this with a force
that is always passionate, mostly positive, and always infectious.
You will excel in any role where you are paid to minister to the
emotions of others. For example, in education you are the teacher
on the floor with the kids, seeing the world from their vantage
point, experiencing their world as they do, trying to feel what they
feel. In community service, you are out "in the field" with your
constituents, sensing the mood of the community, and what they
will need to keep everyone motivated. The same applies to you as
a leader--you will be out of your office, out with your people,
rallying them around some new technique or idea. The perfect
setting for your strengths will be high-energy working
environments where many employees need to be brought up to
speed quickly on new products/techniques: retail stores,
pharmaceutical sales districts, teaching hospitals.
When you champion talent, make sure You are naturally interested in human
your explanations for why this is the energy of all kinds--emotional,
right person, the right responsibility, physiological, spiritual. Research this
and the right time, are vivid and subject. Depending on your
detailed. Become adept at describing personality, this could mean simply
the strengths you have seen in a reading up on the subject. Or it could
person, and why you think these mean putting yourself through a
strengths will translate to the new, regimen to become more proficient at
larger responsibility. Be equally managing your own levels of energy.
detailed about what specific Or it might mean watching other
knowledge people lack, and how you Stimulators in action. Whatever your
propose they go about acquiring this preferred research style, keep looking
knowledge, without jeopardizing their and you will soon find some new trick,
ability to deliver results--this detail insight, or technique that will help you
will give others, who have less of a get better at what you do naturally.
"feel" for talent, the certainty they
need.