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Er is in Amerika een nieuw teamspel op de markt gebracht door Birkman. Al iemand gezien?

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Ik heb een Perspective Rapport van een ambitieuze hoogopgeleide jonge vrouw met de volgende scores:

Distinctiveness 78

Alignment 19

Image management 84

Social Acuity 10

Wat verdere info over haar:
Ze werkt voor een Consultancy bedrijf in de Randstad, waar ze over niet al te lange tijd partner zou moeten worden. Daarnaast is ze nog universitair hoofddocent en rechter plaatsvervanger. Opgegroeid in Brabant, waar ze nog steeds woont. Getrouwd met een jongen uit het dorp en ze hebben inmiddels 3 jonge kinderen. Ze is zeer zeker van haar kennis maar maakt een slechte en onzekere eerste indruk en binnen het Consultancy vak bij opdrachtgevers wordt ze geregeld niet voor vol aangezien. Ze moet knokken om gehoor te krijgen voor haar adviezen.

We zijn begonnen met een mix van Signature en de oude rapportage en ik heb een start gemaakt met het onderdeel Distinctiveness afgelopen week. Dat herkende ze totaal.

Wat zouden jullie vragen rondom Alignment?

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de kracht van de vraag " de meeste mensen. 

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de kracht van de vraag " de meeste mensen. 

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-most-people-dan-perryman

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Most People. Those two simple words seem to cause a lot of angst when you talk to people newly exposed to the Birkman Method questionnaire. "How am I supposed to know 'which people' the questions are about?!?!"

Don't worry. That's exactly the reaction Dr. Roger Birkman expected when he designed his personality instrument over 60 years ago. In fact, it's one of the key differentiators between The Birkman Method and almost every other assessment out there. Of the hundred of items on the questionnaire, almost half are about how you see most people. If you expect to see a lot of data in a person's Birkman Report about others, you would be wrong. What the respondent says about most people is actually revealing something about themselves.

In the late 1940's, Roger Birkman was a graduate student trying to explain and replicate what he had experienced in combat in World War II. Soldiers in the same situation described very different experiences in their after-action reports. That filtering of reality, he posited, was just as critical in business as it was in war and could explain why some leaders were able to succeed while others struggled with the same common business issues. The main thrust of his research was into how to really understand each person, given that experiments showed that people often don't respond accurately when asked a direct question about their own preferences. His innovative solution was to NOT ask about their preferences.

A major portion of Roger Birkman's dissertation in 1961 was dedicated to discussion about how the questions were phrased - not what the specific questions were. "The very important distinction is that the stimulus situation in this investigation consists of word descriptions of the attitudes, feelings, and actions of 'most people' presented as true or false statements in a questionnaire," Roger Birkman noted on Page 6 of the document. "The specific orientation fundamental to this study is that judgements made concerning the feelings, attitudes and behavior of the 'average' person, 'people in general', the 'majority of people', 'almost everyone', or other similar phrases are more important and pertinent to insightful disclosures of differences in the way an individual performs than any statement or series of statements made by him concerning his own attitudes, sentiments, behavior, or needs, regardless of how skillfully statements are phrased or presented." -- Development of a Personality Test Using Social and Self-Perception Inventories, Roger W. Birkman, 1961 (emphasis added)

Personality assessments were a fairly new tool in the mid-20th century, but the tendency of people to exaggerate positive personality traits (or try to hide perceived negative traits) had been well known for millennia. Experienced hiring managers look skeptically on resumes submitted for a job opening. They know that the list of accomplishments, skills and experiences on most resumes is crafted to put the applicant in the best social light possible. This same social desirability trait extends to many situations, so trying to get respondents to be accurate in their self-assessment on a personality inventory is difficult. The solution that some assessments chose was to ask carefully worded questions, designed not to trigger a defensive reaction in the person. The issue is that in trying to be coy, questions can be difficult to understand, and the wording so obscure that it is difficult to get valid data. Other assessments skew everyone's answers, assuming that every person is being defensive about negative traits and exaggerating positive traits. Mathematically, it made sense, but people are not equations. While that was accurate for some people, it distorted the results for others. Roger Birkman chose to ask about "most people" to bypass that defensive mechanism get a more accurate view of how that person really felt about their place in society.

At its core, The Birkman Method is an assessment of our perception, not our reality. How do we see ourselves? How do we see most people? In the gap between those two perceptions is the magic of The Birkman Method. "Perhaps the most fundamental reason is that reporting what he believes to be true of most people, the individual is actually revealing to some extend the structure of his own personality." Dr. Birkman wrote.

Psychological projection is a theory in which individuals defend themselves against their own unconscious qualities (both positive and negative) by denyingtheir existence in themselves while attributing them to others. The Birkman Method is consistent with this theory.In fact, in the very first application of Roger Birkman's work in 1951, he didn't even have questions about self. "The Test of Social Comprehension" was comprised of only the questions about "Most People." After doing further research, he added back in the "Self" section which provided a contrast to the "Most People" section and added depth to the perception discussion.

The power of "most people" is that it advances our understanding of ourselves by allowing us to talk about our own character, values and expectations without filtering our answers through the lens of social desirability. When we get out of our own way, we can learn a lot about ourselves.

Have you heard the story that in the 1950's Ford Motor Company asked people what they wanted in their next vehicle? They used that data to design the Edsel -- the biggest flop of a mass-market car launch in history. But Ford learned from that. In their next round of research, they instead asked people what car features their friends and neighbors wanted. Ford used that data to design the Mustang, a car that is still selling today. It's a great story, but I can't find any hard evidence to confirm that legend. I did find several examples in our society today that validates the "most people" questioning method as accurate and revealing. In recent years, this psychological dynamic showed up in polling on two continents and accurately predicted what was going to happen in an upcoming election.

In the UK, it's called the "Shy Tory" theory, based on the number of Brits that said they were going to vote "Stay" in the Brexit vote. Weeks before the election, "Stay" was winning in almost every poll. But a few polls asked the question in the opposite direction: Do you think your neighbors are going to vote 'Stay' or 'Leave'? These results indicated that Britain would exit the European Union. And Brexit happened. So, the hundreds of polls based on what voters said they were going to do were wrong. But the polls that asked how your friends and neighbors were going to vote were accurate. What respondents said about "most people" accurately predicted their own actions.

The same pattern was true in the US Presidential election of 2016. Just weeks before the election, when almost every poll showed Hillary Clinton with a lead over Donald Trump, one poll asked the question in the "most people" direction and nailed the final result. "I believe that demonstrates that there are still people indicating they are uncomfortable saying they will vote for [Trump], but will say that their neighbor will vote for him," said Robert Cahaly, senior strategist for the Trafalgar Group of Atlanta before the votes were cast. In fact, the group's polling data for two key states (Florida and Ohio) were spot-on accurate in predicting a Trump victory there using this method. ( http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/poll-shows-neighbor-going-trump/ ) The news organization running this story calls it an "unorthodox" survey method. Roger Birkman would probably agree. His innovative approach to getting past the emotional clutter, defensive measures, self-protective behaviors, and exaggerations is still cutting edge in the 21st century.

If you ask a thousand random leaders to name a personality assessment, I doubt that Roger Birkman's work will be in the top three. But I believe it's the most insightful, and a key tool for those seeking to build self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Birkman International is not the most well-known assessment company, but has a loyal following. It has grown by word-of-mouth, not marketing budget. The Birkman Method is not the most widely used across the globe, yet over 4000 practitioners are using it globally in 24 languages to help respondents improve relationships and results. There are six decades of history, millions of questionnaires, and years of research supporting the effectiveness of this unorthodox assessment. And there is still a lot of work left to do to convince "most people" that The Birkman Method is possibly the most valuable tool there is for coaching and leadership development.

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Vice President for Training and Professional Development

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Most People. Those two simple words seem to cause a lot of angst when you talk to people newly exposed to the Birkman Method questionnaire. "How am I

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Kende Padlet nog niet, dank voor de introductie Marcel.

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Dag allen, Hier is het artikel waar Jan het over had tijdens de training. Het is een wetenschappelijk artikel wat het concept Sociale wenselijkheid beschrijft en wie het allemaal hebben onderzocht.

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perspective training

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Afgelopen week heeft Birkman een webinar georganiseerd. Uitkomsten conclusies hiervan komen spoedig op deze Padlet

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Hier is de link naar de besloten Linkedin Groep

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Hier is de link naar de besloten Linkedin Groep

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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13536401

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Heel simpel! Dubbelklik ergens op de pagina en begin toe te voegen. Afbeeldingen, video, sound, tekst, bijlagen alles kan. Succes Groet Marcel

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Wie heeft er al een perspective rapport gebruikt? en hoe was de ervaring?

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Benieuwd: welke toepassingen zie jij voor Perspectives?

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Benieuwd: welke toepassingen zie jij voor Perspectives?

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Nou Marcel, dit ziet er fraai uit!

Ik ben richting jullie allen eigenlijk wel benieuwd hoe jullie nu naar jullie eigen perspectives rapport kijken. Ik ben er nog eens goed ingedoken en ik herken ondanks mijn gesputter in de training het overgrote deel...ik zie wel dat het bij dit specifieke rapport extra belangrijk gaat zijn om de juiste taal te kiezen.
Voor mijn relaties zie ik vooral toepassingsmogelijkheden voor de zwaardere leiderschaps-coaching. Grappig genoeg kijk ik nu ook weer met een scherper oog naar het 'normale' rapport, met name naar de componenten.

En jullie dus? Nog interessante inzichten of ervaringen?

Groet Niels