Over the past five days, we covered some of the most common challenges new leaders face – and the role personality plays in each. If you missed a day, here’s the whole series at a glance.
Feel free to jump straight to the day that’s most relevant to you or covers what you’re most interested in learning about.
Day 1: How Your Personality Shapes Your Leadership
What it covers: A breakdown of how each personality trait is likely shaping the way you show up in your first months as a leader.
You’ll learn:
How each of the five personality trait pairs influences your leadership style
The specific ways each trait can serve you (or trip you up) when you’re new in the role
How to use your exact personality trait percentages as a starting point for self-awareness
Day 2: The New Leader Tradeoff
What it covers: What you give up when you step into leadership, what you take on, and how the trade lands differently depending on your personality.
You’ll learn:
Why becoming a leader is a trade, not just a promotion
What each of the four personality Roles (Analysts, Diplomats, Sentinels, Explorers) tends to grieve in the transition
How to sit with both the excitement of leading and the loss of what came before
Day 3: Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent New Leader
What it covers: What emotional intelligence is, why it’s the biggest predictor of leadership success, and three small moves new leaders can use to build it.
You’ll learn:
The 5 components of emotional intelligence (and the 3 that matter most for new leaders)
How the Thinking-Feeling personality trait scale influences EI under pressure
Three concrete moves that build EI in real time
Day 4: Why Some New Leaders Feel More Confident than Others
What it covers: How the Assertive vs. Turbulent personality trait scale shapes the confidence question – including the unique strengths and biggest blind spot on each side.
You’ll learn:
What the Assertive-Turbulent trait scale measures
The strengths new Assertive leaders bring – and the biggest blind spot to watch for
The strengths new Turbulent leaders bring – and the biggest blind spot to watch for
Day 5: Know Who You’re Leading
What it covers: How to start understanding what each person on your team needs from you – and what each personality Role tends to want from a new leader specifically.
You’ll learn:
What each of the four personality Roles needs from a new leader
How to bring personality language into your team’s shared conversation
A specific question to ask your team this week that opens the door to deeper understanding
That’s the foundation.
Coming up next, we’re going Role by Role on one of the trickiest parts of becoming a leader: the shift from being someone’s peer to being their boss (or watching a former peer step into that role over you).
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