Create self-awareness
Helps leaders understand themselves so they can best guide others.
Leading people effectively requires an immense amount of self-awareness. After all, how can you lead a team to greatness if you’re not aware of your own blind spots?
Birkman helps leaders understand perceptions that shape their leadership style, strategies to best manage their own behaviors, and the best ways to create a trusting relationship with their team.
Develop new leaders
Identify your high-potential employees. Then turn them into leaders.
Birkman helps you prepare your employees to switch from a technical role to a people-centered role focused on communicating ideas, motivating employees, and managing many different personalities.
When emerging leaders understand how diverse personality traits may impact the team dynamic, they’re able to turn individual differences into collective strengths that ignite team performance.
Elevate your leaders so they can elevate your teams
Understand the impact you make to your organization
The impact of your mindset, behavior, and workstyles trickle down throughout the rest of the organization. Your focus should be on making a positive impact and creating a culture of continuous improvement. After all, you set the example for the entire organization.
By developing leaders through Birkman data, you equip them with the ability to guide members towards shared goals, navigate complex challenges, adjust their behaviors, and take accountability for their workstyles.
Uncover how your behavior drives your decision-making
How do you lead? Do you make gut decisions, rely heavily on processes and data, or lean on talking things out with other people?
Birkman can help leaders understand their decision-making process, risk tolerance, and the role that their perspectives play in those decisions. The result is greater trust from team members – an important factor in effective collaboration and a team’s ability to be at its best.
Aid in succession planning for high potentials
For the team members you foresee climbing the ladder in your organization, it’s important you start developing them before they’re leaders.
Birkman can help you identify these high potential employees on a deeper level than just job experience by looking at their personality, behavioral perceptions, mindset, and motivation. This can determine who is best fit to lead.
See yourself clearly through the lens of perception
Your behaviors as a leader probably differ from your team’s perceptions of your behavior. Learn the unique strengths you can tap into as a leader, as well as how your team may be impacted when those strengths are overused and become your blind spots.
Provide more effective feedback to your team members
Teams deliver their best effort with real-time coaching, but every team member receives feedback differently depending on the delivery.
By understanding your own communication style as well as the preferred communication style of individual employees, Birkman helps you tailor feedback in a way that energizes rather than discourages your team.
Lead hybrid teams
Develop leaders who keep teams connected across locations
Whether teams are in the office full-time, operating remotely, or somewhere in between, the ability for leaders to establish meaningful connections plays a key role in team performance.
Birkman helps leaders create a connected culture – up, down, and across the team – so employees stay united around a common purpose from any location they open their laptops.
Manage workplace stress
Reduce turnover by coaching leaders on intentional stress management
Stress is what happens when our needs aren’t met. Burnout is what happens when we power through stress. And turnover? It’s what happens when you add the two together.
Birkman helps leaders reduce stress by using personality insights to proactively address employee needs, helping to head off stress before it starts. But if employees do drift into stress behaviors, our coaching tools equip leaders to shift them back to a more productive frame of mind.
Conflict resolution
Keep workplace conflict constructive
Constructive conflict and healthy disagreement are helpful for every team. But when team members have vastly different workstyles—and no way to resolve their differences—it can create a stressful or even toxic workplace.
Birkman gives leaders awareness of how differing workstyles might lead to unhealthy conflict that affects the team dynamic. Armed with data and tailored personality insights, leaders can help employees constructively assess a conflict and resolve it diplomatically.
