NBI Results

Now that you've reviewed your NBI profile and had a chance to discuss it with your peers, think about each of the following areas of the assessment:

Job Fit: How does your NBI profile fit with your current job? Are you working within or against your preference?

The results of my NBI profile doesn’t really fit with my current job, as I’m usually around multiple people or on a team working together to try and win games. I also, place a lot of emphasis on my teammates emotions and how they’re physiologically responding to my verbal commands or critiques. The NBI results viewed me as uncaring and showing little empathy towards others, which is why I don’t believe it’s accurate to my personality as a leader.  

Decision Making: Do you rely more on the left or the right hemisphere when making decisions? What are the strengths and limits of your current approach?

The NBI results showed me to be more of a left hemisphere type of thinker when making decisions, which tags me as a factual realistic, statistical direct type of person. I believe there is a lot of truth to these results as, I tend to rely on facts and reasonable logic more than opinions and creative ideas. Although I don’t lack imagination and believe in new ways of doing things if it results in similar or greater success. These traits can be seen as strengths because of the accuracy associate with them. The understanding that thorough detail will go into any project or event, will allow the comfort of knowing that some type of success will be obtained at whatever level it can be. These traits can be seen as a weakness because sometimes fresh and new ideas can trump facts and old ideas, sometimes you have to look past what’s at face value and understand the emotions behind the reasoning. Being too detailed and fact based can cause you to be blind to other relevant factors to a problem. I like to believe that even though I highly value facts and logic, I’m not blind to emotions and other factors outside of the stats.      

Communication: When you communicate with others, what preferences do you rely on the most? How do you "show up" in social settings? What areas might you need to focus on to be more effective in your communication?

The NBI result declared me to be a loner who doesn’t like to work with outers or only a small team if needed. That I prefer to work alone as, I’m uncomfortable in different environments that make me share emotions or show empathy to others. All that is crap, I have traveled the world and been to multiple environments that were uncomfortable for me at first but I adapted and proceeded to live there for months at a time. I like to believe that I’m a very sociable as well as personable individual and do my share of helping others in need. I will say that I have shown myself to be an introvert at times but recently have been working on being more extroverted. If there’s an area that I would like to focus more on when communicating, it would be listening more to understand a problem from a personable level rather than just to gain the facts.   

Performance: What are two ways that your thinking preferences contribute to your performance effectiveness (e.g. planning, motivating others, using data analytics, delegating, etc.)? What are two areas that come to mind that would increase your effectiveness?

My thinking preferences play a huge role in how a perform as a leader, planning how I will attack a situation is what I do on a regular basis, as I never go into a problem without a game plan. I always try to think about what the outcome maybe if I approach an issue so that I can prepare myself with a counter. Motivating is a way that contributes to my ability as a leader, as I’m always motivating my guys to do what they know how to do on the court, know matter who we play. Placing that encouragement in them by whatever tactics needed, such as screaming, joking, or through my own actions, I feel this helps me as a leader especially when they have successes because of it. I would like to increase knowledge of the situations that I’m in, as you can never gain enough knowledge. Also, I would like to become even more personable with the people around me because the more you know the people around you the stronger the bonds with them will be.       

Teamwork: When working in teams, for what roles do you have a "valence" and what might be some of the strengths your thinking preferences might bring as well as some challenges?

While in a team environment I like to have a democratic type of structure, where everyone can voice their opinions and an idea is decided by the majority. I believe my thinking preference will work well in this type of structure because with a group of people joining together to find a solution to a problem, being detailed and direct will prove useful if the conversation goes off track or into un realistic views. My type of thinking can be challenging at times because It may cause friction for imaginative based thinkers.