Maximizing Your Leadership Potential
For use with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® & Striving Styles® Personality System
Understand why you feel like an imposter, why you keep putting yourself last, and how to stop getting in your own way so you can live with greater confidence, clarity, and self-trust.
What This Book Explores
The Maximizing Your Leadership Potential series is a collection of 16 books, each written for one of the 16 MBTI® personality types and its corresponding Striving Style®. Together, the series provides leaders with a practical, personalized guide to understanding how their personality influences their leadership effectiveness, satisfaction, relationships, and development.
Each book focuses on the strengths, emotional needs, preferred behaviors, leadership challenges, and developmental opportunities associated with each MBTI type. It helps leaders understand what they naturally bring to their role, where they may over-rely on familiar approaches, and what they need to develop to lead with greater awareness, flexibility, and impact.
The Maximizing Your Leadership Potential series helps leaders understand the person behind the leadership role. It provides insight into the inner drivers, emotional needs, habits of mind, preferences, and self-protective behaviors that influence how they lead and how others experience them.
SELF-AWARENESS IS THE FOUNDATION OF LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS
Leaders are responsible for far more than achieving results. They shape the culture employees experience. They influence whether people feel trusted, developed, heard, challenged, supported, or held accountable. They affect how teams solve problems, navigate change, deal with pressure, and contribute to organizational goals.
A leader’s style can have a positive impact when it is conscious and well-developed. The same style can become limiting when the leader is unaware of their triggers, overuses their strengths, or expects others to operate according to their own preferences.
Self-awareness helps leaders understand these differences. It allows them to recognize their impact and make informed choices about how they lead.
Through the Maximizing Your Leadership Potential series, leaders learn to identify the behaviors that come naturally to them, understand the needs beneath those behaviors, and develop greater capacity to stretch when their role requires something different.
A RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUAL LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
The 16-book Maximizing Your Leadership Potential series gives leaders a personalized roadmap for doing exactly that. It is valuable for anyone who wants to understand and develop leadership through a deeper, more personalized lens.
The series is designed for:
- Current leaders who want to increase their effectiveness and satisfaction
- Emerging leaders preparing for greater responsibility
- Executives who want to understand their leadership impact more clearly
- Leadership coaches supporting individual development
- Human Resources professionals involved in leadership selection, development, succession, and coaching
- Organizations building stronger leadership capability and more effective teams
- Anyone responsible for selecting, managing, or developing leaders
The books can be used as individual leadership guides, as part of coaching programs, within leadership development initiatives, or as a resource for organizations seeking to strengthen self-awareness, adaptability, employee development, and leadership effectiveness.
GO BEYOND KNOWING YOUR MBTI PERSONALITY TYPE
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) is a powerful standalone assessment that identifies your four-letter personality type.
The Striving Styles® Personality System Assessment includes your MBTI® type and takes your understanding to the next level.
It reveals the deeper psychological drivers of your behavior, the needs influencing your leadership style, and the patterns that emerge under stress or when your development has been limited. For leaders, this deeper insight is essential.
It shows you what strengthens your effectiveness, what limits your impact, and where coaching can help you grow.
Know your Striving Style. Understand what drives you. Transform the way you lead.