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A Matter Of Skill
Your skill set helps dictate your work ethic.
I
often have people
•Acts as a change agent
come into the office
•Wants to get a plan for
where you need to be now
and comment, "Your
desk is really clean!"
• The ability to see the
No matter the day or
future through the fog
the time, there is never a
• Guides the organization
paper stack or clutter on
to a new future and success
• Creative and willing to
my desk. One could see
take risk
this as organized or just as
•Wants a plan and to get
easily interpret this as hav- F. Kevin Browett
Columnist
ing nothing to do.
going
The facts are that cer-
•Not interested in going
back and worrying about the details;
tain roles and certain behaviors are
part of how one becomes an execu-
moves forward
tive or one creates the team mix with
• Needs a team to back the play and
strengths and weaknesses as you for-
keep the details in place.
mulate the team. As a refresher, there
are four types of traits or skills:
INTEGRATOR:
They are defined by the letters PAEI:
• Shares and embraces organic
change, inside out
Remember there is no perfect execu-
• Organization must live on regard-
tive, but rather the ability to have the
less of people so if the culture is there
mix of the skills or the team mix of
these four skills that lead to the ability and shared, new people can embrace it
• Unites and builds team support
to effectively lead.
around ideas and goals
What does this person or skill set
•Acts as a rudder for the ship
normally look like?
• Creates trust and respect by allow-
ing people to make decisions, share
PRODUCER:
ideas and make mistakes
• Usually productive
• Messy desk
• Can be afraid to make a decision;
looking for 100 percent agreement
•Always looks and is busy doing
• Can get paralyzed by wanting to
something
not upset anyone
• Diligent
• Can wait so long for every possible
• Reliable
input that the opportunity is gone or
• Good and productive
the competition passes you by.
• Poor or weak when has to get
things done with others.
As you think about the team or your
leadership skills, apply the above "test"
ADMINISTRATOR:
how do you stack up? What are you? Do
you have the right mix and talent with-
• Creates the process
in yourself and within your team? ❑
• Creates the system
•Wants the "rule book"
F: Kevin Browett is COO of Jewish
• Needs a process for everything
Renaissance Media, parent company of the
• Detail oriented, wants every detail
Detroit Jewish News. He is a former vice
• Linear thinker
president of Kmart Corp. and a past small-
• So much focus on process, never
business founder and officer.
gets results or executes.
ENTREPRENEUR:
• Looks at the world and senses the
needed changes
•Wants to find a better way
Source: "Corporate Lifecycles: How And
Role
Output
Time Frame
Producer
Effect
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