The Captain

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Pragmatic Team-Enabling Direct

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Your Builder Profile

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As a Captain, you make things happen by empowering others. You’re a team assembler and a growth catalyst – intent on building the right team structure and culture. You prefer to lead with the “we” rather than the “me.” You’re inspired to create a shared enterprise of value through your three core gifts: strategic vision, values, and empowering others.

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Motivation

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You want to build an enterprise of enduring value by unleashing the productive potential of individuals and teams.

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Decision Making

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Your Builder Snapshot:

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You're dispassionate and focused on growth; careful to be consistent with mission, vision, and prior personal commitments.

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Management Approach

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You're direct, honest and consistent in communication, and in your expectations of individuals and teams.

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You're consensus-driven - empowering others after setting clear goals and expectations, while consistently applying deeply held principles of honesty and transparency.

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Gifts (Strengths)

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Empowers others within regimen of clear accountability.

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Encourages team member candor.

Willing to share credit for positive outcomes.

Open to “bubble up” creativity in workplace.

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Gaps (Weaknesses)

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Comfort with delegating can remove them from important frontline developments.

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May allow search for consensus to postpone fast decisions.

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Focus on steady improvement may miss big-scale outside trends.

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Keep a sharp eye out for the next champion on your already-solid team.

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Avoid confusing your teams with your twin strengths of listening and consensus building.

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Share the Captain’s chair to show and teach others how you lead.

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Renew your trust-but-verify style by personal example.

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