We all have blind spots. Every strength we have could also have a corresponding weakness or potential blind spot. The following is a list of your potential blind spots. The more you can maintain an awareness of them, the easier it will be to mitigate their effects. Learning to maintain a high level of awareness will take time and practice. Dare to Stay Aware!
You have a strong personality and demeanor. As a result, you can easily come across as very intimidating even if you don't want that to be the case.
You might view people as simply a means to an end rather than a valued and integral contributor to the success of the mission. Though they might follow, they will not necessarily feel valued.
Because of your candor, you tend to speak your mind without regard to the feelings of others. Others might become gun shy about communicating with you.
Because of your focus on the end game, you can tend to have little patience for the details. When others try to explain the details, you can seem intolerant and impatient.
When communicating, you are apt to cut people off or talk over them.
You have very little tolerance for incompetence and easily get frustrated when people fall short of your expectations.
You are driven to win; sometimes at all costs. Breaking the rules, damaging relationships or heading toward a personal or professional disaster can happen suddenly because you have been oblivious. Stay alert!
You are so fast-paced and risk-tolerant, you might sacrifice the quality of the project or never even finish the project before moving on to the next one.
You can become stubborn and find it tough to listen to the opinions of others. Changing course based on those insights from others can be problematic.
You might have a constant internal battle with your ego. You can easily move from confident to arrogant without even realizing it. And, even if you are not arrogant, you are sometimes seen that way by others.
Deep in your core, you might discover or realize you have a driving need to control your own destiny; to be the master of your own fate. Maintaining control of your environment is a very high priority for you. You might feel like you have to win in whatever you find yourself doing whether it is a project or a conversation. If you think about it, you might consider that winning gives you a sense of how well you are doing in life. You might have this innate drive to always be on top. You may have this strong desire to create your own environment. You might have this driving need to always be doing something productive. Vulnerability might be considered a threat.
Recognizing and maintaining an awareness of these internal drivers will help you mitigate your blind spots.
Work diligently to maintain a high level of self-awareness of your potential blind spots.
Learn how to be more empathetic, to actively listen to those around you.
Surround yourself with leaders who are less risk-tolerant and willing to speak out if they do not agree with your decisions. Accept that they might be right and you might be wrong. Learn to demonstrate more humility and be open to counsel checks and balances.
Slow down a bit on your risk-taking decisions so you can do things right, not just fast.
Be more patient and show more concern for the feelings and opinions of others. Show them mutual respect regardless of their title or position. Though you may well deserve the accolades for the success of your project, remain balanced and show appreciation for the rest of the team and their contributions.
Learn to harness the power of your strengths and remain cognizant of your potential blind spots so that you can lead a more cohesive team.
Learn to adapt your leadership style to the style of those you work with so you can connect at deeper levels with them on an interpersonal basis. The more adaptable you become, the more cohesive your team will become.
See relationships as more important than the success of the mission. If you lose the relationship you have lost the mission. Though this will feel counter-intuitive, it will yield greater results.
Maintain a constant awareness of what is driving you and why you are feeling and thinking as you are in the moment. Challenge those feelings and thoughts. Then, create new thoughts and actions that will lead to a more desirable outcome.
Thank you for taking the Blind Spot Assessment™ based on the science of DISC, a simple, practical, easy to remember and universally applicable model. It focuses on individual patterns of external, observable behaviors. You have joined the ranks of thousands of people around the world who have completed this assessment. This report provides you a concise guide to your potential blind spots. Most people identify with 80-90% of the results.
There are four primary styles: Competitor, Motivator, Peacemaker, and Analyzer and four blended styles: Energizer, Connector, Stabilizer and Controller.
You might be asking, "so, how do I practically apply this information at work or home?"
That's a great question. Don't let this be just an "aha" moment. Contact the practitioner who provided you with this assessment. Schedule a "BSA Debrief" call with them to discuss your results. Learn from them how to use this knowledge to get you where you want to be at work and home.
Would you like to enjoy better relationships? Ask your provider how to use the "BSA Secret Survey" approach to discover the blind spot styles of others so you can communicate and work with them more effectively with greater understanding of who they are.
Do you lead teams at work or in your volunteer roles? Ask your provider about the "Blind Spot Assessment Team Leader Guide" to help you create high trust team cultures and maximize team performance.
Interested in online learning about all the different styles? Ask your provider about our Concise Blind Spot Assessment Course which teaches you about all the styles and how they interact with one another.
Deep in your core, you might discover or realize you have a driving need to constantly be doing something. You love being in control of your own destiny. You might feel that if you are not doing something significant or thriving in life you might be doing something wrong. You feel compelled to be recognized and known for your accomplishments.
Continue working on being more empathetic to others.
Surround yourself with leaders who are less risk-tolerant and willing to speak out if they do not agree with your decisions. Accept that they might be right and you might be wrong. Learn to demonstrate more humility.
Slow down a bit on your decisions so you can do things right, not just fast.
Pay more attention to the details.
Be more patient and show more concern for the feelings of others. Show them mutual respect regardless of their title or position. Though you may well deserve the accolades for the success of your project, remain balanced and show appreciation for the rest of the team and their contributions.
Learn to identify when your emotions are driving your decisions. Try to be more rational in your decision-making.
Surround yourself with leaders who are more focused and analytical so they can bring a healthy balance to your leadership. Become more confident in who you are.
Focus is difficult. Be careful to not leave projects unfinished. Learn to pay closer attention to details.
Be more engaged and patient with others. Learn to be more sensitive to the feelings of others.
You tend to know a lot of people but are not close to many of them. Work on building deeper relationships, at least with those closest to you.
Would you like to enjoy better relationships?Ask your provider how to use the "BSA Secret Survey" approach to discover the blind spot styles of others so you can communicate and work with them more effectively with greater understanding of who they are.
You can tend to be flighty leaving projects or tasks unfinished much to the chagrin of those relying on you.
Your need for the approval of others might influence you to make decisions that lead to less desirable results because you didn't want to be rejected.
Providing others with constructive criticism is a real challenge; it feels contrary to who you are at your core. If you can't be encouraging, you'd rather not say anything. This can lead people to lose trust in your leadership and devalue your feedback.
Your need to motivate and encourage people might also be seen as overbearing. You are likely to quickly step into the role of leader in the absence of other leadership and not give others a chance to rise up to the occasion.
You might tend to wear your emotions on your sleeve and even allow emotions to influence your decisions.
If others recognize this driving need for recognition, they might see you as insecure and question your leadership capabilities.
Staying focused on the task at hand can prove to be difficult.
Deep in your core, you might discover or realize you have a driving need for connection. You love being known by a lot of people even though you might only have deep connections with a few. Feeling wanted by a lot of people empowers you. You might find yourself with a need for constant stimulation. Sitting still or remaining quiet in the background feels foreign and unsatisfying. Expressing yourself while still being accepted by others is what keeps you going. Expression might be your ultimate core value from which you derive your self-worth. The more people accept your self-expression, the better you feel about yourself.
Learn how to be more empathetic, to actively listen to those around you. • Learn to identify your emotions and become more rational in your decision-making.
Focus is difficult. Be careful to not leave projects unfinished. Use self rewards.
Learn to pay closer attention to details.
Be more engaged and patient with others.
Work on building deeper relationships, at least with those closest to you.
Learn how to share constructive criticisms while still being encouraging, as well as receiving criticism from others.
Your need for the approval of others might influence you to make decisions that lead to less desirable results because you didn’t want to be rejected.
Providing others with constructive criticism is a real challenge; it feels contrary to who you are at your core. If you can’t be encouraging, you’d rather not say anything. This can lead people to lose trust in your leadership and devalue your feedback.
To minimize conflict, you might sacrifice your own wants, needs and desires. Others might seem to appreciate this at times. However, it can also cause them to question your ability to lead. And, you might harbor your own resentment and feel bullied.
You don’t mind a little risk and adventure. But, you also like to maintain a safe and stable environment. As a result, you might tend to miss opportunities that require more risk than you are comfortable with.
Know that dominant people might take advantage of you mistaking your kindness and enthusiasm for weakness and unwarranted zeal.
You are sensitive to the feelings of others and can easily get hurt when others are not equally as sensitive to your feelings. You might need to be tougher and handle criticism without taking it personally.
Attention to details and completing projects is not a core strength. This might frustrate those who depend on your leadership. Pay attention to the details or work closely with someone who will do that for you.
Be sure to carefully consider all the options before charging ahead on new initiatives. Don’t let your zeal get in the way of making rational decisions.
Learn to identify your emotions and become more rational in your decision-making.
Learn to express your feelings rather than bottling them up.
Focus is difficult. Be careful to not leave projects unfinished.
Work on speaking out and standing up for what you believe is right.
Learn to be confident in your decisions.
Face your fears head on. Don’t let them hold you back from taking calculated risks or being open to change.
Don’t worry as much about conflict. Think of conflict as an opportunity to build better, deeper relationships. Embrace conflict as a positive, not a negative.
Don’t let others take advantage of you. Learn to stand firm and push back. You might even need to stand up from a sitting position to drive home your point.
Deep in your core, you might discover or realize you have a driving need to keep things harmonious, especially within relationships at work and home. Any kind of friction or conflict is a threat to this harmony. So, you might find yourself doing whatever you have to do to avoid or minimize these threats. You might feel that it is your job to make others happy. Helping others fuels who you are and elevates your self-worth. If you are not helping others, or if you are causing others to be unhappy, you might find yourself questioning your value.
Learn how to embrace change. Realize that change is inevitable.
Work on speaking out your own feelings and standing up for what you believe is right.
Because of your exacting nature, you can become critical of others. Therefore, others become gun shy about communicating with you.
You lean toward being a perfectionist and might not realize you are inadvertently setting unrealistic standards for others. You might naturally expect others to have your same high standards for perfection thus, setting them up for failure.
You have high standards for following the rules and might get irritated with those who don't. Other good people might feel uncomfortable around you and might even see you as self-righteous. This bothers you as it creates an internal conflict with your value for relationships.
When challenged you might have a tendency to stand your ground and defend your beliefs or decisions. This may send a signal that you are combative or defensive rather than simply confident in your decision.
Creating a safe and stable environment is important to you. As a result, you might tend to miss opportunities that require a little extra risk.
Being center stage is not your favorite place to be. Having to stand up and share your vision with a large group can tend to cause you fear and anxiety. Others might perceive this as not having a conviction for your vision.
Because you enjoy stability, others might get frustrated by perceiving you as inflexible or overly cautious. You might find yourself getting frustrated or irritated when people are not patient with you.
You are a naturally sensitive person. Others might unintentionally hurt your feelings. You also might find yourself frustrated with people who appear insensitive.
Deep in your core, you might discover or realize you have a driving need to keep things harmonious, especially within relationships at work and home. Any kind of friction or conflict is a threat to this harmony. So, you might find yourself doing whatever you have to do to avoid or minimize these threats. You have this innate desire to always come across as being credible. You never want to be blamed for anything. So, you feel compelled to take great care in evaluating every situation. You choose your words very carefully, especially in unfamiliar social settings. Maintaining control helps you protect your dignity and credibility. Safety and security are extremely important to you.
Surround yourself with leaders who are a bit more risk-tolerant and willing to speak out if they do not agree with your decisions. Accept that they might be right and you might be wrong.
Be confident in your decisions but at the same time demonstrate more humility and openness to other perspectives. Recognize your need to be right and demonstrate a willingness to be wrong.
Learn to express your feelings rather than bottling them up. Be more expressive and enthusiastic with your vision and ideas.
Enjoy your relationships rather than just enduring them.
Embrace conflict as a positive, not a negative. Think of conflict as an opportunity to build better, deeper relationships.
The Analyzer style has a strong and cautious personality and demeanor. As a result, you can easily come across as very intimidating even if you don't want that to be the case.
People can easily annoy you, especially those who tend to have a more emotional, intuitive style.
You might find yourself being critical of others, especially of their performance. As a result, you can come across as arrogant and demeaning. Others might also become gun shy about communicating with you.
You have high standards for following the rules and little tolerance for those who don't. Other good people might feel uncomfortable around you and even see you as self-righteous.
Learn how to be more empathetic, to actively listen to those around you without being critical.
Be more patient with those who are more expressive and demonstrative. Help them feel that you value their perspective.
Though you feel you have evaluated all the potential outcomes for a decision, accept that others might be right and you might be wrong. Learn to demonstrate more humility.
Don't over analyze or over think your decisions. Learn to be a bit more intuitive.
Be willing to move outside of your comfort zone.
Be more positive.
Be less critical of others.
Realize we live in an imperfect world.
You can sometimes come across as very intimidating even if you don't want that to be the case.
Because of your candor, you might tend to speak your mind without regard to the feelings of others. Others become gun shy about communicating with you.
Though rules are important and you try to be cautious, you are just enough of a risk-taker that crossing a line might catch you off guard.
You can become stubborn and might find it tough to listen to the opinions of others. Changing course based on those insights from others can be problematic for you.
You might sense a constant internal battle with your ego. You can easily move from confident to arrogant without even realizing it. And, even if you are not arrogant, you are sometimes seen that way by others.
Surround yourself with leaders who are willing to speak out if they do not agree with your decisions. Accept that they might be right and you might be wrong. Learn to demonstrate more humility.
Though you feel you have evaluated all the potential outcomes for a decision, accept that others might be right and you might be wrong.
Put yourself in a work environment. Don't overthink it.