Corporate Profile

You're a Pioneer - Creative.

You're analytical, strategic, and love to win. You have the potential to be a great leader if you can avoid the key pitfalls most Pioneer - Creatives struggle with.

Corporate Profile

You're a Pioneer - Creative.

Strengths

They are incredible conceptual thinkers and love to envision the future. They are able to express their insights and vision in clear, concise strategic plans. They enjoy solving complex analytical questions and invariably come out top of the IQ scores. Their capacity to remain cool under pressure and control external communication means they are natural poker players and skilled negotiators.

Challenges

They tend to develop vision and strategy on their own without others input. They find it hard to be empathetic and can miss the non-verbal cues others are giving. They invariably gravitate towards those whose competency they respect and can easily ignore the contribution of others. Their love of intellectual combat can make them appear overly competitive and assertive.

Suggested Growth Opportunities

Build deep friendships with people outside of your immediate task world. Take opportunities to practically care for the poor or those less fortunate than you. Create ways for your team and those closest to you to access your current thinking and involve them in visioning the future. Establish healthy rhythms that prevent work taking over - planning time for rest, exercise, friends, family, and recreation.

What happens under moderate stress?

You are feeling locked in micro detail and too many relationships with people. You start to ask more and more critical questions, forgetting relational niceties. People begin to feel like pawns on your chessboard.

What happens under extreme stress?

You are unable to find the necessary space away from the front lines to think and process. You feel destabilized and unable to see the future and build strategic plans. You start to lose yourself in hedonistic sensory escapism.

What does a healthy Pioneer/Creative look like?

They have the ability to analyze complex problems and develop credible, ingenious, logical solutions. They have a love for the intellectual challenge of aligning people, systems, and resources to deliver big picture objectives. They make time for intellectual curiosity, exploring future trends in thought, technology, and geo-politics.

How do they stay healthy?

They need to schedule time away from the pressing demands of day-to-day operations and routine tasks. They have to climb above the battlefield so they can see the very big picture again. They need to manage their emotional energy and capacity to connect. They need to be strategic in how they invest their relational time and which social engagements they accept. They need to schedule time for study and intellectual engagement with others they believe to be highly competent.

What causes the Pioneer/Creative to become unhealthy?

When they get overwhelmed in the minutia of detail and don't schedule the time to step back and see the big picture. When they perceive themselves to be working with or for incompetent leaders and are unable to shape the future. When they believe in their own invincibility and drive themselves and their team ever harder; fear of failure causes them to run the mouse wheel until they burn out with exhaustion.