Corporate Profile

You're a Pioneer - Guardian.

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

Corporate Profile

You're a Pioneer - Guardian.

Strengths

They ask challenging and critical questions to better understand their reality and envision the future.
 They love to lead and enjoy taking responsibility for others.
 Natural leaders, brilliant at aligning people, systems and resources to achieve strategic objectives. Natural competitors who love to win big.

Challenges

Their competitiveness and abrasive personality often make them hard to love.
 They always appear to be working, even social interactions appear calculated and strategic.
 Colleagues and subordinates can often feel like pieces on their strategic chessboard.
 They respect strength and sacrifice, often failing to extend compassion and care to those who are struggling.


Suggested Growth Opportunities

Learning to develop relationships with people where you are not their leader.
 Learning how to be present with people without any particular agenda or need to recruit people and resources for a new vision.
 Developing empathy and compassion for those less fortunate than you.
 Serving people who can never repay you or add to your expertise and knowledge.
 Recognize that you may present your ideas too forcefully, effectively shutting out others’ opinions.

What happens under moderate stress?

You become more and more demanding and controlling of your team.
 You begin to drive yourself and others to the limits of capacity and endurance.
 Drawn to your competency and charisma people start to fear your displeasure.

What happens under extreme stress?

Because of failure in your vision, and/or physical burnout, you start to withdraw and internalize your emotions.
 Begin asking, “Does anyone really care about me or like me?”
 Experience guilt and regret for having placed the task before relationships.


What does a healthy Pioneer/Guardian look like?

They have a strong ability to asking the tough, strategic questions that go to the heart of the issue.
 They have the capacity to communicate vision in a clear, compelling manner such that everyone in the team knows what’s expected of them and what the success criteria are.
 They have an ability to drive teams and organizations to productivity and health, they provide a metronomic consistency that others take their lead from.
 They have an incredible capacity to think strategically and are always testing new hypotheses and exploring ways to win.

How do they stay healthy?

They need to have the freedom to ask the tough, critical questions of leaders in different parts of the organization.
 They need to have the opportunity to lead, to bring order and direction, aligning people, strategy and resources to achieve the objective.
 They need to carefully monitor the relational load they are carrying, if they start to over care they will lose the capacity to lead at their best.

What causes the Pioneer/Guardian to become unhealthy?

When they are not able to ask the tough questions of people it perceives to be competent then it doesn’t have the tools to shape future vision.
 When they are dealing with Impending failure, it causes them to become overly critical and judgmental of both themselves and those they perceive to be responsible.
 When they become overly sensitive and afraid of hurting people’s feelings they won’t ask the right questions and as such gather insufficient data.