Leadership styles and remote leadership (video & webinar)

"What is the ideal DISC (MBTI, Predictive Index, etc.) profile for a successful corporate executive?” leadership workshop participants ask me countless times, in both East And West.

The professional answer is “It depends,” but it’s not so obscure as it first seems. A good example is the recent challenge of senior managers who are expected to maintain the digital-virtual workload (emails, productivity apps, video calls and more) that piled up during the pandemic, while also engage people in person again in gradually repopulating physical offices, resume business trips, meetings (outside!) and attend conferences, trade shows and networking events.

The combined workload, which often spans across 5-7 time zones, is enough to burn out even ambitious managers (actually, it burns out diligent people faster than lazy ones), and undermine long-term productivity for both leader and team. But the double disruption (first the pandemic, then post-pandemic) also presents an opportunity for executives to reshape their working days, this time according to their personal interest, strengths, weaknesses and goals.

In my latest YouTube video, I contrast two executives I have coached. One is an energetic extrovert who enjoys networking across continents in person, collecting airline miles and shaking hands while delegating the “nerdy stuff”, including much virtual engagement, to her leadership team. Another is a quiet perfectionist introvert who feels best in a digital comfort zone and passes real-time personal engagement to his team. Given the same challenge, two smart people with different behavioural profiles will create opposite but equally effective responses.

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Watch the video: Learn to lead successful intercultural teams across time zones.

There is a leap from someone’s behavioural assessment profile, DISC or otherwise, to the practical applications I mention here. Like an Olympic pole vault or football championship goal, the methodology usually seems obscure until slow-motion analysis reveals its secrets in stages. Turning self-awareness about one’s behavioural profile into personalised skills and then daily habits is exactly what we will discuss at my next free webinar on August 1, based on the award-winning Global DISC intercultural assessment system.

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Check the details and register to join us here: it costs nothing.

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I hope to see you there and until then, message me with questions on how East-West Leadership skills can help you, or schedule a free call: https://calendly.com/gabor-holch/15-minute-enquiry