ARE YOU GROUNDING YOUR ASSESSMENTS WITH KARI GRANGER

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Your Business, Your Wealth, Paul and Cory welcome CEO and executive leadership coach, Kari Granger, to share her experience working with organizations to reinvent their leadership structures. Specifically, Kari expounds on the importance of grounding your assessments. Paul, Cory and Kari define what assessments are and provide personal and professional examples of assessments they’ve encountered throughout their lives. Kari speaks to the importance of scope, criteria, and evidence when defining and grounding your assessments. Finally, Kari recalls how she implemented this exercise during her deployment in Kuwait. 

WHAT WAS COVERED

01:05 – Paul and Kari share advice on how they get out of speeding tickets

04:07 – Introducing today’s guest, Kari Granger

05:45 – The importance of making well-grounded assessments

07:54 – Defining assessments

10:19 – Cory provides an example of an assessment

13:11 – How to begin grounding your assessments

16:40 – Kari provides questions to reflect on

17:42 – Paul interrupts the podcast to provide the audience with a special offer

18:42 – The importance of scope, criteria, and evidence

22:08 – Paul suggests watching the news as practice for grounding assessments

23:48 – Kari provides an example of why grounding assessments matters

28:25 – Kari recalls how she practiced grounding assessments in her military career while she was deployed

35:44 – The importance of genuine curiosity when grounding assessments

36:01 – Paul encourages listeners to subscribe to Kari’s podcast, Leadership Impact 

TWEETABLES

Grounding assessments is probably one of two keystone skills that I see make the biggest difference and are yet one of the more mis-seen skills that we have.

Assessments are at the very core of our decisions and our actions and it’s something that we don’t see.

Assessments are windows into what people fundamentally care about.

I find it very hard to find any news that is separated from the assessments.

That’s what most of us do is we go into our organizations, or we go into an industry, or we go somewhere new and we wanna find out what’s so. We want to learn. So, you have to watch what you’re learning. When you simply take on and inherit others assessments, you're not doing the critical thinking around that.

Do it (grounding assessments) with genuine curiosity, not, ‘I gotcha!’ It’s gonna go way better for you if you’re genuinely curious about the assessment rather than, ‘I’m gonna find out where this doesn’t work.’

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