Leading by Type: Recent Episodes
Deanna Pecina
The Leading by Type Podcast is your go-to resource for learning, growing, and embracing your leadership genius. Through this podcast, you'll hear directly from Enneagram Practitioner and DISC Consultant Deanna Pecina to help you grow in your self-awareness, people skills, leadership development and personal development. When you understand yourself and others using tools like the Enneagram and the DISC, you can overcome any barrier to communication. You do not need a position to lead. You don’t need permission to lead. All you need is a heart of service and a desire to look around and ask, “How can I best be of service to others?” Connect with Deanna and find out how to bring the Enneagram and DISC to your organization at leadingbytype.com.
In today's episode, we look at the importance of continual learning as a means of facilitating growth as a leader. Specifically, think about the following question: When is the last time you learned something new?
There are many benefits to continuously learning and improving your leadership skills, including the ability to:
- Inspire and motivate your team: As a leader, it is important to be able to communicate your vision and goals effectively to your team. By continuously learning and improving your leadership skills, you can become a more effective communicator and better able to inspire and motivate your team to achieve success.
- Foster a positive work culture: A positive work culture can increase employee satisfaction and retention, and a strong leader plays a crucial role in fostering this culture. By continuously learning and growing as a leader, you can create a positive and supportive environment for your team.
- Make better decisions: Good leaders are able to make informed and effective decisions. By continuously learning and growing as a leader, you can develop your problem-solving skills and become more adept at making difficult decisions.
- Adapt to change: The business world is constantly changing, and effective leaders are able to adapt and lead their teams through these changes. By continuously learning and growing as a leader, you can become more flexible and better able to navigate change.
- Enhance your credibility: Continuously learning and growing as a leader demonstrates to your team and colleagues that you are dedicated to improving and becoming the best leader you can be. This can enhance your credibility and increase respect for your leadership.
Overall, growing as a leader is crucial for both personal and professional success. It allows you to become a more effective and respected leader, and helps you to inspire and motivate your team to achieve success.
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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It's that time of year where we are all thinking toward a new year and planning out our goals for the next 365 days.
The problem with this is that many times we try to use a system that just doesn't work with what motivates us or aligns with our values and strengths.
For planning to work, it must be tailored for your unique talents and way of getting things done.
In this episode, we look at planning strategies that can be used for each Enneagram Type.
When you're choosing a planning style, it's really important that you choose one that works for you individually because it can help you be more effective and efficient in achieving your goals. A planning style that works for you is going to take into account your personal strengths, your preferences, your limitations, and it's going to help you stay organized, focused, and motivated in a way that may not work for someone else.
Planning in this way will enable you to set clearer, more achievable goals and stay on track and improve your productivity and performance. However, what this looks like for each person is going to look different, and that's perfectly ok!
What we're going to focus on in this episode is how you can lean into your particular Enneagram type too plan and the way that's most effective for you.
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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses issues surrounding mental health and suicide. Please note, I am not a mental health professional and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering with any psychological or medical conditions, please seek help from a qualified health professional.
In this episode, I touch on a very sensitive and personal topic: mental health awareness and issues surrounding suicide and suicidal ideation.
In the past week, many have been shocked by the untimely passing of Stephen "tWitch" Boss, leaving many to ask questions.
It was important for me to share my thoughts and check in with you all. Having lost people I know to mental health challenges, it has been a hard week to process. And, I want to acknowledge just how triggering news like this can be for all of us.
I think it's really important that we have open discussions about mental health and the facts regarding suicide in the United States. It is an issue that ultimately does affect us all.
I believe that one of the most important things that we can do to help address this challenge is to speak about it openly and normalize the importance of seeking help for mental health issues.
As leaders, we must be willing to both challenge negative assumptions around these issues and approach them with empathy vs. judgement.
If you or someone you know needs help, pick up the phone. You deserve support.
Trained volunteers are standing by to help you. Call the National Suicide Hotline, which is 988 in the US., or, text HOME to 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line.
Thank you for reading this and listening to this episode. I just want you to know that I love you, and I'm glad you're here.
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
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In this episode, I interviewed Abby Skinner, owner of The Iron Studio. We had a great conversation about how Abby has embraced change throughout her career from choosing to leave her role as a physical therapist to being forced into making an unexpected, yet ultimately rewarding, change.
In this episode, Abby shares:
- Her journey from a physical therapist to gym owner
- Why it's ok to walk away from something, even if you've worked really hard to get there
- How different parts of her journey show themselves in her current role
- How being forced into her new role has been more rewarding than she could have imagined
- Ways to embrace change, even when it's scary
- How she's dealing with the challenges of running her own business
- The importance of having a mentor
- What her long-term vision looks like
- Specific mindset tips for managing unexpected change
Connect with Abby:
The Iron Studio
Instagram
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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Today I am excited to share with you an interview that I did with Jarrod Haning. He's a master coach and owner of a company called Mindset Performance, and what he does is he works with people on how to double their income and double their time off by learning how to stop doing all of the things and start causing things to happen.
If you are a purpose driven professional, I can assume a few things about you. First of all, you are committed to your personal growth. You also feel like maybe you're being called to do something greater. You want to step into a bigger leadership role. Or, you want to start your own company, but you feel like there's something more that you're meant to do.
But at the same time, you also feel like you have more on your to-do list than you have time to get things done. You're wanting to figure out how to be able to break a pattern of stuckness where you feel like you're doing the same things over and over and over.
The problem is things like to-do lists and working harder or faster and working smarter, they don't really seem to help because even though you're doing all of the right things, you still feel stuck.
And this can be really frustrating.
This is where Jared's work can help. He provides an assessment called The Mindscan, and it's based on the Nobel nominated work of Robert S. Hartman, which focuses on our personal value structures and helps identify our individual blind spots and opportunities for breakthroughs.
The Mindscan is different from something like the DISC or the Enneagram in that it doesn't address personality traits and it doesn't compare you to other people. It doesn't give you a label. It provides you a scientific measurement of only. And your thinking patterns. So by mapping out your thinking patterns, you can discover your hidden blind spots that have been holding you back and also identify what your key strengths are so that you can grow faster.
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
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The Mindset Performance Website
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The Mindset Performance Podcast
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Connect on LinkedIn
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Follow on Twitter
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Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, I interviewed Brittany Norman, Lead School Counselor, Onslow County Schools. This is a VERY special episode for me because I was Brittany's 7th grade language arts teacher. It has been a joy to watch her grow into the leader she has become. We had a great conversation about how Brittany has embraced a new role as the Lead School Counselor and the lessons she's learned along the way.
In this episode, Brittany shares:
- Her journey from a communications major to school counselor
- The importance of being present and holding space for others
- How self-care allows her to serve others at a higher level
- The power of the question, "What is it that you need right now?"
- Why as leaders we need to understand and embrace team culture
- How relationships and valuing others builds high-performing teams
- How self-awareness impacts leadership
- How the power of belief helps bring out leadership skills in others
- When you know your why, your what becomes even more important
- A tactical strategy to help you make informed decisions
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- If You Don't Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students
- The Four Agreements
- The Five Levels of Leadership
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, Deanna provides provides insight into how to best communicate with someone who has a high C profile on the DISC assessment. Specifically, she shares how you can identify if you’re interacting with an C, what their qualities are, what value they bring to the team, and how to best communicate for results.
Episode Highlights:
- Understand how to identify C behaviors
- Learn what strengths and weaknesses C’s bring to a team
- Understand how the C’s may show up in conflict
- Learn tangible ideas of how to communicate with a C
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, Deanna provides provides insight into how to best communicate with someone who has a high S profile on the DISC assessment. Specifically, she shares how you can identify if you’re interacting with an S, what their qualities are, what value they bring to the team, and how to best communicate for results.
Episode Highlights:
- Understand how to identify S behaviors
- Learn what strengths and weaknesses S’s bring to a team
- Understand how the S’s may show up in conflict
- Learn tangible ideas of how to communicate with an S
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, Deanna provides provides insight into how to best communicate with someone who has a high I profile on the DISC assessment. Specifically, she shares how you can identify if you’re interacting with an I, what their qualities are, what value they bring to the team, and how to best communicate for results.
Episode Highlights:
- Understand how to identify I behaviors
- Learn what strengths and weaknesses I’s bring to a team
- Understand how the I’s may show up in conflict
- Learn tangible ideas of how to communicate with an I
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, Deanna provides provides insight into how to best communicate with someone who has a high D profile on the DISC assessment. Specifically, she shares how you can identify if you're interacting with a D, what their qualities are, what value they bring to the team, and how to best communicate for results.
Episode Highlights:
- Understand how to identify D behaviors
- Learn what strengths and weaknesses D's bring to a team
- Understand how the D may show up in conflict
- Learn tangible ideas of how to communicate with a D
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, I interviewed Travis Barker, CEO of EZ IT Solutions. We had a great conversation about how Travis's Enneagram 5 profile shows up in his leadership, what steps he's taken to focus on his own personal development, and how much he believes in providing opportunity for those on his team.
In this episode, Travis shares:
- His very personal "why" behind starting his business.
- The challenges of building a team and letting go of a partner.
- How his Enneagram 5 profile helps him run his business.
- Lessons he's learned about leadership and communication.
- How he really feels about his team (this is the really good stuff!).
- The importance of taking action.
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
EZ IT Solutions
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, Deanna provides an overview of the Enneagram including its origins, the nine different types, and applications to the workplace.
Episode Highlights:
- Learn where the Enneagram originated from and how it was developed
- Understand how the Enneagram provides us with differing yet valid perspectives in the world
- How the Enneagram acts like an internal GPS
- Learn what the nine different types are and what their key motivations and core fears are
- Discover tangible ways the Enneagram can help strengthen organizations through the development of self-awareness, communication, and empathy
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- Enneagram in Organizations Global Survey
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, Deanna provides an overview of the DISC assessment including its origins, the different profile types, and applications to the workplace.
Episode Highlights:
- Learn where the DISC assessment originated from
- Learn what factors influence our behavioral patterns
- Understand the characteristics of each DISC profile type (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance)
- Learn how the DISC can be utilized to increase team communication and organizational leadership
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- Maxwell Leadership Team
- Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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In this episode, Deanna explains the difference between the DISC assessment and the Enneagram and how both tools can be used to increase your leadership skills.
Episode Highlights:
- Learn why the DISC and Enneagram are powerful tools for leadership development
- Understand the difference between the two and when and how it is appropriate to use each one
- Learn about real-world applications for the DISC
- Learn about real-world applications for the Enneagram
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
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Maxwell Leadership Team
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Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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On this episode, I share a leadership moment that taught me what it means to lead from any chair and shaped my belief that leadership doesn't depend on holding a title or a position.
Episode Highlights:
- Learn about the Leading by Type Podcast
- Meet your host - Deanna Pecina
- Learn about a moment that shaped Deanna's my philosophy
- Hear about what to expect on the podcast going forward
Links & Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
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Leading from Any Chair article
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Take the What's Your Leadership Genius Quiz HERE
- Join the Leading by Type Facebook Community HERE
- Connect with Deanna on Instagram HERE
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