Our leadership team took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and we now understand our psychological differences, but we are still struggling to actually execute tasks together without stepping on each other's toes. How do we bridge these personality insights into actual operational execution?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

While personality profiles like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are helpful for understanding how your team members think and feel, they do not tell you how they actually execute. To solve execution bottlenecks, you must shift your focus from personality to conation, which is the doing part of the mind.

Introduce the Kolbe A Index to your leadership team. This tool measures instinctive action modes, showing how each person naturally gathers information, organizes systems, handles risk, and manipulates physical objects.

Once you have your team's Kolbe results, draw them on a whiteboard during your next quarterly session. You will likely see why execution is stalling. For example, you might have a team full of high Quick Starts who generate endless ideas but lack the high Follow Thru strengths needed to build the operational systems to close them out.

Use these conative insights to realign how you assign Rocks and solve issues during your Level 10 Meetings. Do not expect a low Follow Thru leader to build your new compliance workflow. Instead, pair them with a high Follow Thru peer. By aligning your team's daily execution with their natural conative strengths, you move from theoretical personality understanding to highly efficient, practical operational execution.