My Amazon/AWS Work of Leaders Profile

The last time I had a detailed psychometric assessment done was in 2015 as I was stepping up to executive management (C-Suite) roles, the Enneagram report, seven years ago.

It's now 2022 and I'm working at Amazon Web Services in a leadership position where the focus is on scaling myself, my team and my business. As part this journey of leading to scale, I completed a new kind of psychometric based on the DiscProfile focused on the "Work of Leaders". 

This Work of Leaders psychometric is different because unlike other DiSC reports, which emphasize understanding the differences between people (like the Enneagram model), Work of Leaders focuses on understanding how your tendencies influence your effectiveness in specific leadership situations.

Here's is decent walkthrough of the assessment:

My Assessment Results

My dot style is Di

My shading style includes Pioneering, Commanding, Energizing and Affirming (which isn't characteristic of the Di style(!)\

My Reflections on my Disc Report as shared with my Manager

Psychometrics should not ignore context and time period. In my case, I was quite intentional with my decision to leave a C-suite position behind and join Amazon AWS as a senior manager, with a focus to learning and retooling. With this change, I spent a lot of my energy resisting my default behaviours and inclinations to allow for the secret sauce, wisdom and magic of Amazon to touch me. Little did I know I would be immersed in my first two years into highly operational, time-sensitive projects, executing and correcting or creating a new vision, stabilizing teams and building new relationships - all being done remotely because of Covid.

So this Disc profile report was both a wake-up call and also affirmed and validated my behaviour profile as a result of the changes I went through (and still going through). It's quite uncanny to be honest, I'm amazed at how close this report aligned to my recent work experience!!

Here's my notes to my manager:

[Like Me]

Natural passion to grow, expand and explore.

Driven to constantly seek bigger and better accomplishments.

Propensity toward action

Don't like feeling constrained, you value freedom and don't bow to conformity

You probably find the act of influencing people very gratifying, both one-on-one and in team settings.

 

[Not Like Me]

Listen without really hearing what's been said

Continuous need for stimulation may mean you're more interested in starting projects than following through

Focused on your own ideas that you shut down other people.

 

[Unsure]

Likes shortcuts a lot

 

[3 sentences that really resonate with you as being accurate]

Natural passion to grow, expand and explore.

Driven to constantly seek bigger and better accomplishments.

Because you don't like feeling constrained, you value freedom and don't bow to conformity. Therefore, you're willing to take chances by stretching boundaries and even overstepping them at times.

 

[Reflections]

My style could be influenced by my time with AWS of being too operational and not given a chance to drive a vision. The plan was already in motion, with no opportunity to inspect, challenge or adapt the plan as is my default style (I was an exceptional technical project manager in the past & created top-notch end-to-end program strategy and execution plans). Shows I have opportunity for planning, in my previous roles, I've been a meticulous planner of note - but I just went with the flow in AWS because I was "re-educating" myself and waiting to see the magic happen! How much is my leadership style influenced by the reality of the actual day-to-day experience and lack of (strategic vision, mission, tactics setting) opportunities in my role?

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