#emergenetics

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My Emergenetics profile!

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TLDNR: food habits are mostly culturally constructed and I’m long-winded because that’s my personality type. Infodumping-R-Us. f-o-h is so funny like ... “ew nasty vegetables gross” I mean maybe you genuinely are an extremely picky eater. Still sad to contemplate that someone might have never grown past the mac-and-cheese stage. “made something political for no reason” Everything is politics, even what’s on your plate. Colonialism and the American Standardized Diet molds another taste palate and claims another potential cancer victim. It’s sad to see the statistics of the chronic illness effect on people being ‘imported’ into the British and American diet. While indigenous foods fight to stay relevant or are subsumed into generic salt and fat taste profiles. And either way, if you came by it honestly as a neurodivergence or it were culturally molded, (which is far more likely) what would that have to do with whether someone could cook or not? I’ve been accused of over-complicating things all my life... yet ... I don’t ‘make’ things political. The world is political. I mean should I apologize for tending to see single interactions in terms of larger scale problems?? Is that it? People on this site are fond of Myers-Briggs, but this is all Emergenetics. You see no reason to go into collective cultural interactions, (maybe you’re Red type) but that’s how my mind works. I see two people have an exchange no matter how casual and I usually immediately try to identify what surrounding forces positioned them in such a way to get to that awkward or confrontational moment.

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Emergenetics profile Singapore is a color-coded and easy to understand insight into who an individual is innate. This captures the way an individual behaves, thinks, and communicate.

Generally, Emergenetics actually stands for emerge through their genetics, which is an assessment tool that helps individuals grow through their own strengths of who they are instead of some assessment tools that aim at the weaknesses of a person and asks them to make changes.

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Seriously, Another Professional Assessment?  If it’s Emergenetics, Absolutely!

If you have been part of corporate America for any length of time, it is all but guaranteed you have been asked to take many professional or personality assessments in hopes of increasing your own understanding of yourself and assist those around you to better understand how you work.  Frankly, I don’t see this changing.  However, the need or the reason for taking these assessments has been quietly shifting for some time. 

It has not been uncommon for businesses to provide professional assessments as a “check the box” activity as evidence they are investing in the professional development of their employees.  After all, who could argue that learning more about oneself in some way doesn’t help our own development?  It is also not uncommon that after initially learning the concepts and reviewing results, the information is rarely mentioned again unless it is being used to label someone.  Come on, admit it, you know it happens!

The quiet shift that has been occurring for quite some time is the way in which we understand ourselves and others may be the single most important differentiator as a leader, an employee, or heck, even as a business itself. 

Understanding others allows a company to target customers for their products and services more accurately.  Understanding others facilitates a leader recognizing that you don’t put someone in a job because they need be immersed in a particular area that’s not a natural strength, but instead recognize their natural strengths and put them in a job where they will excel and yield greater results for the business.  Understanding others helps a manager be better equipped to provide feedback and coach someone who is in almost every way different than who that manager is, which will also lead to higher productivity. 

Understanding ourselves and others is moving from a “check the box” activity to a business critical activity.  These assessments and tools can help identify or reinforce leadership capability expectations, create or build upon company culture and climate, provide a common language for communication and interaction, and the list goes on.

Throughout my sixteen years in Human Resources positions, I have taken all of the commonly used professional assessments.  While going through the results of those assessments, I recall moments of feeling parts were helpful or parts may be actionable, but I mostly felt like the assessments didn’t get the gist of who I really am.  Until I experienced Emergenetics.

A while back I was having a conversation with a person who is like a mentor to me.  I was feeling less fulfilled in my job and I couldn’t figure out why because the aspects were similar to what I had been doing for years.  She asked me if I had ever taken the Emergenetics assessment and shockingly, after being in HR for so long, I hadn’t even heard of it! 

A little about Emergenetics from Emergenetics:

Emergenetics is a multifaceted tool for understanding human behavior and the unique differences in the way people approach work and life.  Emergenetics combines sophisticated left-brain/right-brain analysis with behavioral tendencies, resulting in a clear, defined perspective on personality unlike any other.  With Emergenetics, you get a color-coded, easy-to-understand window into who a person truly is.  And, with over 500,000 people in the database and the backing of The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, you know it’s a proven, accurate system to empower people to harness their optimal methods for thinking and action.

Emergenetics can be used for individuals via coaching, teams via workshops or entire departments or organizations within full seminars or retreats.  Emergenetics impacts businesses by creating clearer, more powerful communication, a diverse perspective on work and how to approach colleagues and clients, higher percentage of business objectives and goals met due to an empowering, strengths-based system, and most importantly an approach to leadership unlike any other – Emergenetics builds the leader’s awareness and boosts interpersonal and communication skills. 

About a week after I took the Emergenetics profile we discussed my results.  I have to honestly say that going over my results was the first moment in my life where I felt like someone (or something!) really, truly understood who I am!  I am not kidding! 

Emergenetics was so simple and easy to understand.  It helped me understand I was feeling less fulfilled in my job because I was surrounded by a new group of people that think and behave very differently than I do.  I learned being surrounded by people who think differently nine hours a day, five days a week can be exhausting.  I didn’t understand them and they didn’t understand me. 

As a different example, I have somehow found myself in the situation where my direct managers would come to me and relied on me for data – either pulling it or analyzing it.  I hate data!  Okay, the truth is, I can do it – pull it and analyze it, but I hate it.  When you’re good at it, however, people don’t believe you when you say you hate it, so they keep coming back. 

Emergenetics outlines the four thinking and three behavioral attributes and that we have natural preferences, but different than my experience with other assessments, Emergenetics is also clear that just because something isn’t a preference, you can still be competent in it.  The difference is it will just require more energy.  This is exactly how I feel about data – I can do it, but it exhausts me! 

My own experience with Emergenetics facilitated exactly where we see businesses and leaders heading – the ability to enhance our understanding of ourselves and others.  Since experiencing Emergenetics and becoming an Emergenetics Associate myself, I have been able to more clearly articulate my strengths at work and identify areas within my profession that highlight these strengths, which in turn creates energy.  More importantly than that, it has helped me understand other people better than I would have ever imagined.  I am now more aware of how other people think and behave and I now have tools and awareness to enhance our communication and interaction which inevitably makes us more productive. 

As you are thinking about a professional development opportunity for yourself, your team or your organization and someone thinks to recommend a professional assessment, remember understanding ourselves and others is going to be a key differentiator in all businesses and it may be the perfect opportunity to move it from a “check the box” activity to a shift in team or company culture. 

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Starting My Own Business

This year is already off to a significantly different start than any other year in my life.  When January 1st rolled around, I found myself in the unfamiliar position of being an entrepreneur owning my own business!  Some who know me and are reading this may have no idea I have navigated on to my own, so I thought the perfect way to kick off my blog in 2015 is to tell the story of how People Evolutions came to be.

Over the last sixteen plus years I have been in various Human Resources roles and I always knew at some point I would become an executive coach fulltime.  Coaching and engaging with professionals and executives throughout my career has always been an area that was a natural fit for me and where I found personal fulfillment.  Over the last 18 or so months I started giving this plan more and more thought and as so often does, things started falling into place. 

In late 2013 a personal acquaintance began casually asking my perspective for some executive coaching clients who were feeling stuck in their careers or had lost confidence due to the environment at work.  I used my experience in seeing so many of these situations firsthand and began rattling off ideas and specific steps they could do to move forward.  After a few of these conversations she shared her belief there is a significant need out there consulting people in these situations and threw out the idea I start a business.  I was apprehensive, but decided to give it a shot as a side venture from my fulltime Human Resources job. 

In February 2014 I started working with clients with a need for someone understanding where they are at in their current position, where they want to go and help coach them to take steps to get there.  From there, things started to snowball.  Referrals kept coming in.  I quickly realized there was an opportunity to make this endeavor more formal and include these services under a broad umbrella that could eventually include my original plan of executive coaching. 

People Evolutions came to life in May 2014.  In forming People Evolutions, I wanted to encompass areas I am passionate about and am confident I can make a difference.  These areas include Professional/Executive Coaching, Professional Development through Emergenetics, and Professional Branding/Career Coaching.  Towards the end of 2014, an opportunity presented itself that facilitated my ability to move People Evolutions from a side venture to my fulltime job.  Although the timing of this change wasn’t in my original plans, there are times in life where things happen and the only right thing to do would be to ride the wave.  So, here I am, riding the wave!  There's no doubt that taking a risk is scary, but as the saying goes: no risk, no reward!

To help familiarize you with People Evolutions, here is a deeper dive into the services provided:

Professional / Executive Coaching: Through Marshall Goldsmith’s Stakeholder Centered Coaching methodology, I engage with executives and high potential individuals and leaders with a strong desire to further improve and become even more successful.  Stakeholder Centered Coaching is different than most coaching models as leadership growth and behavioral change is measured every three to six months through stakeholder observation and feedback. 

Professional Development through Emergenetics: I have never been more excited about a professional development tool than I am about Emergenetics.  As a certified Emergenetics Associate, I help individuals, teams and organizations increase efficiency and improve communication through solutions that center on the Emergenetics profile.  Emergenetics is the building block of strong organizations.  It’s a way of thinking.  A new approach to developing employees and leaders.  On a practical level, Emergenetics represents a clear framework of seven easily recognizable and useful factors that apply to work, communication, and interpersonal relationships to maximize human performance.

Professional Branding / Career Coaching: This encompasses so much and is really the catalyst for People Evolutions coming to life.  There are so many people out there wanting to make a change in their career or job, but feel stuck for a variety of reasons, possibly including: being in an environment where confidence is a thing of the past and are convinced no company would hire them; have been with the same company for a long time and have no idea where to start in looking for a job; haven’t updated their resume in years, if ever, and have no idea how to use professional social media platforms to help with their job search.  I have taken my real life experience being in Human Resources, as a hiring manager, as an interviewer, as a job seeker, as a person being actively recruited by a company or headhunter and have turned that knowledge into a step-by-step individual coaching series to help anyone prepare and begin to look for their next opportunity. 

The most popular service amongst my clients is the Career Transition Coaching Series which includes 12 – 50 minute coaching sessions that cover topics like defining, communicating and publishing your professional brand, identifying your job market, creating your job search strategy, using social media, networking, interviewing, etc.  I also offer professionally written resumes, LinkedIn profiles and cover letters to ensure you are putting your professional best out there.  Because everyone is starting from a different place and has unique needs, I can customize to meet your needs.  The best part about this piece of my business is that it can be done 100% over the phone which allows me to connect and help individuals literally anywhere!

I think we all have moments where we debate taking a risk and doing something completely different than we've done before and it can be scary.  It is scary.  As I am navigating through this process on my own, it has reaffirmed my belief that we will only regret the things we didn't try in life.  So, if you're debating taking your own risk, do it! 

Going forward, my intention with this blog will be to regularly write about leadership, coaching, career transitions, and other exciting topics that come up during my interactions with clients. 

Now that you know what I am up to, please also feel free to connect with me on social media! 

www.PeopleEvolutions.com

LinkedIn.com/in/LeshaReese

Facebook.com/PeopleEvolutions

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 While this is an exciting time in my life, I am acutely aware I would not be in this place if it were not for the people I have been blessed to be surrounded by over the last many years.  Thank you for teaching me, coaching me, providing me an example to look up to, calling me out on my crap, and most of all for having confidence in me and my abilities. 

Happy New Year!

Lesha