Anne Dranitsaris and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard
PhD, BA, HRPAO, CMC
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- Behavioural Change, Personality Styles, Emotional Intelligence, Relationship Skills, Organizational and Leadership Dynamics
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Anne Dranitsaris, Ph.D. and Heather Dranitsaris-Hilliard are Behavioral Change Experts and the authors of Who Are You Meant to Be: A Groundbreaking Step-By-Step Approach to Achieving Your True Potential. Their book introduces the Striving Styles Personality System, a neuropsychological approach to assessing and developing potential in individuals and organizations. Anne has been working with leaders for over 30 years to help them achieve their own potential and that of their people and organization.
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Let Me Help You, Please!
When we think about the Socializer Striving Style, with their predominant need to be connected, the Barbra Streisand song "People” (People Who Need People) comes to mind. Socializers are the “Weavers of the Social Fabric” in families, the workplace and in communities. They easily build and maintain positive relationships with a wide variety of people. They aim to be helpful and are enthusiastic, amiable, outgoing “people-people.” Their relationships are at the center of their lives and everything they do ensures their connection to others.
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When Did You Last Feel Truly Connected to Yourself?
Think for a moment of a time when you felt truly connected to yourself – you were on purpose, knew what you needed, had a plan to get it, and felt passionate about doing so. Although many of us have experienced times when we felt we were acting from our true selves, aligned with our interests and passions, they seem few and far between. So why is this and what can we do about it?
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Dare To Dream
Who Am I Meant to Be? Few people dare to dream. To live their lives striving to achieve their potential and become the person they were meant to be. Most people live in survival, as though they have to constantly protect themselves from unseen dangers, even though they don’t exist. Sadly, those who do dare to dream rarely ever see their dreams and ambitions fulfilled as they are not prepared to take risks and move out of their comfort zone. Some research suggests that the figure is as low as one per cent of the population who are becoming the person they were meant to be.
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By Understanding Behaviour We Can Manage Performance
What benefit is it to the organization if short-term goals are met but a leader’s behaviour contributes to employee unrest, sabotage, or high turnover with loss of skills and knowledge? Leaders must be aware of how their behaviour impacts on the motivation and performance of their employees. How leaders expect others to behave determines how they themselves act toward them. If they have negative expectations (beliefs) about someone, their behaviour will reflect how they feel, and they are likely to get the behaviour they expect. This, of course, can severely impact performance outcomes.
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I Think, Therefore I Am: Dealing With An Inflated Self-Concept
The way we think about ourselves and how others perceive us can be well-aligned or light years apart. This is often the case for managers and leaders, who can believe that they know what they are doing simply because they have been given the job. They can have difficulty recognizing that what they believe about themselves is very different than the experience of their direct reports, and can have a lot of trouble receiving feedback about the negative impact of their leadership behavior. This is particularly true for the Leader Striving Style.
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The Role of Emotions in Organizations
In the absence of being able to express their emotions and connect with the organizational identity, employees are expected to adapt to role driven behaviour. This can result in a decrease in an employee’s ability to contribute anything more than what is defined by the role, leaving both leaders and employees frustrated. In addition the burnout suffered by employees who have been forced into excessive adaptation increases. The only emotions that they are able to express are those required by their roles and acceptable to their leaders.
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How is Your Emotional Intelligence
We believe that through focusing on their personal development, people can learn to handle emotions intelligently, and in doing so increase their ability to succeed in personal and professional relationships. Emotional self-awareness is the core of emotional intelligence. Knowing one's emotional state allows the possibility of expressing feelings appropriately, or making the choice to withhold the expression of the emotion - in other words, managing one’s emotional responses.
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Making Sense of Emotional Intelligence
Many of us have been conditioned to control, ignore or dismiss our emotions rather than use them as a source of valuable information. This leads to what is known as “bucket dumping”. We accumulate our feeling responses inside of us and when full, we dump it on whatever situation or person that happens to add the final drop into the bucket.
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Feelings Aren't Facts - Emotional Reasoning
Identifying our automatic thinking usually changes the way we feel and puts us in a much more empowered position to make wise and meaningful decisions. Learning to observe your thoughts gives you the opportunity to recognize the emotional responses you are creating with your interpretation of what is going on.
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Striving Styles and the Holidays
Getting the most this season based on your Holiday Style Do you go into the holiday season full of anticipation and excitement, only to finish up feeling let down and deflated? Are you looking for ways to get greater enjoyment from the holidays and avoid the post holiday depression this season? Not everyone approaches the holidays in the same manner. Each of us has a Holiday Style which determines how we approach it based on our Striving Style. By understanding our Holiday Style, we can ensure we have the best possible experience without any post holiday depression.
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The Reluctant Participant - The Intellectual's Holiday Style
Theory best comes alive with examples of people demonstrating behaviours and today I have a sample of the Holiday Survival Style of the Intellectual that typifies the behaviour of these people. The social expectations of the holidays cause the Intellectual no end of challenge. Generally introverted and focused more on ideas, information and other mental constructs, having a full month of socializing thrust on them can press their self-protective buttons right from the get go.
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The Reluctant Participant - Part Two
Our thoughts about the future frequently cause emotions that get in the way of enjoying, appreciating, or participating in the present. Start listening to what people are already saying about the holidays. You hear things like “I am so stressed out about the holidays. I have so much to do.” “I hate the holidays. My family is so dysfunctional.” or “I am so angry because I have to spend so much money over the holidays. I wish it were January.”
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Striving Styles Personality System
The Striving Styles™ Personality System is a neuro-psychological framework for achieving potential that identifies the needs that drive behaviour. Going beyond existing assessments, it provides a comprehensive roadmap to change behavior and repatte the brain.
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Who Are You Meant To Be?
The Striving Styles is a revolutionary approach to achieving your potential. The first 'user manual' for people. It shows how your brain is organized, how your needs & emotions influence your behavior, and how to strengthen your authentic self to become Who You Are Meant to Be!
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If asked to talk about what we need, most of us would struggle to come up with a response. Because we are trying so hard to pretend that we don’t have needs so that other’s don’t treat us like we have some rare, contagious disease, few of us know what they are, or how they shape our lives in terms of our motivation, priorities, relationships or careers.
Most of us are so caught up in trying to figure ourselves out or find out what’s wrong with us that we can’t enjoy who we actually are. We keep trying to fix our “fatal flaw”, hiding our perceived imperfections from others; or being what others expect us to be. It’s exhausting and leads to living in a chronic state of anxiety and fear of being found out.
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Striving Styles® Personality System
A neuro-psychological approach to understanding the innate needs that drive behavior and how to break instinctual patterns of behavior that get in the way of achieving potential.
Visit www.WhoAreYouMeantToBe.com or www.strivingstyles.com and take the Level 1 Assessment to find out your Striving Style. You will receive a Level I Assessment report that will give you an overview of SSPS, your predominant style and the rest of your squad.
You can contact us at anytime for further questions or to engage our services.