It's Monday and that means it's time for our second weekly challenge . This week's challenge will be understanding your leadership team's personalities and how you can use that to run your leadership team more effectively .
Hello and welcome to the Bar Business Podcast , where we help bar owners increase profits , attract loyal guests and simplify operations so you can avoid burnout and finally enjoy your life outside of your bar . I'm your host , chris Schneider , the Bar Business Coach .
Every Monday , we do a short episode to give bar owners a challenge for the week one simple project that shouldn't take more than an hour that can improve your bar and your profitability .
So this week this is the second week we're doing a weekly challenge and , if you're not , remember to head over to Bar Business Nation , there's a thread there where we can answer questions , interact and collaborate about these weekly challenges .
I also spend some time there documenting all the steps that we discuss on the podcast , so it is a way to help you be able to engage in the challenges , discuss the challenges , ask questions about the challenges and , hopefully , grow your business through this process .
I said this in the last weekly challenge episode , but think of the weekly challenges as essentially a mini version of a group coaching program provided to you for free . The challenge this week is all about learning about yourself and your leadership team , taking personality profile tests and discussing them .
The more you understand each other , the more you understand yourself and the people you work with , the better results you can get with your leadership team . There are some places where people are going to be very good .
There are some places where people aren't great , and so we need to understand each other at a personality , at a psychological level , in order to create the best environment for ourselves , everyone we're working with and to get the best results for our bars , and there are a lot of things that come into play here .
I don't know how many bar owners I talk to , and I'm definitely one of them that will say to me hey , I have ADHD , or hey , I'm really not good at organization , or yeah , I've learned how to go put on a great face with my customers .
But I'm actually an introvert , like I will tell you right now and it may seem weird because I talk into a microphone a couple times a week and post videos online and stuff like that . It's all very uncomfortable for me because I'm actually an introvert , and so when you understand different personality parts about your team .
You have the ability to make good decisions and to not only create better synergy among your leadership team and therefore better results for your bar , but it also allows us to accept each other more and understand where we're coming from .
And when someone says something that doesn't quite fit , if you know their personality profile , you can go oh , they have this type of personality , they communicate in this way and so I may be misreading them , or they don't communicate well under stress .
So the fact that my coworker just cussed me out , or my bartender just cussed me out , or my manager just cussed me out as an owner , as an owner , well , that's how they react under stress and , yeah , that's not good . We need to work on that . But my response should not just be yelling at them .
Right , I should have some empathy , because I understand where they're coming from and that's a big part of personality profiles . It lets us know where we're weak and where we're strong , and that allows you , as an owner , to help people where they're weak and to make sure you're deploying the strongest person for different scenarios .
It also allows us to assign job tasks . So if somebody is more introverted and numbers focused , well , they're probably a better person to do your inventory than someone that's not detail-oriented and extroverted . So in that way we can make sure that the person who's doing an individual task , like taking inventory , has the personality best fit for it .
The same way , I wouldn't say that the introverted numbers guy on your team should be the one doing your social media marketing . Probably doesn't fit . You probably want the extroverted guy that's a little bit less attention to detail to do that social media marketing because they have more energy to bring to it .
And a final benefit that we get from understanding profiles is it gives us tools to navigate interpersonal issues , and so what I mean by that is when you have two people on your leadership team fighting .
If you understand their personalities and you understand potentially the root cause of that issue in their head and what's actually causing them to fight and why their brains aren't wrapping around what each other is saying , knowing their personalities can give you , as the owner now a toolkit to sit down with them and help navigate through that situation and hopefully
resolve it in a way where everyone's happy and not angry at themselves or at you . So we have three big goals this week in doing personality profiles . Goal number one is everybody on your leadership team takes a personality profile and you all take the same personality profile .
If you take different random tests online , your results are not terribly compatible , even if you all take a Myers-Briggs-based test . Let's say , if you're taking different tests , you have the potential to get different answers . So make sure everyone's taking the same test and everyone on your leadership team is taking that .
Our second goal is that you have a meeting after everyone takes the test to sit down and talk about the results , show each other where you scored , talk to each other about how what your experience with that person has reflected their personality profile , or you as the owner .
Maybe you get one that says , hey , you take a Myers-Briggs and you have a J at the end , so you're a little judgmental . Well , maybe you point that out to your team and be like hey , guys , sometimes I know I say things that are a little abrasive , a little abrupt . That's part of my personality .
Please don't hold it against me , because here's the test that says well , this is just how I am . That does not give you an excuse to just be a jackass , but it does potentially give you some grace in the eyes of your employees and they understand . Okay , you freak out initially . You'll calm down in an hour .
Just don't poke you too hard while you're pissed off . And then our third goal for this week , along those lines , focus on empathy . So our three goals for this week's challenge everyone on the leadership team takes the same personality test .
You'll find the time to sit down and discuss it and use that to have a conversation , an open , raw conversation , among your leadership team about why everyone is the way they are and how those personality tests make sense and how you can adjust what you're doing and people can adjust on .
Your leadership team can adjust what they're doing to work together more cohesively and get better results for your bar as a whole . And then our third goal is to focus on empathy and understanding and not use this as something to hold over people's heads , but use this as something to drive results and understand each other better .
To get there , we have four action steps action steps or five action steps . I should say Step one determine who will be taking the test . So I said leadership team , but what does that entail ? Are you going to use your lead bartenders , your trainers ? Is this group five people or two people or 50 people ? It's going to be different from every establishment .
So first thing you need to do determine who you're going to have take the test . Second thing you need to do go find a test online . You can pay for them or you can get them for free . There are many , many Myers-Briggs tests online . There are also a personality profile called a big five test . Those are great as well . Those are available online for free .
You can pay for tests as well . It just depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it . Again , I'm not really worried about which test you pick , just that you pick one and everyone does the same one . Action set number three once we pick the test , everyone takes the test right . So step one determine who will be doing it .
Step two pick the test you're going to be doing . Step three have everyone take that test . Step four schedule a meeting to discuss the results .
And step five have that meeting and use the meeting to have a conversation about how you can work together more efficiently and how you can be more empathetic towards each other and how you can support each other based on your personality profiles . That's going to wrap us up for today . To get even more out of our weekly challenge .
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