During our PAF weekly meeting on Tuesday, April 12, PAF alumnus Eric Thibault, CCAS BA ’11 MPA ’13 led a professional development workshop based on Deloitte’s Business Chemistry tool to help PAFs better understand their own dominant patterns of behavior, as well as how to engage different behavior types.
Different from other personality tests such as True Colors or Myers Briggs, Business Chemistry is designed by Deloitte with analytics technologies to reveal four scientifically based patterns of behaviors in business. According to Deloitte’s Business Chemistry blog (https://businesschemistryblog.com/), the four types are Pioneers, Drivers, Guardians, and Integrators
- Pioneers are those who like variety, possibilities, and generating new ideas.
- Drivers are those who like logic, systems, and have a laer focus on goals.
- Guardians are those who like concrete details, stability, and find truth with facts.
- Integrators are those who like personal connection and seeing how the pieces fit together.
Besides helping PAFs explore their own styles, Eric also helped the group to better understand the team dynamic through survey data as well as an activity which tasked the four different types to “sell” vacation ideas to each other based on their understanding of the others’ preferences. Especially during the activity, the PAFs realized that, unlike some personality tests, the four Business Chemistry types are not mutually exclusive but rather complement one another.
To read more about Business Chemistry, please visit https://businesschemistryblog.com/the-4-types/.
We would also like to encourage PAF alumni to be part of the PAF professional development curriculum by participating in our workshops, supporting training activities such as speed networking, or interacting with us on our PAF LinkedIn Group. For more information on how to get involved, email [email protected].
Political Savvy with Eric Thibault
We would also like to thank Eric for co-hosting out professional development session on Political Savvy with second-year PAF Kelsey Johnston during our weekly meeting on Tuesday, March 29. Eric, who helped develop the PAF Professional Development curriculum while a current fellow, came back to discuss political savvy, a skill that is hard to develop, yet crucial for success in the workplace.
Eric and Kelsey led the discussion together and centered it around a real experience Eric had in his current work at Deloitte. The example involved misjudging a politically charged situation at work, leading to confusion and anger from multiple parties. Using Eric’s real world experience, PAFs were able to define political savvy and talk with him about what he could have done differently to neutralize the situation.
Involving Eric in the discussion of political savvy was extremely beneficial for the PAFs, especially as the second year cohort is thinking about how to transition their learned competencies to the actual workplace after graduation. Eric was also able to give us advice about how to discuss PAF with potential employers and use it to our advantage in interviews.