Dwilla Mortimore, an experienced management consultant and
executive coach at Director level, came to us with a problem,
which was causing her a lot of discomfort at work. Over the
years, she had reached an uneasy truce with her boss. Both
experienced managers, Dwilla said, "I
am too old to be told what to do".
Our solution was to profile them both using Thinking Styles
and generate a Two-Way Relationship Profile, so that they
could more easily identify each other's strengths and potential
weaknesses.
Dwilla described it as: "a breakthrough
- we discovered that we are too alike - we are both Internally
Referenced Mismatchers, which means that we both think that
we know best, and we are prepared to argue about it. So that's
what we used to do all the time - argue. Now that we've had
our Thinking Styles profiles done, and we understand each
other and our relationship, we get on better than we have
in twenty years. It just goes to show you are never too old
to learn something new".
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