ENFP
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Favorite process
EXTRAVERTED
INTUITION
INTUITION
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Second process
INTROVERTED
FEELING
FEELING
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Third process
THINKING
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Fourth process
INTROVERTED
SENSING
SENSING
EXTRAVERSION
INTUITION
FEELING
PERCEIVING
Setting Direction
Assets: ENFP leaders tend to...
- Create visionary or idealistic goals
- Be comfortable brainstorming multiple visions and paths for realizing them, considering many alternatives before narrowing them to one
- Welcome others’ ideas and input about future priorities
- Have a generally optimistic outlook about the future
Challenges: ENFP leaders tend to...
- Struggle to describe their vision in tangible, specific terms
- Resist the need to ground their vision in reality
- Dilute the power of their vision to make it more palatable if they see that others are not supporting it
- Become discouraged by others’ critiques of their vision, even if they are generally supportive
Inspiring Others to Follow
Assets: ENFP leaders tend to...
- Inspire others toward a vision with their passion and communication skills
- Warmly appreciate others and include their ideas and input without hesitation
- Enjoy an organic structure rather than a rigid one, allowing people to find their own place to connect and define their role
- Spend time understanding colleagues, their values and concerns, to help build trust
Challenges: ENFP leaders tend to...
- Take extreme positions about others—either being dismissive of their views or needing their approval
- Hesitate to give critical feedback, being reluctant to risk hurting others
- Lose credibility with people who expect leaders to provide them with a structure to follow (e.g., roles, clear boundaries, detailed plans)
- Become drained by focusing too much on relationships, especially if they neglect to set up boundaries
Mobilizing Accomplishment of Goals
Assets: ENFP leaders tend to...
- Spot barriers that others may miss and find creative ways around them; be seen by others as resourceful
- Be comfortable sharing authority widely to encourage commitment and ownership
- Rely on teams to keep things moving forward, spreading accountability across the group
- Be enthusiastic about taking prompt action when their passions are engaged, as well as about the future
Challenges: ENFP leaders tend to...
- Leave responsibility for implementation to others and neglect to follow up, sometimes setting a poor example of being accountable for results
- Assume that other people are also motivated by vision alone and underestimate the power of other sources of motivation
- Become immobilized by the sheer volume of details that must be handled and lose enthusiasm for an idea
- Move too slowly to intervene when someone is failing in their job