Where you shine
- Energy. You bring people into the work.
- You surface the real issue quickly because you say it.
- You want context, so you give context.
One of six patterns
Mapmaker
Get everyone talking and draw the whole picture.
Six patterns, named in plain words for how a person works. No pattern is better than another; each is one way good work gets done.
You work fast, out loud, and with everyone in the room. You want the whole story and you'll tell the whole story back. Meetings with you produce things.
WHERE A PATTERN SITS
Six spokes, one per pattern. The longer the spoke, the more you're like that pattern. The longest is yours.
A spoke with no length means those two pull opposite ways.
Mapmaker
Get everyone talking and draw the whole picture.
One letter per measure: the side of the middle, not how far.
- QuickTempoDeliberate
- HeadlineContextFull picture
- Talk it outChannelWrite it down
- Move, then loop inDecidingAlign, then move
- StraightCandorGentle
Where a Mapmaker typically sits. Yours will be your own.
SHINE AND COST
What it can cost the people around you
- Meeting-heavy. People who write it down and people who run Deliberate leave drained.
- Fast and candid together can flatten a quieter voice in the room.
- Decisions made out loud aren't written down, so they drift.
WENDY'S REPORT
Wendy's report
You think by talking, and you're good at it, so the room follows. Watch who isn't talking. The people who write it down and the people who run Deliberate in that room have the answer you're looking for and no gap to put it in. Leave the gap. And send the three-line summary after, because what you decided out loud is already drifting.
HOW TO WORK WITH ONE
How to work with a Mapmaker
- Pick up the phone when it's more than three messages.
- Reply fast, even if it's just 'got it'. Don't read short as cold.
- Give the why before the what. A forwarded 'thoughts?' won't land.
Ask them: Would ten minutes out loud be better than this thread?
THE OTHER FIVE
The other five
Straight Talker
Say it plainly, move, fix it as you go.
Connector
Send it now, keep it warm, keep everything moving.
Planner
Get the whole picture, agree the plan, then move.
Room Reader
Read the room first, then choose the words.
Steady Hand
Get it right, write it down, say it straight.
IS THIS YOU?
Is this you?
Only your own answers can say. The report is free and takes about 9 minutes.