Hey Dan here and in this video I want to share some advice for managing an
idealist personality type, that is: an ENFP, INFP, INFJ or ENFJ and this applies
whether or not you are also an idealist type. Now if you're new to the channel my
name is Dan and I am the author of way too many books the creator of ENFP
Unleashed and the Free Freelancer and here at Dreams Around The World my
mission is to help you become the best version of yourself all while creating
the most awesome life possible for you and those you love.
Now when it comes to managing an idealist I'm going to share from my
perspective as an ENFP who is currently managing an INFJ and has been
working with other idealists throughout time and has also at some point many
many years ago I guess been an employee as well. For the idealist type there is
no worse thing to hear from a boss then just do it just get it done I can
remember going back to school you know if a teacher says why do you have to do
it this way because you have to I don't speak German I lived in Germany for over
a year or so and one of the reasons I just gave up on it and was like I'm not
going to invest any time in this is German has gender tenses and if you're
German and watching this and I get any of this wrong please do correct me but
German has gender tenses meaning you change some wording based on whether the
word is female male or neutral the thing is German didn't have that
until the 1800s or yeah I think the 1800s and it was added because the
German royalty or aristocrats wanted to be fancy like the French and they wanted
to make it harder for less educated poor people to be able to communicate to
learn language to read and write which would allow them to maintain more power
so you can imagine as an ENFP none of this appeals to me doing
something that's inauthentic to be more fancy like the French and to oppress
people not appealing and I was in this German class and I asked
about the tenses and I said what if I just made every word neutral like would
it change anything could people understand me would there be any
difference and they're like no like so why do we need to learn this why doesn't
you know the language just have everything neutral because that's how it
is and I pretty much stopped studying German at that point this is different
than some other languages that have gender tenses but it plays a bigger role
and actually makes the language flow and helps you understand things better and
all that anyhow a point of sharing that long-winded story is that as an idealist
there needs to be a reason behind what we do whether it is learning something
or executing a task or a project and something that I've been learning over
the last I guess six months or so working with Natasha who is an infj is
about the importance of having that bigger picture something that is
exciting that is interesting I've noticed that and sorry Natasha if you
are not okay with me discussing this but too bad it's already being recorded here
is if I give a task that is very just like point not pointless but it's just a
very admitting she'll be able to get it done she's organized she's disciplined
she'll get it done but it is not something that is going to be enjoyable
on her end or really bring out any of her positive work qualities where I've
noticed if I give her something larger a bigger project she can see the vision
and think about and set goals on she gets really excited and delivers great
work so it's not only just a matter though of what she will enjoy it also
comes down to the eventual output right if as an ENFP
if I'm working for you and you give me a project like you just have to do that
and if I can't quit the job because of family circumstances or I just need it
or whatever I'm going to get that work done but it's gonna take me a lot longer
than someone else would and I'm not going to enjoy it and the end product is
not going to be that good whereas if you give me something that excites me it's
aligned with my value and I understand the big picture then
I'm gonna do it a really good quality work probably far exceed your
expectations and you'll be really happy and ultimately make more money or get
better results or whatever your goal is as the manager from that work so if
you're managing an idealist you want to think about this a lot right you want to
be a little more sensitive to their needs their desires the type of work
they enjoy doing and also realize that they tend to be or we tend to be bigger
picture people we like to take on a whole project we like to see the end of
what we're working towards and have a purpose so you're gonna be a lot better
having a team where you have someone who is more of a task manager who loves just
taking off the boxes and getting things done and that kind of thing to do that
kind of work more and when you're working with an idealist to give them a
bigger piece of the pie to deal with now that does not mean idealist can't get
the little things done in fact when I'm taking on a project I'm all about the
big picture but I get into the weeds and the details
I build often my own webpages I do the fine-tuned editing of some of my written
work I like getting into those details when it's part of the bigger picture and
that's what's really important is if you just give me some little thing to do
that's some little task or something it's not going to be enjoyable I'm going
to procrastinate that and you know it'll get done but it won't be really that
efficient whereas if the little tasks are part of something bigger then they
get done as well and so you're going to be better off if you're managing an
idealist giving them the bigger part of the project a bigger chunk and letting
them roll with it including all the little details but also some of the
bigger picture stuff a little more creative freedom and again that focus on
the reason behind it just because you have to just do it does not tend to go
very well now if you are not an idealist type one thing you might find hard to
understand is our inability times two just do it for whatever reason
there are certain things we are asked to do or certain tasks we have to do and we
just get a big emotional block and I know everyone procrastinate certain
things and everyone has some struggles but if you're someone like an ENTJ or an
ISTJ maybe an ESTJ you're going to have trouble understanding what it actually
feels like on our end to get just blocked by certain things so you might
say to us hey can you make these phone calls I need you to argue with these
suppliers fire this person have this difficult conversation and that might be
tough for anyone to do but for perhaps you it would be like a
hear level of tough and for us it would be like an up here level of tough and so
keep that in mind that your experience of the world of certain interactions of
Sirte and responsibilities is going to be a lot different than ours and
something that for you might be really easy could be really difficult for us so
give us a little leeway perhaps ask get some feedback about that from your
idealist employee or even look at maybe shifting some of those really difficult
task for idealist away from the idealist similarly things that might be quite
hard for you perhaps brainstorming creative solutions perhaps certain type
of people interactions some really creative tasks that can come really easy
to us where you might look at your idealist employee and say how do you
just do that so easily and the same way that's tough for you to do keep in mind
that some things that are really easy for you to do are really tough for us to
do now I know there's a lot more that could be added here so if you have any
experience with this topic either as the manager or as someone working for or
with an idealist leave it below in the comments and let's
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