Personality Types of Intrapreneur leaders...

Intrepreneur (Intrepreneurship) is an employees working passionately in the organization whose mindset is like Entrepreneur.  This is like in like growing own business, taking ownership. This requires many skills to be successful. Take a look at the business personality types and find out what you need to succeed. Are you Steve Jobs, a Visionary, or an Improver like Facebook founder?

Your business personality type are the traits and characteristics of your personality that blend with the needs of the business. If you better understand your business personality, then you can give your company the best part of you. Find others to help your business in areas you may not be prepared to fulfill.

There are 9 key types of personality and understanding each will help you enjoy your organization more and provide your company with what it needs to grow.

Begin identifying your dominant personality theme and understand how you operate in your business.

Personality Types of Intrepreneurs

1. The Improver: If you operate your business predominately in the improver mode, you are focused on using your company as a means to improve the world. Your overarching motto is: morally correct companies will be rewarded working on a noble cause. Improvers have an unwavering ability to run their business with high integrity and ethics. 

Personality Alert: Be aware of your tendency to be a perfectionist and over-critical of employees and customers. 

2. The Advisor: This business personality type will provide an extremely high level of assistance and advice to customers. The advisor's motto is: the customer is right and we must do everything to please them. Companies built by advisors become customer focused. 

Personality Alert: Advisors can become totally focused on the needs of their business and customers that they may ignore their own needs and ultimately burn out. 

3. The Superstar: Here the business is centered around the charisma and high energy of the Superstar CEO. This personality often will cause you to build your business around your own personal brand. 

Personality Alert: Can be too competitive and workaholics. 

4. The Artist: This business personality is the reserved but highly creative type. Often found in businesses demanding creativity such as web design and ad agencies. As an artist type you’ll tend to build your business around the unique talents and creativities you have. 

Personality Alert: You may be overly sensitive to your customer’s responses even if the feedback is constructive. Let go the negative self-image. 

5. The Visionary: A business built by a Visionary will often be based on the future vision and thoughts of the founder. You will have a high degree of curiosity to understand the world around you and will set-up plans to avoid the landmines. 

Personality Alert: Visionaries can be too focused on the dream with little focus on reality. Action must proceed vision. 

6. The Analyst: If you run a business as an Analyst, your company is focus on fixing problems in a systematic way. Often the basis for science, engineering or computer firms, Analyst companies excel at problem solving. 

Personality Alert: Be aware of analysis paralysis. Work on trusting others. 

7. The Fireball: A business owned and operated by a Fireball is full of life, energy and optimism. Your company is life-energizing and makes customers feel the company has a get it done attitude in a fun playful manner. 

Personality Alert: You may over commit your teams and act to impulsively. Balance your impulsiveness with business planning. 

8. The Hero: You have an incredible will and ability to lead the world and your business through any challenge. You are the essence of entrepreneurship and can assemble great companies. 

Personality Alert: Over promising and using force full tactics to get your way will not work long term. To be successful, trust your leadership skills to help others find their way. 

9. The Healer: If you are a Healer, you provide nurturing and harmony to your business. You have an uncanny ability to survive and persist with an inner calm. 

Personality Alert: Because of your caring, healing attitude toward your business, you may avoid outside realities and use wishful thinking. Use scenario planning to prepare for turmoil. 

Each business personality type can succeed in the business environment if you stay true to your character. Knowing firmly what your strong traits are can act as a compass for your organization. If you are building a team, this insight is invaluable.

(Ref: Darrell Zahorsky, Your Guide to Small Business Information)

Intrapreneurship



Identifying and developing Intrapreneur should be

the agenda on HR table which seems to be missing.



Once the leader is successful, then he is widely recognized as a leader. Executives, who are highly paid, not necessarily always make the impact in the organization. Sometimes, top management makes mistake just by hiring the pool of officers for different function based on their previous experience. Sometimes, it is just the responsive action to the market; however they do not add much value in the organization. These executives/officers earn money for them and leave the organization within 3-4 years. They gain their salaries, but organizations do not gain much. This is common among all Industries. The much hype is done while hiring, but then they do not fulfill the expectations.

All these people are from good institute, from good companies. They possess good technical, functional knowledge & good soft skills. Their presentation skills are amazing. Based on the presentations skills, networking skills, they get good positions in the organizations. But the most important skill, they ignored, is Intrapreneural skills. We all know Entrepreneurial skills. However Intrapreneurship is always ignored. It is the skill exhibited by the employees who are working in corporates. Anyone who behaves with entrepreneurial spirit within a large organization can be called intrapreneruar. Though they do not work for themselves, but work for the organization with high ownership and integrity.

Intrapreneurship is one method of stimulating & then capitalizing on, individuals in an organization, who think that something can be done differently and better. Individuals who believe strongly in their own talents and frequently desire to create something of their own.

They want responsibility & have a strong need for individual expression & more freedom in their present organizational structure. Risk taking ability is required skillset in Intrapreneurship.

They mainly exhibit following skills.

They are driven by vision;

They always venture new business ideas, products are services;

They are moderate risk takers;

They are persistent;

They are intuitive and analytic;

They are honest rule breakers;

They face reality; they use feedback.

Intrapreneurs are the internal venture capitalist. They are known for turning an idea in profitable product through assertive risk taking and innovation. It doesn’t matter in which function they work. This can be in sales, marketing, production and even in HR. However this quality is missing in corporate world. Ideas are discussed. But when it comes to implementation or converting that into the reality, they can’t drive the execution. This is mainly known as “knowing and doing gap”.

However it is the culture and HR needs to play the vital role in identifying Intrapreneur in organizations.