Artisan
An Artisan is thoughtful, deliberate, and precise, with an eye for managing detail-work and always following through. They're collaborative, but they’ll also work quietly and diligently on their own. They’re not self-promoters but like recognition for their efforts.
Highlights: Accommodating Analytical Deliberate Anticipates problems
Maximize your business potential by tapping into people’s natural strengths.
The Artisan Reference Profile—like all Reference Profiles—has many unique strengths and characteristics. Understanding the differences in your people can help you build a company that achieves the results you’re after. The same way you’d build a world-class sports team, knowing how your people think and work helps you optimize for success.
Characteristics of the Artisan
Artisans are naturally accommodating. They seek to produce highly precise and accurate work, and they’re willing to delegate—as long as there’s close follow-up. For a more detailed and accurate reading of your behavioral pattern and how it pertains to your unique business situation, schedule a consultation.
Natural Strengths
Accommodating
Analytical
Deliberate
Anticipates problems
Common Drivers
Understanding of rules and regulations
Room for introspection
Stable work environment
Specific knowledge of the job
Blind Spots
Can be sensitive to criticism
May struggle to perform under pressure
Uncomfortable with ambiguity
Needs a plan to follow
The Artisan on a team
Artisans are calming, stable forces on the team. They’re known to be understanding, straightforward, and deliberate. They thrive in and help contribute to a culture of precision. Teams are often designed by default rather than intention. A strategic, data-driven approach to building teams is what helps organizations win.
Business strategy and the Artisan
Before you know whether someone is the right person for the job, you need total clarity and alignment on the results you’re after. What’s the goal or desired outcome? When we ask questions like this, we get a better understanding of the need to align people strategically for specific results.
When you put people in the right roles, you avoid turnover, toxicity, disengagement, and lost productivity. In the case of the Artisan, they naturally gravitate toward strategic activities that seek to build processes and structure to produce accurate work.
Managing the Artisan
Often managers try to manage everyone the same way—and that’s usually the way they like to be managed. But this approach can backfire. People like to be managed differently—and it may not always be in a way that comes naturally to you. Even beyond the individual needs, teams require different leadership styles. You wouldn’t manage a sales team the same way you’d manage a team of developers.
When working with an Artisan, remember that they’re thoughtful, careful, responsive, and reserved. They’re typically less effective in work environments that have little structure. Artisans respect and seek direction. When managing this profile, consider some of the following suggestions:
Recognize them for their contributions.
Give a clear definition of responsibility and authority.
Provide a stable working environment.
Allow them time to think through decisions.
Let them work on more technical projects.
Provide thorough training in all policies, standards, and systems.
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