There are at least four areas where multiple intelligences impacts us a small or home business owners. [NOTE: If you need more information on Multiple Intelligences or The 8 Kinds of Smart please check my website.]
1. Developing Your Business Team or Business Partners
Multiple intelligence gives you a whole new way to maximize the full potential of each of your business partners or each member of your team. You should not only encourage each team member to excel in his or her stronger intelligence areas, but also provide ways to help people develop areas that are not as strong, thus creating a more well-rounded team.
What can this mean for you as a home business or small business owner?
• When you learn to look at people through the lens of The 8 Kinds of Smart, you'll discover numerous skills, abilities, gifts, and talents which have likely never been brought to bear on your business. Learning to access these capacities on a regular and ongoing basis profoundly impacts your retention rate and your team's motivation.
• You’ll learn how to activate each of the intelligences in yourself, your team and business partners. People need to have a wide range of techniques, strategies, and methods to call on when faced with problems or new challenges which arise in their business. Teaching them how to use all of their intelligences gives you a more creative, personally invested, and responsible organization.
2. Business Problem-solving and planning
Using the multiple intelligences in business planning guarantees that you access the full creativity and gifts of all involved in the planning process. Often planning does not get beyond a simple rehashing and reshaping of past ideas and solutions–ideas and solutions which have been less than effective.
What can this mean for you as a home business or small business owner?
• You’ll gain an understanding the dynamics of creativity and how to tap them in planning sessions or problem-solving. Research has discovered that creativity is a learned process. Knowing how to nurture and develop the creative prowess in your team gets better answers to problems, a wider range of ways to meet challenges, and a clearer vision of your goals–and you get the “buy in” of everyone involved.
• You’ll learn how to promote the best thinking of all involved in the planning process. When you understand the wide range of critical and creative thinking skills available in the different intelligence areas, you suddenly have many more ways to think about any problem you’re trying to solve. You need to train your team and business partners to be better thinkers..
3. Training, Coaching, and Mentoring
Effective training, coaching, and mentoring must balance knowledge acquisition with hands-on application of the knowledge. Often a training, coaching, or mentoring session fails to reach all learners or participants primarily due to the "mono-modal" style of the presentation.
What can this mean for you as a home business or small business owner?
• You’ll know how to plan “multi-modal” presentations which access the full learning potentials of the participants. Presenting information in just one way will not reach everyone. When you use a wide range of teaching and learning strategies, methods, and techniques, everyone gets it!
• You’ll be able to help your team and business partners transfer the learning from the training, coaching, or mentoring session to their daily work in their business. In most cases transfer of the learning does not happen automatically. It takes variety of techniques to help people apply the information from the training session on the job.
• You’ll gain skill in dealing effectively with the adult learner. Research has documented that the adult learner has distinct needs which must be addressed in a formal training situation. You must make sure you are addressing the hierarchy of basic human needs, and know how to handle the difficult participant, answer questions, and understand the dynamics of a group.
4. Team and Business Partners Skill Development
Multiple intelligence gives you an opportunity to understand the various “intelligence profiles” of your team. An intelligence profile gives a picture of the unique intellectual capacities of each person, including areas that are more developed and areas that and less developed.
What can this mean for you as a home business or small business owner?
• You’ll understand the full potential of each person on your team. Once you understand a person’s intelligence profile you have very powerful information for helping each perform at his or her highest potential. You must use different strategies for dealing with different profiles. You can’t relate to everyone the same!
• You’ll be able to analyze the intelligence profiles of your organization and pin-point areas of needed skill development as well as areas of real strength. This give you a whole new was to leverage the strengths of your business team so that all rise to new levels of success.
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