This is a great, light-hearted way to profile people. And Stephen always tells it so well it feels like it should be in a book.Rhinos and Cattle - One is not good, and one is not bad. None of us are all one or the other – it’s a spectrum that can help us to understand ourselves and those around us – it can help to improve how we work with others.Short description below - and scroll down for the first 10 minutes of the transcript.Loads more from Stephen on www.coachpro.onlineFull transcript available on www.rhinoconsulting.nl/podcastAny thoughts or suggestions - let us know at podcast@coachpro.onlineThe story is a little playful – you hear it and you immediately start putting yourself into one of the 2 camps – and then you start looking around you and doing the same. Your whole family and team are suddenly full of horns and black spots.The spectrum so colourfully described is also a useful way to characterise yourself and those around you – by labelling you and others you can start to manage the relationships around you better – you to them, and them to you. There are many other charts that allow you to profile people – but this one I found to be useful. There are others too.The second part is the learning to appreciate that a balance is needed. Without a team that can covers all skills and viewpoints you will be weaker. By acknowledging the different type of animals around you, there is now an understanding that you should manage the different personalities better. In the future you can use this knowledge to build an optimum team.This move from “seeing the differences and denying them” - to toleration – to appreciating them - to actively seeking out complementary skills - is a valuable skill to learn and consciously employ.Lastly, it’s an important learning that can be applied to other spectrum and differences. Gender, age, cognitive models, backgrounds, roles… there is a huge and important movement to diversity and inclusion. It’s important that everyone understands and appreciates thatThose that are different are not be tolerated. They are to be appreciated and valued. They are strengthening your team and improving results if you embrace the perspective they can offer.Those that are different- you were brought in to be different. Fitting in is a common and normal habit – it makes sense. Find a way to fit in by being you. Keep your unique perspective. Be authentic – that’s the real value.Transcript (AI generated so forgive the typos)Warren Hammond 02:13Today, as always, interesting topic, the Rhino and Cattle model. Now, I'm going to be working really hard not to say too much in this because this is a story I have abused and abused so many times, Stephen, that it's going to be good to get it from the horse's mouth so to speak. So let's get into it. The Rhino and Cattle model? What is it? Stephen Gribben 02:40In essence, what it is is a Profiling framework. It'll help you to see yourself and understand others more as a process so that you can authentically connect, engage, understand and appreciate both yourself and others intelligently, rather than just see yourself or others through an emotional prism. Warren Hammond 03:03So I just thought it was a nice wildlife story, but already you've come up with lots and lots of four syllable words. So it's a profiling framework. So how I think about it, and you tell me which bits are right and which bits are nearly right, let's put it that way, this is a way of looking at yourself, looking at other people, and helping you to see the differences between them without it being good or bad. Stephen Gribben 03:31Yes it's to understand those differences, and accept those differences. Appreciate those differences, be okay with those differences and value them and expect them as opposed to seeing them and judging them on the basis of whether you like them or not, or whether you agree with them or not. So that it gets beyond either asking people to be more like you, or feeling the pressure for you to have to be more like them. Warren Hammond 04:00And you use the word already 'intelligent'. We talk a lot about when you're thinking intelligently it is more complex and nuanced versus emotionally which tends to be binary, black and white, good or bad, hero or zero. This is part of that. Intelligently looking at somebody and seeing the many different shades of of skills in them. They're not good or bad. They are just different. Unique. Stephen Gribben 04:28Yeah, if you're going to have relationships and you're going to be of influence then you first have to connect. So you need to know where people are to be able to connect. What this allows you to do, even with this profiling we're going to use the caricatures of a rhinoceros and cattle. This isn't, then, to label people as either being Rhino or Cattle. But to understand if they are more Rhino or more Cattle, so that we can define more intelligently ...
