What's Your Spitfire Leader Archetype?
Curious about your what kind of Spitfire Leader you are? Dive into this quiz to discover your dominant type and how to leverage it in different environments and audiences.
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The Trailblazer gets activated from internal motivation, innovation, and values.
The Trailblazer expresses externally by speaking up and to others who share the same mission, vision, and values.
You’ll typically find them leading social movements or running shared activity groups.
Pros: High likelihood of sustained energy when driven by their internal mission.
Cons: Needs to be supported by others to maintain impact. Can take rejection personally.
Pro-tip: Be clear on intention and audience before proceeding. Trailblazers need to listen to others as much as they need to be heard. If the audience is in a defensive stance, no level of force or effort will create alignment. Instead, seek to understand and get curious (see The Tinkerer). What might we agree on? Where do we have common ground?
The Super Hero gets activated by observing and noticing injustices, wrongs, and problems to solve.
Expresses externally by swooping in and fixing, solving and speaking up for others.
Pros: Very visible and powerful. Clear on intention.
Cons: May be a lightning rod and unintended target for those that don’t see things the same way. May overstep where they are not needed.
Pro-tip: Before reacting or responding, take a breath and ask, what is really needed here? How do I bridge the gap from where we are to where we want to go?
The Tinkerer gets activated by an internal knowing. The head, heart, and gut work together in exploring intuitive hits, past experiences, and what’s most important in their core values. Tinkerers have strong introverted preferences and get recharged by spending time with themselves. The Tinkerer loves deep work.
The Tinkerer expresses internally, by making adjustments and improvements in mindset, processes, and future vision.
Pros: Extremely powerful. Gets noticed by others when they are in a state of flow.
Cons: May not be visible to those that are not tuned in or looking for the signs and signals.
Pro-Tip: Tinkerers love to work solo without interruptions, but may have blind spots around others’ experiences. If you want to create a greater impact as a leader, tap into a few trusted allies to offer feedback and insights into what you’re working on. If you want to make the most impact, imagine what having a more visible expression would create for your team, organization, and community.
If there is a problem, The Systemizer will solve it. Working behind the scenes, The Systemizer is always observing and noticing gaps, breaks, and inefficiencies.
Not wanting to make a big stink, The Systemizer works independently to make the necessary changes and happily goes along their way to the next area needing help.
Pros: Loves deep work and gets energized by making things better.
Cons: May see things as problems needing to be fixed and can get frustrated if others aren’t on board. May not be getting the credit or acknowledgment they want. Can seem controlling to others.
Pro-Tip: If you have a strong pull to Systematize, bring in others to gain insights and see the impact your improvements have made. Try documenting your process and share with others so they can learn and make a larger impact with you.
