Advancing Women in Leadership LIFT 2019

Gretchen Rubin discovered the Four Tendencies while writing her book Better Than Before about habits and how to change.  The feedback to these personality traits and how they impact habit change has been tremendous and almost two million people have taken the quiz to discover their tendency.  Rubin followed up with her book The Four Tendencies specifically about these traits.  Understanding that you may respond very differently to inner expectations versus outer expectations or that unlike most people you resist all expectations can help you know yourself better and work toward desired change.  Identifying how your tendency differs from another’s can clarify the source of conflicts between you and gives you strategies to promote teamwork and work well together.  These strategies are just as effective in the relationships of your personal life as in those of your professional life.  Obligers meet outer expectations but struggle to meet inner expectations.  Questioners question outer expectations but readily meet inner expectations.  Rebels resist all inner and outer expectations.  Upholders meet both inner and outer expectations.  Rubin, Gretchen.  Better Than Before  (New York: Crown Publishers, 2015) Rubin, Gretchen.  The Four Tendencies  (New York: Harmony Books, 2017) https://gretchenrubin.com/podcasts  numbers  35, 36, 37, and 38.