Simon P Walker

A simple 4 page psychometric report generated by a 20 minute online profile. Once paid, a log in will be sent to you. Upon completion, a link to your report will be emailed.

The Undefended Leader Profile™

The Undefended Leader Profile™ is a unique, web based psychometric tool which can profile your leadership ego quickly, accurately and with helpful feedback. This turns the general observations about ego patterns in Leading out of Who You Are into a diagnostic of your own ego pattern.
The Undefended Leader Profile™ has been authored by Simon Walker* and uniquely analyses:

• Your front and back stage strategy - which stage you focus more on,
  how you use both stages and what impact your strategy may have on others
• Your Ego pattern- which ego pattern(s) you fall into - Defending, Adapting,
  Defining or Shaping (Your Ego pattern is derived from two scales:
  o Your trust of yourself (low or high)
  o Your trust of others (low or high)

The Undefended Leader Profile™ report provides:

• A chart representing the polarity of scores on each of the above scales.
• A diagram modelling the Ego pattern visually as front and backstage.
• A report describing key psychological issues relating to that profile
  (which takes into account the extremity of the scores),
  including interpretation, analysis and suggestions for growth.

Assurances
This Undefended Leader Profile™ report will be treated in the strictest confidence between the client and The Leadership Community. There will be no disclosure of information to a third party other than that made explicit and agreed between the client and The Leadership Community.
The Leadership Community forbids use of the report by a third party as part of any coaching, training or consultancy in the UK or internationally except under licensed agreement. This includes analysis, interpretation and reproduction of the report.

Disclaimer
The Leadership Community accepts no responsibility for any failure by the client to implement the above contract.

*The Undefended Leader Profile™ is a subsidiary tool of The Personal Ecology Profile™ (PEP) which was developed by Simon Walker at Oxford University in 2002. The PEP is based upon the idea that a person’s life can be looked at as an ecological system- an interaction between a person and their environment. The image of a personal landscape captures this notion of personal space in a tangible, visual way. The landscape we create within ourselves reflects the kind of world we seek to create around ourselves as well. One’s ‘personality’ is the psychological strategy one has developed to preserve this inner world- one’s personal space in the wider world. It will therefore determine the strategies we will use with people and tasks in our everyday lives. The PEP is a proprietary tool of Human Ecology Ltd and is licensed to The Leadership Community for exploitation in the UK and internationally under the title and format of The Undefended Leader Profile™.
© Human Ecology Ltd 2007
Undefended Leader Profile™ Report

Name: XXXXXXX
Date: YYYYYYY

Your scores
Front Stage 6.7 Back Stage
High Trust of Self 6.4 Low Trust of Self
High Trust of Others 5.4 Low Trust of Others

Your Profile BACK STAGE SHAPING

Your Report
Your Strategy of Defendedness (pictorial model)
 

Your Current Strategy: Back Stage Shaping
You have developed a sense of personal confidence and are motivated by personal responsibility. Your sense of self-identity comes from sustaining a strong but guarded life in which you are in control. However, you tend to conceal the degree to which this control matters to you. You tend to ‘contain’ your emotions and are able to defer your own needs for the sake of others. You dislike being discovered, which feels very vulnerable, or people seeing what is going on behind the stage curtain. You avoid this happening by keeping people at arms length. You find it hard to allow other people to be in pain, and tend to want to rescue people from their struggles, absolving them of responsibility.

On your front stage, you tend to present a more open, accommodating if at times remote persona, which deflects people’s enquiry and allows you to remain in control. You trust yourself and may instinctively retreat to the world you have created which feels safe. You will reveal your true feelings on your front stage only if you are absolutely confident of your ground. In leadership, whilst you may appear deferential and flexible, you can in fact be far more stubborn, resistant to influence and unwilling to negotiate or concede than others may realise. There will also be times when your contained emotions leak in an unmanaged way and to damaging effect.
© Human Ecology Ltd 2007

The roots of your strategy...
Underlying your strategy is a deep belief that you are only truly safe when you are in the safe place of your back stage world. You also believe that you should take responsibility for situations around you. You have come to see yourself as significant in supporting others and ensuring their wellbeing and security. You try to prevent others from struggling or experiencing pain. You have a strong need to feel that everyone is O.K. and fear situations which are messy, chaotic or inflammatory. You may have felt unsafe yourself at times in your past and fear any experience that might resonate with those feelings. At the root of your strategy is an unresolved fear, which both drives and dictates your choices.

The impact it may have on yourself and others...
There may be a long term impact for you in terms of anxiety, anger or depression. As you bottle up your emotions, they will tend to come out in other channels, quite possibly unhealthy and damaging to yourself and others. Fantasy and escapism may prove attractive routes for self-expression.
You may also, as a leader, be seen as slightly unpredictable. At times, you are highly involved and supportive, at others, remote and a little difficult to access. You may also, as a leader, sometimes have a disabling effect on others. You may be sustaining a culture of dependency around you (as a parent might with a child) rather than empowering people to take risks themselves. You may, with the best will in the world, prevent people growing up, and taking responsibility, because you are uncomfortable with them struggling.

The choices you have...
• It is a choice you are making to believe you must always be significant and responsible. You can choose to allow others to take responsibility for themselves and their choices.
• It is a choice not to allow others to give to you . Allow yourself to receive from others.
• It is a choice you are making to keep yourself locked up on your backstage. Choose instead to allow others in to both scrutinise and support you....

The resources available to you...
The particular Leadership Community exercises that will support you in these choices are:
• Audio exercise for Shapers Go to exercise
• The Undefended Leader (book), Leading out of Who You Are, part 3
• Adopting The Leadership Community Rule of Life as a pattern for ongoing living Go to Rule of Life
• Working with a colleague, friend, spouse or pastor to support you as you journey
• Exploring The Undefended Leader course as a deep process of addressing your formation