The Tilted Edge

Life brings you feedback every single day whether you realize it or not. Think back to the last time you were given some feedback that made you think “ouch”! Or worse, maybe you received feedback that even cost you your job or resulted in the loss of an important personal relationship. Life lessons such as these are tough to handle in the moment, but if you think back, they often engender positive change in your life. A good friend of mine recently said “things don’t happen to you, they happ...

Low morale is rapidly becoming one of the most talked about topics in post-pandemic coaching sessions. At alarming rates, employees and leaders alike are reporting feelings described as “burned out, stuck, lost, unmotivated and misunderstood due to generation gaps”. The result? A deceleration and pause in business as usual in a year where it seems everyone is in recovery mode. There is an increased desire for healing, and few know where to find it. 

The Tilt Framework is designed to serve as a guide to self-awareness that enables more intentional self-leadership and mastery. At the core are 12 Character Strengths. Learning and mastering all twelve of these strengths is necessary for achieving whole-person balance.

People who have more balanced identities are often more thoughtful about which traits to exhibit in a wide variety of situations. We call this a “balanced whole self-concept” and what it means is that you are sometimes one trait and sometimes the opposite trait, depending on what is appropriate contextually.

I’ve always been passionate about helping people become the best version of themselves or at bare minimum, leaving them better than I found them. So, when the idea of becoming a certified leadership coach was offered to me by a friend, I accepted a meeting to learn more.

Can we remember a time when we motivated ourselves–absent a coach/mentor/manager–towards a goal that was significant to us as individuals? In the business realm, self-leadership is one crucial distinction between people who are likely to succeed in the long run and those who have the potential to fizzle out.

One author presented the Agile definition from the Agile Alliance:  “The ability to create and respond to change in order to succeed in an uncertain and turbulent environment.” Not everyone understands agile methodologies at the same level, however, and when people develop and hone their understanding of these methodologies, the manner in which they implement them will improve.  

A self management definition in the business context asserts that employees who possess self management skills are those workers whose actions are self-regulated and who think deeply to make the best decisions.  Furthermore, self managing employees are those who think strategically enough to act in ways that might at first appear suboptimal. 

A measurement can be reliable but not necessarily valid, but a measurement cannot be both valid and unreliable. For personality assessments such as those created by Tilt 365, two primary characteristics that convey some of the strengths of the given assessment are “validity” and “reliability.”  To fully understand why our company has been rated a Top 20 company in the Training Industry for multiple years, one must have knowledge of these two psychometric concepts.