Understanding Others: Essentials for Team Success
This interactive, two-day program gives
participants a strong working knowledge of personality profiles and
thinking patterns that affect the dynamics of a teams problem-solving
abilities. Engaging and interactive, this learning experience will help
you discover ways to work together more effectively, utilize certain
styles to achieve desired outcomes and create your very own "dream
team".
You will understand your own behavior
patterns and how best you can contribute the overall success of the
team. You'll find out why
you communicate, learn, make decisions and organize your lives
differently. You'll apply
your new insights to communicate more effectively, minimize conflict,
and work together much more effectively.
This workshop employs team exercises and
professionally facilitated discussions to help your team discover common
roadblocks and how they can easily be avoided.
The result is improved team decision-making skills, role clarity,
enhanced team effectiveness and long term productivity.
This team skill-building experience:
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Improves
communication by identifying how team members use different
communication methods to achieve results
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Enhances
cooperation by creating awareness of the different ways in which
team members choose to make decisions and organize projects
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Increases
management effectiveness by revealing team dynamics
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Delivers
results by offering suggestions on how the team can tap its new
understanding of communication and cooperation to achieve desired
outcomes
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this workshop attendees
will be able to:
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Correctly
identify the elements of the 4 behavioral quadrants
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Describe
their own behavioral preferences
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List
potential causes of conflict and miscommunication among different
styles
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Implement
behavioral preference modification for the sake of the team
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Understand
that any strength overused may become a potential weakness
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Recognize
the value of each behavioral style and how each is required to
implement an effective team
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Describe
the implications of behavioral preferences on supervisor to
subordinate and peer to peer relationships
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Describe
the team culture and implications of personal variances
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Create
a plan for the effective consideration of behavioral types in
achieving the teams overall goals