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Stop Trying to Fix People
A half-day seminar to build good team dynamics
Wouldn’t it be great if you could substantially improve
everybody on your work team? You can try to build perfect
people by focusing on weaknesses and making improvements,
but chances are, you still will not get a single perfect
person. There is no such thing as a perfect person.
Different situations require different approaches and
it is nearly impossible to be all things to all people.
You can, however build a perfect team by bringing together
people with a variety of skills and work approaches.
Unfortunately, after you assemble the perfect team,
the people might not get along because they have different
expectations.
In the workshop we learn to recognize four distinct
work approaches and show how each contributes to the
overall team effort. Once people on your team
see the value in each other’s approaches, the bickering
stops and respect grows. We use the American Management
Association’s DISC profile, which is a quick, non-threatening
assessment used to recognize your work approach.
We then build on that and show how to work more effectively
with people who are different from you. We don’t
ask you to change your style, but we do ask that you
accommodate and affirm other styles. We give specific
suggestions for dealing with each work approach
The difference between a group and a team is how we
work together. In a team, people contribute by
matching what they do well with what needs to get done.
In a workgroup, people do what they want to do, the
way they want to do it and complain about the rest of
the group that does things differently, or not at all.
Worse, we want to change everyone else into the perfect
person.
Race, gender and other visible differences
in people are nothing compared to diverse work styles.
If you want people to like one another, start by understanding
and appreciating the differences people bring to the
team. We use a tool for identifying your own work style
and we quickly move on to integrating your style with
others. We finish with a team map of work behavior and
show how different styles are essential at specific
points in the project’s life cycle.
We practice methods for quickly recognizing
4 distinct work styles and develop strategies for
working effectively
- Task Oriented/Quick and Direct
Results
- People Oriented/Quick and Direct
Results
- People Oriented/Methodical
Process
- Task Oriented/Methodical Process
If you want to influence someone
else, you need to make sense to that person.
To make sense, you need to speak their language,
not yours. You don't have to change your
own personality, you just need to look at what
they need and meet their needs.
To help recognize personality,
we use the AMA DISC Survey published
by the American Management Association.
We then go beyond the survey and offer quick methods
for recognizing other peoples needs and expectations.
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