Understanding Others: Essentials for Team Success On-Site Training

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:

• Improves communication by identifying how team members use different communication methods to achieve results

• Enhances cooperation by creating awareness of the different ways in which team members choose to make decisions and organize projects

• Increases management effectiveness by revealing team dynamics

• 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:

• Correctly identify the elements of the 4 behavioral quadrants

• Describe their own behavioral preferences

• List potential causes of conflict and miscommunication among different styles

• Implement behavioral preference modification for the sake of the team

• Understand that any strength overused may become a potential weakness

• Recognize the value of each behavioral style and how each is required to implement an effective team

• Describe the implications of behavioral preferences on supervisor to subordinate and peer to peer relationships

• Describe the team culture and implications of personal variances

• Create a plan for the effective consideration of behavioral types in achieving the teams overall goals