Types & Teamwork
audio conference
Types & Teamwork:
Working With Different Personality Styles presenTed by
A 90-Minute Audio Conference for
Administrative Assistants,
Secretaries, and Office Support Staff
Featuring diane Moore, Editor, The Office Professional and Lisa Trudel, Career Consultant, Office Workers Career Center
session Objectives
This audio conference will:
• Help you to understand how your preferences and work style influence your behavior and communication style in the workplace
• Give you new strategies for working and communicating more effectively with all personality styles, particularly in conflict situations • Demonstrate how different combinations of personality styles affect a team’s ability to communicate, make decisions and work together productively
• Provide you with ideas for modifying your approach when communicating and working with people whose styles and preferences differ from your own
Understanding personality styles
• “Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.”
— Albert Schweitzer
• “Great achievements are not born from a single vision, but from the contribution of many viewpoints.”
— Author Unknown
History of personality styles
Hippocrates (60-70BC)
- Body fluids
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
- Types and temperaments
Isabel briggs Myers (1897-1979) and Katharine Cook briggs
-Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI)
david Keirsey (191)
- Temperaments
don Lowry (1978)
- True Colors
Lynda McKim/Career Life
Skills Resources (00)
-Personality Dimensions
Understanding differences
• “Plaids” of differences and colors
• Personality style approaches are not meant to stereotype or label
• We function from all perspectives
• Some require less effort and are more comfortable than others
• Different personality styles and communication styles in all work teams
5
Work styles
We each have our own approach to:
Types & Teamwork:
Working With Different Personality Styles presenTed by
A 90-Minute Audio Conference for
Administrative Assistants,
Secretaries, and Office Support Staff
Featuring diane Moore, Editor, The Office Professional and Lisa Trudel, Career Consultant, Office Workers Career Center
session Objectives
This audio conference will:
• Help you to understand how your preferences and work style influence your behavior and communication style in the workplace
• Give you new strategies for working and communicating more effectively with all personality styles, particularly in conflict situations • Demonstrate how different combinations of personality styles affect a team’s ability to communicate, make decisions and work together productively
• Provide you with ideas for modifying your approach when communicating and working with people whose styles and preferences differ from your own
Understanding personality styles
• “Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.”
— Albert Schweitzer
• “Great achievements are not born from a single vision, but from the contribution of many viewpoints.”
— Author Unknown
History of personality styles
Hippocrates (60-70BC)
- Body fluids
Carl Jung (1875-1961)
- Types and temperaments
Isabel briggs Myers (1897-1979) and Katharine Cook briggs
-Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI)
david Keirsey (191)
- Temperaments
don Lowry (1978)
- True Colors
Lynda McKim/Career Life
Skills Resources (00)
-Personality Dimensions
Understanding differences
• “Plaids” of differences and colors
• Personality style approaches are not meant to stereotype or label
• We function from all perspectives
• Some require less effort and are more comfortable than others
• Different personality styles and communication styles in all work teams
5
Work styles
We each have our own approach to: