Working Effectively with Different Personalities

Course Description:

This interactive workshop introduces the four colour model of personality type. Participants will learn their own preferences and type. They will learn all four types, their unique characteristics and how to identify each type. Participants will practice how to communicate with each type, to manage each type and how to resolve conflict with types different from theirs.

What’s in it for you? You Will

• Acquire an understanding the four personality types
• Identify your own personality type
• Understand how to identify other personality types
• Develop skills for working with different personalities individually or on a team
• Learn how to incorporate personality typing knowledge to manage staff
• Have fun

The Essential Learning Experience:

Small class size – approachable and engaging trainer – post-workshop follow-up. When it comes to delivering training, at Essential Communications we:

• Create opportunities for large and small group learning, and time for individual writing/reflection
• Use experiential learning, case studies and role playing to create multiple opportunities to practice
• Focus on practical, relevant examples
• Develop skills and strategies that can easily be applied to your real world work situation
• Have energized, engaging, focused trainers. Our trainers all have front of the room experience and thousands of hours of experience
• Always engage our audience in an interactive discussion; we never lecture

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What’s in it for your organization?

Employees will be able to use their knowledge of ‘type’ to exercise appropriate and productive ways to get along with and/or manage others. This one day program is the most effective and efficient method of creating better understanding among employees. We’ll examine how to create better work relationships with each type, how to delegate work, how to introduce change, how to best plan work for each type.

Having taken this course:

Participants will have a clear understanding that not everyone is like them. As much as we don’t want to admit it we often feel our way is the better way. It is not – it is just our way. By learning the positive characteristics of other ‘types’ participants are better prepared to collaborate, resolve conflict and create a positive work environment.