On a daily basis you come into contact with many different types of people. Some you make an immediate connection with and others it always seems to be a struggle. It is critical to your success that you understand what and how to communicate with others. Your technical skills are important in accomplishing a task but building relationships is essential in making the personal connections with your peers, supervisors and clients.
This program is designed to help gain a greater understanding of the potential sources of interpersonal frustrations and conflicts. It will provide a foundation to build more appropriate and strategic solutions to avoid difficulties in the future.
Program Approach:
Two distinct programs have been developed addressing the needs of the individual to recognize and understand their preferred ways of interacting with others and the needs of a group to understand the preferences of others, in an effort to enhance team effectiveness.
Program Participants:
This is targeted to include professionals of all levels seeking to increase their interpersonal effectiveness and groups wanting to work more cohesively as a team.
Program Options:
1. Understanding Style Differences: Individuals
This half day program is designed to assist individuals in gaining insight into their own personality profile and their associated preferences in the way they interact, work and associate with others. The emphasis is on individual awareness of how these preferences are translated into behavior.
Program Benefits:
- Understanding key style differences
- Increase interpersonal effectiveness
- Establish a solid foundation to build relationships
2. Understanding Style Differences: Groups
This full day program moves participants through an understanding of their individual style preferences, to an examination of the impact of all individuals on the performance and success of the whole – the team. Through these insights, strategies are developed for enhancing group effectiveness. Participants also gain insight into how misunderstandings and conflicts arise within groups and develop skills in managing them more effectively in the future.
Program Benefits:
- Understanding key style differences
- Understanding the impact upon group processes and success
- Establishing more effective team interactions
- Developing strategies for increasing team success
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