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Personal Styles: Communication & Teamwork

Overview
(1/2 Day)

If you think there is room for improvement in your project communication and team member coordination, this module will help. The effective Project Manager understands his or her own style’s strengths and weaknesses, and those of the team members. Then they compensate for those weaknesses, and make sure to benefit from the strengths.

This module covers two key aspects of personality: Thinking style preferences, which affects communication; and Social Styles, which affect the norming of an effective team.

Learning Objectives

Evaluate the impact of thinking style on your effectiveness in project communication.
Discuss how thinking style affects tool preferences, and planning and tracking of projects.
Discuss how team members’ own social style affects their project roles and team performance.
Describe the project benefits for teams that apply a better understanding of social styles.

Audience

This module is for everyone who is involved with a project:

Team members
Customers
Managers

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