I had a great weekend, spending Saturday leading an offsite retreat for a client. A major focus of the day was around strengths, and strengths based leadership, key topics which I think are crticial in today's business environment.
The day reminded me of the importance of providing different options to meet the diverse learning needs and different styles of group members.
Helping group/team members identify what their unique styles are, and how they impact their work and relationships (personal and professional) can be a very impactful activity. Some of the style assessments you may consider looking at are:
- the DiSC
- MBTI (note certification needed)
- Personal Style Inventory (PSI)
Of course the whole realm of strengths based work, which is not styles per say, but help teams identify and understand their differences:
- Strengths Finder 2.0
- VIA Strengths
Questions to consider:
1. What assessments do you have at your disposal, or enjoy working with?
2. What impact would style considerations or strengths based work have in your own work with groups/teams?
3. What do you know about your own style preferences? How does this impact your work positively, negatively?
4. What do you know about your own strengths? How are you leveraging these yourself? What else could you be doing to ease into them?
Have a great start to the week!
Jennifer
Jennifer Britton, MES, CPCC, PCC
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010)
Phone: 416.996.8326
Email: info{at}potentialsrealized{dot}com
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