We have all attended training sessions designed to enable team building, bonding and overall 'improvement' in the way we work. Yet, today I attended a training session, run by my new employer; The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, http://foundation.rch.org.au/ which was useful, enlightening and motivating.
Put simply, we completed a survey about out preferred work style, (i.e. Do you like to talk to people over the phone or prefer to use emails? Do you follow rules? Do you only make a decision when all the facts are available etc.etc) which produced a 'profile' of which we then worked with our polar opposite to determine preferred working methods.
Ultimately, I learnt a lot about myself and others preferred working styles and personalities. I used to think the most important thing I had to do was to listen more, but there is so much more. I also realised that I had made assumptoins about people who I had only worked with for a couple of weeks with limited interaction and only verbal queues and subjective assumpations to guide me.
https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=RCHFmelb
http://www.facebook.com/RoyalChildrensHospitalFoundation
This was not the Myers Briggs test, but insted work by researchers; C. Magerison and McCann. I intend to read their thoughts on team leaderships and the developing teams.
http://www.tms.com.au/tms07.html
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