Working With People 2

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Working With People (2)

• ENG 100 Lecture 5
• Lew Lipton

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MB Personality Types
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Keirsey Temperaments

• A variation on M-B looks at long-term behavior
• Assumes everyone has E/I characteristics
• Starts with S/N (sensing/intuitive)
  characteristics
• Reduces 16 M-B categories to 4 key ones
• S/P Artisans
• N/T Rationals
• S/J Guardians
• N/F Idealists
• Keirsey, Please Understand Me, 1978

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Keirsey Temperaments
Idealists
Rationals
http//www.keirsey.com/
Artisans
Guardians
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Keirsey Personality Characteristics

• Rationals
• Value concepts born of their own objective
  reasoning
• Not emotional pragmatic good at strategy
• Idealists
• Value concepts born of their own gut
• Utilize emotions credulous diplomatic
  integrative
• Artisans
• Concrete utilitarian, good at tactical matters
• Guardians
• Concrete cooperative, good at logistics.

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Famous Examples of Keirsey Types

• RATIONALS (NT)
• Albert Einstein, Margaret Thatcher
• IDEALISTS (NF)
• Mohandas Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt
• ARTISANS (SP)
• Bob Dylan, Madonna
• GUARDIANS (SJ)
• George Washington, Mother Teresa

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Personality Percentages
http//keirsey.com/scripts/stats.cgi
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MB Team Roles
Working Out Your Team Role, Steve Myers,
www.16types.com
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Type Exercise

• Split into 4 Keirsey temperaments (NT, NF, SP,
  SJ)
• Each group will brainstorm and then write a
  description of the given object on the board,
  under their type.
• Once all four descriptions are up, return to your
  team, and discuss the different descriptions.
  Are you surprised, or do they fit? How can your
  team take advantage of the similarities and
  differences of different types?
• Report back to class.

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Contribute to Discussions

• Give reasons for your opinions
• Ask others for their reasons
• Ask others for opinions and ideas
• Encourage the discussion to stay on track
• Pull together and summarize ideas
• Suggest ways of organizing information
• Check for agreement
• Find common ground for disagreements

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Actively Listen

• Restate points to check your understanding
• Give undivided attention
• Have an open mind
• Ask people to slow down if needed
• Ask for explanations if needed
• Dont
• Think about how to respond instead of listening
• Bring up ideas or questions already considered
• Assume you know what the speaker will say
• Interrupt other speakers

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Get your Message Across

• Speak loudly enough
• Focus on key points
• Explain unusual terms
• Avoid sarcasm
• Show how your message ties in to the topic
• Make eye contact
• Supplement words with pictures

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Give Useful Feedback

• At an appropriate time and place
• Review what led up to the problem
• Describe the context
• Describe your reactions and reasons
• Be specific about your suggestions
• Be as constructive as possible
• Let the other person respond

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Accept Feedback

• Relax breathe deeply to help gain control
• Listen carefully
• Be certain to understand what is said
• Acknowledge the points you agree with
• Take your time to consider a response
• Dont overreact easy to say, hard to do
• Feedback is one of the most effective
  learning tools there is, if you can (learn to)
  hear it.

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Working With People Summary

• Know yourself
• MB is a tool, not the answer
• Understand and value other people
• Including their differences
• Cultivate positive characteristics
• Both in yourself and others
• Explore different behaviors/styles

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Two ways of looking at the same thing
Which is better?
Or are they just different?
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Homework 5, Due Mon., 10/16/06

• Discuss how your team can use the information
  about MBTI, Keirsey temperaments and MB team
  roles to make your team more effective. Turn
  in.
• What types would you add to your team to
  strengthen it? Turn in.
• Reminder Also turn in your team elevator
• speeches and your project Statement of Work on
  10/16.

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Next Agenda

• Communication
• Giving a Presentation
• What to Prepare
• Presenting