Communication and Collabration Strategies
Communication and Collaboration Strategies
Jacquetta Waldon
University of Phoenix
Communication and Collaboration Strategies Our Learning Team consists of an Organizer/Adventurer, Giver and Two Thinkers. My personality type was tied between a Thinker and an Organizer. Although I do consider myself detailed, confident, organized, and dependable like an Organizer, I have more Thinker traits such as: technical, rational, analytical, problem solver, objective, explicit, realistic, and literal. This helped me to make my primary personality type a Thinker.
Once I identified my type, I initially thought it would be difficult to be in a team with a Giver and an Adventurer. I thought I would conflict with a Giver because I deemed them to be over emotional, feeling and too adaptable. The strategy I used for effective communication with the Giver of our group was to recognize the strength in that personality type. A Giver will make efforts to cultivate the potential of our team and will be an open and honest communicator. This is important because while I will naturally look for opportunities to work and reflect on new information independently, a Giver will help me feel comfortable with team interaction and working as group which is the goal of the assignment. Effectively communicating with a Giver strengthens me in my weaker social areas.
The second personality type I was worried about working with was an Adventurer. I thought the impulsive, adventuresome and artistic traits of this type would really conflict with my logical, rational type. The strategy I used for effective communication with this type is the same as with the Giver. I focused on the strengths of working with an Adventurer instead of the things I think will annoy me. An Adventurer’s high ability in a variety of fields brings many non-traditional perspectives to the group and since they also tend to live in the present they are very good at tackling the task at hand.
Jacquetta Waldon
University of Phoenix
Communication and Collaboration Strategies Our Learning Team consists of an Organizer/Adventurer, Giver and Two Thinkers. My personality type was tied between a Thinker and an Organizer. Although I do consider myself detailed, confident, organized, and dependable like an Organizer, I have more Thinker traits such as: technical, rational, analytical, problem solver, objective, explicit, realistic, and literal. This helped me to make my primary personality type a Thinker.
Once I identified my type, I initially thought it would be difficult to be in a team with a Giver and an Adventurer. I thought I would conflict with a Giver because I deemed them to be over emotional, feeling and too adaptable. The strategy I used for effective communication with the Giver of our group was to recognize the strength in that personality type. A Giver will make efforts to cultivate the potential of our team and will be an open and honest communicator. This is important because while I will naturally look for opportunities to work and reflect on new information independently, a Giver will help me feel comfortable with team interaction and working as group which is the goal of the assignment. Effectively communicating with a Giver strengthens me in my weaker social areas.
The second personality type I was worried about working with was an Adventurer. I thought the impulsive, adventuresome and artistic traits of this type would really conflict with my logical, rational type. The strategy I used for effective communication with this type is the same as with the Giver. I focused on the strengths of working with an Adventurer instead of the things I think will annoy me. An Adventurer’s high ability in a variety of fields brings many non-traditional perspectives to the group and since they also tend to live in the present they are very good at tackling the task at hand.