The Many Faces of Personality

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The Many Faces of Personality

• Yan Zheng
• Eng100, Dr. Tu
• Wednesday, April 27, 2005

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Example

• Why were they arguing?
• What did they do wrong?
• What would you have done?

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EQ not IQ

• John Kotter it is not a question of strategy
  that gets us into trouble, it is a questions of
  emotions.
• CEOs use 4 times more EQ
• Huge Self-help (marriage, business, etc)

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EQ better predictor of success

• Social awareness
• Personal awareness
• Myers-Brigg Type Indicator

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Handout

• What is your MBTI
• Send me your teams MBTIs

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Different Perspective

• What do you notice?
• What does it mean to me?

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The Many Faces of PersonalityPart 2

• Yan Zheng
• Eng100, Dr. Tu
• Wednesday, May 4, 2005

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Recap

• What does the MBTI NOT measure?
• Intelligence, career potential, maturity
• Its all about preferences
• Regular or Goofy?
• EQ for success!

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Team Dynamics

• Remember team vs. groups?
• Real Job description
• What are Team Dynamics?
• Natural forces
• Example Friends in teams

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Relating MBTI to Team Dynamics

• Controllable forces
• As a team
• list possible personality triggered problems
• Why did the problem originate
• Diversity, a good thing?

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Solutions

• As a Team
• List possible solutions to your problems

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Tools

• Help communicate effectively
• Timelines
• Work breakdown structures
• Flow charts/Block diagrams
• Agendas
• Budgets

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Critique

• Pros Cons about our discussions
• What did I do wrong?