Personality Styles Of A Team Case Study

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Identifying the Personality Styles of the Team Members In order to best understand his/her employees the Team leader will see where the team members fall on the personality continuum. There are five major personality styles (T2), each style having advantages and disadvantages. The first style is Conscientiousness. People who are higher on the continuum for conscientiousness tend to be more careful, dependable, and disciplined (T2). Agreeableness is the next style and these people tend to be higher on being courteous, good natured, and caring (T2). The third style is Neuroticism; these people are usually more moody, anxious and hostile (T2). Next is Openness to experience, people higher on this continuum are more apt to be curious, creative, and sophisticated (T2). …show more content…

It is also important for the team leader to identify the individualistic roles (367) within the team. These roles will help him/her predict and prevent what will go wrong. Knowing these roles will also give the team leader the knowledge to quickly bypass the storming stage of the group. The storming stage is the source of the most conflict especially with a team like this one, that has a lot of powerful employees. Another benefit of identifying the individual roles is that it will make it easier for the team leader to recognize the future chance of the group succeeding. Kim Thompson is a customer relations specialist at SLS. The surface reason for her being on the team is because she has an excellent track record in customer

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