Strengthening team cohesion through personality awareness

The objectives of the "Strengthen team cohesion by better understanding your colleagues' personalities" training course are :

Identify your personality using the Preferences® personality model and test to discover your fundamental preferences and better understand how they influence the way you work and behave on a daily basis.
Discover the personalities of your colleagues and manager, and better understand how this influences the way they work and behave on a day-to-day basis. Identify situations that generate "tensions" or, on the contrary, "synergies".
Use your understanding of your Preferences® personality to strengthen team cohesion, encourage collaboration on common projects and self-manage tensions or conflicts between team members.

The value of the Préférences® test lies in its ability to move beyond the mindset of “judgment” and toward one of mutual understanding. Employees come to understand that they have their own way of working and that others have theirs. There isn’t necessarily one “right” way to operate, but rather different ways of doing so. By understanding this, the employee stops judging people or actions as “good” or “bad.” They try to understand and adapt better. They perceive individual differences not as an obstacle, but as an opportunity.

Target audience:

The training course “Strengthening Team Cohesion by Better Understanding Your Colleagues’ Personalities” is designed for employees at all levels of the company:

From management to employees

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites for enrollment in the program

Individual or group training (max. 8 people/group).

Training takes place over one day. There are several ways to organize it.

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Course

Target skills

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The course

The "Strengthening team cohesion by better understanding your colleagues' personalities" training course is divided into three parts, with an introduction and a conclusion, including an action plan.

Part

INTRODUCTION

What is personality and how does it evolve during childhood, adolescence and adulthood?
What is the deep personality and the adapted personality?
How does the core personality influence the behavior of each
person?

Part

PART 1: Discovering your personality

Participants are encouraged to discover their personalities through :

Préférences® personality test to identify your 5 personality preferences along five dimensions.

Part

PART 2: Discovering your colleagues' personalities

Next, participants are asked to identify the personality types of their team members. The idea is that once they understand the concepts, they can try to recognize them in their colleagues. Finally, participants are asked to present their personality preferences to the rest of the group, allowing everyone to discover the personalities of the other participants. This discovery fosters mutual understanding, helps ease tensions, and promotes synergy.

Part

PART 3: Using the personality model in real-life situations

3.1 Dividing up the tasks

The Preferences® personality model can be used to encourage collaboration on common projects, based on the aspirations and talents of each individual. If everyone can fully mobilize their talents and act according to their deepest preferences, then every team member will feel valued and fully at home. They'll feel more at ease.

3.2 Better communication

The Preferences® personality model enables you to adopt your own communication style according to the other person's deep-seated preferences. Everyone can adapt their postures, attitudes and communications to promote well-being and efficiency. The aim is to improve communication for more harmonious relationships.

3.3 Managing tensions

Within a team, personality differences inevitably generate tension. It's only natural. The aim here is to get the group to define for itself how it can regulate internal tensions, using the light of personality.

Part

CONCLUSION

The training ends with a reflection and the establishment of an action plan to strengthen team cohesion.

Individual action plan,
Collective action plan if necessary.

A subscription to the test can also be taken out following the training, so that it can be used freely for recruitment purposes in particular.

We recommend organizing a half-day practice analysis and/or feedback session three to six months after the training with the various participants.
Individual coaching can also be arranged on request.

Target skills

The training aims to acquire :

Competency no. 1 : understanding how one's own personality and the personality of human beings in general works, and what impact this has on working behavior within a team.
Competency no. 2: Know how to identify fundamental preferences in one's own personality and, by taking a test or observing others, identify fundamental preferences in the personalities of colleagues.
Competency no. 3: better understand the personalities of others, encourage collaboration on common projects, identify the causes of certain tensions and ease them more quickly, see complementarities in differences.

Teaching resources and supervision methods

During the training session titled “Strengthening Team Cohesion by Better Understanding Your Colleagues’ Personalities, ” participants are guided by an expert trainer. The trainer uses the following techniques, among others:

Brainstorming,
Knowledge transfer,
Concrete examples and case studies,
Practical exercises,
Educational tools,
Role-playing exercises,
Preferences® personality test.

Means of organizing face-to-face training

You have a choice of training courses:

At ORIENTACTION's offices in Paris or Le Mans,
On-site: The trainer conducts the training at your company’s location (travel and accommodation expenses are included in the quote).

Distance learning organization resources

Training will be carried out via synchronous distance learning using the ZOOM tool.
ZOOM connection links will be provided by the Training Center.

Remote pedagogical and technical support and assistance

Support and assistance are provided by the same trainer who conducts the training. This support and assistance are provided via email or, in case of an emergency, by phone. The trainer’s contact information is provided to the participant at the start of the training. The trainer must respond within 48 hours. If the trainer cannot be reached after this time has elapsed, the participant may contact the academic director, whose contact information is provided in the welcome booklet.

Means for monitoring action implementation and results

At the end of the training, the beneficiary completes a certificate of attendance,
He/She also takes a knowledge assessment quiz,
At the end of the training course, the beneficiary fills in a satisfaction questionnaire to assess the benefits of the training.

People with disabilities

The training is open to the general public, and all types of disabilities will be accommodated within the limits of the skills, human resources, and equipment available as part of the training program. If ORIENTACTION does not have the material, technical, and human resources to meet the needs of a participant with a disability, that participant will be referred either to the ORIENTACTION group’s disability liaison or to a partner organization within the ORIENTACTION network.

Access procedures and deadlines

All training requests are accompanied by a quote specifying the total cost (including tax) of the service, as well as the dates of the training. The quote is sent electronically via email. Once the quote has been accepted and the training agreement signed, the training may begin. For information on how to reschedule or cancel the training, please refer to the Terms and Conditions available by clicking here: https://www.orientactiongroupe.com/cgv/

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