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 advantage of the Preferences® test is that it enables us to move away from the logic of "judgment" and towards the logic of mutual understanding. The employee understands that he/she has his/her own way of functioning, and that others have theirs. There isn't necessarily one right way of working, but different ways of doing things. By understanding this, the collaborator stops judging people or actions as "good" or "bad". They try to understand and adapt better. He/she perceives inter-individual differences not as an obstacle, but as an opportunity.

The "Strengthening team cohesion by better understanding your colleagues' personalities" training course is aimed at all levels in the company:

From management to employees

A good understanding of the French language is required to use the training materials.

The trainer may vary according to the level of the employees being trained, so as to be able to adapt to the audience, both in terms of their knowledge of the issues and their speed of understanding of the concepts presented.

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

Participants are then asked to identify the personalities of their team members. The idea is that, once they've understood the concepts, they can try to spot them in their colleagues. Finally, participants are asked to present their personality preferences to the rest of the group, enabling each of them to discover the personalities of the other participants. This discovery fosters mutual understanding and has a calming effect on tensions and a beneficial effect on synergies.

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 "Strengthening team cohesion by better understanding colleagues' personalities" training course, trainees are accompanied by an expert trainer. The trainer uses the following techniques in particular:

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 trains at your company (travel and accommodation costs calculated 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 as the one delivering the training. This support and assistance is provided by e-mail or, in an emergency, by telephone. The trainer's contact details are sent to the beneficiary at the start of the training course. The trainer must reply within 48 hours. If the trainer cannot be reached within this period, the beneficiary may contact the training manager, whose contact details are given in the Welcome Booklet.

Means for monitoring action implementation and results

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

People with disabilities

Training is open to all, and all situations of disability will be taken into account within the limits of the skills, human and material resources offered as part of the training provided. If ORIENTACTION does not have the material, technical and human resources to meet the needs of a disabled person, the latter will be referred either to the ORIENTACTION group's disability advisor, or to a partner organization in the ORIENTACTION network.

Access procedures and deadlines

All requests for services must be accompanied by a quotation specifying the amount of the service (including VAT) and the dates on which it will be carried out. The estimate is sent in electronic format.

Training for company employees