Effective Team Membership: SelfAwareness

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Effective Team Membership Self-Awareness

• Increasing Team Success Through
• Self- and Other-Awareness

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Why Self-Awareness?

• It matters not what you are thought to be, but
  what you are.
• Publilius Syrus
• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
  these three alone lead to sovereign power.
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• To thine own self be true, and it must follow as
  the night the day, thou canst not then be false
  to any man.
• Polonius in Hamlet, Shakespeare

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Self-Awareness Defined

• The ability to recognize and understand your
  personality, strengths and weaknesses, biases,
  sensitive line, moods, emotions, drives.
• The ability to recognize and understand the
  effect these qualities have on others (including
  your team).
• How do you know if someone is self-aware?
• Self-confidence.
• Self-disclosure.
• Realistic self-assessment.
• Self-deprecating sense of humor.
• Lack of arrogance.
• Open to negative feedback.

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Increasing Self Awareness

• Personal Values
• Used in decision-making
• Rokeach Value Survey
• Cognitive style
• Keirsey Temperament Sorter
• Assertiveness personality survey
• Learning Style Inventory
• Attitudes toward change
• Tolerance for Ambiguity
• Locus of Control
• Interpersonal orientation
• FIRO-B

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Values

• Values are core conceptions of the desirable.
• Values serve as standards or criteria to guide
  action, judgment, choice, attitude, evaluation,
  argument, exhortation, rationalization, and
  attribution of causality. These standards guide
  the development of a socially defined sense of
  self as a competent and moral member of
  society. Milton Rokeach

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Value Hierarchy

• Terminal values
• The ends or goals.
• Instrumental values
• The means by which you attain your goals.
• Institutional values
• Shared values in a culture or society.

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Cognitive Style - Temperament

• Sensory versus Intuitive
• Observing for information or listening to your
  intuition.
• Thinking versus Feeling
• Objective versus sympathetic/empathetic
• Judging versus Perceiving
• Using a schedule versus exploring for
  information.
• Extroverted versus Introverted
• More expressive or more reserved.
• Temperaments
• Guardian, Idealist, Rational, Artisan

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Keirsey Temperaments

• Guardian SJ
• Detail-oriented, practical, focused on goals and
  results.
• Frequently major in Business
• Rational NT
• Visionary, focused on the big picture.
• Strong willed and independent
• Idealist NF
• Diplomatic, people-oriented.
• Seek opportunities to develop self and others.
• Artisan SP
• Adaptable, spontaneous, creative.
• Perform well under pressure.

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Keirsey Profiles

• Artisan
• ESTP Promoter
• ISTP Crafter
• ESFP Performer
• ISFP Composer
• Guardian
• ESTJ Supervisor
• ISTJ Inspector
• ESFJ Provider
• ISFJ Protector

• Rational
• ENTJ Fieldmarshal
• INTJ Mastermind
• ENTP Inventor
• INTP Architect
• Idealist
• ENFJ Teacher
• INFJ Counselor
• ENFP Champion
• INFP Healer

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Learning Style
CE
Accommodating Doers
Diverging Divergent Thinkers
RO
AE
Assimilating Connection Makers
Converging Practical planners
AC
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Assertiveness Personality

• Scores range from 0 to 100.
• Over 50, more Assertive
• Interested in making sure your views are heard.
• Under 50, less Assertive.
• More passive, less focused on getting your point
  across.
• Can you be too assertive? Too passive?
• Throughout the class we will focus on
  communicating assertively, but not aggressively,
  to most effectively express your point of view.

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Orientation Toward Change

• Tolerance of Ambiguity
• Novelty
• Complexity
• Insolubility
• Locus of Control
• Internal
• External
• How you view the world makes a difference in how
  you behave.

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FIRO-B Fundamental Interpersonal Response
Orientation

• Designed to help you explore the typical ways you
  interact with people.
• Scoring
• You give (express to others)
• Inclusion ei
• Control ec
• Affection ea
• You want (want from others)
• Inclusion wi
• Control wc
• Affection wa

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Average FIRO-B Scores and Ranges
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FIRO-B Descriptors
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Team Self-Awareness Matrix

• Create a table of your team member scores for
• Keirsey Temperament
• Keirsey Type
• FIRO-B scores for EI, WI, EC and WC
• Learning Style Preferences
• Anything else you think is relevant for your
  team.
• Submit your matrix on Monday, October 8th
• You will get it back on Wednesday, Oct 10th

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Teamwork on your Project

• Suggested exercise for today
• Have each person rate the importance of a list of
  goals you generate as a team.
• Examples of goals might be
• Learning about teamwork
• Getting a good grade on the project
• Being well prepared for class and team meetings
• Having fun
• Having efficient meetings
• Keeping commitments