Understanding Personality Types for Effective Teamwork

1. Agenda • Review Your Learning – Chapter 7 • Article Reviews on Win-Win Scheduling • Team Interpersonal Skills • Chapter 8 – Teamwork in the Foodservice & Hospitality Workplace • Test Your Knowledge

2. D.A.R.E. • Team Interpersonal Skills • To better understand your own personality traits, we will all take the D.A.R.E. Survey • Count the number of D’s, A’s, R’s, & E’s • Now that you have tallied your score, you are probably curious how your numbers stack up, and where you fit in the personality type matrix. • The higher the number, the more you lean to that type of personality.

3. We will now look at what each of these letters represent, and how they may reflect your personality: • D for Driver • A for Analytical • R for Relator • E for Expressive

4. Driver: Strengths • Leadership ability • Independent • Compulsively active • Action-oriented • Self-confident • Goal setters • Make decisions quickly & effectively • Excellent in emergencies • Thrive on opposition & challenge Vulnerabilities • Unrealistic expectations of others and yourself • Discount others’ ideas • Unwilling to admit mistakes • Want it done NOW • Hasty decisions • Not listening Advice to Drivers: Prepare others for your decisions; a little preparations resolves hours of frustration. Take notes on responses when you ask others for opinions. Rephrase and feedback your interpretation of what Relators and Analytics say to you to show that you have listened and understand. Practice lowering your voice ad slowing your pace. How to live with Drivers: Understand that they need to be “in control”. They show they care by DOING IT FOR YOU, not listening to you. Compliment them, even if they “shrug it off.” Talk to them privately and tactfully, not in a critical manner.

5. Analytic: Strengths • Patient • Organized • Creative • Determined • Persistent • Detailed • Finish what they start Vulnerabilities • Over-analyze • Stressed • Slow to make decisions • Long, drawn out explanations • Don’t work well under pressure • Perfectionist Advice to Analytics: On less important issues, take a risk. Give others a chance to understand you; tell them of your reluctance to speak. Initiate friendships and interpersonal contacts. Understand that you may be hard to approach. Practice positive statements: “I will; I can” instead of “I’ll see; I don’t know” How to live with Analytics : Encourage them to talk; then truly listen. Don’t make sudden decisions affecting them. Allow time for thought, appeal to their sense of logic.

6. Relator/Amiable: Strengths • Easy going • Pleasant • Calm • Polite and reserved • Steady/dependable • Mediators • Good listeners • Uncomplaining • Enjoy people Vulnerabilities • Don’t get a lot of work done • Ideas don’t get heard • Opinions easily swayed • Indecisive • Feelings hurt easily Advice to Relators/Amiables: Set goals regularly; start small, perhaps, but be more decisive. Say “vanilla” or “chocolate”, not “Whatever you think.” Practice speaking up. How to live with Relators/Amiables : Encourage them to talk; then truly listen. Don’t make sudden decisions affecting them. Allow time for thought; appeal to their sense of logic.

7. Expressive: Strengths • Make friends easily • Outgoing • Humorous • Cheerful • Generate enthusiasm in others • Willing to try new things • Spontaneous • Positive Vulnerabilities • Don’t listen • Unorganized • Not dependable • Where’s lunch? Advice to Expressives: Ask a willing Analytic to help you remember dates, times & details. Write notes to yourself. Always mark things down; don’t trust your memory. Carve out some time for yourself and allow others their own peaceful times. Ask people not to tell you things they don’t want repeated. How to live with Expressives: Talk to them occasionally; listen to them often. Realize that this too shall pass. Don’t expect them to enjoy isolation. Be prepared for lots of activity. Assign them people jobs. Tell them to be places ½ hour before they are expected. Enjoy them.

8. Behavioral Style Axes • We hold people to different expectations because of their personalities. • We have all kinds of people on our team. The box below defines the behavioral tendencies that will be accepted. Extroverted Directing but not Demanding Lighthearted but Focused Task People Agreeable but Give Input Analytical but not Anal-retentive Introverted

9. Working with Personality Types in a Group In order to perform as a team, we have to learn how to treat each other as team members. The most important aspect of being a team member is to learn how to understand and relate to each other with our different personalities. The first step in that process is to know yourself.

10. Working with Personality Types in a Group We must learn our personality as it relates to others. Each personality type has strengths and potential pitfalls. We can learn to maximize our personality strengths and build upon identified methods to improve our areas of development.

11. Working with Personality Types in a Group The key to building a successful team is learning to effectively relate to each other as team members. To do so, we must identify our individual personality types. We need to know our personality’s strengths, potential vulnerabilities, and how we interact with other personality types for success.

12. Teamwork in the Foodservice and Hospitality Workplace • Hospitality and Restaurant Management 8 OH 8-12

13. Chapter Learning Objectives • Identify the advantages and disadvantages of teams. • Describe stages in team growth. • Identify management behaviors that affect team development and goal setting. • Describe an effective way to manage team-based projects.

14. Teamwork Is Important • Many problems confronting operations typically impact more than one area and are best resolved with a team approach. • No single employee is able to address most of today’s complex problems, but a team of employees can do so. • It is a collaborative and cooperative effort to create positive results for the achievement of a common goal.

15. Skills Needed for Effective Teams • Technical expertise • Utilizing knowledge & skills of a cross section of an organization will strengthen the likelihood of a team achieving its goal • Problem-solving skills • Identifying root causes of a situation or challenge • Interpersonal skills • Members who communicate effectively and facilitate group processes.

16. Types of Teams • Interfunctional team—team of employees from the same area or department • Problem-solving team—temporary team selected to solve a problem • Cross-functional team—team composed of employees from different areas • Self-directed team—intact work unit that manages daily issues with little supervision

17. Advantages to Teamwork • Positive work environment • Open communication channels • Availability of support systems • Workplace diversity

18. Pitfalls to Teamwork • Taking too long to make a decision • Mishandling team agreements • Working inefficiently • Avoiding responsibilities

19. Four Stages of Team Development • Forming—team members get to know each other. • Storming—interpersonal conflicts begin to surface. • Norming—team members settle differences. • Performing—team members work well together.

20. Four Stages of Team Development continued This server is a member of a team that is at the “performing” stage of team development.

21. Manager’s Role in Team Development • Communicate effectively. • Use appropriate leadership styles. • Conduct team-building exercises. • Understand and explain the role of the team in accomplishing goals. • Apply effective management skills to support the team.

22. Challenges to Team Development • Poor management style • Using only one management style during each of the stages of team development is counterproductive. • High turnover • A reality of the industry, can contribute to a team’s ineffectiveness. • Improper emphasis on team development • Overemphasize personal team relationships instead of focusing on achieving the project goa..

23. How Would You Answer the Following Questions? • During the _______ stage, team interdependence is recognized. • During the _______ stage, interpersonal conflicts may surface. • During the _______ stage, team members settle their differences. • During the _______ stage, team members get to know each other.

24. Three Types of Team Goals • Team-building goals • Information goals • Project goals

25. Challenges of Team Goal Setting • Personal agendas may conflict with project goals or mission statements. • Ineffective communication • Lack of a strong connection between project goals and business needs

26. Managing Team-Based Projects—Planning • Confirm that project goals are linked to identified business needs. • Brainstorming can help identify best uses of limited resources. • Determine whether special training is required. • Communicate project plans to stakeholders.

27. Managing Team-Based Projects—Executing • The manager must monitor the team’s progress. • If problems evolve, team members should be asked to determine how they can be resolved. • Communicating project status to stakeholders is important.

28. Managing Team-Based Projects—Evaluation • Purpose—to determine whether goals are achieved, using measures identified in the planning stage • A debrief meeting can be held, in which all aspects of the project are evaluated. • Final step—the manager should recognize and celebrate team accomplishments.

29. How Would You Answer the Following Questions? • “Setting ground rules” is an example of what type of team goal? • A _______ environment is needed for teams to flourish. • The first step in a project involves _______. • All aspects of a project are evaluated in a _______ meeting.

30. Key Term Review • Brainstorming • Cross-functional team • Debrief meeting • Directing • Forming

31. Key Term Review continued • Interfunctional team • Norming • Performing • Problem-solving team

32. Key Term Review continued • Self-directed team • Storming • Supporting • Team • Teamwork

33. Chapter Learning Objectives—What Did You Learn? • Identify the advantage and disadvantages of teams. • Describe stages in team growth. • Identify management behaviors that affect team development and goal setting. • Describe an effective way to manage team-based projects.

34. Next week • Article summary of Teamwork • Book Report is due • Read Chapter 9 – Dimensions of Problem Solving