Manage Yourself | Working with Others
Purpose of this workshop
To identify and build on your strengths and work more constructively with others.
Getting to know yourself and understanding your motivations can help you make informed choices about your studies and your future career. This workshop provides a way of being able to recognise and understand your preferred behavioural style and how this might affect the way you react to different people and different situations. It also gives you an insight into how others understand the world, allowing you to work more constructively with a range of different people. This understanding can help you make better choices about your individual approach to your learning and when working in groups.
Content of this workshop
This workshop introduces a widely-used ‘colours’ behavioural profiling framework that has been developed over the past 30 years, based on original research by psychologist William Moulton Marston in the 1920s. His research identified four behavioural styles characterised by Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance (DISC). You will identify your own personal behavioural style, according to this framework, and understand how this affects your response to a wide range of situations, for example communication, stress, decision-making and change. You will also use the model to understand how other people are likely to behave, and develop strategies to work effectively with the different behavioural styles.
By the end of this workshop you will have:
- identified your personal behavioural preferences and understood the implications of these for your work and studies
- developed strategies to play to your strengths and minimise your weaknesses
- understood the differences between people and learned how to use this understanding in order to work more successfully with others.
Benefits for students:
- identify your strengths and motivations and those of others around you
- develop effectiveness of contributions to group project work
- support career planning and PDP
- support self-awareness and self-confidence when facing challenging modules or at the start of programmes
Booking Information
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