Personality Assessments to Foster Team Trust
Suggested Strategy: Personality tests can be a double-edged sword — they can serve as helpful tools to understand each other, or they can serve as wedges that can drive people apart after they’re put into boxes. Use these tools to serve as a conversation piece to build trust as a team and highlight any potential mental blocks teammates have with each other.
Suggested Questions:
Î Rating Question: On a scale of one to six, with six being you understand your teammates personalities and how they interact with trust, and one being you don’t see the connection between personalities and team trust, where would you rate yourself and why? What Activities or Learning Projects would facilitate better understanding? Î Risk Question: What risk do we, as a team, have by not understanding each other’s personalities better?
Suggested Activities:
Î Define & Coach: For everyone to be on the same page with using personality assessments for the better, have your employees define what a personality test is and how they think it can benefit the team. Then, use that as a tool to coach to their definitions, or lack thereof, and discuss the benefits and pitfalls of relying on personality tests. Î Role Play: Give the team a personality test, and role play situations where you feel like certain personalities stereotypically perform better in that given task. Then, challenge the team to role play situations where those who typically do not perform as well could be successful. Challenge them to think outside of the box.
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