Module 1 – The Leader and the Team: Working with Different Personality Types  

Knowing about different personality types and preferences can enhance work relationships, reduce conflict, build resilience and support better team-working.

In this The Language of Leadership: finding your own voice programme module you will be introduced to examples of different approaches available, focussing on one of the most-commonly used and globally recognised personality profiling tools, the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Inventory). You’ll have the opportunity to find out more about yourself and others.

We will look at how acknowledging personality preferences provides a framework and a language for describing differences in a positive and non-judgmental way, enhances understanding of important differences between people, and enables different personalities to work well together.

  • Duration: 1 day
  • Delivery: Virtual
  • Methods: Presentation, whole group discussion and activities, breakout sessions, role play, video clips, reflective journaling etc.
  • Pre-event preparation: None
  • Post-event work: Book next modules according to the individual’s leadership development objectives, follow-up on individual Action Plan decided at end of the session, and follow-up using Delegate Resource Handbook together with list of further resources provided in the Slide Pack

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Who can attend

Anyone who has previously attended The Language of Leadership – Introduction day

Aims and learning outcomes

Aims:

– To illustrate the value – and the limitations – of profiling tools in personal and professional development
– To consider ways in which knowing about different personality types and preferences can enhance work relationships, reduce conflict, build resilience and support better team-working
– To demonstrate how acknowledging personality preferences provides a framework and a language for describing differences in a positive and non-judgmental way, enhances understanding of important differences between people, and enables different personalities to work well together

Learning outcomes:

Having attended this module, delegates will be able to:

– Understand more about your own personality preferences and their impact
– Enhance your interpersonal skills and relationship-building with different personality types
– Understand and manage certain stress reactions – in yourself and others
– Gain insights into yourself as a leader – your personal qualities and potential blind-spots
– Use what you have learnt about personality preferences to support diversity and promote inclusion

Associated GMC Generic Professional Capabilities (GPC)

Domain 1: Professional values and behaviours
– Managing time and resources effectively

Domain 2: Professional Skills (Communication and interpersonal skills)
– Demonstrating active listening skills
– Demonstrating cultural and social awareness
– Applying management and team-working skills appropriately. Including influencing, negotiating, continuously re-assessing priorities and effectively managing complex, dynamic situations
– Maintaining appropriate situational awareness and sensitivity to the impact of their comments and behaviours on others

Domain 5: Capabilities in leadership and team working
– Demonstrating an understanding of why leadership and team- working is important in their role as a clinician
– Showing awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and why effective clinical leadership is central to safe and effective care
– Demonstrating an understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques, and applying them in practice
– Demonstrating appropriate leadership behaviour and an ability to adapt their leadership behaviour to improve engagement and outcomes
– Appreciating their leadership style and its impact on others
– Actively participating and contributing to the work and success of a team (appropriate followership)
– Thinking critically about decision-making, reflecting on decision-making processes and explaining those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way
– Supervising, challenging, influencing, appraising and mentoring colleagues and peers to enhance performance and to support development
– Promoting a culture of learning and academic and professional critical enquiry

Domain 8: Capabilities in education and training
– Providing supportive developmental feedback, both verbally and in writing, to learners and doctors in training
– Evaluating and reflecting on the effectiveness of their educational activities
– Giving timely and constructive feedback on learning activities and opportunities

Faculty biography

Anneliese Guerin-LeTendre

Anneliese is an experienced leadership coach, teacher, trainer and facilitator in the public and private sector, and has been working in the NHS since 2008, developing and delivering programmes on leadership, communication, culture, culture change, diversity and inclusion, and wellbeing.

Anneliese’s work – based on the principles of Transformational and Vertical Development Leadership – takes a holistic approach, aligning interpersonal communication skills with values, life purpose and meaning, to offer insights for personal and professional growth and self-empowerment.

Funding

– Wessex training grade doctors and Wessex SAS/Specialty grade doctors are funded by Wessex, so no study leave claims will be necessary for course fees.
– Other delegates are required to pay a nominal fee.

Cancellation penalties may apply. Please refer to the Accent Course Manager Cancellation and Refund Policy.

How to book

Delegates will be invited to attend once they have attended The Language of Leadership – Introduction day.