Personality Dimensions – Building Communications Skills

Workshop Description

Personality Dimensions® significantly improves communication skills; by understanding our own personality type, individuals gain insights into their communication style, strengths and weaknesses, and how they are likely to be perceived by others. They also learn the styles, strengths, and weaknesses of others – and how to identify the temperament of the people they are interacting with in order to understand what they will need. Based on this new awareness, individuals can adjust their communication style to better suit the needs of different audiences, and communicate their own needs and preferences effectively to others. By learning about the different dimensions and their communication preferences, individuals can develop greater empathy and understanding for those around them. This ultimately leads to more effective communication and stronger relationships, both in personal and professional contexts.

In this workshop, learn to:

• Recognize the temperament of individuals with whom you are communicating
• Understand the unique needs of each temperament (including your own)
• Modify communication styles in order to effectively communicate with each temperament style
• Communicate your own unique needs to others, in order to ensure effective communication for yourself

Agenda

• Introduction
• Stand Up If…
• Brief History / Theoretical Background
• Finding My Primary Colour
• Brightened Groups Exercise – Getting to Know the Colours
• Introversion / Extraversion
• Lunch
• Group Exercise – Recognizing the Colours
• Brightened Groups Exercise – Communication Needs for Each Colour
• Mixed Group Exercise – Designing An Experience for All Four Colours
• Group Exercise – Reframing Negative Biases of the Colours – What Have you Misinterpreted in the Past? How have you been misinterpreted?
• Group Exercise – What Colour is Your Trainer?
• Wrap-up and Evaluation

Saturday, October 5, 2024

9 am - 5:30 pm 

In-person workshop

Instructor: Dr. Caitlin McLaughlin