What are you like?

Conflict management is your superpower: you’re a loyal Golden Retriever.

Pleaser, Easygoing—as a team member, is pleasant to work with and understands the nuances of both the creative mind as well as the logical problem-solving mind. This makes for being key in the process, being able to commmunicate and understand all sides of the team and bring everyone together in a way that produces tangible results.

Strengths

Demonstrates patience and understanding
Facilitates synthesizing ideas
Identifies and outlines decision methods
Structures and organizes processes
Communicates clearly and reliably
Inspires commitments to solutions

Blind Spots

May get derailed by conflict; values cooperation over efficiency and expediency; distracted by criticism;

Descriptors

Interpersonally focused
Consensus builder
Diplomatic
Personable
Expressive
Congenial
Loyal

Your next Steps!

Learn to read your audience to determine when to flex responses and guidance. How do you balance the need for analyzing which tasks to do and facilitate innovative strategies to achieve those tasks? Plan to achieve both in your process with the group.

Develop a range of facilitation strategies to be able to use the tactic most appropriate to a given audience
LLearn the art of asking open-ended questions that foster a dialogue
Regularly check-in with the group to verify understanding
Summarize discussions to create a consensual understanding of both the process and structure of the creative process

HOW YOU INTERACT WITH OTHER BREEDS

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