Understand Team Members' Styles and Strengths Yung-Hsiang Lu 1

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What is Your Style? 4 Logic Manage Feelings Imagine This is called the "Whole Brain Thinking".

Why Are Styles Important? If every member in a team is "creative" and nobody cares about management, the team will definitely fail  they will miss deadlines, over spend, ignore customers' needs... If every member is a manager, they care about budget, deadline, reliability... but their solutions would not be creative nor logical... A successful team needs to have different styles of talents. A successful leader needs to know members' styles and assign appropriate tasks. 5

Importance of Diverse Talents A successful team needs diverse talents. An orchestra needs violin, viola, cello, base, brass, woodwind, piano, conductor... A baseball team needs pitcher, catcher, base, fielders, coach... An airline needs pilots, flight attendants, gate agents, mechanics, schedulers... 6

Your team can be better if the members have different expertise. 7

What Can You Do? You need to understand the differences of the members in your team Sometimes, miscommunication occurs because people value and focus on different things If you are a leader, you need to know the styles of your team members and assign the right tasks to the right persons. You should know people "outside your circle"  different majors, schools, countries,... 8