Welcome to the August 31, 2005 issue of The Total View

Published by Success Performance Solutions, Written by Ira S. Wolfe

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What's Inside:

1. Quality of Communication Determines Effectiveness of Managers

It has often been said that one of the key defining attributes of a great leader is their ability to communicate with others. The more you understand your audience, their wants, needs and motivations, the greater your ability to communicate well.

Each of us is unique. We have own way of looking at the world, situations, others, and ourselves.

Some people – want to win
While others – want to just get along

Some people – want to find new solutions
While others – want to follow established procedures

Some people – care deeply what others think
While others – care only about want they think

Some people – are methodical in their approach
While others – are more spontaneous in their dealings

Some people – actively seek out group activities
While others – tend to avoid social interactions

These differences reflect the impact of our personality on our personal preferences, the ways in which we prefer to work and interact with others. The greater our understanding of our preferences, the greater our ability to manage the qualify of our relationships with others.

As a manager, it becomes imperative for you to know and understand not only your own style preferences, and their impact on others, but the preferences of others. It is the quality of the interaction between these varying preferences that will determine your effectiveness as a leader and manager.

Understanding Style Differences has been developed to provide groups with insights into their potential strengths and weaknesses. Participants are given the opportunity to view their group’s profile and to assess its relative strengths and potential downfalls, viewing each from a strategic perspective. In doing so, they are afforded the opportunity of increasing their interpersonal effectiveness and thereby their team’s success.

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2. Perfect Labor Storm Alerts #441 to #442

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Fact #441: Eighty-nine percent of all lawyers are white, according to the 2000 census. Blacks comprise 4 percent of all lawyers, while Latinos make up 3 percent, Asian Americans 2 percent and Native Americans less than 1 percent.

Fact #442: Eighty-three percent of all judges are white, according to the 2000 census. Blacks comprise 9 percent of the country’s judges while Latinos account for 5 percent, Asian Americans 2 percent and Native Americans 1 percent.

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3.  Understanding Style Differences

Understanding Style Differences (USD) has been developed to provide groups with insights into their potential strengths and weaknesses. Participants are given the opportunity to view their group's profile and to assess its relative strengths and potential downfalls, viewing each from a strategic perspective. In doing so, they are afforded the opportunity of increasing their interpersonal effectiveness and thereby their team's success.

Each team member receives a personality report and personal development guidebook detailing his/her preferred interpersonal style, work style, and emotional style. The manager receives a group report identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each employees and the impact of individual contributions (or distractions) to the success of the team.

Understanding Style Differences increases each employee's sense of accountability and responsibility to the team and minimizes the likelihood of miscommunications and personality clashes. USD is perfect for managers who want their new or existing work teams to increase productivity and reduce departmental conflicts, and for managers/supervisors new to their role of leading and coaching others.

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4.  Management Effectiveness Profile

The Management Effectiveness Profile is a competency-based diagnostic instrument that will give executives and business owners a valuable employee evaluation for managers and supervisors, up and coming and incumbents. After managers evaluate their own competencies (or supervisors and peers evaluate them, too), individuals can develop individual improvement plans so they can supervise even more successfully in the future

This trusted profile is self-scoring or online, user-friendly, and cost effective. Used in organizations across the country and in individual coaching situations, the tool is a must-have if you want to maximize the power of your most important resource—your leaders.

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5. 50 Training Activities for Team Building - Volume 1 and 2

Create high performance teams with these collections of fully reproducible activities. All activities employ the principle of "learning by doing" to ensure that the skills the participants learn can be applied to real work situations.

Three-ring binders are ready to use and fully reproducible. Each volume - only $139.95 each - includes trainer's notes and clearly stated objectives.

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Ira S. Wolfe. 2005 - All Rights Reserved. Reprints and other distribution by permission only.

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