Knowing your personality as a leader fosters team success

Ever wonder why it’s so hard to work with a co-lead or colleague on a certain issue? The information shared at the Leading in Partnership workshop at the 2010 Union Delegate Conference shed some light on this sticky situation.

It’s all about our personality styles. Are you analytic, a driver, amiable or expressive? It takes the strengths of all these personality styles to create high functioning unit-based teams.

Our different personalities play a huge part in our working relationships and we need to learn to work effectively with other styles. How we’re perceived by the members on our team depends on it—as do our team’s outcomes. If we want to have a high-functioning team, we need to emulate the behavior we want to see.

As leaders, it’s important to understand where your personality strengths and opportunities line up as well as the traits of your co-leads and members on your UBT. And by the way—understanding these traits can be beneficial in your personal life too.

Look into the unit-based team co-lead training and learn more about your personality style.