Welcome to Week Seven
Lesson Seven
Assignments and questions related to this week's reading:
This week the Desk Reference will give you the elementary introduction to the Strengths Development Inventory (SDI) - a
personality type tool.
Read pages 57-60 from the Desk Reference. Answer the following questions and post them on the discussion board:
1. What personality type do you belong to? Provide examples.
2. What can be learned from the case study of Yasmeen (page 59)?
3. What are the Top ten Integration Strategies you learned about this week? Reflect on a couple of them. Do you already use
them? What works for you and what doesn't? Do you know why?
4. Paul Holmes is talking about some extremely "sensitive topics no one will talk about". What are your thoughts about them?
The Globe and Mail published an article "Getting to the roots of office conflicts" by Harvey Schachter on SDI. The article
catalogues seven color-coded motivational drivers in human relationships that we should be aware of. If you are interested
to learn about all seven, go to the following link:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/getting-to-the-roots-of-office-conflicts
/article616341/
A Goggle search will give you a more detailed explanation on SDI, MBTI, and True Colors. Many Canadian workplaces
use these tools to equip people to work well in teams.
Feel free to use the following links to conduct your own research:
http://www.personalstrengths.ca/
http://www.personalstrengthsuk.com/what-is-sdi-strength-deployment-inventory
http://www.excellerate.co.nz/blog/discover_the_strength_deployment_inventory.html
You might even want to take True colors Personality test to learn more about yourself by going to the following link:
http://www.true-colors-test.com/
Lesson Seven
Assignments and questions related to this week's reading:
This week the Desk Reference will give you the elementary introduction to the Strengths Development Inventory (SDI) - a
personality type tool.
Read pages 57-60 from the Desk Reference. Answer the following questions and post them on the discussion board:
1. What personality type do you belong to? Provide examples.
2. What can be learned from the case study of Yasmeen (page 59)?
3. What are the Top ten Integration Strategies you learned about this week? Reflect on a couple of them. Do you already use
them? What works for you and what doesn't? Do you know why?
4. Paul Holmes is talking about some extremely "sensitive topics no one will talk about". What are your thoughts about them?
The Globe and Mail published an article "Getting to the roots of office conflicts" by Harvey Schachter on SDI. The article
catalogues seven color-coded motivational drivers in human relationships that we should be aware of. If you are interested
to learn about all seven, go to the following link:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/getting-to-the-roots-of-office-conflicts
/article616341/
A Goggle search will give you a more detailed explanation on SDI, MBTI, and True Colors. Many Canadian workplaces
use these tools to equip people to work well in teams.
Feel free to use the following links to conduct your own research:
http://www.personalstrengths.ca/
http://www.personalstrengthsuk.com/what-is-sdi-strength-deployment-inventory
http://www.excellerate.co.nz/blog/discover_the_strength_deployment_inventory.html
You might even want to take True colors Personality test to learn more about yourself by going to the following link:
http://www.true-colors-test.com/
References
Images of workplace conflicts. [Online images]. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=images+of+workplace+conflicts
Schachter, H. (August 2, 2011). Getting to the roots of office conflicts. The Globe And Mail. Retrieved from http://www.theglobeandmail.com
/report-on-business/careers/management/getting-to-the-roots-of-office-conflicts/article616341/