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Workshops
Extreme Personalities at Work
This two-day workshop is co-hosted by Extreme Personality experts, Grant Grobman and Dr. Alan Buchanan. It delivers new tools to work with employees with extreme personality styles. You will learn the
5 Extreme Personalities and specialized management techniques for each. This leadership development workshop is appropriate for managers of all experience levels and HR professionals.
You will learn:
- How to recognize the 5 Extreme Personalities
- Appropriate management techniques for each
- How to bring out the best in each personality style
- How to deal with each in crisis situations
- How to avoid conflict with each personality style
- To coach your team to deal with each personality style
“I’ve been to a lot of professional education sessions over the years – this was the most useful workshop I’ve done.” Teresa Davis, Manager, Emergency, Intensive Care, Cardiology, Richmond Health Services, Part of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
“I recommend that teams take the workshop together – we found it great to debrief together at the end of the day.” Lisa DePaoli, Director, Acute Care, Richmond Health Services, Part of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
The Challenge of Extreme Personalities
One of the biggest challenges a manager will ever face is working with someone with an extreme personality style. Because typical management and discipline techniques don’t work with individuals that have extreme personality styles, managers are often frustrated, confused and stressed-out. Even great managers can lose confidence. Managers often believe that their inability to cope with an extreme personality style is their own fault or that the situation is simply not resolvable.
The Effect on the Workplace
Employees with extreme personality styles can negatively impact the workplace. They can cause talented managers and employees to leave your organization. Their behaviours can raise anxiety levels so high that those around them must take stress leave, forcing your organization to incur significant costs. The day-to-day environment in the workplace may be unpleasant and filled with tension. Productivity may decline as people are distracted and disrupted by the employee with an extreme personality style.
The Effect on the Extreme Employee
Employees with extreme personality styles often feel undervalued and misunderstood. They often have a strong desire to perform well and fit in, but this can be overshadowed by their difficult and ineffective behaviors.
The Value of the Workshop
People with extreme personalities are often highly-skilled, talented people and an asset to your team. But to tap into that potential you must understand what makes them tick and apply the appropriate, specialized management tools that fit their personality.
Knowing how to manage employees with extreme personality styles is an essential leadership skill. It allows you to create a smooth-running, healthy workplace.
How do you know if you have employees with extreme personality styles in your workplace?
- They can have a disruptive effect on a workplace, often causing anxiety and strife for themselves and other employees
- They don’t respond to standard management techniques and discipline measures that work with other employees
- They react differently to change than other employees
Please call us at (604) 317.3357 to arrange a workshop for your organization.
Other Workshops
- The Fundamentals: Mental Illness in the Workplace
- Anxiety and Depression in the Workplace
- Return to Work: New Approaches for Complex Mental Health Issues
- Overcoming the Stigma: Addressing Mental Health in the Workplace
- Treatments that Work: Monitoring the Success of Mental Health Healing
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