Communications And Collaboration

Communications And Collaboration

Communication and Collaboration Strategies
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Communication and Collaboration Strategies

To develop effective strategies to both communicate and collaborate with other individuals, takes knowing oneself first. Everyone has different personality traits and learning styles. To work efficiently with others, by knowing oneself, one can use his or her   strengths to communicate and work with large groups of individuals.   Using these strengths, large projects and tasks can be better and more efficiently completed than if that person does not know what he or she is good or not good at doing. Many types of personality traits exist, such as Thinkers, Organizers, and Givers; likewise many learning styles, such as Intrapersonal, Logical/Mathematical, and Visual/Spatial also exist.   It’s interesting to see the different personality traits and learning styles a person may have and how the skills and abilities of each trait and style pertain to working with groups of individuals.
The first personality trait, Intrapersonal, has many skills and abilities, which include the ability to evaluate one’s own thinking.   By doing this, one can evaluate the ideas for a given task or project and perhaps come up with better ideas or give input based on those given ideas. Another ability the Intrapersonal personality trait includes is the ability to be aware of and expressing one’s own feelings. This gives someone the ability to let others know how he or she feels about an idea or task given, in hope that it will better serve the larger task or project. Understanding one’s relation to others will give them   the ability to know their strengths and weaknesses and also the ability to know others strengths and weaknesses, so tasks can be appropriately assigned to those who will be better able to complete them.
The next personality trait Logical/Mathematical, gives someone the skill to reason both inductively and deductively,...