Leading and Motivating People with Different Personalities
39mIntermediate2021-07-14
Authors

Kwame Christian
CEO of the American Negotiation Institute
Course details
A person's thoughts, feelings, and actions, taken together, form a pattern psychologists call "personality." As a leader, you deal with so many personalities daily. To be an effective leader, you need to know how to motivate, lead, and persuade these diverse personalities. In this course, instructor Kwame Christian—business lawyer, Director of the American Negotiation Institute, and host of the Negotiate Anything podcast—steps through how to gain the skills you need to lead and motivate anyone on your team. Kwame explains how understanding personality and motivation can help you lead and manage. He goes over ways you can successfully influence and lead individuals with recognized personality traits. Kwame goes in-depth on how you can motivate people with different personal motivations. He concludes with a discussion on how combining personality and motivation gives you the leverage to create new and better results with your team.
Skills covered
Teams and CollaborationLeadership SkillsPersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Leading and motivating people with different personalities
1. Proving Personality and Understanding Motivation
- 02 - What is personality
- 03 - What motivates people
- 04 - How personality and motivation can help you lead and manage
2. Working With Recognized Personality Traits
- 05 - Leading extroverts
- 06 - Leading introverts
- 07 - Leading ambiverts
- 08 - Leading highly agreeable people
- 09 - Leading disagreeable people
- 10 - Leading people with varying levels of conscientiousness
- 11 - Leading people who are high and low in emotional stability
- 12 - Leading people with varying levels of openness to experience
3. How to Motivate the Five Personality Traits
- 13 - Achievement - Motivating competitive people
- 14 - Power - Motivating those who seek influence
- 15 - Affiliation - Motivating socially oriented people
- 16 - Promotion vs. prevention focus
Conclusion
- 17 - Create new and better results with your team
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