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Posted: Sun 12:06, 18 Aug 2013 Post subject: Attitudes and Personalities |
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Attitudes and Personalities,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
One of the great clich words of advice given to any performer or communicator is: 'Just be yourself',[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Charlie Jones produced an infamous answer - that's the last thing you want to be, if you really are just yourself, you'll end up without a friend in the world!
As always the real answer is in the middle somewhere and could probably be best expressed in the phrase 'Be the best that You that you can be',[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
In teaching (and life in general!) it is very easy to look across at another 'successful' practitioner doing something or saying something that seems to work brilliantly. Then you try to adopt it and somehow it does not have the same effect. This is why as a communicator we always need to look at the fundamentals of the communication process, not individual techniques.
I remember it becoming very clear to me when I first went into sales. Being by nature a fairly quiet,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], vague and timid soul, I found that I needed to assert myself in my attitude and dress to come across with any level of credibility to a potential client, whereas naturally more assertive and out-going colleagues of mine tended to dress down and try to soften their edges when they met their clients,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for fear of being too overpowering.
The fundamental in each case was that each was to create a relaxed professional environment where the salesperson still had a natural sense of control and credibility. The 'process' of how that becomes possible is different between varying types of individual,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
So Charlie Jones' observation would suggest that if I go in with my natural easy-going, wishy-washy style,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I would neither be able to assert myself in the sales conversation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nor would I be able to lead the prospect to a satisfactory outcome.
On the other hand if my more aggressive colleagues did not soften their edges they would overpower and potentially intimidate the prospect, maybe even succeed in bullying then into a buying decision which they would then cancel as soon as the salesperson had left the room.
So, similarly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the trainer needs to sit down before he or she even starts to plan the training,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and decide what sort of atmosphere he or she wishes to establish. Clearly that is going to depend on the material being taught and the expectation of the participants.
If you are delivering health and safety training which can save lives and avoid serious injury,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's best to adopt a positive and serious tone,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whereas if you're teaching creative skills,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's better perhaps to adopt a lighter demeanour.
That is the easy bit,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!
More challenging, as a leader, is to have the honesty and perspective to work out how you need to adapt your style to create the ideal environment.
Clearly if you are naturally informal and easy going then 'being yourself' may not be the ideal approach to issues of health and safety and important procedures. If you are too dominating and in control,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that may not help create an atmosphere where everyone shares as equals.
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