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March 03, 2007

TIP #55: See the Uniqueness in Others

Popular in many organizations is a basic understanding of personality types or temperaments using instruments like Myers-Briggs to differentiate natural styles. That's not what I'm talking about here. Seeing the uniqueness in others is not about another's style, but recognzing and valuing others gifts and talents.

Here are 5 tips for honoring others' gifts at work ...

1. What's easy for you may not be easy for others. That doesn't make you better, just better at that.

2. Find people to work with who love to do what you don't like to do.

3. Create teams, or become part of teams, where people have different skills and are valued for using them.

4.. Leverage people's strengths; ignore, where possible, their weaknesses.

5. There are many ways to accomplish the same result, so be open to others' ways to do the work.

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Posted by Nan Russell at March 3, 2007 05:50 PM