Chapter 26. Adapt Your Style to Each Team Member

 

“You are unique; you have specific skills that address your organization’s perceived needs and attracted its leaders to hire you. You also have a style of working with others that most likely has become an established pattern in your life. To the extent that your style of doing things fulfills the needs of the organization and its members, you will be successful.”

 
 --Stephen C. Rafe, president, Rapport Communications

Adapting your style does not mean you have to be a chameleon. It means you have to be sensitive to your team’s individuality and work with it. You may have outgoing members who like to be praised in public and then you might have quieter, more introspective members who would shrivel ...

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