Class Interpretation

This Monday, my partner and I ran our first class together and I thought it came out to be pretty successful. We began the class by splitting into groups that fit similar personalities and discussed the MBTI results that our family member and friend gave to us. Splitting into groups with similar personalities allowed us to compare and contrast how we think of one another compared to what our friends and families do. After we discussed our results with people of similar personalities, we split up into groups with individuals that had opposite personalities from one another. As mentioned before, we also discussed our results that our friends and families gave to us and compared it to the results we received from ourselves. Personally, I thought this exercise did a great job of really showing how different people think of you compared to the self image you have of yourself. This also reflects to management because a future manager could perceive you as something completely different than how you see yourself in the organization. Personality becomes a huge part of the health care organization and I realized it the more time I put researching it. A big challenge that came up consistently was revolved around the idea of how to properly critique and communicate with individuals that have low self esteem. We asked the class this question and received a lot of interesting feedback and ideas on how to possibly deal with this problem.  The answer that I thought would work was constantly giving positive feedback when the individual does a task successfully and always being straightforward when communicating. Also, an effective manager should never put an individual with low self esteem in a situation where they know there going to fail which leads to even lower self esteem. Halfway through the presentation we showed a TED talk where the individual discussed how the aggressive givers are the most important part of the overall team. He thought this because these are the type of individuals who will give to others but bring up the topics that many people would feel uncomfortable mentioning. I thought this was pretty interesting because many people hate being in uncomfortable positions but sometimes this can lead to a positive change in the individual. After the video, we discussed many of the qualities of the MBTI and how there implemented into the health care field. One of the questions discussed was, "Which quality in the MBTI would be the most important in the health care field?" I answered by saying I believe openness is the most important because the health care field has answers that aren't written in black and white, and having effective communication skills is important in solving these problems. There were also other questions mentioned but they weren't as interesting as the one mentioned before. Once we concluded the presentation, we had to figure out what topic we wanted to present for the second part of the class labeled "two." We came up with the topic of listening which I overall think will be very interesting to research.