Practical tips to improve Manager/Employee communication styles

leveraging the MBTI

Many of my clients utilize the MBTI® to coach managers on how to communicate more effectively with their employees.

They have shared that their biggest challenge is providing useful tips that the managers can easily integrate into their day-to-day interactions with their employees.

To address this challenge, I have created the table below which lists potential challenges or conflicts for individuals that have different personality preferences.

I also included suggested techniques that managers can try when communicating with individuals who have a different personality preference.

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Communication Success Tip

[From Parsons Associates Coaching]

Think before you speak.

Saying what you mean and meaning what you say is the golden rule to communication.

To achieve this, you must hear what you are saying before it is spoken.

This requires pausing for a moment of thought.

Analyze what you plan to say and evaluate whether it sounds like what you mean.

When you speak to someone you don’t have a backspace key to erase what you just said.