PART 1: APPLY THE TEXTBOOK & THINK CRITICALLY Identify the Personality Types on Your Team & Their Downfalls

1 Reflect on all of your teammates and yourself within this identified team:

a Identify one dominant Big Five personality trait of each teammate and yourself. Please include names. Please only select dominant personality traits that are considered high. Therefore, you are only selecting from the following: High Agreeableness, High Conscientiousness, Less Neurotic (yes, this is correct), High Extraversion, and High/More Openness.

For example, Bens most dominant personality trait appeared to be high/more openness.

b Identify a downfall with scoring high in this Big Five personality trait that is specific to this person, including yourself (yes, there are downfalls to every one of them).

For example, A downfall of Bens high/more openness is

c Give an example of what this downfall looked like for each person.

For example, An example of this downfall was when Ben... .

Answer questions a-c here one paragraph for each person you are evaluating (dont forget to evaluate yourself). Please leave the text blue.

PART 2: THINKING CRITICALLY How Could Your Behavior

Been Modified to Better Address the Personality Downfalls of Others?

It is important that you recognize that your behavior can/should be adjusted to address the downfalls of others to meet the needs of everyone within your team.

Teams can run more smoothly when teammates make adjustments with their own behaviors to help address downfalls of others on their team. One way that we can do this is to recognize the personalities of people (including yourself) on our teams and make adjustments to our own behavior based on the personalities. Therefore:

2 Based on the downfalls of everyones personality type you identified in question #1:

a FOR YOUR TEAMMATES (NOT YOU): what is a specific behavior you could you have exhibited for each teammate that would have helped to minimize the negative impact of that teammates personality downfalls?

For example, Since a downfall of Ben scoring high on openness is , I could have specifically to help enhance Bens personality downfalls to help the team function more smoothly overall.

b FOR YOURSELF (NOT YOUR TEAMMATES): what is a specific behavior that you could eliminate/minimize next time you are in a team setting that when doing so, would help the team to function more smoothly overall? Explain.

Answer questions a-b here one paragraph for each person you are evaluating (dont forget to evaluate yourself). Please leave the text blue.