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Leading and Managing With Personality Types Training Course

Our Leading and Managing With Personality Types training course is only available as an in-house course. We can deliver the course as a face to face course and a live virtual online course in-house just for your business.

Leading and Managing With Personality Types Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our Leading and Managing With Personality Types course:

  • Delivered anywhere in Ireland as an in-house course
  • Can also be delivered as an online course
  • We work with you to make the course match your needs more closely

Course Overview

Course Aim

This Leading and Managing With Personality Types course leverages the Target Personalities profile to help you understand how your personal traits influence your leadership style and how to adapt this to get the best from your team.

Through practical tools and a deep dive into self-awareness, the course supports new and existing leaders in developing a more effective, authentic leadership approach.

Course Objectives

By attending this Leading and Managing With Personality Types training course, you will:

  • Understand your individual leadership style through the lens of the Target Personalities profile
  • Identify personal strengths and overextensions that impact how you lead and communicate
  • Learn when and how to apply different leadership styles (Democratic, Paternalistic, Laissez-faire, Authoritative, Bureaucratic)
  • Apply targeted leadership techniques that align with personality strengths and adapt to team needs
  • Build a clear and personalised leadership development plan based on profile insights

Course Content

Understanding Yourself as a Leader
  • Introduction to the Target Personalities tool and profile results
  • Exploring your dominant traits and preferred communication style
  • Mapping your personal leadership style
  • Identifying potential overextensions and their impact
Leadership vs Management
  • Clarifying the difference between leadership and management
  • Recognising how personality influences leadership and management balance
  • Adjusting your approach based on team needs and individual preferences
Leadership Styles in Practice
  • Overview of the five leadership styles in the Target Personalities profile
  • Understanding when each leadership style is most effective
  • Self-assessment and identifying areas for development
Leading Through Communication
  • How personality influences communication style
  • Adapting your leadership communication to different team members
  • Giving direction, listening actively, and communicating vision effectively
Motivation and Delegation
  • Understanding what motivates different personalities
  • Delegation strategies based on your leadership style
  • Coaching, feedback, and performance motivation techniques
Team Dynamics and High-Performance Culture
  • Using personality insights to understand team dynamics
  • Identifying gaps, overlaps, and potential friction in your team
  • Applying the team lifecycle model with a personality-aware lens
Managing Performance and Having Difficult Conversations
  • How personality influences your approach to performance conversations
  • Structuring and delivering feedback aligned with your style
  • Role-playing difficult conversations using real-life scenarios
Skills Practice and Development Planning
  • Applying Target Personalities insights in leadership situations
  • Peer coaching and practical leadership exercises
  • Creating a personalised leadership development plan

Download the Course Brochure

Download a copy of our Leading and Managing With Personality Types training course brochure below.

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Our Approach

No PowerPoint

Yes, you read that right! We’ve removed PowerPoint from our in-person training courses. Instead we use more creative ways to deliver content and generate discussion.

Always Interactive

No matter how you attend, our courses are interactive and designed specifically for the delivery method being used.

Practical Tools

We minimise theory and focus on practical tools you can take away and use immediately in the workplace.

Clear Pricing

Transparent pricing for open courses and clear all-inclusive quotes for in-house and bespoke work.

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