Audit 501: Personality Styles - Improving Your Interactions

Overview

Personality Styles - Adapting to Different Types of Personalities for Improved Relationships and Interactions provides guidance for effectively adapting to various personality styles. Every individual has a dominant personality style, which includes relevant strengths and weaknesses. Effective interactions require individuals to adapt behaviors to complement, balance or counteract the traits of others. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 8-hour audit skills curriculum for managers, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has responsibilities for interacting with others. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Highlights

• Defining primary personality style characteristics
• Determining your own primary personality style and the style of others
• Effectively adapting for improving interactions with various personality styles
• Leveraging strengths and minimizing the negative impact of personality weaknesses
• Applying personality style analysis to real-life situations involving clients, staff, peers and superiors

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Accountants with responsibilities for effectively interacting with others

Objectives

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

• Recognize four primary personality styles, including relative strengths and weaknesses
• Identify what traits you and others demonstrate
• List factors to consider to more effectively communicate and otherwise interact with others
• Recall best practices for modifying personal behaviors in appropriate circumstances to result in better situational outcomes with others

Preparation

None