LL3: Empowering Knowledge Workers : Lecture Discussion and Workshop Transactional Analysis

LL3: Empowering Knowledge Workers : Lecture Discussion and Workshop Transactional Analysis

Different people need to be dealt with in different ways and as individuals; you would deal differently with a touchy-feely person, than you would with a no-nonsense type of person.

Adjusting management style based on the personality of each team member can result in more engaged and productive employees.

The more managers understand about personality, and the different personality types on the organization, the easier it becomes to engage and inspire them.

It also deals with understanding what motivates them and what makes them successful, so they can create the most productive and engaging environment to work in.

In the workplace, certain psychological issues are bound to occur every now and then and you may have concerns about your own and someone else’s psychological maturity.

My opinion to this is you may dislike being disrupted, talking to others, being given directions or actively caring for others around you. Perhaps you just want to stick to your own corner and enjoy your own place. However, you may quickly discover that, when you get used to your comfort zone, you become estranged from the world around you and lose the ability to seize the connections between tasks, relationships with colleagues, and different public opinions which is counterproductive to your success in the workplace. Being a part of the knowledge era, individual contributions or the value we give to an organization is greatly depending on the attitude and the way we are responding maturely, like an adult, with the challenges in the organization.