{"id":2447,"date":"2016-10-25T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2016-10-24T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T20:20:45","slug":"hannah-the-truth-about-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2016\/10\/25\/hannah-the-truth-about-teamwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah: The Truth About Teamwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2016\/10\/hannah.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2016\/10\/hannah.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I laughed so hard when I first saw this on Twitter.\u00a0 I could definitely relate \u2013 it\u2019s\u00a0<em>stressful<\/em>\u00a0to rely on group members for their parts of the project and even more difficult to cooperate with different work styles.\u00a0 But group projects are just part of college.\u00a0 And teamwork is just part of life.\u00a0 No matter what career aspirations you have, working in teams is inevitable.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the truth about teamwork\u2014it becomes extraordinarily simple with this one hack: the Myers-Brigg personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Learning the intricacies of Myers-Brigg personality combinations introduced me to new pathways to harmony within groups.\u00a0 Since a freshman year seminar in which we examined how different personality types respond to situations, I\u2019ve approached new projects with a stronger sense of alternative thought processes and diverse methods.\u00a0 Even if my approach to answering a question or solving a problem seems completely reasonable, my teammate might prefer to tackle it from a different angle.\u00a0 Realizing the variety of preferences in a group has helped me to be a better team player and in turn, has produced better work.<\/p>\n<p>Do yourself a favor\u2014take the personality test. Read about your own personality type and what it implies about your work preferences.\u00a0 Then learn about the other types. You will start to notice the reasons behind people\u2019s decisions, and you\u2019ll understand their techniques.\u00a0 The test indicates how people prefer to interact, process the world around us, make decisions and carry out plans. Each of these four aspects is assigned a letter, and based on how you test, you are assigned a four-letter personality type.<\/p>\n<p>My personal favorite personality test combines Myers-Brigg with new insight. It\u2019s called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.16personalities.com\/free-personality-test\">16 Personalities<\/a>, and it offers a quick and accurate way to discover your type.\u00a0 The test revealed to me I am a Campaigner personality, an ENFP.\u00a0 I\u2019m an extroverted, intuitive, feeling perceiver.\u00a0 Want to know what all this means? Visit the site! Your group project members will thank you.<\/p>\n<p>(I\u2019m not a brand ambassador for this site. I just think it\u2019s really cool.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/comblog\/files\/2016\/10\/hannah2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/comblog\/files\/2016\/10\/hannah2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I laughed so hard when I first saw this on Twitter.\u00a0 I could definitely relate \u2013 it\u2019s\u00a0stressful\u00a0to rely on group members for their parts of the project and even more difficult to cooperate with different work styles.\u00a0 But group projects are just part of college.\u00a0 And teamwork is just part of life.\u00a0 No matter what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2016\/10\/25\/hannah-the-truth-about-teamwork\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hannah: The Truth About Teamwork<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44323],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}