Cognitive Diversity: The Diversity Your Team Isn't Thinking About and Should! | Sessions

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Cognitive Diversity: The Diversity Your Team Isn't Thinking About and Should!
Tuesday 06/25/2024 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM   Add to calendar

Competencies: Business (Behavioral), Interpersonal (Behavioral), People (Technical) | Intended Audience: Early Career, Mid-Level, Senior-Level
Workplace Application:
Attendees will learn about cognitive diveristy - their thinking preference/a team's thinking preference toward problem solving. 

Capture & capitalize on the thinking preferences of teammates! People have preferences for foods & colors, they also have measurably different preferences when solving problems or tackling challenges. FourSight helps you: Recognize & then capitalize on cognitive diversity; Focus on wrestling with challenges versus wrestling with each other; Strengthen the synergy & productivity of teams; Foster a climate that draws maximum potential.  Complete the FourSight assessment prior; individual & team profiles are revealed in the session.

 

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will be able to: Understand and leverage the cognitive diversity of their teams With intention, build homogeneous or heterogeneous teams Bolster team synergy  Solve problems better Hire for talent -- choose for team productivity

Teresa Lawrence, Ph.D., PMP, CSM Photo
Presenter:
Teresa Lawrence, Ph.D., PMP, CSM, Senior Advisor to the Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies,
University of the Virgin Islands