Question

Consider that you are working on a very important team project. If you had the ability to choose the personality types of your team members, knowing the stages of this process, would you choose team members who had the same personality types as yours or would you choose different types? Why? Are there specific traits that you think may work well in a team setting? Why or why not

Answer 1

Q1) Considering a team project, it is good to choose team members having both same as well as different personality types due to the below reasons -

Having people with same personality traits helps in working in synchronization and it gets easier to work along together.

Having people with different personality traits helps in getting new ideas and attitudes to work resulting in fostering creativity in the work. It helps in mutual learning for individuals with both personality types.

Q2) Specific traits that I think may work well in a team setting include -

Team player - This trait is important to work effectively in a team thus ensuring a healthy atmosphere is created in the team.

Expert - This kind of personality type is required for providing expert guidance and suggestions in various functional areas thus ensuring the team gets all the required subject understanding to effectively work.