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September 8, 2015   Make Sure Your Team’s Work Styles Are Balanced   As a leader, it’s important to understand your work style and the styles of your employees: Prioritizers focus on goals, deadlines, and facts. Planners ask how the project will be delivered and completed. Arrangers want to know who the stakeholders are and who else should be involved. Visualizers consider why the project matters and what the end of the project will look like. All four types of people bring a valuable perspective to the table, and companies need all four types to remain competitive. Realistically, your team probably won’t have a balance of all four styles, but you can bring on new members or call in outside experts to bridge the gaps. And if your team is heavily weighted toward one or two styles, recognize the value in balancing it. Work style diversity ensures you’ll have people focusing on both the big picture and the details. Adapted from “Your Team May Have Too Many Prioritizers and Planners,” by Carson Tate.

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